July 2007 Check-In

This is the first of my monthly check-in posts where I'll report on my progress over the month and no doubt make excuses for my poor performance :-)

Weight: 10st 12 lbs
Weight Change: -2 lbs
Body Fat: 31.2%
Body Fat: -0.6%

The 'change' figures above are the change in the whole month since 1st July. If you look at my last weekly check-in (I didn't do one last Saturday as I had no internet connection and the stats are virtually the same as they are today) you'll see that I've put ON fat in the last week or two but I've lost fat over the month.

Last year I only tracked my progress on a monthly basis and I figured that weekly blips were just blips. The problem is when the blips come week after week after week. With this blog I can write down the kinds of things that have got in my way so if I have had a very bad month I can look back and see if I had genuine reasons for poor performance or I was just slacking.

The results this month are fairly typical for me as I lost 2lbs overall with a small drop in bodyfat. Over the first year I lost 23lbs which is an average of 2lbs a month. However for this year I would like to do better so I'm not that happy with it.

This really is not a good time for me right now however (excuse alert!!) as it was my partner's birthday on the Monday just gone and we celebrate our 10 year anniversary on Thursday and we'll be extending those celebrations into the weekend. Diet will not be a concern this weekend.

Still here is where I have been stalling for quite some time. I cannot seem to get below 30% body fat. Once this week is over I don't think I have anything coming up so I would really like to see 3lbs lost in August.