Room For Improvement

Well, I bit the bullet today and had my bodyfat percentage measured. Turns out I'm at 10.6% body fat (I had suspected to be about 9 or so). The good side is that I look pretty darn lean for that percentage. I'm excited to see what results will accrue when I drop another couple of percentages. I have 142 pounds of lean muscle. By adding a zero to that number and multiplying it .20 you can figure out how many calories you can eat. (Clarification coming soon) For me it comes out to about 1800 calories (although I think that might be high). Upward and onward!

Today I'm exhausted - no doubt owing to the extremely extensive cardio work and multiple egg-white based meals over the weekend. I'm skipping cardio for the first time in 7 days. My body needs a rest. My head is a little tweaked out.

Also, I'm not sure I want to lose anymore body weight. In fact, I'd like to simply concentrate on body fat percentage. This really is, at least at this point, all about body fat and not so much "weight."

I'm also going to experiment this week by doing only a half hour of cardio every day. And instead of eating 5 meals, I'm going to eat 6. My last meal will consist of cottage cheese or yogurt with raw oats. Even if my weight should go up, I'm interested in seeing what my body fat reading will be next Monday. Part of the reason I chose January 1st as my starting point (and not the spring as many do) is because I want to be able to figure this stuff out with leisure and in a spirit of cool dispassion. Also, since this is my profession, I'd love to be able to say that I did it, that I know the science of fat loss experientially. Besides, the idea of maintaining 6-8 % body fat is very tempting - if it is, in fact, possible. We shall see.