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Updates for 2012: Part I - How the year started

It seems like I am only finding enough time to post updates every year now :). So what happened over the last 1 year since my previous update.Well lets see, last year when I wrote my earlier post, I was at 138.6 lbs and I voiced my intents on gaining more weight until I reach 154 lbs. How did that go? Not so well actually and I ended up losing 20 lbs instead. Whoa! Yeah I know.

What happened was, I was a bit busy (moved to a new house) most of January, 2012 and then in February I had to travel to the US for a couple of weeks and then the jet lag and everything put together, I could not workout for the first 2 months in 2012. The good news is, I did not lose any of my weight. I still weighed in at about 138 lbs through out that period. How did I do it? Just ate a lot of food although I was not working out. I was happy to see how I could keep my weight. The hope was that I am keeping all my muscle during that time. Little did I know, how wrong I was.

I started working out again in March, but as luck would have it, my strength was nearly not as good as it was before the break. Then I thought, well may be it is just a passing phase, I will go back to my peak strength in a few weeks if my muscle memory serves me well. Then when it came time to check my weight and fat numbers that weekend, I was in for a surprise. I have been checking my weight which has been more or less at about 138 lbs. What I did not check until that fateful day in early March is my fat %. And it stood at 14.5%. I was at 13.5% in December of 2011. It just means that while I was able to maintain my weight, it only came at the cost of fat gain and muscle loss.

I am as heavy, except I was fatter and weaker than before. Disappointing. But I still decided to chug along and continue through the gaining phase until I was 154 lbs. And only then did I come to realize that the worse is not yet behind me. No matter how much I tried, I could not gain any more weight! Since I started working out, I was losing some fat, but there was absolutely no change in weight. It hovered at around 138 lbs for 14 weeks. At which point I gave up gaining weight and decided to reverse gears and go back to losing fat phase. How did that work out? Check out my next post.

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