84.0 kg is 185.2 lbs.

• Starting Weight: 218.2 lbs
• Last Week’s Weight: 186.3 lbs
• Today’s Weight: 185.2 lbs
• Week Weight Loss: 1.1 lbs
• Total Weight Loss: 33.0 lbs
• Total Body Weight % Lost: 15.1%

• Starting Body Fat %: 23.4%
• Today’s Body Fat %: 16.0%
• Total % Body Fat Lost: 7.4%

And my graph:

185! I just about made it. I’ve lost 15% of my bodyweight since I started. 15%! That’s crazy. I hope Kenny has a chance to weigh-in this week.

Next week my weigh-in will be from America, as I am visiting home in person to collect my prize.

84.5 kg equals 186.3 lbs.

• Starting Weight: 218.2 lbs
• Last Week’s Weight: 187.0 lbs
• Today’s Weight: 186.3 lbs
• Week Weight Loss: 0.7 lbs
• Total Weight Loss: 31.9 lbs
• Total Body Weight % Lost: 14.6%

• Starting Body Fat %: 23.4%
• Today’s Body Fat %: 13.7%
• Total % Body Fat Lost: 9.7%

And my graph:

That’s all! Aapproaching 185.

84.8 kg translates to 187.0 lbs.

• Starting Weight: 218.2 lbs
• Last Week’s Weight: 195.5 lbs
• Today’s Weight: 187.0 lbs
• Week Weight Loss: 8.5 lbs
• Total Weight Loss: 31.2 lbs
• Total Body Weight % Lost: 14.3%

• Starting Body Fat %: 23.4%
• Today’s Body Fat %: 15.9%
• Total % Body Fat Lost: 7.5%

And my graph:

It looks like FatBrother Kenny is back! I can’t wait to see his weigh-in tomorrow. He’s been gone for 3 weeks, so I have no idea if he’s kicking ass, falling apart or keeping a steady pace. Stay tuned for his weigh-in in the next day or two.

My wife and I went out to eat 4 times that week.  When we eat out, I have trouble controlling my portion size.  We even ordered pizza one night for the first time in a long time (it was freezing outside and we didn’t want to go grocery shopping).  I also ate snacks: Valentine’s candy, a cookie here and there (not more than one or two a day, but they add up), sugary cough drops, cheese.  I had started drinking a mug of cocoa everyday.  I also missed some workouts so it’s really no surprise I gained weight.

Once I nailed down the reasons for my weight gain, I put myself back into line.  Thank you food diary!  It is so easy to correct mistakes when you can see the causes for them clearly, plainly and in chronological order on paper.  I am more careful of my eating now.

A new thing I’ve started doing is to do a few rounds of Bas Rutten every morning on an empty stomach (after weigh-ins).  It gets me started with a little sweat in the morning and I’ve heard that doing a little bit of cardio on an empty stomach is good for burning fat (can someone confirm if this is true?).  It also has the nice side effect of waking (and warming) my (cold) sleepy fat ass up.  It takes less than 10 minutes to do 3 rounds.  I think this will be a new staple of my routine.

Anyway, to get to the point, I am back on track.  My unofficial weigh-ins yesterday and this morning were below my weigh-in two weeks ago.  It’s almost as if last week didn’t happen.

Kenny’s going down.

88.7 kg is 195.5 lbs.

• Starting Weight: 218.2 lbs
• Last Week’s Weight: 191.2 lbs
• Today’s Weight: 195.5 lbs
• Week Weight Gain: 4.3 lbs
• Total Weight Loss: 22.7 lbs
• Total Body Weight % Lost: 10.4%

• Starting Body Fat %: 23.4%
• Today’s Body Fat %: 18.6%
• Total % Body Fat Lost: 4.8%

And my graph:

That’s quite a gain, but I’m not worried. Last week was busy and I had few opportunities to workout. Couple that with a weak will to bad food and you have a bad week for weight. It won’t happen twice in a row though! Next week I will be back in good form! See you then.

Btw, Kenny has now missed two weigh-ins and he hasn’t replied to any of the emails I sent him. I think he is intimidated by my power. Will he miss his third weigh-in in a row? Sadly, I think you can count on it. But we’ll see.

86.9 kg is equal to 191.2 lbs.

• Starting Weight: 218.2 lbs
• Last Week’s Weight: 194.9 lbs
• Today’s Weight: 191.2 lbs
• Week Weight Loss: 3.7 lbs
• Total Weight Loss: 27.0 lbs
• Total Body Weight % Lost: 12.4%

• Starting Body Fat %: 23.4%
• Today’s Body Fat %: 17.6%
• Total % Body Fat Lost: 5.8%

And my graph:

I’m making Swedish pancakes again this morning. After that, I hope to cool it down on the bad food front for the entire week. Wish me luck!

Although Kenny skipped week 6 weigh-ins, which is clearly against the rules of the competition, I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt. Stay tuned for his week 7 weigh-in within the next 24 hours.

First, on Monday I made Swedish pancakes for breakfast.  The recipe calls for 6 eggs, 1 cup of flour, 1 cup of milk, 1/2 cup of sugar, a little butter and lingonberry preserves.  I ate half of them and my wife ate the other half.

Then Valentine’s Day rolls around and my wife baked me a chocolate apple cake.  It was awesome.  I also got some little chocolates (I didn’t eat them all, but I ate some).

Today was a nightmare.  We went to the mall and I ended up eating a double scoop waffle cone from Baskin Robbins.  Then we had tacos for dinner and I ate 6 of them.  Six tacos was the portion size I used to eat before I started losing weight!

I hope the scale is nice to me tomorrow morning.

88.6 kg is equal to 194.9 lbs!

• Starting Weight: 218.2 lbs
• Last Week’s Weight: 201.5 lbs
• Today’s Weight: 194.9 lbs
• Week Weight Loss: 6.6 lbs
• Total Weight Loss: 23.3 lbs
• Total Body Weight % Lost: 10.7%

• Starting Body Fat %: 23.4%
• Today’s Body Fat %: 17.7%
• Total % Body Fat Lost: 5.7%

And my graph:

Wow! What a great week! I have no idea where it came from either. I skipped out on my workouts for 4 days (Sunday through Wednesday) due to my cold and my diet was pretty constant.

Looking back at my food/weight journal, I can see that my weight stayed constant from Sunday to Wednesday when I wasn’t working out. When I did my first workout after my sickness (seven 3-minute rounds of Bas Rutten’s Mixed Martial Arts Workout on Thursday), my weight the next day was down a whole kilo (2.2 lbs). Then Saturday morning, after Friday’s secret weapon workout, I was down an additional 1.4 kg (3.1 lbs)! That’s the most weight I’ve lost in a single day since the start of the competition (the previous high being 0.7 kg). I don’t know what happened, but I’ll take it!

And furthermore, I’ve crossed my second weight milestone of 195 lbs! My next goal is to reach 185 lbs and challenge Anderson Silva for the UFC Middleweight title. If I succeed in making it there, I will have lost over 15% of my total body weight! See you there!

Today I felt much better, good enough to workout and employ the above mentioned secret weapon.  I hope I’ll be fully recovered in time to hit the mountains tomorrow.

Does anyone know of a good way to get a workout in when you are sick?