Looking to lose an extra human I apparently picked up along the way

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Alright two separate posts today. First post:

171.5 this morning, 16.3% on the monitor, despite waht I thought was a perfect day yesterday coupled with what I thought was a water inflated weight the last two days. If they spiked my Diet Coke at the bar last night with regular Coke, I'll be very upset. I guess it's water at the bar from now on.

The other possibility is that my lack of cardio is not burning as many calories as I'd hope. I'd already cut my calories back down to 1910. I should be losing weight regardless.

Anyhow, even if I go back to the old way before the trip (the way that had me all the way down to 162), there's little difference between that and what the plan was the rest of the week: was going to play basketball tomorrow regardless, and the old protocol would have me lifting on Friday and Sunday off. So the only change would be cardio on Saturday instead of the legs day I had planned. If I'm not below 170 on July 5, I'll just go back to running myself silly three times a week with lifting three times a week and try and repeat what I did at the end of May/start of June.

Got my lifting in this morningFeels like I got stronger on everything, so that's good, but since I gained weight since last time...
 
Okay now onto more positive stuff.

While yesterday was the unofficial anniversary, today is the one I've been using throughout, and also the day I took my official "before" pic back on July 1, 2012. So officially today is three years since my weight loss program started. Here are the results, warning, the following pictures are shirtless (but not pantsless, thankfully), avert your eyes if you are weak of stomach:

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And I decided to upload a new profile/avatar pic, here that is:

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Obviously that's a whole bunch of progress, and I even see a little progress since my last shirtless pic on Halloween. I still need to drop more body fat to get where I want to be, but I guess I don't look that bad. Not great, but...
 
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Pshh "Not great, but...'
You look fantastic!! You have done such an amazing job and have plans set in place to keep making improvements! That's excellent!
 
Weigh ins:

Thursday: 171, 16.4% on the monitor
Friday: 171, 15.4% on the monitor
Saturday: 169.5, 15.2%

So I finally busted this silly mini-plateau and am getting better readings on my voodoo bodyfat device.

Did my schedule legs workout this morning instead of switching back to cardio. Then when I went to the basketball court after my legs workout to tell a friend some news, I got roped into a couple of 2 on 2 basketabll games. After leg day. And wearing Chuck Taylors. Didn't move so well.

Anyway the news I told my friend was not good news. A mutual friend of ours named Doug apparently passed away while I was in Chicago. When I had left I didn't even know he was sick. Apparently he had a rapidly spreading form of lung cancer, and from the time he found out until the time he died was very short. He wasn't a real close friend, but he was a friend and I will miss him. It's a real shame when bad things happen to good people.

Happy Independence Day to all the Americans on here, and happy Saturday to everyone else.
 
Things are moving in the right direction! And good job on the exercise!
Sorry about your friend. It's hard to lose someone so quickly.
 
Sorry to hear about your buddy. It should underscore the importance of what you are doing to be as healthy as possible. It's all we can do.

I'm glad your numbers are going again.
 
Thanks Q.

So I forgot to weigh myself this morning for some reason. Will do tomorrow.

Found a neat little toy. Not sure how useful it is, but it's a lot of fun regardless:

https://www.eatthismuch.com/

The recipes are nice, but you can also put your own stuff in. It's fairly customizable once you figure out how everything works.

Tomorrow's weigh-in will determine whether I stick with the lifting plan or go back to the 3 lifting days/3 cardio days plan I was doing before my trip. Anything below 170 and I'm gonna stick it out for a bit longer.

Had salmon, with potatoes and onions, and broccoli tonight. Was quite good and it's nice to eat like an actual human sometimes rather than just shoveling small amounts of ribs down my gullet.
 
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Thanks guys.

Alright 168 this morning, 15.9% on the monitor, waist 30.0 inches. That's the drop I was looking for so for now I'll stick with the lifting protocol.
 
Alright, 167.5 this morning. 15.5% on the monitor. 29.7 inches on the waist.

Just finished the dreaded "legs day" and am now trying to get myself back motivated to get stuff done. It takes a lot out of you.
 
:) Any tips on the general motivation front? I´m struggling a bit too. Great work, as nearly ever, by the way!
 
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:) Any tips on the general motivation front? I´m struggling a bit too. Great work, as nearly ever, by the way!
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It's not an easy one. I guess it comes down to picking out something that you truly want, deep down, and then examining what things you tend to do get in the way of that. Every time you feel like you're about to do one of those things, try and remember what you're trying to accomplish. It won't always work of course, but if you can get your success rate up high enough, real progress can be made.

In my case, I _really_ want this. I want to look good with my shirt off, silly and superficial as that sounds. If for no other reason than to prove that I can do it. My life long self esteem problems have at times absolutely buried me, but every time I pick myself up and accomplish something that others said was "unrealistic", I get closer and closer to realizing that maybe I'm not so bad after all.

So I guess what I'm saying is "accomplishment" in whatever, is a virtue I no longer under-estimate. And remembering that helps me stop doing things that get in the way of it.
 
166.5 this morning. 16.0% on the monitor.

The only cardio day of the week is today. Still deciding whether to play basketball as planned or just do sprint intervals to free up a little time to work and get other things done. The main problem with basketball is I'm dependent on others when it comes to time.
 
Amazing Vee!! Well done.
 
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