FIRST REPORT - WEIGH-IN & STATS

WEEK I - INITIAL STATS

Height: 5' 4"

Weight: 179.1 lbs / 81.4 kg

Body Fat %: 29.4%

LBS Lean: 126.5 lbs

LBS of Fat: 52.6 lbs

Method used to measure BF %: AccuMeasure calipers.

MEASUREMENTS

Neck: 14" / 35.5 cm  

Chest: 42.1" / 107 cm 

Biceps, relaxed:

==== Left: 13.2" / 33.5 cm 

==== Right: 13" / 33 cm

Biceps, flexed:

==== Left: 13.4" / 34 cm

==== Right: 13.2" / 33.5 cm

Waist: 39" / 99 cm  --------- Ugh! 

Hips: 41.3" / 105 cm  ------- Double ugh! 

Thighs:

==== Left: 24" / 61 cm

==== Right: 23.6" / 60 cm

Calves:

==== Left: 15.4" / 39 cm

==== Right: 15.7" / 40 cm

Goals for today:

My goal for today (Day 1/-49) is just to get started.

I will eat wisely today - which means:

- I will stop when I'm comfortably filled;

- I won't overeat;

- I will watch my carbs;

- I will abstain myself from drinking sugary drinks;

- I will eat starchy and simple carbs mainly during the first half of the day;

- I will eat only fibrous carbs late in the day;

- I will include a source of protein in every meal;

- Breakfast will be my largest meal and dinner will be my smallest one;

- I will take my last meal as early as possible;

- I will have a meal every 2.5-3 hours.

I will do a light workout today.

So this is it: just to get started. 

The idea is to get the ball rolling. I won't overdo it today. I won't overtrain. I won't overreact. Why is this so? Well,  I haven't slept enough, I haven't exercised for over a week, I haven't trained hard for nearly a month. Besides, taking, downloading, resizing and uploading pics, taking measurements, converting them into pounds and inches, calculating, checking, posting and starting doing all that's mandatory has become a little tiring (no complaints, I'm fine with this).

I have to adjust, and I need at least 48 hours to 'start the car', if you know what I mean. Anyway, I'm confident that by Monday, I'll start behaving like an F1 car. 

Tomorrow I'll start fine-tuning my plan. During the next days, I will be making adjustments to my routine. There will be carb tapering, loading the weights, etc. I will be using more tools, applying more techniques for fat loss --- everything in due time. Today I'm just warming up. 

I know I can push myself real hard at the beginning, and then get SO stressed - which would actually take me nowhere. "Slow and steady wins the race" - okay, not so slow, right?, I don't want to be the last to get to the finish. But Sunday is usually my planning day, and I'll be speeding up as from Monday next week.

So far I'm doing fine.

Thank God doing the Holiday Challenge, at the Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle Inner Circle! I'm really happy!