Week 6 - Monday

Yesterday's weight was 110.2 Kg.

I haven't blogged in a few days since I wasn't very good about keeping to my diet and not snacking. It might have to do with the way I always diet - lots of dedication the first few weeks that fizzles out to nothing afterwards. It could be that I'm dealing with some emotional stuff and I'm falling back on my old routine of snacking sweets to feel better.

The only bright spot in all of these days was that I have not bought any chocolate although I have been to the supermarket a couple of times. I did eat a little chocolate since someone returned from the US and brought Hershey's Kisses and I was in no place to resist their siren call. ;-)

So, I snacked a little today as well - 5 cookies so far, but, I'm going to get my salad soon and I'll phone my mom to make sure that I get on the treadmill today.

Had a good meeting with my shrink yesterday which I'm still processing so I'm not sure the next couple of days will be snacks free. Still this is important, possibly life altering stuff so it's worth the delay/sacrifice.

No weight today as I don't have access to scales.

Something cool that I'm looking foreward to is Joss Whedon new on-line series! It has some great actors and I love Joss Whedon's work, the man knows how to balance fun, comedy, character development and thought provoking story lines.

So here is the teaser for "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog":


Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.

Thanks go out for argh ink for showing me the way to this teaser and being a fun blog to read always. :-)

Week 5 - Tuesday

Didn't do to badly yesterday. Had my salad and my yogurt and muesli plus 5 cookies at work.

Got home and hate a sandwich with strawberry jam and then had dinner - cooked chicken and pasta.

I hope to do better today. Already had my yogurt drink and currently working on my salad (usually takes me about 3 hours to finish). Already had two cookies today and I plan and hope not to snack any more.

This morning's weight is 110.1 Kg =~ 2424.73 - which mean I lost 0.2 Kg =~0.78 lb.

I should really get on the treadmill today since that's a good way to remind myself in the evening that I'm on a diet and shouldn't eat another helping of dinner or that jam sandwich.

All in all, not bad but not great either.

The goal of getting another 5 Kg (~11 lb) off by the end of August suddenly seems a long way off and a little discouraging and that in itself is a bad sign. It's not an unrealistic goal it's that I lost my enthusiasm which kind of bums me out. :-(

I did make some progress. I told my mom about buying the ice coffee and danish on Sunday and I should really remind her to nag me about getting on the treadmill.

I want to buy an elliptical cross-trainer since I know I prefer it to the treadmill plus it's a much more intense and productive workout, but, I don't want to have it standing in the living room, unused, the way the treadmill is most of the time.

I also don't want to spend the money right now since I'm saving for my grand diet goal - the trip next summer to California.

I don't have the exact dates for the trip but I have roughly 52 weeks to go, I should really stay in the game and keep thinking of my goals instead of my sweet tooth!

Week 5 - Monday

Lost sight of the diet over the weekend and yesterday so I decided, while on my way home last night, to make it a detour to remember.

I bought an ice coffee and a danish on the way home and savored them as my 'however long I'm going to make it until the next time I crack under pressure' treat.

Other then that yesterday was pretty routine except for the cookies I ate at work and no salad.

So, today I'm back to dieting. Start weight today 110.4 Kg. I would like to get down to 109 by the start of next week.

Week 4- Thursday

This morning's is still 110 Kg but I'm OK with it.

I think my weight loss rate may be slowing down a little, but that was expected.

It's going to be interesting going shopping for clothes tomorrow. I'll do my best to get the bare essentials so that I don't 'waste' money on clothes that won't really fit me in a few months, let alone next summer.

I'm still well on the way to meeting one of my goals - reaching 105 Kg=~231.5 lb by my parents 40Th wedding anniversary which is on August 25Th. I'm sort of hoping to reach 100Kg=~220.5 lb but any weight between these two would be extremely awesome!

Last night I dinner and ate half of my second helping when I felt so full that I actually stopped and put the plate in the fridge. That's a first for me and I'm hopeful that it's a sign that my body may yet be trained to 'think' as a thin person's body. :-)

I'm going to get my salad now. So I'll post again on Sunday.

Week 4- Wednesday

This morning's weight is 110 Kg =~242.5 Lb which is really great as I managed in three weeks an a half to lose 15% of my planned weight loss.

My planned weight loss is 35.5 Kg =~78.3 lb, which would bring me to 80 Kg=~176.4 lb and a BMI of 27 which will still define me is 'over weight' but I think I'll be able to live with that.

Of course I won't mind losing more weight than the goal I've set but I want to keep this goal as it is far more realistic, it'll still be the thinnest I'd in over 15 years and it'll be a huge improvement to my health and my state of mind.

So, not a bad day today. I already drank my yogurt drink and I'll go and get my salad soon. Haven't eaten a salad in a couple of days so I need to get back into it.

I hope the loss of this half a Kg will give me a morale boost when I get home at night so that I'll get on the treadmill - haven't been on it for over two weeks which is really not good.

Friday, I'll go and buy some summer clothes at an end of season sale. Hopefully it'll be the last time I buy a whole summer wardrobe at a special store.

I tore a shirt yesterday at work and I though 'well, it's supposed to be way too big by fall anyway'. :-)

Long rambling post today, guess I was just in the mood.

Off to get my salad.

Week 4 - Tuesday

No change from yesterday which I guess is good since it seems I concurred my tendency to eat chocolate to battle my hormones.

Short post today since there's really nothing new to report.

Week 4- Monday

Not much to report today as it's Monday and I have no scales so no morning weight.

I did pretty well yesterday aside from eating about 6 cookies but since I didn't buy any chocolate and I was suffering from PMS I think I did pretty well.

I did OK today, as well, though I skipped my salad and had a couple of cookies. I did eat a couple of slices of salami but I didn't overdo anything.

Probably no treadmill today and the next couple of days but I'm still hopeful for tomorrow morning.

I'm constantly prowling a travel forum looking for tips for next year's trip to California so I'm hanging on to that in moments of crisis.

Week Four - Sunday

I'm trying to get back to normal after the last couple of weeks with the stomache bug and then the holiday and the short work week.



This'll be a short post as I'm not feeling so great, again. :-(



My weight this morning is 110.5 Kg =~243.61 lb. Not bed considering the weekend is my great volunrability.



Anyway, no weight tomorrow (no scales) but I may just get to a nice round 110 Kg on Tuesday, I hope.



Just to spice things up I'm going to upload a picture from last summer:

Week 3 - Tuesday

So I haven't blogged in a week but there's a really good explanation for that. It seems the way I felt last Monday night was a prequel to a serious stomach bug.

On Wednesday morning (5 am) things got so bad I was sweating and experiencing chills (the temperature was in the mid 20s Celsius = higher 70s Fernheit).

I missed work and ate two slices of bread the whole day and things didn't really get settled until yesterday.

So, let's do weights:
Wednesday morning: 110.6 Kg =~243.85 lb
Thursday Morning: 110.3 Kg =~ 243.2 lb
Friday and Saturday morning: 110 Kg =~ 242.5 lb
Sunday, Monday and this morning: 245.4 lb

Today I'm back to my routine and I intend to get on the treadmill this evening.

Still, including the weight bounce in the last couple of days I'm not doing badly at all. I lost 4.2 Kg =~9.25 lb in two weeks.

I'm happy enough, just really hate being above a round number again. :-)

Week 2- Tuesday

This morning's weight is 112.4 Kg (~247.8 lb) so in a week and a half I managed to lose 3.1 Kg =~ 6.8 lb! I'm really happy!

I was doing great yesterday and got home really early so I planned to get on the treadmill. I ate my afternoon snack (yugort with mousley) and a slice of bread with home made strawberry jam and started feeling really sick. Something happened to my stomach. So no treadmill yesterday. On the other hand I didn't eat dinner either.

I suffered through the night but felt much better this morning so I ate a littel breakfast (again a slice of bread with home made strawberry jam) which I don't do usually since I'm afraid to get car sick on the bus.

I'm back to my routine, so far, although my stomach is still not 100% back to normal.

I still want to get some sort of tracking visualization on this blog but haven't found out how to do it yet. Maybe I should check for other diet blogs and see if they have something I can use.

Week Two - Monday

So, I did very well yesterday and I'm doing great, so far, today.

No weight today - don't usually have available scales on Monday morning since I spend the night at my brother's apartment.

I hope to have a good result tomorrow which, to me, means anything below yesterday's weight of 113.9 Kg. If I'll be 113.5 I'll be very happy.

I started work early today so I hope to leave a little earlier than usual which I hope would lead to me getting on the tread mill and moving my butt!

Guess this'll be a short post. :-)

I Think I'll Stop Counting Now

As the title says I realized today that not only is it becoming confusing for me to keep track of the days I've been on the diet, I'll also get to an insane number (over a year) if I keep counting.

Instead of counting days I think I'll count by week and day of the week so the alternative title of this post is 'Week 2 - Sunday'. :-)

I weighed in at 113.5Kg (250.25 lb)Friday morning but the weekend was pretty tough and I didn't live up to the challenge fully, more on that a little further down this post.

So today's weight is 113.9 Kg (251.1 lb). Not as great as Friday's weight but I'm still happy enough to have lost 1.6 Kg (a little over 3.5 lb) in a week. If I continue at this rate for a few weeks I'll be ecstatic.

The weekend's hurdles were the restaurant Friday evening - I only ate the main course, no appetizers or bread and a sorbet (which my mom was very helpful with so I only ate about half).

I did eat more bread then I do on week days but I made my own salad and ate it so I felt pretty good about myself.

The really tough day turned out to be Saturday. I think what 'broke' me was a combination of the change in routine (hot meal in the middle of the day instead of in the evening), the fact that I love to eat Chala and possibly the fact that I hadn't really managed to get caught up on my sleep.

I'm going to try and do a lot better next weekend.

Today, up to this point, I'm doing very well. I'm eating my salad now and I've already drank 9 cups of water.

I just need to keep going as if yesterday didn't happen.

I am glad that this salad is no longer the chore it was in the first couple of days so that's a huge step forward.

I'll blog again tomorrow.

Oh, and I saw people have these bars on their blogs that indicate were they stand on their goals so I plan to search how I can add such a bar to this blog so that I have a visual representation of my accomplishments.