Sensory Acuity/Ideal Weight

So, something great has come out of the energy balance of the last two weeks. I've come to realize that I'm in synch with my body, that I can actually feel if my bodyfat percentage is down, whether or not I'm in energy balance. This dawned on me this morning. A couple of weeks ago I knew intuitively that I had broken through to single digit body fat before having my BF reading taken. Both last week and this week I knew that I would not be any lower. In fact, I could tell that I'd be just a hair higher this week. Moral of the story; Know thyself! There is a spiritual awareness of your body's health, it's fitness, its leanness, etc. Also, one can tell just about how much food to eat to keep that nice tension, the buzzing of the metabolism and the burning of fat. This sensory acuity is precisely what it takes to become a master in the art of losing body fat.

I'm keeping my calories stable this week (around 2,000 more or less). I'm going to cycle my carbs every third or fourth day (i.e. refeed) and I'm upping my cardio to 40-45 minutes a day. We'll see how we're doing by Wednesday or Friday of next week. I've got a good feeling.

As of this morning I weigh 158 lbs. My ideal weight at 6% bodyfat (provided I don't lose any lean muscle, of course) would be 154 lbs. If I were to take this to the limit and attempt to reach 3% body fat, I'd way 147 lbs. I simply do not have enough muscle on my body to look good at that weight. So, I'll be content with 6% or a little below that.

Such calculations are determined using the following formula:

http://www.burnthefatinnercircle.com/members/240.cfm?

It's also important to keep in mind what Tom Venuto has brought out in Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle - namely, "It’s very difficult to lose more than 1.0 - 1.5 pounds per week without losing some lean body mass. Seeing the numbers makes the case for slow weight loss even more clear."

This means I'll have to inch-worm my way down in bodyfat and weight, perhaps losing no more than .5 lbs of fat a week until I'm at 154 lbs. (i.e. eight weeks of work).