A diary: from 180Kg to a healthy body

Yesterday no exercises, I went to a two star restaurant with a client for lunch but I managed to skip on desert. Did have some of the chocolates with the coffee though.
My mayor problem seems to be stopping when I start eating unhealthy food. It's not such a big problem not eating any, I manage that most days, however once I start it is never just the one, I always have more. It was a very productive lunch for business though, so I guess that counts for something...
I weight myself multiple times per week but I only count the weighing on Sunday morning as "official", all the others are "temporary". Todays "temporary" was 162.8kg, so if that sticks I could lose 2kg this week, which would be very nice. I should be able to manage that, as I foresee no more unhealthy "obligations". Anyone else in here with a regular obligation to have lunch or dinner for work, and how do you manage then?
 
The hardest moments for me are always when my wife isn't home, I don't always feel like cooking healthy just for myself and there is not much healthy food to be had from take-out... I usually end up eating oats or muesli...
 
cindero said:
The hardest moments for me are always when my wife isn't home, I don't always feel like cooking healthy just for myself and there is not much healthy food to be had from take-out... I usually end up eating oats or muesli...
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I'm not much a fan of cooking either, but what I usually do is just make a big salad with chicken/turkey breast. I take my time eating the meal, and it really fills me up for a couple of hours.

a easy to make and a great healthy meal.
 
That does sound like a good alternative. Today I made myself some paste with chicken breast and peppers, that was nice too and ready in only 15 minutes... Thanks for the suggestion!
 
This week was a very good week for me... I exercised 8 times, a total of 7h49m. I haven't had any real eating problems, and I feel pretty good!
This is probably also because the scales were very friendly this week, my goal for end of August was 162kg but actually this morning, on my "official" weighing of the week, the scales showed my 161.9kg. yippee! That's a loss of 2.5kg compared to last week. I can't wait to get into the 15x kg range!
 
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Today was a holiday where I live, and it was also my father's birthday party, celebrated with a family bbq. i had saved up some points for it, and I managed to keep the food intake within acceptable limits (let's say i overate maybe 5 WW points, not really a disaster).
still, I feel very bloated now that I am back home and fatter than ever. Good thing I managed to do some weight lifting before leaving, at least that makes me feel a bit good about this day (diet-wise I mean, it was a great family day)
 
After almost 4 months of a more healthy life, I can feel that healthy eating and exercising has become more natural for me. Even though exercising is still hard, and I suppose it is supposed to be :), I am now actually looking forward to it and I feel uncomfortable when I can't exercise for e few days. Also in terms of eating, I can feel my stomach has actually shrunk (if that makes sense at all...) and it is quite rare that I crave unhealthy foods, even though those moments are still around.

I am now totally convinced that losting weight by reducing food intake and consequently choosing healthy foods is the best way. After all, it has taken me 4 months of willpower to arrive at my current mentality, and I am sure that mentality will still be a challenge to maintain. If you lose weight on shakes, grapefruits or some other very specific diet, how are you going to manage after the diet is over? In my humble opinion it is nearly impossible to switch eating habits overnight.

I'm sure you don't need to keep counting calories or WW points for the rest of your life, portion control has become a habit and I now know by heart for most ingredients how many WW points they contain, I hardly ever consult a list any more. However, I do believe that food will be something I will have the handle consequently and carefully for the rest of my life, to avoid falling back into my earlier eating habits.
 
This week has been pretty czary work-wise until now, running from here to there and jumping from topic to topic... Throughout it all I have managed to maintain my diet, which I find pretty spectacular. I'm preparing for a BBQ I will have for a friend's birthday on saturday, so I've been saving WW points all week like a good boy.

Yesterday a very bad storm passed over Belgium, you may have heard about the collapsed stage at the pukkelpop festival with tragic consequences. It was the worst storm I have seen in my life, but luckily it left our house undamaged. Imagine afternoon turning to night, literally, that was how dark it was when the storm was passing over.
 
Lazy sunday afternoon as I'm pretty exhausted from this morning's exercise... Did 30km on the mountain bike, it was a pretty hard route and I had to climb under and over fallen trees here and there (because of the storm we had this week). I think I now realise why it is a bad idea to be in a forest during a storm...

This morning's official weighing brought me to 160.4kg. Which is good, except I think I was quite dehydrated as I weighed myself after my exercise (granted, also after eating lunch so that should compensate some...)

We'll see what the scales say tomorrow morning.
 
Noting much to report... And by nothing, I mean nothing. Up until recently I was very happy with my weight loss, but it seems I am experiencing a plateau right now. My weight keeps hovering around 161kgs. I am exercising, I am not overeating, I weight my portions, I think I am doing everything right and still the weight has remained about the same for 2 weeks now. My last official weighing was 160.4kgs but I think I must have been dehydrated or something, these days I'm always around 161.5.

Ah well, gotta stick to it, the weight will go eventually.
 
AStill not much progress... I am doing all my exercises, eating reasonably within the limits, and still I am stuck. I am getting pretty tired of this, but I figure something has to give soomer or later... Boy am I looking forward to that 15x on the scales...
 
This morning there was at last some progress! I'm so happy! The scales showed me 159.9kg! Still to be confirmed whether this was a one off and whether I can maintain this until my 'official' weighing next sunday, but at least seeing that 15x on the scales has given me a much needed boost of motivation!

Only 10 KGs to go before I can start using my Wii Fit without the blanket trick :D


As far as my targets go, I had set for myself the target of 162KG by the end of August, so it seems that I beat my target by around 2 KG. I am setting for myself the new target of reaching 150KG by my birthday, which is the 19th of November. However, I am setting a bonus target of reaching it by the 13th of November, as on that day it will be exactly 11 years ago that I first kissed my wonderful wife!


Another great thing about reaching 150KG is that at that point I am sure my motorcycle clothes will fit again, so I plan on revising my bike (it is a 2003 Ducati supersport, but it needs some work) and start driving it again.
 
I still need to watch what I say but it seems I have finally broken through the plateau, my 'official' weighing yesterday was 160.1KGs and this morning I clocked in at 157.8KGs, so it seems I am now balancing just below 160.

Last week has been pretty standard, I've been doing my exercises as I am supposed to, I had to go to one party at friend's place where I managed to limit caloric intake but not as much as I should have. It seems that basically every week there is some event somewhere where I don't manage to eat as healthy as I would like, simply because there is not much healthy food available and I am hungry. I mean, a man must eat something, right?

In any case, I am doing so much sports lately that I don't think it matters much whether I overeat a bit here and there or not. In the (old) Weight Watchers program I am following, it is allowed to collect 12 extra points per week by means of exercise. However, For the last few months, I've been getting 50+ points per week from exercise.


The difficulty is of course that one must maintain such a rate of exercise. I must say that I enjoy the mountain biking a lot, I even bought myself a brand new bike last week. The previous one was around 20 years old and starting to show a lot of wear and tear... But now I am a bit afraid that the new bike won't stand up to my weight, it feels so light and flimsy... The frame has a lifetime warranty, but I don't know if that warranty also covers "death by fatty" :) But that can only improve, as I'll be a little bit lighter every week.
 
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