My monthly fatloss progress report....

Today's Post: Monday, 5-23-2011

Since last month, I gained a pound. And, this month I did gain a half inch on my waist.

Since I reached my goal weight in December—5 months ago, I’ve gained 4 pounds and a about a full inch on my waist.

So, I need to lose 4 pounds total for starters now.

Also, according to pictures I’ve seen, I’m now at about 20 % bodyfat. To remove my abdominal fat, according to those same pictures, I also need to add enough muscle to stay at or just slightly below my goal weight AND lose about 10% of my current bodyweight as fat.

Roughly, I need to lose 20 pounds of fat and gain 16 pounds of muscle to be at 8 to 10% fat and lose the inches off my waist.

My drinks per week have gone up a bit since I was at my goal weight and I clearly have been eating far too much almond butter. So next month, I’ve a plan to try to fix each of those problems.

I have a new program to try to get my alcoholic drinks down again. Since, decaf coffee was found to cut aggressive prostate cancer, I’ll be trying a cup of decaf after dinner instead of added wine as an evening treat drink. If my reflux puts up with the decaf, that might work.

And, instead of eating more than one serving of almond butter many nights a week, I’ll try only one serving every other day. (That will move me from 20 servings a week or 40 in two weeks to 7 in two weeks

If those two ideas work, I may lose 2 pounds by next month.

I also read an analysis that suggests I may lose more fat if I switch from skim and 1% lowfat milk to 2% lowfat milk and nonfat cottage cheese. I will also try that this month. (I’ll post more about that tomorrow.) This is new information. But the article in which I found it, has some studies suggesting it may work.

The good news is that I’m almost recovered from my left arm injury and am close to adding some muscle and may have done so in the past month since I’ve been able to resume doing my kettlebell exercises. If my arm continues to be OK, by next month I’ll be back to about where I was before I injured it. I’ll know more in the next week or so.

(My arm doesn’t feel any pain despite not yet feeling normal but despite my beginning to do as much or more exercise and weight with it also. If that keeps up and the healing continues, I may be OK.)

Last week, I strained my back. So, far it’s been mild enough that I’ve been able to do my exercises. But, unlike recent strains that hardly lasted an hour, this one shows signs of taking up to 4 or 5 weeks to recover.

So between now and next month, I clearly will focus more on losing fat than adding muscle.

Wish me luck!