Happy Sunday to you all!
So Abi and I have decided to do a Whole30 starting tomorrow. (Note: Link is an affiliate link. If you click through and purchase the book, It Starts with Food, I will receive a small percentage, though your price will remain unaffected.) We went shopping Friday and Saturday to stock up on produce and a few other things. Thankfully we already had a good deal of meat in our freezer, and we have a ready supply of excellent meat through her family. Eliminating sugar is going to affect me more than her because there tends to be some sort of snack or treat at work at least once a week. I've read a few testimonials in which people experienced headaches and other withdrawl-type symptoms within the first week to week and a half, and I wonder just what both of us might go through as a result of this.
I mentioned in my last post how one of my coworkers did a Whole30 and it was obvious changes had taken place. I found out that she lost 11 pounds. Now, she is considerably more active than either Abi or myself, so that gives us an additional reason to get more active. We're not doing this solely for potential weight loss, though that is part of the reason. We're also interested in seeing how various food groups affect our minds and bodies.
I hopped on the scale first thing this morning and the numbers were still somewhat depressing. I'm currently sitting at 236.6 pounds and 38.1% body fat (for you non-math types, that means I'm carrying about 90 pounds of fat on my body). I know the fat number, at least, isn't going to be 100% dead-on, but knowing my history, I know the reading is at least a reasonable ballpark estimate.
For the sake of my back and knees, I'm hoping to eventually get down to somewhere between 180 and 190, along with a body fat value of at least less than 20%, more ideally less than 15%. I want to be able to run, jump, wrestle, and whatever with my family and not feel like popping half a bottle of Ibuprofen afterwards.
We're going to take "Before" pictures later today, and I haven't decided if I will post them immediately or if I'll wait to put them up side-by-side with the "After" images.
We're also planning to blog about this on a daily (or close to it) basis. I will probably put something up here, and we will also be posting on our joint blog, http://jawestbrook.blogspot.com/. We hope this will be encouraging and inspiring to you all. Please feel free to share the links with your friends and families, and comments are always welcome!
With that, I leave you for today. May it be a blessed day for you, and may you see the love and mercy of our great God poured out.
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