By: Jonas Talkington

I know what you are thinking…. He quit. Well, not so. I just decided to combine these two weeks since they were relatively uneventful, and I was working so much that, to be honest with you, the writing of this was the last thing on my punch list, and it kept getting pushed back.

So far, I still haven’t broken 220 lbs. Kind of strange, but I am still getting good strength gains, my muscles are becoming more defined, and I am losing inches from different places.

I have lost a total of 5.5 inches from my belly button line (wow huh?) a half inch from my neck, put on .75 inches on my biceps, and lost 1 inch off of my thighs. I have also lost about 3-4 inches off of my hips (I really don’t remember, sorry )

I am starting to look like a hip-hop white boy rapper from the early 90’s. Everything I have is becoming baggy and falls off me without a belt. I had been wearing 38 pants for years and years and years. Now, I can button and zip them and pull them on like a loose pair of shorts. A good feeling for me. Unfortunately, I am not even CLOSE to done, and it would be a serious waste of money to buy a new wardrobe now, and then have to do it again later. Hah!

These two weeks were crazy for me work wise. It was very difficult for me to add my workouts and cardio into my day, simply because I spent between 14 and 16 hours a day, every day, at work. BUT, I did. I will admit, in week 4, I skipped 2 days of cardio, although I got in my workouts. In week 5, I skipped one workout on the day I was at the office from 8 in the morning until 11:30 at night. No excuses, I know, but sometimes life doesn’t allow us the luxury of doing what we want to do.

Galya has been nothing but supportive these two weeks. She is convinced that I am putting on muscle at an equal rate (or inverse I guess it would be) as compared to my fat loss. That is certainly fine by me. Although it would be a great victory for me to get below the magic 220 mark (100 kilos) and go into double digits (everything is in kilos here, so, well, you know….), I would rather weigh 220 at 10% bodyfat than 210 at 15%. The actual scale doesn’t bother me as much anymore.

I also, in the past, mentally steeled myself for this and that, for going and spending the time in the gym, time which I could be doing something else. I found an interesting phenomenon these past two weeks. Missing workouts pisses me off. I actually, while I don’t really want to go, resent when I can’t. An odd dichotomy in my mind, not truly liking something but getting mad when I can’t have it.

I have also been getting more and more compliments. I wish I could say that I am above that and that I am doing this for the health and to be fit and so on and so forth, but we all know that every compliment feels pretty damned good. Except for some people who are convinced (those who haven’t seen me for a while) that I have been deathly ill and lost a whole lot of weight. I just have to convince them of what I am doing. I get strange looks from my co-workers when I carry around the bottles of protein, and the “kitty litter” sticks, or the occasional Rubbermaid box of cooked meat. They think that the way I eat is insane (because it seems that that is all I do, simply because I eat a lot of little meals) and that there is no way that I could lose weight eating such foods. I guess I can understand somewhat, since going low-carb is not most peoples idea of dieting (here people haven’t really caught on to it) A lot of people still do cabbage soup diets or apples and tea. Not for me, I’ll tell you.

Week six will be coming soon. It happens to be much more exciting to me than weeks 4 and 5. I am happy that I may soon join the ranks of the FFB’s (those of you who read this should know what I’m talking about….. if you don’t check out t-nation)

I will also be telling you about the new program I started week six. AND hopefully putting up the first pictures. Six weeks was to be my first picture comparison. I hope you are looking forward to it as much as I am….

Look for the next installment of the Husband Project soon.