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Standing around

Submitted by Matthew Krick on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 21:46

Current Weight: 305.0 lbs
Total Weight Loss: 125.0 lbs
Bodyfat: 37.0%
Muscle: 28.8%

I finally made the switch to a standing desk! It was a lot easier than I thought it'd be. Bought the wood from Home Depot for a few bucks, they cut it to my measurements and then it just had to be screwed in. Why do this? Here's a great article which explains it.

My heels hurt. It's only day three, I'm gonna hang in there and I should get used to it.

Today was the first day of weight training! I'm good and sore. I discovered my kettlebell training left me lacking in one vital area, my chest. I had a difficult time with the bench press Definitely something I'm gonna work on.

I spent a lot of time on the machines but I plan to look up a lot of dumbbell and barbell exercises and start doing those instead. I just wanted to get acclimated to the weight room today.

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Water Weight!

Submitted by Matthew Krick on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 11:59

Current Weight: 306.6 lbs
Total Weight Loss: 123.4 lbs
Bodyfat: 37.1%
Muscle: 28.8%

Monday I start a weight training class at the local community college, so in order to help prepare for that I started taking Creatine last week. Creatine causes a lot of water retention in the body and muscles so my weight has gone way up in the past few days! This makes me incredibly glad I got the new scale, I can see that even though my weight is going up my bodyfat % is still going down while my muscle % is climbing!

Still, it sucks to get so close to 300 then to have it snatched away. I'll get there, dammit!

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One Month In

Submitted by Matthew Krick on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 14:30

Current Weight: 302.0 lbs.
Total Weight Loss: 128.0 lbs
Bodyfat: 38.8%
Muscle: 27.9%

One month into the new diet, I haven't had any grains, starches or sugar. For the first 10 days I was mixing milk and banana into my protein shake but I stopped that. So far I've lost 9 lbs. Pretty good! What's better is I've lost the bulk of my cravings for carbs. Most of the time I'm not hungry at all!

I started out this month doing Primal but quickly switched to LCHF. Low Carb, High Fat. Watch the video for more information, it's pretty awesome.

I screwed up my foot earlier in the month (new shoes, hot spot, yech) and stopped exercising for a couple weeks but I'm back at it now. I have to tape up my heel before going out to prevent losing all my skin but that's fine. The minimus shoes are pretty awesome otherwise.

I'm going back to school! Just a couple classes at the local community college but I'm also taking Weight Training there. I'm interested in seeing how my weight loss reacts to that.

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No Shoes for Tuesday

Submitted by Matthew Krick on Tue, 01/10/2012 - 18:40

Current Weight: 305.2 lbs.
Total Weight Loss: 124.8 lbs

Today I finally got my New Balance Minimus MT10's! They're minimalist shoes, very little padding. They're pretty cool. I went for a quick walk with them and very quickly I could feel underdeveloped muscles in my feet start to complain, they're used to a couple inches of padding.

When walking in them I could "feel" the pavement beneath me. Small rocks, depressions, even cracks, I could feel them when normally I would walk on by without noticing.

The primal diet is going very well. Have lost nearly 6 lbs in the 10 days I've been on it.

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