We’re six days away from stepping on the scale again. Once I do start again, I don’t have any plans to stop in the near or distant future.
July 28 weight: ?
July 21 weight: ?
July 14 weight: ?
July 07 weight: ?
June 30 weight: ?
I lost 144.4 pounds in 67 weeks between Jan 2009 and May 2010. I am currently taking a break from weighing myself until August 4. Want previous stats? Check out my entire 79 week weight loss progress.
I’ve rarely been late with a weigh-in, but we had no power yesterday after getting back from out of town. Apparently, storms knocked out electricity to our area Tuesday night and it was only just restored early this morning.
It’s a good example of how we have no control sometimes.
I’m excited, anxious, and a little nervous about weighing in again. I don’t really consider the scale the absolute measurement of my health anymore like I used to, but it is a measurement. I have built muscles over the past few months, so I expect to gain weight, but I know if I’ve gained 20+ pounds or more I can’t exactly blame all of it on my newly found muscles.
I’ll just wait and see how next week goes before I start guessing or making excuses. Hopefully, I’ve only gained about 10-15 pounds in my quest for muscles. Anything more and next Wednesday will be a disappointment.
I really appreciate all of you. Thanks for the support.
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Boy, you’ll be fine next week no worries.
I really can see that the loose skin is disappearing in these pics. Good work!
Great work Tyler. Would you mind making a post about what your current gym/food routine is now? I’m particularly interested in know exactly what you do at the gym and for how long, and how many calories/what types of food are you eating at this point? I’m just trying to compare to mine since we have similar goals at this point. Thanks!
Food is still hovering around 2,000 calories a day, watching what I eat — less fat, more protein.
I’m not increasing calories yet, as is the norm for adding muscle — I am still able to add muscle fairly easily at 2k calories because I’m a beginner. As gains slow, I’ll increase calories.
Gym routine is weights Mon/Tues/Thurs/Friday. 20-30 minutes of cardio each day.
Good job Tyler.
You can really see the difference in the photos from you lifting.
I have recently started my weight loss journey but I am incorporating a lifting program from the start. I worry that this might slow me down a little.
The first thing I noticed was that your loose skin has tightened up noticeably. Congrats!
I am sooooo excited for next week!!! YIPEEEEEE
PS: You look fantastic! congrats! hope you enjoyed your VACATION!
I predict you’ll gain no more than 10 pounds; you’re probably still losing fat as you continue to eat healthfully and work out! (But I’m by no means an expert.) :-P
Nice prediction!
I stayed the same weight my first month at the gym — lost inches, no pounds. I’m 276 now with the weight doing the yo-yo from day to day. Was 286 at the start of the gym but I think I’ve been putting back on some muscle lost during a restricted calorie/low-exertion diet. But back to my clothing mantra, it’s all in the pants. I traded in my 52 inch fatpants for 46 inchers which were just barely on the tolerable side of tight. Now they’ve got some very comfortable slack and I can pull them out from the belly a little bit. The inches are dropping. And my belly, while still larger than it should be, is so much smaller than it used to be.
You may see a really pleasing number on the scale but if I were to put money on it, you’ll probably see something close to the last number. But that’s not important — check how your fat pants look on you now compared to when you last wore them!
You should still be losing weight, or at least dropping the fat as you put on muscle. Whatever the number is in 6 days, don’t let it do anything but motivate you to keep working hard.
Welcome back Tank! Regardless of what the scale says you know what you need to do.
How do I know that?
Cause you taught me.
Nice.
I am curious – are you taking other measurements while you’re doing the muscle-building? Inquiring minds want to know! Next week will be what it will be, and I can’t wait to see/hear what’s next for you! I know it’ll be something good. :)
I’m not yet, but I will be shortly. I’ll also be recording them with my weekly weigh-in results.
Are you working with a trainer? They should be taking the caliper measurements along with everything else. This should help give you a more accurate measure of your progress.
Another poster above asked for your gym/food routine, and I’d be interested too. Are you counting calories now, and if so, how many did you add on to maintain/gain muscle?
I’m still counting calories. I didn’t add any, and while it’s common to add calories to add mass (gain muscle), I’m not adding any yet. I am still too afraid to gain too much fat, and I’m not having any trouble adding muscle and strength so far.
When I stop building muscle at my current calories (2k a day), I will start to slowly increase my calorie intake.
ooh I am not interest in caliper measurements- they are ok and all- but wonder what kind body measurements before you started- buoncy dunk tank measurement or electrodes- some type of highly precise/accurate measurement (sorry I haven’t read your early posts so do not know if you did this) and would be interested in your measurements now- even if you did not do the tests before still might be neat to do them now and again in a year as your body size may not be changing as dramatically as before but your muscle/fat make up is :-)