Day 99

The final results are in.  While a bit anti-climactic relative to the numbers from two weeks ago, they are a far cry from the numbers of (almost) 100 days ago.  After taking several weeks to settle in, it looks like 12% body fat is the "steady state" result of this particular set-up of nutrition and exercise habits.  Here's a graph of how things finished:

To put some numbers to it:

• 30.2 pounds lost overall (14% decrease)
• 21.1 pounds of fat lost (47% decrease)
• 7.9 percentage points of body fat lost (40% decrease)

I've been exercising for a long time, and here and there I've felt proud of the level of strength or athleticism I've reached.  I also went a long time with both the knowledge that I was doing things that aren't good for me and the feeling that it either didn't matter or was too difficult to change.  This process helped me break that feeling down by giving me a long enough time for results to show without it being so long that it felt too big or permanent a change.  (Little did I know the full extent to which things that started out as 100 Day habits have become life habits.)  The help I got up front from Ryan & the Fire team on meal planning was critical.  Finding 15 minutes to get in good cardio on off-days also helped.

Now What?

Last night I thought to myself, "Man, now that this is over I can finally..." and something funny happened.  There was nothing I wanted to finish the sentence with immediately.  Yes, I am looking forward to enjoying a nice glass of wine or beer and a sweet treat every now and then - but by and large, I'm excited to keep living the way I have been these last 100 days.

On Friday, I'm meeting with Ryan to learn about getting "picture ready."  My photo shoot is on Feb-28, so while my 100 Days is over I still have a few weeks of prep work to do.  But after 100 Days... it's a piece of cake.