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I have to admit, the last few days have been tough.  Partly because I’ve been hungrier and partly because my rate of fat loss has decreased a bit (I stayed at 155 yesterday and lost half a pound today — now at 154.5).  I suppose it shows how great the results are on the velocity diet that I can somehow be disappointed by something that, based on my bodyfat metrics, is a genuine half pound fat loss in 1 day.  To keep it all in perspective, I started this diet 17 days ago at 164.5.  I’m now 154.5.  10 pounds in 17 days.  More importantly, based on what I’ve been gaining back after my solid meals each week, I think about 2 pounds of that is water (i.e., once I get back to less extreme eating, I think I’ll gain that weight back).  Based on caliper readings, that means that I’ve lost approximately 8.5 pounds of fat while gaining about a pound of muscle (all estimates are fairly conservative — if you give or take a half percent to the starting or ending bodyfat calculations, you can add or subtract a pound of fatlost and subtract or add a pound of muscle gain).  Which is pretty impressive.

I wish I had done a better job of taking before pics, particularly side ones; my side profile progress is pretty dramatic.  My max stomach circumference measurement hasn’t decreased much lately, although I do think my top 2 abs are getting more and more defined.  My upper torso isn’t really much leaner than it was a couple of weeks ago (I guess I never really held that much fat there anyway).  I’m still hopeful that another week of the weighted walks, tough workouts, and staying the path will let me get down another couple of % of bodyfat.

I’m looking forward to the solid meal I’m going to have tomorrow (moved it up a day because I have a big 6×4 workout planned tomorrow — deadlifts, thick dumbbell bench press, chinups, and stepups).  Plus, after reading a lot of Berardi’s and others talk of refeedings (and remembering old stuff that I’ve read by Gironda or Fred Hatfield’s zig zag diet), I’m starting to think that refeedings are a really good idea.  Of course, maybe that’s just the hunger talking.