Wednesday, June 3, 2015

A fitness update!

Today marks the end of my 12 week competition to lose weight. I started off at ~191, and ended at ~180. I was surprised to see that I lost pretty close to a pound a week because I definitely felt like I was less successful in terms of keeping to my diet this time. I do, however, think that my initial weight of 191 could have been a little inflated - I spent the last few days of my bulk eating ridiculous amounts of food, just because I knew it would be a long time before I could do that again. So I may have ended up a little bloated and artificially increased the before weight.

The reason I felt like I was less successful in keeping to my diet was that it seemed like there were a lot more special occasions (Memorial Day weekend, 5 day vacation, Brew at the Zoo, etc) that it just wasn't feasible to count calories for.

I had hoped to judge the effectiveness of my bulk by the end of my cut (since at that point the amount of muscle gain would be more apparent both visually and in the end-weight), but since I didn't quite get back to how lean I was before the bulk it's hard to tell. One thing that probably hurt me in terms of retaining as much muscle as possible is that I basically stopped doing Squats and Deadlifts for most of my cut, so I probably lost some muscle because of that.

Now we just have to wait until June 20th to see whether my beard can win me a prize!


ps. and yes, I plan on stuffing my face tonight!

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