7. Week 3 stats

The results are in! Third week:

Weight: 89.90 kg (lost 2.3 kg (5 pounds) in total in two weeks)

BMI: 24.9 (normal)

Body fat: 18% (Reduced)

Visceral Fat: 7.5 (Reduced)

BP: 113/84 (Virtually normal - a total of 28/13 off my initial figures!

Waist Circumference: 95.5cm (normal)

Neck circumference: 42cm (1cm less)

Resting Pulse: 52 (was 60)

I’m really pleased to see that the efforts I am making to improve my lifestyle are having positive effects on my anthropometric data. Historically, I’ve been able to lose more than 5 pounds in a week but I think I have previously done it the wrong way. Looking for quick fixes will help with the above figures, but for me, it’s probably not helped in the long term and hence my weight yo-yos and I learn bad habits. i.e. knowing I can lose weight quickly in the past through 600 or 800kcal diets (and I’ve tried many) has probably removed my inhibition to eat more calories (usually crisps and chocolate) at other times when i don’t need to diet. That’s not good.

Once again, my data highlights that lifestyle change can treat lifestyle disease (of which a raised blood pressure is one of them).

So far we’ve looked briefly at sleep and physical activity. In my next blog later this week, we’ll take a look at stress and how we can try to make some improvements with regards to that. I am going to write about nutrition at some point (probably next week) but that’s a big topic!

If you are making some changes and seeing some changes in your own bodies, I would love to hear about them. Send me a comment through LinkedIn, Facebook (if I know you) or even twitter. Well done and keep it up!