Quick Fat Dad Thin Dad Update - Week 8

Remember the recommendation that you should not measure your success on weight loss alone. It will destroy your confidence and you will give up. This update will continue to illustrate this. Over the last two weeks, I only lost 2 pounds. In fact that is all I lost in the last four weeks. The average dieter would have given up knowing that the fad diet they are currently testing didn’t work.

True Measurement Of Dieting Success

If you want to have a good measurement of success, measure the inches you lose. Here are my results for the last two weeks.

Waist - 1/2 inch loss
Chest - 1/4 inch loss
Biceps - 1/4 inch loss each
Thighs - 0 inch loss each which is not a problem due to the legs exercises I am doing

Total inch loss - 1 inch

For the full 8 weeks, here are my results

Waist - 3 3/4 inch loss
Chest - 5 1/4 inch loss
Biceps - 1 1/4 inch loss each
Thighs - 2 1/2 inch loss each

Total inch loss - 16 inches

I have continued to shrink on some part of my body each week. Even if it is a small amount, it is still getting smaller than I was a week earlier. To stay motivated, you have to have regular successes. Now compare this to only 2 pounds in 4 weeks with basically no weight loss for 3 of those weeks.

Next 4 Week Focus On My Health Management Plan

Over the next 4 weeks, I plan to change up my routine in both exercises and eating. I have slowly changed my normal eating to smaller portions without going hungry. The cool part about what I am doing is just developing new habits to eating what my body wants. Remember, this is not about starving yourself. It is about learning what your body needs and training it to perform at its maximum levels. I know the next four weeks will be a tad painful as the routines I just added yesterday already have added a few sour places in my body. A good thing because I am moving my muscles in a new and different way. I refuse to be assimilated into the Borg.

Until Next Time…