Various replicas of bodyfat

Well, the book photo shoot was postponed until February 14, 2009 after my photographer had to leave the country for a couple of weeks at the last minute. Just spent about a week just doing joint mobility and yoga posture practice to clean the slate from my Book Photography Cycle. Preliminary results from that cycle show about 7 lbs of fat loss. Lean mass up about 2 lbs, while I lost .5 inches on my waist and picked up .75 inches in both my chest and shoulder measurements. Very happy with my muscle gain. I think I could have done better in the fat loss category over this period, but my nutrition was not as tight as it could have been. That was certainly my fault. Damn pizza and beer!

So now I’m going to take advantage of the extra three weeks to really tighten up my nutrition and initiate the Fat Loss Cycle from the Bodyweight Exercise Revolution program put out recently by CST Head Coaches Ryan Murdock and Adam Steer, with the ambitious goal of losing another 7-10 pounds of bodyfat. I’ll keep ya’ll updated!

Cycle Dates: January 26, 2009 thru February 18, 2009

Cycle Goals: Losing about 10 pounds of fat, leaving my bodyweight between 165-170 lbs with a bodyfat percentage around 10-12%.

Specifics: I will be working the Fat Loss Cycle as described in the Bodyweight Exercise Revolution program.

I will continue with the Intermittent Fasting a couple days a week, but will now be really working hard to maintain as many of the 16 Steps on Scott Sonnon’s Flat Tummy Diet as make sense to me. Most of them are fairly intuitive to me as it is. However, roughly a quarter of them will prove difficult. Numbers 2, 3, 6, 12, and 13 are the steps in question. 2 only because I will be fasting intermittently, which will get in the way of the 3 meals a day step. 3 because I often end up eating around 7 or 7:30, which isn’t too far beyond the suggested 7 pm. There’s no doubt beer and wine (and cheese) are my major weaknesses when it comes to caloric consumption, and I really don’t plan to quit beer and wine altogether (step 6), though a serious cutback will be in effect. 12 and 13 sort of go hand in hand, so I’m hoping to get better at slowing down and chewing my food more thoroughly. I’ll let ya’ll know how it goes!