Matthew Krick

Current Weight: 275.4 lbs
Total Weight Loss: 154.6 lbs
Bodyfat: 32.0%
Muscle: 31.6%

• I got a standing desk at work, the combination of a morning workout AND standing 8 or 9 hours afterwards is killing me.
• I've been feeling tired and run down.  I was undereating, getting maybe 1000-1100 calories/day.  (Stupid-low amount for my body size)
• I'm kind of burnt out.  I've been doing weight training 3 days/week for over 6 months and it's getting to me.

So with all this I decided to take a step back and see where I'm headed.  I'm reading Easy Strength by Pavel Tsatsouline and Dan John.  It's making me realize I need to add more variety to my workout and I need to decide what my fitness goals are.  Like what kind of body do I want?   I've been training like a bodybuilder for the past 6 months, do I want that?  I don't think so.  I want to be able to run a marathon or a mud run.  I want to rock climb and bike.  I want to go hiking.  I haven't been training for any of that, I've just been pumping iron.

So here's what I'm gonna do:

• Tomorrow I'm going back to the gym.  I'm still gonna do weight training but just one day/week.  When I go on other days in the week it'll be kettlebells, cardio and maybe something new.
• I'm going back on 4-Hour Body/The Slow Carb Diet.  All that means is I'm adding some beans back into my diet.  Hopefully this will keep me from feeling run down all the time.  I'm still eating less than 100g of carb/day.
• Eat more.  I've been back on Intermittent Fasting and I'll continue to do it, but I went too far.  Eating one large meal/day.  It worked out well for me last year but I wasn't as active as I am now.  I'll probably do a 18/6 split.

I think I'm finally gonna order me that Dragon Door 24kg bell as well!

I got some new glasses last week and took a photo of myself using a webcam.  When I was saving my photo I came across an old photo of me.  When I put the 2 side-by-side the difference is amazing.  I've still got a ways to go but it's nice to see how far I have come.

Current Weight: 282.2 lbs
Total Weight Loss: 147.8 lbs
Bodyfat: 28.0%
Muscle: 33.4%

I've been holding off making any posts lately because, honestly, I didn't know what to make of the numbers coming out of my scale.  My weight is actually up from several weeks ago but my bodyfat % has dropped an insane amount.  I keep waiting for the scale to correct itself but day after day it keeps getting lower!  Now, for the past week, my muscle % is now higher than my bodyfat!  I am officially more muscular than fat!  w00h00

This started happening after I switched from late-night workouts to morning workouts.  I used to work out around 8:30 to 10pm, come home, eat something and go to bed.  Now I workout from 6:30 to 8am and head to work.  No breakast or protein shake before/after because I'm back on Intermittent Fasting.  (1pm to 8pm)  At work It seems to agree with me.

Working out at 24-Hr Fitness has been great.  I enjoy the morning workouts, It leaves me energized (and sore) the rest of the day.  I was happy to see they had some kettlebells to work out with but their heaviest weight  is only 35 lbs.  That means I don't do any 2h-swings but plenty of 1h swings and snatches.  I do 10 minutes of Turkish Getups with the 35 lb after my warmup, it kills!

At my job I changed my workstation into a standing-desk setup, that's helping too.  Every lil bit helps!

Current Weight: 278.4 lbs
Total Weight Loss: 151.6 lbs
Bodyfat: 32.1%
Muscle: 31.5%

Current Weight: 280.0 lbs
Total Weight Loss: 150.0 lbs
Bodyfat: 32.7%
Muscle: 31.2%

Current Weight: 304.0 lbs
Total Weight Loss: 126.0 lbs
Bodyfat: 37.7%
Muscle: 28.5%

I've been making Oopsie Rolls and they are awesome!  Oopsie rolls are a low/no-carb "bread" made of egg and cream cheese.  I love having tuna sammiches and bacon cheeseburgers again.  I've been buying "protein style" burgers from In 'n Out, they kick a lot of ass, but it's not the same.  The oopsie rolls taste just like white bread to me, just a lot more squishier.

Weight is beginning to crawl back down even tho I'm still on the creatine.  My first weight training class is Tuesday, I'm psyched!

Current Weight: 306.6 lbs
Total Weight Loss: 123.4 lbs
Bodyfat: 37.1%
Muscle: 28.8%

Monday I start a weight training class at the local community college, so in order to help prepare for that I started taking Creatine last week.  Creatine causes a lot of water retention in the body and muscles so my weight has gone way up in the past few days!   This makes me incredibly glad I got the new scale, I can see that even though my weight is going up my bodyfat % is still going down while my muscle % is climbing!

Still, it sucks to get so close to 300 then to have it snatched away.  I'll get there, dammit!

Current Weight: 302.0 lbs.
Total Weight Loss: 128.0 lbs
Bodyfat: 38.8%
Muscle: 27.9%

One month into the new diet, I haven't had any grains, starches or sugar.  For the first 10 days I was mixing milk and banana into my protein shake but I stopped that.  So far I've lost 9 lbs.  Pretty good!  What's better is I've lost the bulk of my cravings for carbs.  Most of the time I'm not hungry at all!

I started out this month doing Primal but quickly switched to LCHF.  Low Carb, High Fat.  Watch the video for more information, it's pretty awesome.

I screwed up my foot earlier in the month (new shoes, hot spot, yech) and stopped exercising for a couple weeks but I'm back at it now.  I have to tape up my heel before going out to prevent losing all my skin but that's fine.  The minimus shoes are pretty awesome otherwise.

I'm going back to school!  Just a couple classes at the local community college but I'm also taking Weight Training there.  I'm interested in seeing how my weight loss reacts to that.