Day 27 - The bad, the ugly... and the good!

So GT & I have this neat-o scale thing which not only measures your weight, but your muscle, fat, water and bone among other things. These scales can be pretty sensitive, to EVERYTHING (i.e. clothing you wear amount of water you've drunk if you've just eaten or pooped etc), so we've tried to take the variables out of the equation by weighing ourselves (naked) every morning as soon as we wake up before we have a glass of water or go to the toilet or anything.

Being the "analyst" that I am, I've been recording these results on a daily basis, in order to plot our progress over time... ofcourse there'll be up and down days, but overall, we'd like to perhaps see fat come down muscle increase etc etc... Here are what's been happening so far:

 Greenie's daily stats

Wei's daily stats

So what does this tell us? Well, for both of us, it seems our average fat % is decreasing, which is obviously a good sign, muscle, seems to be quite stable for GT, if not slightly increasing. Body weight (as irrelevant as you may want to put it) has also on average decreased for both of us. For GT, perhaps she takes it as a good thing, to me however; that's bad. People were already commenting about how skinny I am, and how I should gain more weight (can't get enough of that from family!), and though I like that my average fat %has been trending downward, so has my kg in muscle, which means not only am I losing fat, but I'm also losing muscle along the way! :((( again, I'm wondering if I should be eating more food. I'm not feeling hungry everyday like I was 1-2 weeks ago, so perhaps my body has learnt to adjust to the lower amounts of food, but given that there's still muscle degeneration I wonder if it means I've fallen comfortable eating at a lower, albeit unsustainable level...? My weight this morning was down to 60kg, whereas the start of this program I was at ~64kg. Seems like quite a large decrease... hope I don't drop any lower...

On a happier note, I've mastered baking! Thanks to Molly's advice on putting the bread in the oven to rise, and using cooler milk/water, it seems that my bread has done a much better job rising, and tastes pretty good now - still not adding salt!

Here's a picture of my breakfast this morning, post my PCP workout. I anticipate starting work within the next week or so, so woke up 5am this morning to try and get myself back into what will become my daily routine of exercise before work once I'm back to work...

Bread look tasty? ;) [it is!] Best part, is that it's PCP compliant! All it has is stone-ground strong wholemeal bread flour (whatever that means), water, milk and yeast! I've made a whole batch, and just freeze them. In the morning, I can toast it for 5-10 min (same timer for eggs), and every morning I'm set with a nicely toasted bread bun and a soft-boil egg!