Track your weight!
Against the advice of Timothy Ferriss and many physical trainers, I don’t track my weight. I’m a spreadsheet junkie, but tracking weight sounds like a one-way ticket to misdirected obsession. Verifiable backup data aside, I’ve made startling fat-loss progress in the past week. This fat-loss has come despite my parents being in town, read: free food at fancy restaurants in the City of Angels. Today in Southern California, the sun is shining as bright as ever, my gut is shrinking, and I managed to wake before my 5am goal time!
How do you feel?
I’m more interested in my own subjective assessment of productivity / energy levels / strength, abdominal definition / vascularity / muscle striations. Desite our Mother’s Day weekend which consisted primarily of eating out and drinking wine, my abs are more visible than ever and I think I see more striations than usual. This is a faster/better result than any of my un-Tim-educated dieting; this is nearly the best I’ve ever looked and felt (rivaled only by Jan/Feb 2009).
If you’re interested in tracking your weight, do it first thing each morning. Our weights can vary wildly throughout the day, primarily due to water consumption and loss. I drink between 1 and 2 gallons of water every day. There are 8.35 pounds in 1 gallon of water so you can imagine how much my weight fluctuates throughout the day.
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