TweetFor about a year now, I've been in pretty much a holding pattern. Life is busy enough that I don't get to train as regularly as I'd like, though it's enough to maintain. Likewise, I seem to be eating an appropriate maintenance diet. I'm 5-10; 200 1st thing in the morning after the toilet but before any food or water; and for the last year or so about 12%. I've been telling myself for that whole year that I'd really like to cut it down to <10%; really I'd like to get as low as 8% or even less. In fact, a year and a half ago or so, I was up around 14 or 15% and 208 or so. I started slowly and not real diligently cutting down then, intending to continue on down. But I hit the spot where I've been and it was pretty comfortable, so never got past it.

A few weeks ago I was at a family wedding which was a weekend party and included lots of pool time. My 26 year old daughter, who suffers from a form of mental illness called "veganism" remarked that she could "see the meat on you". And that if I "stopped eating meat, I'd be ripped". Consider that the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak....

I didn't change much. Just reduced slightly - and not by any measured amounts - my overall calorie intake, starting about 2 weeks ago, maybe 3. I've also attempted to increase the frequency of my workouts, though life hasn't changed so that's hit or miss, still. The results are outstanding! I've lost 4 lbs and about 2% so far. Down to 197 this morning and roughly 10% as measured by my cheapo bodybuilding.com plastic caliper using the 3-point method. Before you comment on the inaccuracy of that, understand that I don't really give a shit about the actual %... just the look. Any % values I referenced during this dialog come from this method and tool, so it's all relative to that. And if I'm not happy with the look at such-and-so %, I'll keep going. Unless my wife bakes another blueberry-raspberry pie..... Then all nets are off....

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