ALRIGHT! Results

What a day! Hit the Doctor early this morning to get my blood work done, could have got there earlier to avoid the crowds but kept calm all the same. They took the blood and did the other usual checks so here they are first.

Blood Pressure: 117 over 71 - this is normal all the way and although i can't remember what mine was 12 weeks ago prior to that i had very high pressure. Even the nurse was excited by these results.

Resting Heart Rate - 50 bpm. This is a surprise, i have never seen it anything like this before. i couldn't get a feel for what is good from the net but i think this is excellent.

Weight!!! Official weight it 96.0 kg. that is almost 15 KG down. or exactly 32.6 lb. What a great job for 12 weeks, i could never have hoped for more than this and during the big plateau i was sure I'd never see a number like this.

We had breakfast after that and then took my second kid back to the hospital for an EEG, this didn't happen because the nurses would not listen to us - finally conceding and telling us to go home. But i got my blood work back:

Lipids - total cholesterol now 189, was 213. this is not fantastic in change but brings me from over to normal range. LDL dropped from 55 to 41 which is still normal but not good and close to too little. Finally HDL dropped also was 141 and now 133 which is still considered too high. All in all this result is better but not good, i assume it's the high fat diet of the last week. Let's check it again after i hit the goal.

Liver - my ALT is down from 49 to 24 which is super normal. this means that all liver stress was alcohol after all. this is great news, i do not have anything serious but must keep the alcohol in check.

got home finally and too the wife for a workout. we did a warm up by running / walking the stairs from the bottom to the top. we live on the 31st so this killed her - i loved it nice and easy stuff. then we topped it off with one of CB's body weight circuits. I've done one similar before but this one killed me - i guess it was the warm up we did.

Then for the photos, sorry this is not pretty but the result must be seen to be believed.

i think that this achievement is something to be truly proud of even though i know there is a long way to go. all these pictures are 'as is' no touch ups, no i am not sucking in my gut in the last one - i took one also with my gut sucked in just to be sure and can post this if you like.

No it's all about what to do in the future to continue the process. i will post one in four weeks from Bali, hopefully on holiday i can do something about the lack of tan.

Final note on this is how fat my back was, i never knew. You look at the other side and never think of the rest.

Last note, i went shopping for my trip tomorrow. i had to as i have no clothes that fit. i bought 36 pants!!! the girl looked at me and said, sorry we only have 36, i took them in defiance fully expecting to be giving them back in defeat. but they fit!! i will be wearing them next week.

We then went and got some 34 Levis - these are OK and i can move in them but you could still stay they are too small, these are now my bench mark jeans - if i ever get to the point where i can't put them on these i need to take serious action.

Yours, Chris.