Thanks guys, I think I'm progressing fine, part of the problem is I'm really coming find just how fat I'd let myself get.
I'm 19lbs away from the goal I set when I started, puts me at 260lbs, 60lbs burnt off. I'm certain now that I still will be somewhat fat even when I hit that, and I'm thinking my next goal will be 230lbs from there, which means basically, I was 90lbs overweight when I started all this, it actually really disgusts me how bad I let myself get and it's eye opening just how much I was kidding myself, I used to think I was like 30-50lbs overweight for my size, reality was twice that.
Basically, by my new plan, I still have 50lbs to burn off, but because I started lifting when by my new plan, I had 70lbs to go, I think my muscle growth is coming ahead of the fat burn, but it's helping so I'll just keep doing what I'm doing, it's paying off.
I'm just at a big middle pointin all of this, half the fat burn is done, the muscle is coming in, but it'll be probably another month or so of working out before I push past the transition and really enter the muscle side of things. This transition period is innevitable and all, but a little frustrating at times too.
On the plus note, I started doing serious ab work last week, feels great doing it, really burns, doing my obliques too, I get fired up doing that stuff, makes me think about having a nice stomach one day. Sure muscle arms will be nice, but being fat, nothing looks worse than the giant blob of a stomach you have, to go the other way and have something tight and firm will be exciting.
My arms are small when compared to the rest of my body but like I said I can't do any exercises that require me to pull or push with my arms. And yeah the weight loss is a big relief. I was digging through some old pictures and found some of me when I was 24, I was sooo thin, I didn't even realize I was that thin until I saw those pics.
