Weighty matters

So then, while I am still finalising the training schedule and nutrition side of things, its time for some numbers (and public humiliation). I have decided that Tuesday will be the weekly weigh in, after work. This gives me the day to get hydrated as my scales do a full body composition (fat etc.) and if you have scales like this you will know that hydration is vital. Even a small change massively skews the numbers, so along with my overall weight I will give my hydration, body fat % and muscle.

Week on week I will give the new numbers along with that weeks change (good or bad). But as this is the start I will give this years best figures as comparison - this is called From Fit To Fat after all.



So that's 3.8kgs of fat to lose. Bugger. Although as the hydration was a little low I think that number is a tad high, but, numbers are numbers and I can't edit them because I feel like it (well I could, but I won't). Also a note on that record low of 12.4. That might have been because I had been ill, I honestly can't remember the exact timing. I rode that etape around 12st 10.

Obviously my fitness levels are more important than my weight, but lets face it, when you're cycling up mountains or bloody steep hills you don't want to be lugging around extra lard. If you're reading this I'm sure you have spent (possibly a fair amount of) money to shave grams off your bike, I know I have. So to me it seems only right to trim the lard from my good self. This has obvious vanity benefits too, ahem, but here lets focus on the training.

I will post this update every Tuesday from now on (or as close as I can), and to make it more interesting, for me at anyway, I will change a bad habit and ONLY weigh myself at this time. Of course December is a rubbish month to start all this, but hey ho, got to start some time. While I will be getting my nutrition pretty spot on (detailed in the next update I hope) I have to admit there will be some indulgence in the next few weeks. While I would be happy to start getting the pounds off straight away I do enjoy living and I don't want to starve myself of mince pies. Just not eating all of them would be good.