Day 90: Stats and Comparison

It has been tough but great journey for the last 3 months.  After completing all the 90th day activity and diet, I am being nostalgic and have mixed feeling..  I will organize my thought for next few days and blog it out as a commencement over the weekend.

Let's get stats and pics

Stats
Weight
Day 0:   80.9kg
Day 90: 65.4kg
Delta: -15.5kg

Body Fat
Day 0:   27% ~ 30%
Day 90: 12%
Delta: - 15% ~ -18%

VFA
Day 0: unknown
Day 90: 40

Others
- Ran half marathon under 2 hours.
- Able to do 8 raps of pull up for 5sets. (Great improvement if you remember me whining about not being able to do even 1 pull up in the first part of program!)

Visual Comparison
Face:  Who is dis fat man on the left?

Side: this fat man on the left is definitely wearing some kinds of full body suit.

Front: ..  Look Humpty Dumpty on the left!

Extra:  Not quite there yet but good'nuff

Flex time: Front and Back

Finally.. You can fit one more person in!

By looking at the day 0 photo, I am stunned to see how fat I was...  and now I know that loosing 15+kg you are really a different person.   anyway very pleased with the result!!

Day 88: 2 more days

Can't believe we made it this far.

Superset is kicking my ass.  I struggled but have completed everything. I am already fearing about the supah for tomorrow..

re. gout.  doc subscribed me Loxonin and pain is gone instantaneously.  I am glad that I was able to be back in the game without any major downtime.

leave you all with the pics for my last meal preparation that I did over last weekend.  I will probably continue this habit of mass chopping veggies and soak them in balsamic vinegar and lemon juice even after I complete PCP.  Veggies won't go bad and taste fresh for several days.  in the morning you scoup out the amount you need to your lunch box and ready to hit the road.  you don't have to worry about saltless dressing or anything as veggies are already seasoned with balsamic vinegar and lemon juice.  those two green things on the left of chopped veggies are guacamole made of avocado, lemon juice and chill.   I put this on bagle, or pita bread and put chicken and veggies to make it chicken sandwich.  This becomes my favorite food during PCP program.

I was too lazy to post my pics but finally did it.  6 packs are finally starting to surface!

Day 81: WTF? Execuse me? Did you say GOUT?

9 more days to go and I was so ready to squeeze last bit of fat out of my system and build more muscle, but you know what, apparently I have gout..

Gout

[It is caused by elevated levels of uric acid in the blood which crystallize and are deposited in joints, tendons, and surrounding tissues.

Diagnosis is confirmed clinically by the visualization of the characteristic crystals in joint fluid. Treatment with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), steroids, or colchicine improves symptoms. Once the acute attack has subsided, levels of uric acid are usually lowered via lifestyle changes, and in those with frequent attacks allopurinol or probenecid provide long-term prevention.]

[The increase is believed to be due to increasing risk factors in the population, such as metabolic syndrome, longer life expectancy and changes in diet. Gout was historically known as "the disease of kings" or "rich man's disease".]

My feet (sorry for the visual..)

right foot is red and swollen.  (if you compare to the left foot, you don't see vein on the right foot, do you?).
It supposed to come with devastating pain, and people put the pain in very colorful ways such as

"it is like your foot is vised and crashed in little pieces"
"it is like you put your foot in the meat grinder"


Luckily enough, mine wasn't that bad but still I can't bend toe and I am struggling to put my foot in the shoe...  My level of uric acid has always been high for last several years with lots of beer consumption, unhealthy diet etc etc but it has been already 80 days since I've changed my lifestyle to better food and daily exercise so it never occurred to me that I get gout at this point.  At first I thought I had some sort of fatigue bone fractures as I was doing half marathon training on top of PCP.   80 days of tough discipline and I get gout in return.  it's just so ironic and sad that leaves me nothing but only to laugh...   what is bothering me the most is I can't do any exercise which involves toe joint movement like Creep, Jumping..   I really need to push my self for last 10 days but I can't jump!!  

On the positive end, pistol squat, it was the first time I completed all the sets with my sole completely flat on the floor :)   Since I can't do jumps (and jog), I swam for 40mins and it was very refreshing.


Only explanation that I can give is that I was just a few mils meters away from getting GOUT.   The last indulgence ( Ra-men :D ) pushed me over the cliff and here I am with gout.  Last 80 days of being a good-being just helped to extend the gout free time.  All the crazy life style before the PCP days was really setting this off and it was my destiny that I am paying the price.


Oh well, I just have to bare with it for 10 days.  Nothing can stop me at this point. I WON'T EASILY GIVE IN!!
(Yes I am talking to you, you fat muthafocking GOUT!)

Day 78: Leaving something behind for the young generation

The finish line is almost there and I see lots of people from the recent class actively blogging away which makes me feel that I become an old man...  I might look better if I start to do Taichi than 2000+ jumps in the park.   Like old dude from Karate Kid (forgot the name..)

Anyway, not sure if the younger generation appreciates it but me old and about to retire man would like to leave something behind wishing if this might benefit young people with full of bright future..

"THIS IS HOW THE REAL PCPers BOIL THE EGG, DAWG!!"

60 eggs in one go, man, word!   You not only learn how to eat healthy and stay fit, but you learn how to be super efficient while you are on this program!  

Not sure about the other class, but my class seems obsessed with egg.  There were lots of wise-man talk about egg topic.  If you have time, go visit Pat M's blog where he is insisting on the benefit of brown egg over white.  Tony S who is the professional chef taught us how to boil egg so that the shell peels right off under 1 sec.  (first boil water to the boiling point, then put the egg for 10 min, then immediately put them in the cold water.  this makes inside of egg shrinks which create the gap b/w the egg white and shell)  this really saved tremendous amount of time for me when I am preparing lunch box in the busy morning! (thanx Tony!)

It's two Friday away from the end and just being a little nostalgic here :)

  

Day 73: Mastering Jumps

I did full 18mins continuous jumps this evening in the darkness.  I was in the "zone" so jumped through last 10mins without rope getting caught.  I even tried jumping with closing my eyes.  In the end, it was the record breaking set with 2700 jumps.  I rocked it.

I soon might be able to stop someone's heart by just wishing in my mind....  :P

Day 69 - 72

Gap store nearby my house was doing 25% summer sales.  I wanted to take the shopping till I finish the program but unfortunately the sales will not last till then so I decided to spend few bucks on new set of clothes!

Result as you would expect, now my body fits into S size.  Giving I was wearing L to XL range, it was huge improvement.

I had a farewell party of my friends from work at Gonpachi.  He knew that I was in this program so he ordered me a special veggie dinner set.   Japanese food with only serving veggie sounds very healthy but I can tell they put lots of salt in the dishes.  I didn't use a drop of soy sauce but toward the end of the party my throat was sore.  I thought I ate more than I should so decided to walk back from Nishi-Azabu to my home Daiba.  Fortunately, it was neither humid nor hot so it was very pleasant 1-1.5hrs walk in the mid-night.

week 10 pic is up.

Day 62 - 68: Back In The Game

Apology for not updating blog for a week.
I hurt my upper arms so I couldn't do any upper body work out for a week.  Since the pain is gone, I started to resume on my upper body work out from yesterday.  Man exercises are getting tougher but I feel fresh and great!
On my 30th days into the PCP, I pledged to finish my half marathon within 2.5 hours.  I had the race on Sunday and guess what?
I finished under 2 HOURS!  

official race record

I never expected to break 2 hours but I did it!!   All the hard work seems to be paid off!  Thank you Patrick and PCP colleagues to get me where I am now!

I usually couldn't walk for a week after race, but my legs are all fine already.  I actually did cool off run of 3km today.  I really am getting fit. :o

My Photo is up.  Still need to work on my love handle!

22 more days to go!!