Reshaping with Herbalife – day 14

Breaking a 100!

When I just started playing golf, and racked up scores of up to 120 shots over 18 holes, my first goal was just to break a 100! When you start on a weight loss journey and you start with body weight of over 100kg’s, your first goal is also just to break a hundred. There is something magical about double digits versus triple digits I guess.

So, this morning, Tanita announced that after 13 days, I finally broke 100 in this Herbalife body reshaping challenge that I’m doing. Granted, I am way off target with my weekly weight loss goal, but at least it’s going in the right direction. Plus, with my body’s ability to see-saw my results every other day, I do not want to celebrate too quickly either. I might break back through a 100 again in this quest and if I do, I now at least have the faith to know that it will go down again; and lower over the days to come.

Here are my Tanita Body Scanner results of this morning, 5 February 2023,as at 7h16:

• Weight 99.6 kg (down 600g; over all down 2.9kg)
• Body fat percentage 32.2% (up by 0.3%; over all down 2.3%)
• Body fat mass 32.1 kg (up by 200g; over all down by 1.5kg)
• Visceral fat 16 (same)
• Body water percentage 47.6% (down by 0.2%; over all down by 0.8%)
• Muscle mass 64.1 kg (down by 800g; over all down by 1.4kg)
• Metabolic age 68 (same)

Obviously my super high body fat in kg’s and percentage wise compared to my overall weight, is a serious concern at this moment. Not to mention that stubborn visceral fat. I need to focus on my fat burning healthy habits and hone in in the weeks to come. I could definitely up the intensity of my exercise program, to try and burn more fat and at the same time to build more muscle. Also, my portion sizes of my meals should and could be cut back. Very tasty and yummy, but also a lot of unnecessary calories.

With my exercise program, the focus in the first three weeks is to build up the small muscles first, before going hard and building the bigger muscles that sits on top. No good to build up the big muscles over the smaller foundational muscles, if the latter hasn’t been properly developed and build up yet. One more week of stabilization exercises and then I can start going harder. And trust me, some of these stabilization exercises have found me out. I did not realise how out of shape I actually was!

These last 13 days have been interesting. I did not mention it much in my previous posts, but a lot of detoxing went on. Initially I experienced a few light headaches here and there. Those are the kind you just ignore, drink more water, stick to your program and move on. They disappear as quickly as the appear. The toxins coming out through my tongue were the grossest. But it is what it is. The body needs to get rid of it some way or another, right? So, scraping my tongue regularly became a thing.

I have to report that overall, I’m feeling good. However, just like in golf, when you break a 100, you are happy, but you know there is still a long road ahead in your improvement journey. The next goal is obviously to break 90. So that is what I need to focus on now; breaking 90kg’s!

I also realise that to break 90kg’s I have to stick to my Herbalife program, and stick with my healthy exercising, sleeping and water drinking habits. One day at a time. In order to do this, my WHY becomes very important. The reasons that I’ve set myself this Herbalife body reshaping challenge to lose 17.5kg in 60 days. Especially now. I’m already 13 days in and I have only lost 2.9kg. I am way behind schedule. Will I ever be able to catch up in the weeks to come? The thought that is keeping me going at the moment is this:

At least I’m failing forward; towards my goal.

In the coming days I will have to dig deep into my own personal reasons for doing this. There are many. Some probably too personal to share with you, but I would need to lean on them hard.

Thank you for the support you are giving me. Mentally, the support, or lack thereof, from the people who are watching you while you are on your journey, plays a big role in your daily psyche. Some days, when you just are not feeling it, when your reasons for doing this are not sharp in focus and your body says, “why???”, you need to be able to dig deep and lean on the support of the people around you to pull you through. Some onlookers cheer you on with a positive “come on, you can do it” attitude, others are apathetic (perhaps overwhelmed by their own personal life struggles) and yet others look on with skeptical cynicism, waiting for you to fail. Or worse. Quit.

Ultimately it is I who need to control which thoughts dominate my mind. I need to ignore the silent negative, lean on the positive and focus on my own personal reasons for doing this. Then, and only then, will I prevail.

God bless.

Will

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