Wednesday Weigh-in – MikeIsLosingIt.com

Wednesday Weigh-in: 271.2

Mike — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:14:43 +0000

271.2 this week, which is down 4.6 lbs, and still without any trouble at all. I’m down about 15 lbs since the beginning of the month and still up about 28 lbs since I was at my lowest last summer. I’m averaging around 1050 calories per day, with low carbs and low fat, and I’m doing my four days each week of weight-training and cardio at the gym. I continue to have no noticeable tiredness and no stress over food. I also hit a new bench press high today of 295 lbs. So, my response to all of this is simply to say, “Go TRT!”

Wednesday Weigh-in: 275.8

Mike — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:57:19 +0000

275.8 today. That’s down 6.2 lbs since my last Wednesday Weigh-in. I’m still up 32.8 lbs from where I was before all the health problems started, but it’s an excellent start now that those are under control.

Wednesday Weigh-in: 282.0

Mike — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:05:26 +0000

As I said in my last post, Monday I started a strict diet again and added cardio to the workouts, now that my testosterone level is under control and the bouts of tiredness seem to be over. This morning I weighed in at 282.0 lbs. That’s up 39 lbs from where I was eleven months ago, before the problems started. Hopefully all that is behind me now and I’ll see the weigh fall off again and be back on track within the next few months. I’m down 4 lbs since Monday.

Wednesday Weigh-in: 246.0

Mike — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:35:35 +0000

246 lbs today, so down 5 lbs this week. I’d love to have a few weeks like that in a row, but at this stage in the program I don’t expect that…it would be nice though.

Ready for China!

Mike — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:17:36 +0000

I made my goal and finally broke 250 lbs today! This morning I was 249.4. That puts me at 72.2 lbs lost on the scale and probably over 90 lbs of actual fat lost, considering the amount of muscle I’ve concurrently gained in the last year. I’ll continue to be very strict for the next couple of days to see if I can drop another pound or two, but then Sunday we’re going to Pappasito’s. We leave for China on Tuesday and the diet is going to be on hold until we get back at the end of the month.

Feels great to finally break 250…the last 25 lbs were tough, but lately I’ve been pleased to see the weight coming off quickly again. My guess is that I have another 40-50 lbs to go, and it all looks downhill from here.

Wednesday Weigh-in: 257.0

Mike — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:21:09 +0000

I’m happy to say that the speedy weight loss is continuing. This morning I hit 257.0, which is 3.8 lbs for the week. As Louanne would say…”woot, woot!” I also hit a new high for deadlifts today: 285 lbs for 3 reps, the same as my squats.

My loose goal now is to drop at least another 20 lbs before we go to China in the next 1-2 months. That would put me at about 85 lbs down on the scale and over a 100 lbs of actual fat loss. I’m beginning to see the “end” in sight now…of fat loss, but not of working out. My lifestyle is different now, and for the rest of my life I’ll be working out every week and building muscle. I’ll just be glad to leave Fat Mike behind. He can go live somewhere else, and I won’t even be visiting him.

Wednesday Weigh-in: Thanksgiving Shmanksgiving!

Mike — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:56:45 +0000

After over three months I am FINALLY out of the 260s. Whew! That was a long one. Granted, during that time I spent a couple of months eating an increased calorie diet and making significant muscle gains (my squats went up 60 lbs) but it was still a long time coming to see “259.8” on the scale this morning. Wednesday my weight was 260.8, which in itself was a new low, but this morning’s 259.8 was an even greater relief and motivator for me. That puts me at having lost 61.8 lbs on the scale, but it is realistically more like 75 or 80+ lbs of fat I’ve lost, considering the amount of muscle I’ve gained in the last 10 months of weight-training.

Thanksgiving was last week, and now I wonder if I should celebrate Thanksgiving every week, because I ate a lot of sweets last weekend…a LOT…and yet dropped weight like crazy this week. I’ve lost 4.2 lbs since Thanksgiving morning. Okay, okay, maybe I shouldn’t eat that stuff every weekend…but wouldn’t it be grand?

Six meals a day?!

Mike — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:05:24 +0000

I missed posting my Wednesday Weigh-in last week, but I was down 1.2 pounds again, which makes three weeks in a row of losing exactly the same amount. I was getting a bit annoyed, since it would take me the better part of another year-and-a-half to lose the rest if that rate continued. I talked to my trainer about it and he suggested that I up my protein, cut my carbs a little, and eat about six times per day. Well, that seems to have done it. I’m down 3.2 lbs in the last five days, despite feeling like I’m stuffing myself all day long. I’m eating around 230 grams of protein and something like 80-100 carbs, but still only 1900-2000 calories per day. I’m eating so many egg whites and chicken breasts though that I’m starting to think that Bod Pod really did cause some kind of chicken metamorphosis in me.

Wednesday Weigh-in: Goodbye 270s!

Mike — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:12:37 +0000

After about eight weeks stuck in the 270s, I’m finally out of them. I weighed in today at 268.8, which is 1.2 lbs for the week and 52.8 total. As I mentioned in my last Wednesday Weigh-in, several of those weeks I was stuck between 270.8 and 272.8, including last week. After last week’s weigh-in at 270.0 I immediately went back up to 272.8 the next day and fluctuated back and forth all week. Finally, after getting discouraged about it Sunday afternoon, I decided to get fanatical and blow through the wall that I seemed to be up against. I talked to Tim about it on Monday and then worked out really hard…really hard. Then I did cardio yesterday and worked out hard again today. I also went super strict on my diet as well. The result? I lost a couple of pounds in the last couple of days, skipping right over 269. My goal is to get the heck out of the 260s…FAST. I want to see 250-something within the next couple of weeks. I plan on working out five days a week for the next several weeks and staying strict on the diet during that time, too. I don’t know exactly what was up with the plateau I hit, but I’m past it now.

Wednesday Weigh-in: Patience Required

Mike — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:27:40 +0000

It’s been a month since my last official “Wednesday Weigh-in,” although I have weighed myself lots of times since then. In that month I have lost exactly 0.8 pounds. Ugh! For roughly two weeks I didn’t lose anything. My weight would yo yo between about 270.8 and 272.8, in spite of the fact that I was still working out and dieting…and then came the Disney-eat-like-a-christmas-ham-getting-ready-for-the-slaughter Trip. Two weeks of that and then another week of trying to get back to my normal routine put me up around 275 again. But as of this morning I’m at 270.0 (51.6 lbs total). So, I had a month of patience testing, but now I’m on my way back down. The Disney trip, though, was totally worth the small setback.

Onward and upward!…or I guess “downward” in my case.