Re: Happy New Year! + my update

January 1, 2006

Good job and thanks for sharing your success! I envy your ability to

gain that kind of muscle. I'm sure you'll have no problem reaching

your BF goal if your success this year is anything like last year.

Have you updated your pictures recently? I would love to see your results.

Andy

> Happy New Year to all the regulars and the newly joined BFLers.

>

> I want to share my starting point for the new year. I had caliper

> skinfold measurements taken this morning and I'm pretty happy with

> most of the results. A year ago I weighed 155 with a bodyfat

> percentage (as calculated by the BFL website calculator) of 15.4%,

> which gave me a lean mass of 131.8 lb. As of this morning my weight

> is up to 170.2 lb but my bodyfat has dropped to 9.6%. That

> translates into a lean mass of 155.6 lbs. So in the past year I

> have gained about 24# of muscle and lost about 9# of fat.

>

> My goals now become probably a little harder to achieve. I'd like

> my weight to remain just about what it is but I want my bodyfat

> percentage to drop to around 6% by the end of the school year (1st

> week of June).

>

> I bought myself a Christmas present of a 1-year membership in my

> local fitness center and I plan to utilize it at least 4 and

> hopefully 6 days per week. I hope to eat a bit cleaner than I have

> in the past year.

>

> Now a note to the newcomers. I can't praise the BFL program

> enough. It is MARVELOUS! I don't claim at all to be a rigid

> eater. I have trouble getting my fat intake down into the 20%

> range, and I also have been known to 'binge' on sweets from time to

> time. But the power of the BFL program is so strong, that as long

> as one sticks with it, following it as closely as possible the

> majority of the time, one WILL make progress. I have made solid

> progress over the past year and a half, even with my failures.

>

> Good luck to all of the folks starting or continuing their programs

> in 2006.

>

> Bruce

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