The week between the holidays has been rather kind to me I feel. Interim weigh-ins have been promising, I feel great, I'm looking better than I recall looking in a long time. Tried out a new workout twice this week, and while I was incredibly stiff and sore after the first time I'm so far feeling much less so after the second time. So I'm hopeful that is a sign of at least some improvement.
Alright, so now to the meat of the post. This week I am going to indulge my slightly nerdier side, and for those of you who don't care for that, feel free to skip to the end if you don't find you are the kind who cares for my nerdier rantings. Those of you who have ever played any form of RPG with me, or heard the stories I am somewhat oft to tell about them, know that I am at heart a chronic min-maxer, a power gamer if you will. Once I have a good understanding of the rules, I find a sick sort of pleasure in finding the myriad ways to push a character to the limit of said rules and see what I can make it do. It has recently dawned upon me, that there is no real reason why I cannot apply some of that skill and drive to myself just as easily as I can to my RPG characters.
I have developed a reasonable level of knowledge of the functioning of the human body, and the ways in which it can be improved and hindered through the course of my weight loss goals and my education. Combining that plus my power gaming tendencies seems like it could lead to some very interesting avenues of expansion for me personally. I picked up a copy of a new book in this vein that I have seen good reviews of, and I'm excited to see what ideas I can glean from it. I will refrain from mentioning it now but save that for when I have either good or bad things to say of it. I have decided that in addition to the goals I listed last week for 2011, I'm going to be adding 2 things to the growing list. Firstly, for the month of January, in conjunction with a friend, I am going to be attempting to eat a 'diet' dubbed the Primal Blueprint. It's a grain-free, gluten-free diet based on the diet of our evolutionary history. Going to give it a shot for the month and see if it seems to help or hinder my progress toward my other goals. I'll keep you all posted. The other thing I decided this week is that I'm going to see what I can do over the course of the year to get myself to look more like this guy.
Well, all that taken care of, and much less geeky than I really expected. Long story short, I plan to level up my life and tweak everything I can about it until I am the me that I want to be. So let's do this thing.
So what does the scale have to tell me today? 200.8 down 7.2 since last week. Now some of that is likely to be water weight, I know I've not been drinking quite enough water the past few days, but still I'm making good progress. So it is with great pride that I report that my weight has finally made it below the threshold that allows me to state, my BMI calls me Normal and not Overweight now. Not as big of a difference mentally as there was when I dropped out of Obese, but it's a nice milestone regardless. I'm down 82.3 pounds which is 29% of my starting weight. It's been a good year for me, and it's gonna be an even more interesting one this year I suspect. So until next week, be the person you've always wanted to be.
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