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@LaMaria - I don't eat less than I would otherwise. Also, I don't see it as punishment, but I just like to know how I am doing. It's motivating to know that I can recover from those days. On the other hand, it is interesting to see how long it takes in total... I "lost" the days that I overate + the days that I needed to recover. That's more than a week of no progress (fortunately, I made very good progress in the 2 weeks before that).

But, on the positive side, it means that I only need 2 more days after today to start making progress again. I expect to end this week at around 92.5-93.0 kg.
 
Ok... so it went a bit differently. Better. I wanted to run 5-6 kilometers, but I felt good and ran 7 kilometers. Then I went to the fitness center... to ask for more information and see if it is any good. I liked it, so I registered! It costs 35 euro per month, but for every training session that you do you get 1 euro discount. So, if I manage to do 3 sessions per week, I pay only around 22 euro per month, if I do 4/week it's around 18 euro/month and for 5/week it's only 12 euros per month. I can easily manage to do 4 or 5 if I combine it with my runs.

I also get a free 20 minute session with a personal trainer. I am going to prepare REALLY well for that, so that I can ask the right questions to move me forward! I may do it more often if I like it... only thing is that it's quite expensive, I think it's 60 euros per hour. There may be ways to make it cheaper, perhaps if you do it with several people at the same time. Anyways, that is not a decision I will make now, probably more relevant when I am done with losing weight, or perhaps even later, when I have learned to maintain my weight and I am ready to start building muscle.

They invited me to do a training right away, and since I was already wearing my sports clothing I decided to give it a go. I decided to do a bit more cardio... so I did 6 minutes of rowing (1500 meters), 6 minutes of running (average speed 15 kilometers per hour) and 6 minutes of cycling (average intensity 250 watts).
 
IAmGoingToTri said:
for every training session that you do you get 1 euro discount. So, if I manage to do 3 sessions per week, I pay only around 22 euro per month, if I do 4/week it's around 18 euro/month and for 5/week it's only 12 euros per month. I can easily manage to do 4 or 5 if I combine it with my runs.
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What a great idea!
Well done on a very good day Tri :)
 
Yes! It's good to be back on track! :)

This morning my weight was 93.7 kg. It's going in the right direction again!

Today I don't have time to exercise, because I have a dinner with work. I trained the last 2 days, so it's fine to have a rest day. At the dinner with work we probably get very good food and drinks (for free), so I feel it's silly to try to create a big deficit. However, I will make sure that I don't have a big surplus (for starters... I had a smaller breakfast and lunch). I estimate that I burn around 2500 calories and I will eat the same.

On Friday and Saturday I will create deficits of 1500 calories each. I will run 10 kilometers on both days and do some fitness.
 
Enjoy your posh dinner, my friend :) Quite right to enjoy the good stuff when it´s free! Apart from that: dieting in company always looks a bit off.
 
Hahaha that's a bit off indeed! While I am all for chasing my goals with discipline and courage, you can too far! In the end, you try to become healthy to get a better life, not to become miserable in the process.

The dinner was nice. I had some good conversations with colleagues... I like all of them. Some personalities are a bit more challenging, but I tend to like most people. In fact it's those differences that make people interesting. The people I don't like are dishonest, abusive, negative and unethical. Even then I first try to see why someone is doing that, but there is a point where I decide that this person is either not worth my energy or that it is even an enemy. Fortunately, I don't have any colleagues like that.

I overate by 0-500 calories. Quite proud of that. I ate and drank as much as I wanted to! :)
 
Today's plan:

Work: read a few hundred pages of book
Train: run 10 km, do fitness afterwards.
Eat: 2000 calories
Burn: 4000 calories
Enjoy: everything, as much as possible
 
Yesterday I succesfully created a 2000 calorie deficit; I consumed around 2000 calories, my base metabolic rate is around 2000 and I burned at least 2000 extra calories through exercise.

I am glad that, after having a few bad days last week(end), I now feel good again, ready to take on the challenges that are thrown and me and look for some more in order to grow! This week more than compensated for the last week. My weight this morning was 92.9 kg. At this rate, I am confident that I can be sub 90 before the end of February, perhaps even 88-89.

Today my family will come for a visit, we'll do some walking around and shopping in my city, and this evening a friend from university will come over. I am sure that it will be a fun day. I hope to squeeze an 8-10 kilometer run in somewhere to finish this week strong. Aiming for a 500 calorie deficit today, perhaps 1000 (but that is not likely and that's ok).
 
I had a slight deficit this weekend. Ready for this week, I am aiming for 6 days with a 1250 calorie deficit on average (in order to lose about 1 kg). Here is my strategy:

Exercise:
- running 40 kilometers
- going to the gym 4 times
- cycling 100 kilometers (partly at the gym)
- walking 10-20 kilometers

Eating/drinking:
- about 2000 calories per day
- homecooked meals every evening
- no beer before the weekend
- healthy breakfast and/or lunch
 
Hello there!

I am happy to tell you that I am starting this week strongly! I had a monstrous workout at the gym, with 32.5 kilometers of cycling, a few kilometers of running and 3 kilometers of rowing. I took a day off from work, and did some chores today at home. I also walked to the center and back. All this activity combined add up to at least 2000 calories. I will eat around 2000 calories. Given my base metabolic rate of around 2000 calories, I have created a deficit of around 2000. My goal was to have an average deficit of 1250 calories for this week, so this first day allows me some flexibility if I need it (I may end up getting a higher average deficit, but I think 1250 is optimal).

The mindset-related goal that I am working on is to learn to complete the goals that I set, as close as possible. That means to push myself sometimes to finish what I intended to do/started, and on the other hand to not set goals that are unrealistic. For example, today I set the goal of cycling 30 kilometers and rowing 3 kilometers, and it was a challenge (because exercising at the gym is not a habit yet) and I felt the temptation of doing a bit less, but I didn't, instead I did a bit more! On the other hand, I have not yet planned the rest of my week's exercises (I have only set targets, as you can see in my previous post), because I know that I am setting myself up to failure if I plan all my workouts now; I prefer evolving an exercise routine organically by just going exercising when I feel like it and by experimenting a bit (like by trying going to the gym in the morning, or trying new activities), then to see what sticks/what patterns emerge and only then making a schedule.

Bottom-line: I guess that I am looking for a balance/optimum between discipline/strictness on the one hand and fulfillment/flexibility/realism on the other.
 
Hi Tri,

Great job on the workout. Do you do a lot of bricking? I have never tried it but I guess if I do a triathlon then I am going to have to get used to that-lol. On another note we are all looking for the balance that you want. It can be a fine line sometimes.
 
Thx cowboy! I have recently started bricking again; running and cycling. I don't do swimming yet; I will do that soon (before the end of this winter), but for now I am focussing on increasing my cycling and starting fitness (and I already have a good running routine).

Ok, time for another update (a short one, typing this on my mobile); today, I plaN to do a 10k run outside (after work) and to do some fitness afterwards, including some strength exercises, 7.5k of cycling and 3k of rowing.

Afyer exercising, I will go to the supermarket, get food and cook another meal for myself at home.

I will eat 2000 calories and aim for a 1500 calorie deficit.

In the evening I plan to do 30 minutes of chores at home and an hour of self study.

Thanks for reading and I hope that you will have a great day as well!
 
Thanks Sunflower! :)

I am currently studying a bunch of topics: Android development, Java programming, web mapping, machine learning/deep learning, geographic information systems and water quality. I have a hungry brain! ;)
 
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