Matthew Krick

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.

Current Weight: 305.2 lbs.
Total Weight Loss: 124.8 lbs

Today I finally got my New Balance Minimus MT10's!  They're minimalist shoes, very little padding.  They're pretty cool.  I went for a quick walk with them and very quickly I could feel underdeveloped muscles in my feet start to complain, they're used to a couple inches of padding.  

When walking in them I could "feel" the pavement beneath me.  Small rocks, depressions, even cracks, I could feel them when normally I would walk on by without noticing.

The primal diet is going very well.  Have lost nearly 6 lbs in the 10 days I've been on it.  

Practicing drawing heads cuz I suck at it.  Then got bored and drew more nekkid people.  Tryin to keep things dynamic. 

Current Weight: 307.4 lbs.
Total Weight Loss: 122.6 lbs

First week has gone really well!  Down 3 1/2 lbs.  Today's supposed to be my cheat day but I feel I don't need it.  Instead I treated myself to a very nice steak instead of the chicken I usually eat.  I'd love to break 300 by Feb.

A real concern I'm having lately is loose skin.  I'm beginning to see a lot of micro-wrinkling on my stomach and arms near the armpit and it's only going to get worse.

A post that has nothing to do with my weight loss?!  Heavens to Murgatroyd!  I've started drawing again lately, more to come I hope.  Feels nice to be doing something creative again, I was in a funk for a long time last year.

So it begins!  I lost 120 last year, let's drop the other 80 this year.

Current Weight: 311.0 lbs.
Total Weight Loss: 119.0 lbs.
Bodyfat Percentage: 40.4%
Muscle: 27.1%

After talking with New John I decided to try going Primal for a month and see how that goes, hopefully it works as advertised and I end up with more energy.

Got a new scale yesterday which reads my bodyfat%.  It also clocks me in a 1lb higher than my old scale, so I'm gonna retroactively change my start weight from 429 to 430.  That 429 has always bugged me, 430 is a nicer, rounder number.

According to the new scale my stats are:

Weight: 311 lbs.
Bodyfat: 40.4%
Muscle: 27.1%

So with a little math that means I have 125.64 lbs of fat.  To reach a healthy bodyfat percentage of 15% I need to lose an additional 79 lbs.  84.2 lbs of me is muscle.  My lean weight is 185 lbs.  My ideal weight should be around 230.  I can totally do that!

Current Weight: 311.0 lbs.
Total Weight Loss: 118.0 lbs.

I've been consistently working out with the kettlebells the past few weeks, things are going great.  My biggest problem now is with endurance.  I can swing the 40lb bell really well but I need to take long breaks in between my swings.  I'll do about 15-20 swings (25-30 seconds) and need to take a minute or more to recover then swing again.

I picked up a HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) app for my phone and set it to go off every 15 seconds for 5 minutes.  I switched between doing 25 lb 1-h swings/snatches and 40 lb 2h-swings.  15 sec on/15 sec off, sometimes 30 on/off.  Tore me up!  This is the way to do it.  Got inspired to do this thanks to some Tracy Reifkind videos I saw on YouTube.

Current Weight: 312.6 lbs.
Total Weight Loss: 116.4 lbs.

Not back to the 309 I hit a couple weeks ago but I'm still good with it.  Been working out with the kettlebell regulary and my diet is strictly 4HB diet and PAGG.  Feeling great!  Muscles are no longer super-sore in the morning after a workout.  Maybe that just means I need to increase the intensity, I think it's time to purchase that 24kg Dragon Door bell.  I haven't been walking as much as I was last month but I think the KB workouts more than make up for it.

Cheat day again on saturday.  I skipped last weekend so I'm definitely doing this one.  Probably pizza and Ben & Jerry's again.  Need to ask the local pizza place if they have a whole wheat option.