As I finished my workout this morning—upper body weight training—I prepared myself for a weight gain, even though I look leaner and feel thinner, I just had a bad feeling, like I was about to hit my first major road block in this journey. It can’t go well forever, I need to hit some sort of plateau, right?

Fortunately, I was wrong. I didn’t lose as much weight as I would have liked, but I have to realize that after losing 130 pounds my body is going to slow down in weight loss, especially since it’s now going to begin trading fat for lean muscle. I lost 2 pounds over the last 4 weeks, which seems low, but it’s actually only about 2 pounds less than a healthy four week loss should be. And a loss is a loss, always.

Not to mention, I’m experiencing muscle mass gains and my muscles look and feel leaner and harder, which will attribute to the appearance of a low loss, when in fact visually I look much smaller than even four weeks ago.

I want to set a new goal for myself and see if I can hit it. I want to lose 12 pounds between today and the 3rd of June, this will put me at 300 pounds to start the summer. I think it can be done, if I just add an extra exercise session per day, in the afternoon. It’ll mean an extra shower, but it could also mean I meet my goal. 3 pounds a week for four weeks is quite achievable. So wish me luck.

I’ve been slacking on the weight motivation posts around here, and I apologize, I’ve just been very busy with work lately, and also sometimes I feel like I can’t write what needs to be written so it goes undone.

I hope that this finds you all well, I really appreciate the continued support from everyone.