My Minimal-Resource Quest to Minimize Body-Fat
My intention is to list here all the exercise I do and all the meals I eat, keeping track of certain measurements that should provide a good (if imperfect) guide to my progress.
Current Objective:
To minimize body-fat. In the absence of precise scientific equipment with which to measure my fat percentage, I shall judge my progress according to three things: (1) weight (possibly misleading), (2) waist size at the widest point (less likely to be misleading) and (3) - most important - how I look in the mirror. I can currently see very faint lines towards the top of my stomach. I'll be happy if I can see distinct lines all over it, whatever my body-fat percentage may be!
Weight will be logged on a daily basis; waist measurements will be logged on a weekly basis. Other measurements will be given as and when I can be bothered to take them. My reflection in the mirror will be scrutinized, to hazard a guess, about ten times per day, with comments being provided when anything notable is espied.
Starting Measurements:
Height (not likely to change unless I have an amputation): 5 feet, 5 and 2/5 inches.
Post-pee weight this morning: 134.6lbs.
Waist: 31 and 1/4 inches (roughly).
Chest: 39 inches (roughly).
Upper Arm: (roughly) 10 and 3/4 inches unflexed, 12 and 3/4 inches flexed.
Lower Arm: 10 and 1/4 to 10 and 1/2 inches.
Upper Leg: 20 and 1/4 inches (roughly).
Lower Leg: 14-15 inches (depending on whether normal or flexed).
Resting heart-rate: 56bpm when I checked a week or so ago.
Today's Eating and Exercise:
Snack first-thing: almond biscuit (made the previous evening from ground almonds, butter and honey; not as tasty after a night stored in a tub), comprising approximately 15g of fat, 5g of protein and 5g of carbs (c. 175cals).
Pre-breakfast exercise (unplanned, doing whatever I fancied): 50 sit-ups (feet tucked under setee; back never resting on floor), 25 back/hyper/hip extensions (groin resting on stool; feet tucked under opened bathroom chest of drawers), 10 cheaters' glute-ham raises (knees resting on stool; hips permanently bent; only lowering body as far as it would go without collapsing), 50 push-ups, 5 dips (one hand on landing window; other hand on platform of middle column of stair-rail), 5 overarm, wide-gripped pull-ups (hanging from landing at top of stairs; stopping circulation of blood to fingers by gripping them around metal carpet-rim).
Breakfast: 120g of sausage and 80g of bacon, fried in butter and served in stock with mint, rosemary, ginger and garlic. Approximately 45g of fat, 30g of protein and 3g of carbs (mostly alien substances in the sausage). Approximately 537cals.
Post-breakfast snack: 1 small orange containing about 10g of carbs and c. 40cals.
Mid-day snack: almond biscuit (roughly the same nutrients as before). Also a bowl of strawberries (c. 5g of carbs and 20cals).
Afternoon exercises: 100 calf jumps, 50 sit-ups (as before), 25 back/hyper/hip extensions (as before), 40 push-ups, 10 left-legged squats, 10 right-legged squats, 25 back/hyper/hip extensions, 10 overarm, wide-gripped pull-ups (as before).
Post-exercise snack: 25g slice of cheese (7g of fat, 7g of protein and 91cals). Also a bowl of grapes (c. 10g of carbs and 40 cals).
Impromptu late-afternoon exercises: 50 sit-ups, 4 sets of push-ups (10reps, 20reps, 30reps, 40reps).
Post-exercise snack: 25g slice of cheese (nutrients as above)
Pre-dinner exercises (hastily engaged in after contemplating size of dinner): 50 sit-ups, 25 extension thingys, 50 push-ups, 5 overarm, wide-gripped pull-ups.
Dinner: c. 700g of shank-side lamb shoulder with 250g of broccoli (very approximately, 90g of fat, 140g of protein, 5g of carbs and 1210cals).
Post-dinner snack: 2 apples (c. 25g of carbs and 100cals).
Overall eating: according to my admittedly rough estimates, I consumed 179g of fat (60-61% of cals), 194g of protein (29-30% of cals), 68g of carbs (10-11% of cals) and 2659cals.
Sleeping: went to bed exceedingly late, having stayed up pratting around on the internet.
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