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After a taking the last couple weeks off I’m back at the whole keeping-up-with-the-diet thing. This weigh in will be pretty poor considering my previous progress since I’ve been very bad at keeping up with any type of exercise.

For the last couple weeks I haven’t played any basketball and the only physical activity I have done is helping Colin and Eliza move. While I’ve had the opportunity to actually do more exercise I haven’t taken the initiative to follow through and I realize it’s my own fault. Hopefully my public admission of this will make me work harder.

Future plans

Next month I’m going to take the leap and join a gym. It’s not just a weight-lifting gym though so the fact that I could play volleyball, racquetball and various other sports and take advantage of conditioning and cardio workouts is definitely a major bonus heading into the cold months.

After I pick up my membership I’ll be measuring my arms, chest, waist and legs as well as my weight and BMI in order to chart my progress. My goal is, now that I’ve lost a good portion of bad weight, is to gain some muscle mass and a little bit of size in my arms, chest and legs.

Yoga has been catching my eye recently and while I’m not sure why I do realize the philosophy behind it is in conflict with my goals of gaining some mass. I’m confident that there is a happy medium between the two and that’s what I’ll be striving towards over the winter months.

Eating

The choices I’m making in regards to what I’m eating have had to change over the last couple weeks. Partly because I’m still apartmentless and partly because I don’t want to mooch off of Colin and Eliza as much as I have been.

The place I’m staying at has a nice little bar fridge that I’ve started stocking with some frozen diners — yeah, I know they aren’t very healthy in comparison but it’s a start. I’m also drinking more water and when I move this weekend or early next week, hopefully, my first big grocery shop is going to be fan-freaking-tastic!!

I’ve also started drinking my shakes for breakfast again, which is back in line with my original dieting method. I’m going to continue using the method I laid out when I started this diet even when I join the gym — since the shakes can be taken with normal meals as a way to gain some mass.

The stats

And now, this weeks stats:

• Weight: 174.8 lb.
• Belly inches: ?? methinks I should stop including this for now ;^)
• BMI: 25.1 kg/m²

That’s a total of 2 lbs. gained and 0.3 kg/m² of fat gained since my last weigh in.

Here are the grand totals for the entire diet so far:

• Total weight lost: 7.0 lb.
• Total inches lost: around 2″, I really need to measure this
• Total BMI drop: 1.7 kg/m²

If you want to find out more about what we’re doing — it’s not just for people losing weight, gainers are welcome too — check out the diet page. There you can also find a nice OPML file to check up on all of us dieters (you can also visit our flickr group). Also be sure to check out our sponsor, The Diet Channel.