Narrowly made it over the line this month when I thought I’d comfortably be there by this point in the challenge! Need to get stuff on lock this coming month. My exercise has been great, but not my diet.

Progress slow and steady, but I have noticed that my jeans are fitting better, so I think that even if the numbers aren’t changing as fast as I’d like, the weight lifting must be changing my composition a little bit.

Yesterday: core focused pilates
Today: upper body
Tomorrow: some kind of low intensity cardio - swim? Incline walk? Tbd.

Starting to get harder. I am at my overall initial goal weight, but I am focusing on changing body composition so rethinking my goal weight. I'm in a challenge where they do a body scan, and supposedly I have another thirty pounds of fat to lose. I will continue strength training to gain the muscle and offset fat loss to reach weigh in goals.

Yesterday was spaghetti night (that is code for a hard day). My wife made double. Pasta is a trigger food for me. I finished the day at a 500 calorie surplus, where a normal day is a 500 calorie deficit. One of my daughters turned 6 this weekend too, cake! Yum! I'm still averaging at about a 350 calorie deficit per day for the past week, but the scale is up 2 lbs today. I worked pretty had to lose that last 2 lbs, how dare it come back in one day. What makes it worse is I was 2 lbs away from my next goal of an overweight BMI. Oh well, now it's 4 lbs. The complexities of weight lost science are lost on me, even with this little bump in the road I have lost 14.4 lbs since this game started and I intend to keep doing what I have been doing and one day I will be overweight!

One of my new habits this week, is posting here daily. Always great to read other posts and feel the support in here. Another habit I started today is doing a daily VR workout. That was challenging but fun.

I hardly logged in last month and missed two of my weigh-ins. With that being said, dietbet is now on my home screen, and I plan to be a lot more active in the upcoming months. :) Hopefully this will keep me accountable and help push me forward on this short month we have!

Flu got me! Over here surviving and staying hydrated. This is a whole different level of exhaustion 😩

Been a rocky week as hosted my mum who wanted to go out for a tasting menu for her birthday (no choice over food) followed by hosting friends for burns night dinner (boozy!). I tried to balance it all out and keep up with exercise, which I broadly have done, remaining stable on the weight. Back on the train this week and down we go!

Today: upper body 💪