With Christmas, New Year
and resolution all out of the way I wasn’t quite sure what this week’s topic should
be about but after some careful through I came to the conclusion that the best
way to start this week’s blog would also be a good way to example in a bit more
detail about one of my New Year’s resolutions.
The one that I will be
looking at this week will be weight loss and the reason why I decided to lose
weight and the shock that I discovered today when I got on the scales.
Now the story of my weight
lost can be traced all the way back to August last year where I believed that
the best way to lose weight was to continue to eat the same food that I have
always been eating but to make sure that I at least go to the gym from two
hours a week, it wasn’t until November that I then ran into a road block which was
shouted at me that I wasn’t losing any weight but instead was putting it on.
That was when I went out
and bought myself a pair of scales to weight myself and find out how heavy I
was. As I got on them I was shocked to learn that I now weight in at 218lbs
(15.42 stones or 98.88KG) at this point I knew that I had to do more if I
wanted to lose weight.
The only way that I could
see myself losing weight was to try and go on a calorie controlled diet, at
that moment I remembered that my other half had at one point downloaded an
application for her Iphone which I decided to do as well. The application is My
Fitness Pal and it is free for everyone to download and of you haven’t got an
Iphone, you can always go on to their website and join up.
Now the way in which My
Fitness Pal works is that you will need to create an account with them tell
them how heavy you are now, what your weight goal is, how tall you and what you
believe to be your working conditions (do you have a job in which you are
seating down all day or moving round a lot). The last think that your will have
to complete before starting your account is how much weight you would like to lose
over a week, they recommend that you lose 1 pound a week which is what I have
done but you can lose more if you wish to. With your account created it will
then tell you what your daily calorie count is for each day alone with how much
carbohydrates, fat and protein you are allowed to consume each day too.
With my account created
and application loaded on my phone I now started to place everything that I had
eaten for the day into the application and too my horror I knew straight away
that both my lunch and dinner were over by daily allowance of calories. Now
just as I was about to start changing my diet I then ran into a little problem
called the vomiting and diarrhoea bug (I very rarely get ill and when I do it
always tens to be the bad ones) which knocked me out cold for a two weeks.
Now having this bug was
good and bad mainly because it meant that I wasn’t eating a lot of food and
when I was eating it always ended up being soup or a very small amount of
dinner. The second problem that came with it was the fact that I didn’t have
the energy or the will power to go to the gym. By the time the bug had cleared
my system I decided that it was time to start my dieting again and also took it
upon myself not to weight myself due to the fact that I felt like I hadn’t lost
any weight (this was where I was wrong). On the 23rd of December I
decided that it was time to jump on the scales and see how much I weight I had
lost and to my shock I found out that I now weight in at 200 pounds (14.28
stones 90.71 kg) and I believe that this large weight loss was due to me being
ill and not being able to eat a lot of food for almost two weeks.
Now this one is the
kicker, we all know that over Christmas and New Year we all eat a hell of a lot
of food and I will be honest and tell you that Christmas and the summer are the
two times of the year that I love food the most because Christmas brings so
many different types of food and in the summer it is all about the Barbecue and
cooking your own food outside and so some reason it always taste so much
better.
Sorry about that little
detour there. Now I knew that over Christmas I tried to keep track of
everything that I was eating and I will be honest that on Christmas Day and New
Years Day I did miss some of the entries for those two days but at the same
time I knew that I was going to be over anyway so I made sure that I was over
my allowance for both those days.
With the New Year out of
the way I decided that I would give everything that I had to start losing
weight and I believed that having a pedometer on me at all times, apart from
the gym would be a good idea. I am also trying to make sure that I at least go
to the gym three to four times a week, which would be about an hour per visit
at the gym.
Now that we are now fourteen
days into the New Year I took it upon myself to weight myself to get some idea as
to how must heavy or lighter I am. To my luck it would seem that I everything
has been working for me because now I weight only 193 pounds (13.78 Stone and
87.54 KG’s).
So you can see the weight
loss has already began and to lose 7 pounds (0.5 Stones 3.17 KGs) in just over
three weeks with Christmas and New Year in that time frame is very impressive
and I do hope that I can continue to lose the same amount of weight within the
next three weeks or so weeks.
As long as you put your
mind towards it anything can happen.
Until next time.
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