Progress slow and steady, but I have noticed that my jeans are fitting better, so I think that even if the numbers aren’t changing as fast as I’d like, the weight lifting must be changing my composition a little bit.

Yesterday: core focused pilates
Today: upper body
Tomorrow: some kind of low intensity cardio - swim? Incline walk? Tbd.

Starting to get harder. I am at my overall initial goal weight, but I am focusing on changing body composition so rethinking my goal weight. I'm in a challenge where they do a body scan, and supposedly I have another thirty pounds of fat to lose. I will continue strength training to gain the muscle and offset fat loss to reach weigh in goals.

Yesterday was spaghetti night (that is code for a hard day). My wife made double. Pasta is a trigger food for me. I finished the day at a 500 calorie surplus, where a normal day is a 500 calorie deficit. One of my daughters turned 6 this weekend too, cake! Yum! I'm still averaging at about a 350 calorie deficit per day for the past week, but the scale is up 2 lbs today. I worked pretty had to lose that last 2 lbs, how dare it come back in one day. What makes it worse is I was 2 lbs away from my next goal of an overweight BMI. Oh well, now it's 4 lbs. The complexities of weight lost science are lost on me, even with this little bump in the road I have lost 14.4 lbs since this game started and I intend to keep doing what I have been doing and one day I will be overweight!

One of my new habits this week, is posting here daily. Always great to read other posts and feel the support in here. Another habit I started today is doing a daily VR workout. That was challenging but fun.

I hardly logged in last month and missed two of my weigh-ins. With that being said, dietbet is now on my home screen, and I plan to be a lot more active in the upcoming months. :) Hopefully this will keep me accountable and help push me forward on this short month we have!

Flu got me! Over here surviving and staying hydrated. This is a whole different level of exhaustion 😩

Been a rocky week as hosted my mum who wanted to go out for a tasting menu for her birthday (no choice over food) followed by hosting friends for burns night dinner (boozy!). I tried to balance it all out and keep up with exercise, which I broadly have done, remaining stable on the weight. Back on the train this week and down we go!

Today: upper body 💪

Ok this is the week! I want to see some major progress! Keeping calories in check, walking weights and yoga. Let’s go!