I am pleased to announce the winners of the Body Transformation Challenge III:  Team Challenge.  Congratulations to all our winners.  It was a very close competition.  Your results have been the best that BTC has ever seen!  You guys have inspired me tremendously.  I know it took a lot of hard work and dedication to achieve the results that you did.  You guys have a lot to be proud of.

Thanks to everybody who participated and donated in the challenge.  I hope your participation in the challenge was a positive experience.  Please continue your training and keep your journals posted.  I look forward to your continued success.

And now for the winners...

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the BTC III: Team Challenge.  I'm happy to see so many impressive transformations.   To be honest, I was a bit reluctant to post up my results because everyone had such amazing photos!

Progress Photo - 5/26, start of week 7

Stats

Weight - 161 lbs

Going off raw diet

I went off the raw diet after week five.  I was not able to meet my daily caloric requirements while on this diet.  I was losing weight and had dropped to a low point of 150 lbs at one time.  This included a drop in bodyfat% as well.  However, the drop in weight was too drastic and out of line with my goal of gaining body weight.  So in the best interest of my goals, I decided to let go of the diet and allow myself to eat meat products and cooked foods.

BTC Week 2 - Progress Photo 

Stats

Weight - 155 lbs

Body fat - 13.32%

Right arm - 13 3/4"

Left arm - 13 1/2"

Waist - 30"

Emotions

Strong emotions have been surfacing these past few days.  I feel less patient with things.  It's almost like, I want to fix the things that I don't like.  If something is left undone, I get antsy and do it right away.  I am in the process of moving to a new apartment and I find that I am taking care of things immediately as they come up.  For example, washing the dishes as soon as I am done with them.  Sweeping and vacuuming the floor when it gets dirty.  Doing my laundry as soon as there is a load.

Racing thoughts

I had trouble sleeping last night.  I woke up after sleeping for three hours and couldn't get myself to fall asleep again.  For the next 3 hours or so, my mind was racing.  It was as if I had just taken a shot of espresso or something.  The thoughts were really deep, clear and vivid.  I remember telling myself, let me focus on an issue and see if my mind can come up with a solution.  However, I had trouble focusing on topics for a period of time.  It was like I had a short term attention span.  My mind would wander freely on its own.  So I stopped trying to focus it and just observed my thoughts.  I got to say, I was impressed with the clarity of my thoughts.

I'm interested in seeing, should these types of mental clarity continue, if I'll be able to harness it and use it to focus on subjects and topics that I want.