Day # 90 mumble "UNFINISHED BUSINESS"

Some of you may have noticed that I was pretty fucked off with myself for the way I ended PCP.  Well I was,  and still am,  but,  with a few days to mellow I've come to realise that day 90 is just a number.  It's what's beyond that is important,  Actually last Friday I told myself this so I had an excuse to blow up,  but now I do believe it.  And also Patrick has told me that unless I do a proper "final blog" I can't have my maintenance pack (the real reason)!

So firstly the stats...  Done on day #92 but don't hold that against me.

                                           30th May      30th June   27th July  31st Aug

weight                                   82.2               75.9        71.2           71.1      (done in similar clothes)
body fat mass  kg                  23.8               17.3        11.5            9.7
body fat %age                       29                  22.8        16.1           13.6
Visceral fat                           129                102.8       77.9           41.7
skeletal muscle mass  kg      32.9               33           33.4           34.4


I needed to see these results,  yes I already knew my weight was off it's low and unchanged from the month before but it was more muscle/less fat which is encouraging.  I really wanted to see 10% on the body fat %age and I think had I not been on holiday etc etc it would have happened, but 13.6 is OK and pretty much the best I was hoping for under the circumstance.  I am very happy with the visceral fat number though, not as good as Mandy's as she keeps reminding me but I win elsewhere, honours even.


I think back to where I was in 2000. I was 92kg and I think it's fair to say with less muscle that I have now,  but assuming all things even that would have been 30kg of pure fat I was carrying around, I believe that's quite a lot.  So 82 eventually became the new 92 and I hovered around that and maintained it there (yes,  round of applause for me!) so I see no reason why I can't now hover around 72 and make that the new norm.


So how did I do it? 


By doing this

and achieving this...

I've decided that me and month 3 have some unfinished business and I'm going to do it again.  I made the mistake after holiday of focusing on losing the Bali fat and it was to the detriment of the program as a whole.  Weight loss was always my goal and motivator from day 1,  muscle growth was very much secondary,  welcome, but secondary. But actually, I wants me some abs,  and I look at Allan C's and Richard B's results from following the course to the letter and well,  I'm in awe, well done lads.  And starting from this point has got to be a positive,  egg white anyone?  Oh and mushroom,  I made it a personal side goal to eat and somehow like mushrooms by the end of all this,  they're in EVERYTHING and to not like them is a total bummer and incredibly restrictive when you're reading through a restaurant menu. Job done on that at least,  I love them, just took the 41 years then!


I think that pretty much wraps it up,  to the class of summer 2011,  I will continue to check my google reader and GMail going forward,  so if you continue to blog,  I at least, will read it and be interested to see how you progress. And assuming I don't end up like I was in 2000, I will blog too!

So,  some real photos,  I've binned all my fat pants so can't do "that" shot,  but I can do this....

It's not the best quality photo and not sure if you can read the captions but there are buckle dents in every one of these holes.  I'm quite expandable!


And so to......  (PCP minus 1 week)

to this (1 week before the finish)

And this.. (1 week past)

Yeah I'm tensing as best I can, vs relaxed at the beginning,  but at the beginning I only knew how to relax,  where as now I walk around in perpetual peck tense, hoo haa.


That's it!  Patrick, give me my maintenance pack,  Seriously dude,  thank you.  It's been emotional............