Sweet swirling onion rings, I’ve hit a milestone!

As of today’s read out, I am exactly 20lbs down from when I started the chal­lenge and I am quite proud of myself.

It’s been just over 2 months since the start of the com­pe­ti­tion and I’ve noticed a pat­tern of weight loss of about 10lbs of scale weight per month.

My fat started around 39% and is down to just below 34%, a loss of about 5%! Now, if I’ve done my math cor­rectly, 281 (my cur­rent body weight) * 5% equals 14.05lbs. I’m not com­pletely sure this is how I should do the math, but my mus­cle mass has remained about the same (between 80-82lbs), so does that mean that most of my weight loss has been fat? I sure hope so, because that’s kind of the whole point of this process. Water per­cent­age has gone up. Which is a good thing. Read this if you want to know what your water:fat ratio should be.

Gah! I’m so pumped! I just want to get out there and get all this weight off.

The biggest hur­dle though is get­ting it into your head that it’s not going to hap­pen over night. I think I’ve said this before, but one time Amber said to me, “You know, it took your body 20 years to get in the shape it is now. It’s not going to go away all at once.” And that sticks in my head every time I get frus­trated by my numbers.

Also, I know that Abby encour­ages us to take pic­tures, but I am going to now too. If you have a sig­nif­i­cant amount of weight to lose or if you just want to shape up a bit, what­ever the case, take some pics dan­git! Even if no-one sees them but you. It’s so cool to see how far you’ve come.

Here are this week’s pics with some face com­po­si­tions. Kinda cool.

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