Consistency is definetly a key.
I’ve been laying off the hard work for a period now. But still didn’t go all the way out of my new habits luckily. I don’t know what have happened in between my last update and now, but three weeks the numbers were 120.4, now today it’s 117.2…
So, not the biggest improvement in such a long time, but hell yeah, it’s on the right path!
:).
Technobreath, if you let me I can give you some hints on how to start loosing some nice Kg, BUT (Shit, those “buts” are not cool), you’ll have to have the will for that.
Edit: I forgot you already are following a plan with PT. Sorry.
Nah, the PT stuff is over with.
I had a really bad experience with that “funny” PT. About the pricing. She started to demand too much, at the same time she started not showing up for the appointments, comming with all sorts of stupid excuses. At the end of the day, she couldn’t help me… Told me that she would follow this through - of course if I did - which I did until it really started to show through that she didn’t know how to handle stuff when it wasn’t exactly the way she thought it was. Complicated stuff - expensive stuff.
On the other hand - I know how to loose those nice kilos, but the key here is finding a way to keep it all good for more than 6 months. So I need to not loose too much in too little time. Need to find the balance - it can’t be too extreme, but I figure if I loose on average 1 kilo each week for less than one year, I will reach the goal, and more than that too. Well - I’m 180cm tall, and if I loose 1kg a week, I’ll look like a stiff in the end :P. And right now I don’t care if I have to use a year on it, as long as it gets me where I need to be, and ables me to stay there too ;).
Man, it’s exhausting to be where I’m at now, that’s for sure. Luckily I have a job that keeps me active during the days - at least most of the days - some of them are in my office too, but I like being out in the field much better!
If u have never been big (or otherwise sick) I don’t think one could ever understand how it is to breath heavier than normal from going up the stairs, from taking a small walk etc… that stuff is mean. So that’s what I’m tired of, and need to get to a better place hehe. I’m actually starting to write down now how it feels in different situation being that heavy. It’s like carrying a 40kg backpack that u are unable to loose when u need a break :P. It is so easy to forget how things were when loosing the kgs - and when gradually loosing, it is so easy to not be aware of all the good changes - so that’s why I write it down, so I will be able to see the changes much more clearly :D.
Anyway, I walk / run in the woods (I live about right next to a pretty nice and large forest with nice paths for running) 2 days a week for 40-45 minutes - that’s the start. After that my feet is having a hard time coping with the beating :P. So when I loose a little more, I’ll start running more often - like 3-4 times a week. I run together with my dad, which is pretty nice.
In addition I’m soon starting some muscle building excercise together with my friend - and that’s one thing I really enjoy, coz there is one thing I aint - weak :P. That sorta training I master, and I am stronger than the avarage guy there, exactly because of the extra kgs I’m carrying around :P. The former PT lady had a hard time finding something that would really make me feel the muscles in the stomach area, but I found a couple of excercises that worked pretty good, and made me feel good, and not only because I realized how strong I really am, but also because it was fun doing it.
Anyway - I’ll be handing in a few more updates here than I’ve done till now ;). It’s motivating for me too 
Crunches is where it’s at for the abs! That and training your lower back area… Hmm, needs to hit that part more often… MMA and cross-fit is also good and fun 
Hope you’ll succeed, I need to drop kgs myself again… Bleurgh, that’s what I get from living too well… or rather unwell.
I weight/eye measure everything I eat since 2003, E.V.E.R.Y.D.A.Y. except Sundays and 1 week on Summer Holidays.
At the point you are now, it should be very easy to loose 0.5kg per week. You just have to take out one or two table spoons of carbs each meal.
As your body adapts you will not feel that need for that bigger quantities as before. Mind that I didn’t mention food changes for now.
The simpler aproach to change food choices is: Eat the thing in their closest natural state possible. I don’t mean that you should start eating everything raw (lol), just meaning you should avoid processed stuff, like sausages, ham, ice-cream, fried stuff…
Well, enough for today.
Hehe J. We all live too well yeah.
Ripper. Cool. I’m not starting to measure everything hehe. I get why u do it though and all respect to u for that.
I’m all in for doing it the natural way yeah, hehe not gonna eat everything raw hehe got u.
There is too many things that we eat that is made from powder, lots of salt and
Hehe J. We all live too well yeah.
Ripper. Cool. I’m not starting to measure everything hehe. I get why u do it though and all respect to u for that.
I’m all in for doing it the natural way yeah, hehe not gonna eat everything raw hehe got u.
There is too many things that we eat that is made from powder, lots of hidden salt and fat in that stuff.
I try to keep it natural more and more nowdays, like eating the clean meat instead of all those things that I 1: have no control of whats in it and 2: is way too unhealthy anyway.
Clean meat, if eating bread, lots of nice stuff on top and little bread. And mostly dark bread, and I don’t mean dark bread colored by syrup hehe, the healthy kind. Most bread are tagged around here with a scale that shows how healthy it is. A nice thing…
However, my problem ain’t so much the food and quantity of it. I usually keep it in small portions, and I’m not a guy who likes a lot of food. My problems lays more in the snacks section. I tens to eat too much snacks. The other problem is my suppers that usually is around 20.00. That’s where I traditionally have ended up with a big plate of pasta or such like it.
So I cut out most o fthe snacks, eat very little of that nowdays, and that’s no big problem either, I get really motivated from seeing the weight loss. And for the suppers, I never eat more than a light meal except weekends, but then we usually drop dinner and have that later in the evening.
My goal is to get to the point of feeling gooda and be able to do everything I want that I have had to abandon because of the weight. Like street blading, guess it is best explained by comparing it to skateboarding in the city only on aggressive type skates. That’s fun, but last I tried I ended up injured because I am too heavy. Other thing I would like to start again is the kite jumping. Extremely fun. And one thing I have always wanted was to learn some kind of martial art, we ll see if I can find the time for it hehe. The only deadly martial art I know now is the sit-on-top-until-choked hehe.
And I think that place lays around 85kg with the current musclemass. Of course that will also be built, so we ll see.
For now I’m trying to learn the right way of eating and running in the woods 2 times a week, and soon start some more muscle building in the gym at least once a week for starters hehe. The funny thing is that now is the first time in a long time I am really up for all that, and looking forward to it. And that’s not bad considering my current status hehe.
Great move, Technobreath. At least you admit you have a problem. That’s the first thing to do!
Make a schedule for meals, according to your usual one, excluding snacks. Put that paper somewhere you see eat easily and respect that.
If you feel you need to give a job to your teeth get some seeds, like nuts, almonds, cajuns and stuff like that and you solve the problem. At the same time you will be feeding your body with healthy fat, that also helps on loosing weight.