I am really amazed! I am down FOUR POUNDS for week two of the 10K Kettlebell Swings Challenge! As I wrote last week, I did not start the Challenge with the intention of losing weight. I have not changed anything I do regularly except high volume kettlebell swings EVERY DAY!!! I’m actually surprised that I have lost weight as I have been stable for a long time. It’s become the Kettlebell Weight Loss Challenge!
This should be proof to anyone that SHOCKING your body with something dramatically different is what will get weight loss going again if you’ve been stable. Still, I am particularly surprised by this week’s weight loss as I would expect the effect of the “shock” to have had greater impact in Week 1.
In my upcoming book, 100 Lbs Off, I will discuss what a “black box” the body is. We know “calories in, calories out” IS absolutely true but in actual practice we can’t rely on the math working out. My week is a perfect example! A four-pound weight loss would mean I had a calorie deficit of 4 x 3500 = 14,000 calories. That’s pretty much my TOTAL calorie output for the whole week! Look back over my posts where I list my daily calorie burn according to the BodyBugg. Low burn days are about 1700-something, high burn days are about 2200-something. The average would come out to about 2000/day.
Believe me, I was NOT on some water fast or even a super-low calorie diet! We know the BodyBugg can have a margin for error. I ate my usual diet. It could be that the extra exercise was reducing my appetite a bit (I tend to go that way, some people are the opposite) and I might have eaten more vegetables and less meat than usual. Still, we are seeing a great example of the Black Box Effect this week.
I’m interested to see where this will continue to go. We’ll see where I end up for Week 3. Thanks to the Black Box, I might have a zero loss with little difference in “calories in/calories out” from this past week.
Coming up in a future post, I will describe my typical diet!
