So, in my last blog I introduced my journey over the last few years....
The tale of the tape:
I come in at a towering 5' 6"
I didn't break 100 pounds until I was a freshman in high school. I graduated high school at somewhere between 120 pounds and 130 pounds. Yes.. yes... I know... a monster. "Mammoth of a man" I think is the name you're looking for *flex* #bodybysoccer
Throughout my 20's I stayed between 140 and 165.
31-33 I stayed right at 180.
34 I hit 200 pounds for the first time.
At 36 I was a sloppy 205.
A few things to hear me out on:
1. Weight alone is a terrible indicator
2. I despise BMI. It's stupid. No, I do get it. Yes, I still think it's 90% useless at best, detrimental more often.
I could be 205 if I was a powerlifter, CrossFit games athlete, body builder, etc. But I wasn't... I was just an out of shape 205. You can be cut up at what BMI says is "morbidly obese". You can also be obese at that same weight. The scale is not a good primary indicator of health. It can be a tool, but just one small tool in a very large tool chest... full of tools... other tools.... better tools.
My wife: over the last 25 years my wife has been a 4 1/2 foot tall 160 pound overweight adolescent, a competitive gymnast, an anorexic madly in love with "Ed" at 87 pounds (zero muscle mass, hair falling out in clumps, digestive issues, hiatal hernias, faint, etc), and she has birthed 2 children that included gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, and emergency c-section. She has tried every crash diet, fad diet, pill diet, starvation diet, and pay-for-pounds diet you have ever heard of. All the bad ones, that is. She has believed what most girls are taught: All food is bad, carbs are bad, fat is bad, calories are bad, it's all bad, and the only way to lose weight is to starve your body to the point of misery.
We both were fed up. We both got "done" at the same time. So, we tried what some good friends suggested. A crazy program that we had never heard of: Renaissance Periodization. Crazy name, but we liked what we saw. I'll do another post specifically about RP in the next few days (what it is, what it isn't, who it's for, why we chose it, what we thought, how we did it, tips and tricks, etc.), so look for that. Also, I'll detail what we're doing now and how things are going!
In the meantime, here were our before and after photos (before photos taken the first day of our cut and the after photos taken on the last day of our cut, which was 7 weeks ago):
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| 30 pounds down |
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| 12 pounds down |
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| My weight loss numbers each week (notice the up and down) |
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