Week 3 - Settling Into Routine

Results are in for week 3.  I'm not sure how long I will count the weeks for....Can you imagine me reporting on week 173?  Perhaps it will be until I hit my weight goal at least.

Speaking of weight, this morning's weigh in saw the smallest loss so far, a mere 900 grams.  This takes the first three 3 week total to a nice round 6kg.  Nothing to sneeze at.  Whilst I am still a very long way from reaching any of my end goals, I have a few short term ones on the horizon to help motivate me.  Additionally, I am feeling so much better already, just thinking about upping the output in training sessions is motivating in of itself.  The hard work is feeding itself.  It is enabling me to work harder each and every session with my mind being the muscle driving the show.

My visit to the Dietician last week has got me thinking of my approach to measuring my weight weekly.  She has given me a simple spreadsheet where I weigh myself daily and the weekly average change is taken from all of the measurements combined.  Interestingly, my numbers are a little off on a Wednesday to Thursday cycle this week as I started in the middle and made estimates at the days I was missing, but, this week would have seen me lose less than 300 grams on average.  I'm going to keep an eye on this system as I have to report back to the Dietician weekly anyway.  It may be that over time, I change to this method over my single day weekly weigh in.  It would be a more genuine reflection of the whole week, rather than a single day.  As on any given day I can see a kilo or more variance in my weight.  It just so happens that today was my lightest day of the week, if only by 100 grams.

Another highlight I guess you could say is that my effort is starting to show results in terms of my girth.  I am down between 5 and 7 centimetres on my chest, waist and hips.  Hoping this trend continues. I am sure it will should the weight loss do so as well.

I feel like the whole picture is pretty solid at the moment.  Diet is controlled.  Fitness level is rising as is my effort towards it.  I am settling into a very good routine and motivation is high.  Focussing on the 20kg I still want to lose with a fervour I haven't had for some time.  A new training partner at MMA who is not only a weapon skill wise, but, is the same age and size as me was absolutely awesome.  Doesn't hurt that he seems like a genuinely nice guy either.  Soaking up the positives right now.  I'll need to revisit posts like this when the tough times come as they invariably do in such endeavours.