A 23.5 kg long journey down the scale

TikTak

TikTak

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Well, I thought "Why not start a diary to help support my weight loss?" So I did... I originally started my journey in late October of last year at a weight of 95.5 kg while my highest weight ever is 100 kg, I think.

What is your current height and weight?
176 cm, 88.8 kg in the morning.

If you were at an ideal weight now, what would that weight be?
72 kg.

At what weight would you like to be at four months from now?
78 kg.

Why do you want to lose weight?
To feel more limber and look toned.

Do you want to lose weight for a specific life event such as wedding or reunion? If so, when is that event?
No.

What obstacles could get between you and your weight loss goals?
My craving for cookies, chocolate etc. and big juicy meals.

Why do you think that you now have a weight problem?
I eat too much.

What lifestyle changes do you think would help you lose weight?
Smaller portion sizes and cookies and chocolate with moderation.

Have you lost weight in the past? If so, what has worked in the past to help you lose weight?
Yes, smaller portion sizes, less cookies and chocolate, no meals after 6 pm.

Why do you believe that you did not lose weight or you gained the weight back?
Old habits with large portion sizes and snacking on cookies and chocolate.

What, if anything, has not worked for you in the past in helping you to lose weight? Why do you think it did not work?
Extensive exercise. I'm too lazy.

Would you try writing down all food and drink consumed for a given period of time?
I do write down the food. The drinks I don't, because I think they are neglectable in comparison to the food.

Do you cook at home often? If so, what do you cook?
No.

How often do you go out to eat? Where do you go?
Rarely, to my local pizza place.

What are your three favorite foods?
Kebab roll, pizza and Indian cuisine.

What are your three favorite restaurants?
Metropolis, Kotipizza and Amarillo.

What are three things you can do differently when it comes to food?
1. Have smaller portion sizes.
2. Don't eat if I am not hungry.
3. Never eat out of boredom.

If you woke up tomorrow and your body was exactly the way you want it, what would be different?
I could move around with less effort.

Do you eat when you are not hungry?
Not any more or I try not to.

Do you binge eat (large amounts at a time)?
I used to, especially on holidays like Christmas and Eastern.

Do you hide your food or eat in secret?
No.

Do you eat when you are sad, nervous, or depressed?
No.

Do you eat as a reward?
No.

Do you eat while watching TV or using the computer?
Yes.

What do you normally eat for a meal?
What ever is served.

What type of snacks do you eat?
A fruit and small cookies and cakes with afternoon coffee.

In terms of exercise, what, if anything, are you currently doing?
Currently I do a mix of cardio and weights 5 times a week.

Where do you go for exercise? A local public gym? School/work gym? Home?
Local gym.

What, if anything, are your three favorite types of exercise?
I hate them all. :D

What is your daily/weekly/monthly/yearly motivation to move towards your goals?
I weigh myself everyday and take part in various challenges on this site.

Do you have rewards for certain goals?
No.

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I left the forum in 2011 and went up to 103 kg in the winter of 2013. I came back to the forum in autum 2013.
 
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My diet is pretty much the same every day.

Breakfast: Oatmeal
Lunch: What ever is served in moderation
Snacks: Fruits, maybe a small cookie and/or cake or occasionally chocolates.:angel:
Dinner: Most days, rice cakes with e.g. ham or cheese etc. or what ever is served in moderation.
Supper: -
Drinks: Water, skimmed milk and coffee without sugar. Occasionally a beer or a drink in the evening.:angel:


I also have this chart where I'm recording my daily weight (on a fancy digital scale with decimals). I weight my self first thing after the bathroom every single morning Start date for this chart was December 20, 2010. As can be seen, the impact of Chrismas and New Years holidays is clearly noticable in the chart :sifone:. Maybe I'll post an updated chart when there is some major progress to be seen or not to be seen :( for a longer period of time.

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I will try to report my weight on regular basis. I'm a little obsessed about my weight, especially when it is not moving down! :banghead:

Take care!

Todays weight: 88.8 kg
Exercise: None
 
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Damn ClimbMax stepper! I tried a little longer (20 minutes) interval program on this machine today and damn it was tough :cuss:. I even had to cheat a little, supporting part of my weight on my arms :angel:, to get trough it. This has only been my first week at the gym and I'm sure looking forward to build up both my strength and endurance, making these gym sessions a bit easier to handle. Because now they are just pain in the ass!

Breakfast: Oatmeal
Lunch: Meatballs with mashed potatoes, slice of loaf + Blueberry pie for dessert :eek:
Snacks: -
Dinner: Fruit salad with tiny bit of cream
Drinks: Water, coffee and skimmed milk

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And the damn scale reading is still not moving down... :banghead:

Todays weight: 88.9 kg
Exercise: 90 min. gym session
 
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Hi Tic Tac. My suggestion is to eliminate your worst diet vice completely and permanently.. The one food that does the most caloric damage to you on a daily basis. If you do that and drink your water that would be a healthy change and in the long run will help you lose weight. Keep posting.
 
I'm just saying that cuz from experience trying to change everything at once is impossible to maintain. Better to make changes we can live with. I think you should exercise at a level you find enjoyable and keep it up, you will naturally get stronger and increase your stamina and enjoy reaching a "gettable"daily goal.

Hope you don't mind the advice.
 
Thank you for your input! The problem is that I don't like exercise at any level if I don't "have to". I either find it too boring or too strenuous. So my exercising routine is just a temporary complement to my diet at the moment. Let's see how long I can maintain it by pure will power. I have lost weight in the past on dieting alone. I have already cut down on my portion sizes and stopped my random snacking during the day, where I think I got most of my excess calories from. My long term goal is to be able to sustain a diet with smaller portion sizes and without the ranom snacking on coookies and chocolates, left overs etc..

Thank you!
 
TikTak said:
The problem is that I don't like exercise at any level if I don't "have to". I either find it too boring or too strenuous. So my exercising routine is just a temporary complement to my diet at the moment.
Thank you!
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Hey TikTak,

I noticed you had a similar problem to one that I encountered when I decided to pick up exercising again after a 5 year break from training. The first trick is to eliminate all parts of your lifestyle that make exercising any harder than it already is. If you smoke, quit, if you drink alcohol the night before a workout, drink less or not at all, and try to get a full night's sleep, it makes all the difference. Also make sure you plan your workouts to allow for a steady increase in intensity, rather than throwing yourself in at the deep end right away and potentially putting yourself off. If that means running (or any other exercise) for 15 minutes a day for a week, then adding 5 minutes each additional week then that is still progress, and I must add, a great deal more progress than 75% of the population will ever even aspire to. Within a couple of months you'll be eating up the miles in the gym without even batting an eyelid.

Also try to change the way you see a workout from:

"A work out is an obstacle I MUST overcome, in order to IMPROVE myself"

To this:

"I'm GOING to IMPROVE myself, and a work out is something I ENJOY and LOOK FORWARD TO"

Try to think less of it as a task, and more of a leisure activity and work out's will become infinitely more enjoyable.

Hope this helps you towards achieving your goals, remember, the first step is always the hardest, after you have taken that first step it gets so much easier and your routine will become second nature!!
 
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Hello, my problem is that I'm an all or nothing guy. I either tend to overdo things or then do nothing. While intervall training is tough I find it less boring than noraml steady state cardio. And it sure felt good afterwards. So I think I will concentrate on that feeling while doing the exercising.
 
One more gym session under the belt! Only 4 to go this week... I did return to the damn ClimbMax today, doing the same 20 min interval program as yesterday. Well today I found it to be a little easier that yesterday, altough did sweat like a pig when i climed off. All in all I had a very successful gym session, I think. Did have some left over blueberry pie for dinner, sure tasted good!


Breakfast: Oatmeal
Lunch: Turkey slice with cooked rice, slice of loaf
Snacks: -
Dinner: Blueberry pie :eek:, slice of loaf with sliced sausage
Drinks: Water, coffee and skimmed milk

Wohoo! Finally my weight is down some. This morning I was at my lowest so far since I began my journey in October. I hope this is the beginning of a long term trend.. :hurray:

Todays weight: 88.2 kg
Exercise: 90 min. gym session
 
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Another gym session done. Only 3 (or 4) more this week. I don't know if I can keep up with this routine till the end of March as planned. Maybe if I take one session at a time, I'll get there? Today I could have had cake with my afternoon coffee but I just said "No". :rolleyes:

Breakfast: Oatmeal
Lunch: Lye fish with potatoes, small slice of bread
Snacks: Clementine
Dinner: 2 large rice cakes with sliced turkey
Drinks: Water, coffee and skimmed milk + 2 beers :eek:



It may be a small step but it is a step in the right direction, 0.1 kg down today! :waving:

Todays weight: 88.1 kg
Exercise: 90 min. gym session
 
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Another 20 min interval program on the ClimbMax and today I didn't even have to cheat :). But I still find the only good stationary bike at the gy to be very sternous. I have the resistance set at only 3 to be able to be able to go for 20 min. I don't understand how anybody could do more than 5 min with the resistance set on say 6 or higher? I don't know? I tend to have one naughty thing every day, today it was a piece of freshly made choclate cake. :p

Breakfast: Oatmeal
Lunch: Sausage soup, slice of bread
Snacks: Carrot sticks, piece of chocolate cake :eek:
Dinner: 2 big rice cakes with ham
Drinks: Water, coffee and skimmed milk

Down 1.3 kg since last week for my "official" weekly weigh in, oh yea! :D

Todays weight: 87.7 kg
Exercise: 90 min. gym session
 
TikTak said:
Hello, my problem is that I'm an all or nothing guy. I either tend to overdo things or then do nothing. While intervall training is tough I find it less boring than noraml steady state cardio. And it sure felt good afterwards. So I think I will concentrate on that feeling while doing the exercising.
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Hi Tiktak, pay attention to your form - even with cardio. If you need to cheat you-re doing too much and risk injuries. I recognize the all or nothing at all approach (I used to be like that) but on the long term it doesnt work.
 
Ok...I've been sitting here staring at the picture 3 posts up for like 5 minutes and I have to ask...What the hell is that? HAHAHA! Is that the Lye Fish? I'm soooo not a fish eater.. I think I'd probably gag if I had to eat that..HAHHAA!
 
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Hi Daily, Well i think it can work for 3 months at least. But I can't imagine that I'll be a gym guy forever. When I have lost my weight I think that I could be able to maintain through diet only. Cheating on a stair climber is pretty easy and safe to do, it's a very low impact machine.

Jen! :smilielol5: Yes that is lye fish, very delicious especially with white sauce. :drool5:
 
Today I can surely feel that my stamina has improved due to the gym time. If I only keep this up for 2½ months more, I don't know about the weight loss but I propably be in the best physical condition I have been in for 20 years. :smash:

Breakfast: Oatmeal
Lunch: Sausage soup, slice of bread
Snacks: Apple, small piece of apple cake :eek:
Dinner: 2 big rice cakes with roe cream and low fat cheese
Drinks: Water, coffee and skimmed milk

I like this 0.3 kg down. I would like this kind of numbers every day. :rolleyes:

Todays weight: 87.4 kg
Exercise: 90 min. gym session
 
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Today the stair climber at the gym was gone. Just when I have started to love its interval program feature, they have taken it away :(. Well, there was some talk about a replacement stair climber so I hope they get a similar one with programs on it. I don't know how I would be able to do more than 20 min of cardio without a programmable sair climber. I find steady state cardio so boring. The treadmill was also gone, which didn't matter to me as it was in quite bad shape and only allowed walking. There was also some talk about a new(er) replacement for that one...

Breakfast: Oatmeal
Lunch: Sausage soup, small slice of bread
Snacks: 6 small chocolates :eek:
Dinner: 1 big rice cake with sliced sausage, crisp rye bread with roe cream
Drinks: Water, coffee, skimmed milk and some orange juice



Wohoo, 0.4 kg down today!!

Todays weight: 87.0 kg
Exercise: 90 min. gym session
 
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looks like the scales are moving in the right direction for you at a stead pace. Well Done :)
 
The gym is closed on Saturdays and it is freezing cold outside, so no workout today. Losing weight is easy all one has to do is eat like a mouse and take sh*ts like an elephant :D. Well the mouse part may be easy but the elephant part sure is not easy though it's all that it comes down to.

Breakfast: Oatmeal
Lunch: Lasagna, slice of bread, fruit salad with a bit of cream for dessert
Snacks: Clementine, slice of freshly baked loaf, chocolate ball :eek:
Dinner: Crisp rye bread with roe cream
Drinks: Water, coffee and skimmed milk

Up 0.1 kg today, oh well!

Todays weight: 87.1 kg
Exercise: None
 
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