. . . . technically it's a 63-day challenge, but who's counting? So I'm back after an extremely long and unexcusable absence. In my defense, being a PhD student and instructor at a large state university leaves me little time to blog. However, I've enrolled in a contest at my local gym and realized the only way to get through this is to blog about it. They're calling it the "Battle of the Bulge" (original, no?). The contest lasts from November 3rd to January 5th, the most difficult time of the year in terms of eating and gaining weight. The person with the greatest "transformation" at the end of the 2 months will win a year's worth of free personal training. They define transformation as the greatest percentage of weight loss. Now this could be problematic in that men can lose weight from a large belch, however the gym is separating the men and women so there will be a male winner and a female winner. I've been working hard at the gym and the results are coming (albeit very S-L-O-W-L-Y) so I figured why not up the ante.
So, speaking of results, I suppose a synopsis of my weight loss using the Bodybugg is probably in order. When I started, I listed my weight in the Bodybugg program at 194. However, this was using my scale at home and when I started using the scale at the gym, it said my home scale was off by about 8 pounds. So I was probably more like 200 when I started in January. My last weigh-in this past Thursday I was at 179. I take away 2.5 pounds for clothes, shoes, and breakfast and list my weight at 176.5. So I've lost roughly 20-25 pounds since January (depending on how you look at it). Not anything shocking but it's a couple of pounds a month and even more, it's fat not muscle that I've lost and by losing it slowly it's made it easier to keep off. Also, I wouldn't say I've been starving myself during this time. I eat pretty sensibly during the week and then go overboard on the weekend. My previous trainer used to encourage a cheat meal to keep the body guessing and keep me from giving into cravings. My problem has been that I somehow turn the concept of a cheat meal into a cheat 3-day weekend. My current trainer thinks this is why my weight loss has been slow. He said that if I got rid of this "cheat" concept and kept up my workouts, I have a chance at winning this contest. Now I'm a very competitve person so I figured a contest like this would really help me take things to the next level. I also have more time now that I'm done teaching for the semester so I can workout longer if I need to.
I'm hoping if I blog about my workouts for the day and my weigh-ins, I'll have a bit more motivation and restraint during the next 2 months. I was going to put my measurements in but my trainer might measure me today so I might have updates. I know I have to have a formal weigh-in today to start the contest so I'll post that number too. More later.
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