Backfired...

Well I did achieve a goal, but that whole goal is turned upside down. I've gain 3 kg back. I've quit smoking which has lead to eating much more and I've needed and eating candy too. It has helped me from smoking and I am not stressed about it since now I got a plan to getting in shape. Cycling to work five days a week. That's about 25 km per day, 125 km per week. Quick research showed that's about 350 kcal per day, that I didn't do last winter. So if I managed to lose 10 kg in winter without extra exercise I think I can manage my little set back.

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.

Shit face drunk...

Here we are. Nothing. We lose some, we gain some. Truth is that I don't care. Everything comes from yourself. You want it or not. You choose to lose it. How you will lose weight? It's up yours. I like to think it's my own. I am thirty years old. I don't give a shit. There aren't new news. I'm too old.

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.

Dehyration by drinking...

I got on the scale this morning and numbers were 92.7 kg. Later the day I have been drinking some Lonkeros and few beers. I know I am going to weight about 1-1.5 kg less than that in next morning. It's good boost for you when you try to lose weight, since you mostly are happier when you are drunk and by dehydration you lose excess fluids from your body. In a long run it doesn't get you far but when you are stuck in with your weight not dropping it a "happy" way to get extra boost. You should try it. After all I did lose weight by drinking almost 10 years ago. Of course there was modest exercise and control on what you eat and when, but I did get on the scale only Saturday or Sunday morning after drinking.

Yo-Yo.

So, now new news in weight loss game. Weight has been going back and forth between 92-94 kg now for few weeks. I don't take stress out of it, since I am not trying constantly lose weight. If I start taking it seriously I should start exercise more and keep track on what I eat and how much. At this moment in my life it's not what I am looking and keeping everything simple is my main focus on this weight loss.