Week 26 - Time to Reflect I Guess

A good week on the scales this time.  I recorded a 700 gram loss at the lowest weigh in for the week as well as a 600 gram average loss.  For the first time my average weight for the whole week was under 100kg!  Cue happy dance promised last week....  At 99.4kg, it was well under at that.  Interestingly, after a training session this week, I weighed in to check what sort of rehydration I needed to undertake and I registered 96.7kg!  Obviously that meant a fair bit of water to take in, but, it also shocked me at just how low that number presented.  It is good in so much as it gives me an indication of what water I have available to me to lose, but, blew me away at the same time.  Given that my scales way over half a kilo over as far as I know, realistically, I was closer to the 96kg mark.  Encouraging to know that I have 5 weeks before weigh in and I am getting close.

Week 26, as the title says, means that I have now been at this for 6 months.  I have to say that the time has flown.  I guess I must have been enjoying it too much!  6 months....it does lend itself to one pausing to reflect on the journey travelled thus far.  So please indulge me to go through some of the highlights to this point.  I don't want it to be a bragging exercise.  More an exercise in positive reinforcement.  A statement that says, you know what, keep on truckin' because what you are doing is going ok.

The story so far:

• Weight
• Start 121.1kg (Feb 2013)
• Today 98.1kg (-23kg)
• - 43.9kg from all time high weight (142kg as far as I know, a few years back. Come close to that since then too.)
• 17.5% body weight lost in the past 6 months (33.3% from all time heaviest)
• Measurements
• Chest - 108cm (-13.5cm)
• Waist - 94cm (-25.0cm)
• Hips - 103cm (-16.0cm)
• Some things I have done for the first time along the way
• Let's just put MMA down as one big one with more to come!
• Chinups (5+)
• Pullups (5+)
• Rope climb floor to ceiling (biggest smile ever)
• Headstand (1+ minute)
• Handstand (1+ minute)
• Reverse wall walk to handstand (2 minutes)
• 3 minute bridge (had some to give but time was up!)
• 40 pushups in 1 minute
• Tons more than I can list here.

Now here is where I get a bit brave.  Then and now photos.  The before and after if you will.  My coach asked me if I had any photos of me before, even from earlier this year.  The answer for most overweight people is no.  For me it is very, very few.  Those were all taken under duress.  To this day it is not something I am even remotely comfortable with.  I imagine it is the self image issues that come with being overweight all of your life.

I am going to put myself out there a bit with a few images.  Click on them if you dare to make them bigger....not that I can get any bigger in them....I don't know if I have any from when I was my biggest at 142kg.  Having said that, I am not sure that I am not at least that in some of these because scales were not something I frequented in those days.

I have training early tomorrow so as an excuse to run away now, it's as good as any.  Maybe I will even come back and post something next week if I can face it.  So here we go.....

December 2008

October 2004

January 2011 

Today