177.7, to be exact.
Well, for the first time since I was 201 pounds, I am now down to the weight where I used to start diets in my 20s.
This gives me some confidence on the "just eat less (6 days a week) plan."
But the goal on the bucket list isn't really weight. It's body fat percentage. So, theoretically, if I could gain 10 pounds of muscle that would still shift the body fat percentage more in my favor. So while hitting that 177 mark is a milestone, I should keep my focus on the right things.
Furthermore, if I gained muscle, it should move up my resting metabolism, thus helping me to speed up fat loss.
The problem is that building muscle is a lot of work, and that takes a lot of calories. So my solution is to go back to something I was doing during the summer, when I had more time to tinker with this stuff: lift on a day, eat huge that day and the next, and then do 5 days of some kind of restricted diet. In this case the restricted diet will be 1,300 calories a day or less. Add in plenty of light exercise like walking and gardening on those other five days, and we'll see what happens to my body fat percentage.
