Weight Drop.

When I left the states I weighed a good 155-160 pounds (~70kg) on any given day. Much of this was made from the past year or so of building myself up from around 140 (~63kg), which is the weight I somehow stayed at all through high school and college.

I don't want to fight lightweight and so I tried to gain weight. Much of the same time my friends were doing this as well, Jeff for instance has had some great success at this back home in Colorado. We hit plateaus and moved on and kept sharing tips for healthy weight gain with each other.

Anyways, after the first month of training here I dropped down to a solid 150 (70kg), and I mean SOLID. I was happy with this as the excess fat that I had put on from plowing through some of my weight gain back in America had vanished. I was now able to use the smallest hole in my belt like I was before I started trying to gain weight, but I looked like a beast. Simply put I was merely cutting fat, seven pounds of it which had me thinking "woah!" I didn't know that I had that much to get rid of.

This past Sunday I got some wicked food poisoning. I'm not exactly sure what from because I've been eating like a monster, however a big red pig statue comes to mind. The food here in Thailand is great and training four hours a day gets you hungry. I basically order two dishes worth every time I go out, plus the Thai's serve small portions. So needless to say I ate quite a bit from quite a few places.

After about 3 days of worshipping the porcelain god and other unpleasantries I decided to get back to training today. My stomach felt weird but not queasy or hurting, and I’ve been able to hold small amounts of food down for about the past day. So I figured that I was good to go.

Before training I hopped on the scale in the weight room. 143 pounds (~65kg).

Son of a bitch!

That’s about 14 pounds (~6.5kg) since I arrived in Thailand that are gone. I do look worse for wear though, and I knew during training that I must’ve lost some muscle during my sickness as training was making me ache and I was going light today. Danielle said that I look as scrawny as I did back when I was 18. So I figured that I dropped a few but I didn’t think that I was down THAT much.

So here goes another attempt at getting up to a good, healthy, 160 (72kg). I just hope that this doesn’t take as long as it did last time.