Half the man I used to be...

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For sure! I definitely need to meet my Ohio pals one of these days! bp

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Down to 202, guys. Just three more to hit the 190s... hoping to do it by June 1. bp

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Last day of May 2014! Goal for this month was 200 pounds flat and as close to 25 percent body fat as I could get. My strategy for May was to eat just enough and work out just enough each day to exactly burn the maximum amount of body fat that a body theoretically can convert to energy each day (31.4 calories per pound of body fat). I did that until last weekend, when I took a road trip and had two high calorie days eating out with with Super Crew friends. To get back on track with my average calorie goals for the month, I ate an average of 1150 calories per day during the last week of the month. I had a lot of water weight to lose, as I went up to 209.8 over that weekend and I had to hit 200.0 in a week.

I started to lose water weight mid week and hit 205 pretty fast, but then popped back and forth from 204 to 205, including yesterday's evening weigh in, which was 205.4. A tall order to drop 5.4 pounds in a day. But my strategy was to lift weights last night, do a 16:8 fast, get some sleep, do an hour on the treadmill, and then hop on the scale for my official Saturday afternoon weigh in.

So... woke up today and was gratified to get 203.4 immediately. The past few Saturdays, I've had three cups of coffee and a big glass of water before my end of 16:8 workout. Today, I decided to work out thirsty... I wanted to sweat out the fat and water already in my body... not any new liquid. I took a shot -- don't know how logical that was, but it's what I went for.

Did an hour on the treadmill with my favorite Pandora mix playing. Did 4.0 miles per hour at a 10 percent grade and every five minutes, I dropped to 3.0 mph to mop my brow and take a breather. Burned 830 calories per my machine.

Grabbed a shower and stepped into my bathroom for the moment of truth...

200.2! How about that? I hopped off again, reset, and hopped back on just to make sure... 200.2 came up again. You'll forgive me for calling that a WIN and an achievement of my goal!

This will be my new starting point for June 2014. I'm going to target 195 now. Although I'm officially at my goal, I'm still going for 10 percent body fat and I think that I'll probably need to get to 195 at my current muscle mass amount to hit that. BUT... I have an entire month to do it, so I'm going to be able to eat much more per day than I've been... Probably 2000 to 2100 calories. I'll work that out later.

But... today we hit our second official goal. bp

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That is nothing short of amazing bp.
You are down to bp now.
Pretty soon it will be bp

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Thanks, Gorilli! So great to see you and Sharon last weekend! bp

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Hi. Can't believe I forgot to post it here but hit 199.0 two days ago. Today, I got up, worked out, and hopped on the scale and got 197.6. So I'm officially in "ONEderland!" bp

[Wheelzman]

Hi. Can't believe I forgot to post it here but hit 199.0 two days ago. Today, I got up, worked out, and hopped on the scale and got 197.6. So I'm officially in "ONEderland!" bp

Bill if you keep it up you will be
down to my weight.... and I'm gonna be upset!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gorilli + Upset = NOT GOOD. No nannerz fer U.

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Nobody wants that! I won't go lower than 190... bp

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Hit 196.2 today! I'm coming for ya, Wheelz! bp