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Cazk

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Hi guys, my name is Caz and I'm a 21 year old Aussie :)

Lose weight - go on a cruise. Basically my jam right there. Currently 70 kilos (don't know pounds, sorry) would like to be 60 at the least. Ideally I would like to be around the 55 mark, which is healthy for my height. Hopefully I'll like to have the weight off by summer (December here) but in a perfect world it'll be gone by spring.

I'm not happy with my body and was really proud of the fact that I lost about 14 kilos a couple of years back. I've put on about half of that on again and am really unhappy with that and don't want to get any closer to what I was. I tend to be a comfort eater and I've had a rough couple of years emotionally and am now at uni, which is putting a heap of stress on. But I have gotten better recently with the way I handle things.

Originally I lost the 14 kilos through taekwondo training 5 times a week. But ended up leaving there as I wasn't getting along with the guy running the place (super long story). A lot of the reason I put weight back on was because I wasn't training as much because I didn't want to be around this guy. I've joined a gym again and want to get into cardio classes, I need to run with work on occasion and have noticed my fitness drop of recently so not happy with that. I'm also trying to eat healthier than I have been of late.

Uni has gotten me fairly stressed, first semester, first year and I'm a comfort eater so that was easy to see where the weight came from. Previously I've never had any goal. I just wanted to lose weight. But with no goal I just lost sight of what I wanted to achieve. So my goal this time is if I lose 10 kilos I'm going to send myself on a cruise because I also haven't been on a proper holiday in 4 or 5 years. I have a fair amount of savings

I have a good kitchen again which I haven't had in a year or so, so I get to cook again which is really exciting. Difficult on a student budget though. Worse is when I have to go out straight from uni or appointments to work. I don't go to the office so I can't take lunch and I can't afford the healthier options and I have to eat because work can be full on and I never know what I'm in for so yay.

I really don't know what else to right so I might just leave it there.
 
To start off.... Welcome to WLF. Glad you can join us. It's a great site with a lot of great people helping each other. Secondly, 70 kg is 154 lbs.
I really know what you mean about the busy schedule and fitting in a good diet and exercise. Its a real bitch sometimes. My biggest advice to give you is STAY MOTIVATED. Granted the schedule doesn't help but you have to do what you need to do to get your workouts in. Even if it means having to go to the gym or do what ever you do for exercise at different times of the day. There have been times I've had to do split workouts because of schedules. Also keep in mind that if you miss a day or two in the gym, don't get yourself down because of it. Even the best of us run into situations where we couldn't get into the gym.
Well I wish you the best in your weight loss. I'll be looking in on you from time to time to see your progress.. Good luck buddy
 
Having goals definitely helps! It's great that you've got some long term goals in mind but it might help for you to come up with some short term ones too so that you feel like you are achieving what you want and that you're staying on track to complete your long term goals. I have pretty similar long term goals to you, 60.6kgs would get me into the healthy weight range and I may continue onto 52.2kg which is apparently the middle of my healthy weight range.

It still seems a long way off though so I've set myself loads of little goals, which is where knowing you weight in pounds as well as kilos can help (I use an online converter) so I can have say a 5kg loss goal and a 1stone loss goal etc. My current ones like this are at 61.9kg (9 3/4 stone) and 60.3 (9 1/2 stone). Another way I've used to set achievable goals is something you could do easily too because you have a time frame in mind for when you want to reach your 55/60kgs. I want to reach 60 by mid August so I've worked out how much I'd need to lose each month until then and what weight I need to reach by certain dates, so I can see if I'm losing enough to hit that goal. My next goal of this sort was to reach 61.7kgs by 30th June and this morning I was 62 so I know I am definitely going to beat that so should definitely be able to reach 60 by August.
 
Thanks guys. That's really good advice Joey I think I'm going to start doing that as well :)
 
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