I realized that in my whining I failed to thank you Oaks. Thanks! My best by a big chunk so I'm pleased.
Thanks LaMa! It has it's upsides. I enjoy being out in the wilderness and seeing things that are different than what I usually see. I saw a coyote with a very thick three colored coat close enough that I could see it's teeth as it loped away. I found several archeological artifacts, including 2 arrowheads, that will be avoided by construction. I also saw a vine that I have never seen before in my life whose name escapes me at the moment. 50 or more deer, a few wild hogs, lots of ducks and geese (high hundreds), a dozen crested caracara eagles (bird on the peso), jackrabbits, cottontail rabbits, and a small flock of green jays (Cyanocorax yncas). I realize two things 1. It has it's perks and 2. I should start writing this stuff down.
I also got a bilingual blessing at the grocery store from an elderly Mexican lady that I helped by loading a case of water into her cart.
275.4 which is finally back down to the same weight as December 5th. More than 2 weeks with no weight loss is frustrating. I have not been lax in my calorie counting and am running literally every day.
Here is what I do have:
No more goal jeans! The size 34x34 Lucky jeans that my wife got me for xmas fit fine and the size 34x34 Wranglers that I had never buttoned before last weekend are quite snug, but wearable. The one other pair of jeans that had never been buttoned before today are marked size 36, but smaller than both of my size 34 jeans and all of my size 36 jeans by a lot now button and zip. They are skin tight so they look awful, but the go on for the first time ever.
So practicing what I preach I am unconcerned with that stupid scale. If I were to guess daily runs causes me to stay in a swollen sore kind of state. Also I imagine I am in a period of increasing my lean body mass with the added physical demands.
Also I got a myotape that makes a set tension for body measurements for more consistent reads. My belly measurement at the navel this morning is just below 49 inches.
349.2 was 60 inches (it would have been higher with the myotape)
275.4 is 48.9 inches with the myo tape (47.7 - 48 with the manual tape)
73.8 pounds and 11.1 inches from 12/7/12-12/20/14
That time span represents a lot of wasted time and lack of effort. This year has had it's share too, but it is decidedly different than ever before in my life.
6.65 pounds per inch lost. If that is a linear rate then the 9 inches to reach less than 40 inches (cut off for elevated health risk in men) would make me 215.6 pounds. This rate has changed as at one point 200 pounds was the calculated weight as my pounds lost per inch was a bit over 7 pounds. So as I get closer to a healthy weight the rate at which I lose belly inches increases. This makes sense as I carry most of my fat there so as my limbs lean up and the lean body mass levels out the weight change should be largely from my belly. The rate of belly inches lost is accelerating rather than linear which is nice.
My arm is 4 inches smaller than the last time I measured it from 18 to 14 inches. This is a combination of loss in muscle mass and fat, but that is still dramatic. The neck is 17.13 down from 22 inches at it's largest. I think that may have been way back closerto the 400 pound mark, but that is a major change.
This also meshes with my doctor's recommendation of a 220 pound goal. I'm not changing my 199 goal BTW.
So I will run later and it will be an easy mile after the 5K and hard mile I need it.
Have a lovely weekend everybody!
