New year and new rule!

So far my quitting smoking has gone good. Three relapses only, when I was drunk, because Lemmy died and his funeral.

Earlier this week I did measure my weight and that wasn't big suprise: 96,9 kg. On holiday we did eat good and a bit too much. Sure enough it hasn't been that cold either. I just read arcticle from about two years ago about how shivering may burn more fat than exercising. It isn't a big suprise that you would burn more fat when you are out in the cold that inside warm. Athletes that exercise outdoors have to eat more than athletes that exercise indoors because their bodies need to also keep body warm, so extra fat needs to be converted in to heat. 

So it's time to start exercising outdoors for more fat burning and losing weight. Only downside of this is that it's cold outside. Which can be managed by correctly dressing up, but then you won't get that much of extra fat burning. 

I quitted smoking, day 10.

10th day without smoke. Today I have felt that I have grown a craving for a sweets. I can't stop thinking about candy and sweets. I must resist if I want to reduce my weight to under 90 kg by next summer. I scaled my weight and it was around 95 kg, so nothing has changed yet. But it will be. I know it. Few years back when we quitted for 1 and half I noticed that I gained few kg in a month, because I had sense of smell and taste again. And I guess I subsidued cigarette cravings with candy.

I have to buy a running shoes so that I could start a new exercise hobby, although time of the year isn't quite right for start jogging.... I do need to do something before I bloat too much and after that it just gets too hard to start losing weight and everything feels inadequate.

Must resist.

Back to life.

Summer is over and it's time to have a reality check. 94.7 kg. On my last post I was at 90.8 kg. So I gained 4 kg over summer. Which I did expect, although I expected a bit more. Back to eating less. Which I have already started. And off with soda.

Last year I weighted around 99 kg and by spring I hit 88 kg. So I would expect to hit low 80's by next spring.

Keep up the good work people!

Summer is here, but shape isn't.

Well, it's June and I'm back at 90,8 kg. Okay, I've been lazy and had been eating a bit more than I have last autumn and winter. It was expected that I gain few kilos back. But now I have started a new course. Bicycling to work and back. 10 km per direction. That's about 400 kcal per dirction. Around 800 kcal more daily energy consumption. In a week that makes 4000 kcl which translate roughly 0,5 kg per week in weight loss. As I have two months till summer vacation it means I could lose weight about 4-5 kg. So, I'll be updating more often with my progress in here. So till next week, let the sun shine and keep up the work!

Goal achieved!

For a four days in a row my weight has been under 90 kg! 88.8-88.9 but under 90. Why is it important to have it in a row for a four days? Well, when you are losing weight your weight is going up and down, between days it could be few kilos either way. Depending on how much you have eaten, drink and exercised. It's quite safe to say now, after a four days, that my one goal has been achieved. I have lost 10 kg in a bit more than seven months. And this is by just eating less and watch what you eat. I haven't added any extra exercise to this formula. Seven months and 10 kg equals 1.4 kg per month, which is about 0.3 kg per week. Good and healthy lost per week. First I didn't even think about it at all. I just started eating less in my subconscious mind and didn't notice it after I have tighten my belt a few times. After that I started monitoring my behavior and tracking my weight in the morning. I haven't weighted this less in a two decades! I was going to write that about ten years ago, but now that I think it was exactly ten years ago, that when I lost my previous job in the spring I started exercising more because I was unemployed and didn't really wanted a job for a summer. So I had a lot of free time and back then I lost in a three month roughly 10 kg, but I never got below 90 kg for a few days longer. After that I started gaining weight back a little by little until I reached 99.9 kg. I might have weighted over that 100 kg at some point since I didn't really care about my weight and life was going too fast to think. Now my second goal is to reach below 80 kg. And that means by this rate that I should hit that mark by November. I might get there faster since it's spring time and weather is getting warmer and sunny, which can lead to longer dog walks. And I have thinking about taking on a running. Not in a heavy kind of way, but getting my breath and to clear my head. So, till next time!

Losing weight steadily.

It has been seven months since I started losing weight. At the end of August I weighted 99 kg. I didn't plan to lose weight back then, but after I noticed that I had to tighten my belt on my jeans I started scaling my weight. I do scaling in the morning after morning pee almost every day. There was a story about study that those people that scaled their weight more often than those how didn't scale that often, lose more weight. That's probably because those you try to lose weight do scale their weight more often. I haven't kept any written records about my weight loss but in seven months I have lost 9 kg! Over 1 kg per month. As I scaled in the morning I weighted 90.4 kg and a bit later I did take morning shit scale read 89.8 kg, so that dump was 0.6 kg. My weight has been around 91-92 kg for awhile now and last weekend I hit 90.5 kg and I knew that won't hold for a week. During this week I scaled every morning my weight and it was between 91-92 kg. But now it has been second time in a week that my weight has been below 91 kg which could mean I am breaking that 90 kg barrier for good shortly.

Christmas season.

So, Christmas is usually for me a season of food. All kind of foods to be eaten. This time of the year you don't usually lose weight but gain it. I have been hovering 93 kg for weeks now and didn't gain that much of weight during this Christmas season but didn't lose it either. Now that days are getting longer it's good to start moving more often and longer too. Maybe take the camera with me too.