Let me explain.
It’s all muscle!
No?
OK, maybe it was something more like this:
April, particularly the first two-thirds of the month, was very stressful. I started out with modest weight loss that would have continued through the month if my eating habits had remained unchanged. They obviously did not, as I ate food to cope with stress. I ate all the food.
By the end of the month, things had settled down, but my weight didn’t, it was still tracking a couple of pounds up. In the final week, I decided I had to change my eating habits and do so in a drastic way.
That starts tomorrow, on May 1st.
But rather than ease my way into this new snack-free regime by cutting back, I did the opposite. I ate snacks. I ate a lot of snacks. I wanted to make myself sick of snacks.
Example: Yesterday I ate three candy bars (and more). The calorie total was more than double my entire breakfast.
I gained another half-pound overnight, to finish the month up a whopping 4.6 pounds. I broke the 173 pound mark for the first time this year. (Almost) all the stats are going in the wrong direction (see below for more, including the exception). I’ll likely be up again tomorrow.
But tomorrow, May 1st, is when the new plan begins. No snacks, unless it’s fruit or veggies. Calorie-rich dinners like pizza will be exceptions. Salads? More.
But we’ll see. In the meantime: FatVille, Population: Me. But hopefully the road leads to SlimVille or at least NormalWeightVille.
One plus side: Probably thanks to the running, I added 0.5 kg of muscle (about 1.1 pounds) this month, so woo on that. My total body fat only increased 0.2% as well. Maybe I’m just big-boned1lolz.
Stats:
January 1, 2025: 166.8 pounds
Current: 173.2 pounds
Year to date: Up 6.4 pounds
April 1: 168.6 pounds
April 30: 173.2 pounds (up 4.6 pounds)
Body fat:
April 1: 26.5%
April 30: 26.7% (up 0.2%)
Skeletal muscle mass:
April 1: 29.9 kg
April 30: 30.4 kg (up 0.5 kg)
BMI:
April 1: 24.1
April 30: 24.8 (up 0.7)
Historical: January 1, 2022: 182.8 pounds
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