Nick's Weight Loss Diary: 2013

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So today's the 1st January, 2013. My resolution for new years: To lose weight. My goal is to bring the weight to what the BMI calculator considers normal for a person of my height. When I am considered normal I shall start toning and building low level muscle using only anti-free weight machines. Then, when i'm 18, I will be as tall as I can be and I can start free weighting. For now though, focus on the weight LOSS and not gain, even if it is either fat or muscle. I've always been raised in a household with loose rules which I can bend a bit to get away with some things. My mother could only see food as an inexpensive way to praise me and she struggles to let go and refuse to allow me certain things but I am putting my foot down right away. My weight has never really been something that I am proud of yet the strength I possess beneath the fat is significant from what I have been told. Commonly, people my age are abused for being obese, but I am instead feared for it. In sports a school, people refuse to tackle me in rugby, refuse to try me at football and refuse to go against me at basketball. I had never really noticed until now that I am actually feared, as opposed to abused for my weight, and I want to be able to appear differently. I know, it sounds weird that if people fear me, why would I want to gain muscle? I actually want muscle so that when I play sports, I am capable of playing against higher ages and that when I reach a point of strong muscular appearance, I feel happy about getting a tattoo, as I will need to retain muscle to make it appear pleasant, which will then keep me going. Unfortunately, my current "diet" if that's what you want to call it, is absolutely horrendous and I commonly have trouble shifting my foods and I generally refuse to eat different foods, but I now know that it isn't an option, since I need to drop this weight as soon as I can. I hope anybody that reads this can shed some light for how I can modify my food consumption and exercise as I go, so that I begin to drop more weight when I can and my progress shall yield even better results. I shall post tomorrow about how I am going to start this weight loss regime and I hope that it may give inspiration to others out there that it isn't difficult and it just requires motivation to thrive. ~Nick :)
 
firstly welcome to the forum :) my second comment is how old are you ? it is a myth that lifting will stunt your growth, there is no need to avoid free weights and free weights are better than machines for keeping things in balance.
 
I'm only 14 :) When i've previously gone to the gym, I have been urged to avoid free weights because at my age it will seriously affect my growth (apparently) and I would only want to use machines because it's a lot more comforting to use machines to build muscle as they are monitored a lot more and are very helpful.
 
unless you are an average adult height (unlikely at 14), most machines will not have enough adjustment for you to actually use them correctly without risk of injury. The reason the myth exists about weights stunting growth is that max effort single lifts done with poor form (machine and free weights) has a very small chance of damaging growth plates although I have personally seen more growth plate injuries working at junior football.

With your food, make small changes a bit at a time and don't try to make it to complicated.

when you post your exercise I should be a bit more help to you.

PS. I have sons both younger and older than you.
 
I'm not sure of my height (don't even know how I can measure it) but from my knowledge, I surpass the height of a 22 year old and two 52 year old's in my household, so I guess i'm relatively tall for my age. Weightlifting of any sort does not appeal to me and so I think I will stick to the weight loss work first :D Thanks for the post. I guess I will have to look to you for any help regarding teenage weight loss, since it sounds like you have plenty of help by your side :D
 
Day 1; Wednesday; 02/01/2013

Not so good. I awoke to a perfectly healthy breakfast of weetabix, fruit and water, to be confronted by my brother about "my share" of the food and how he wishes for me to consume my share before my father eats it and feels not a single hint of regret about it. And the first thing after that he discusses: Eating out for his leaving to university. I can understand a meal to celebrate but I am finding it difficult to see any healthy and logical way around the food they have on offer at the restaurant. I will search it on the internet but it seems awfully difficult. And for dinner: Sunday Roast. On WEDNESDAY. I couldn't do anything because my mother had begun to cook it before I could even realize what it was. I really need to find a way to tell them that I am sick of the way I look and feel and that it's time for a change. However, nobody seems to understand or care about my feelings. It feels like i'm trapped inside myself, but no more. It's time for change. It's time to make it happen and I WANT it to be a struggle. To know that I need to improve for my results. This change could really make all the difference in my life. :)
 
Don't panic about the restaurant, one of the big thing about weight loss is judging portion size and when it comes to restaurants just try to keep the quantity of what you eat down to a reasonable amount.

That was a good choice for your breakfast :) and brothers can always be a pain in the %$#^

For most families there is usually plenty of Veg to go with that roast, try to maximise the veg you eat over and above anything else and remember portion size is as important as the actual food choices.

14 can be a tough age when it comes to telling your parents what you want, do you have any other family member who can support you or talk to your parents (Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents) to explain your feelings and need for healthy food?
 
I'm thinking of ways for the restaurant and it isn't that bad, actually ^^ Unfortunately, besides my brother, mum and dad, I haven't got anyone else to talk to. My grandparents both died when I was very little and my aunts and uncles don't care about me, save for 1, who would go and rat me out completely to my mother about it :/ Most of the time, my mum confronts me about it when she's watching all these obese tv shows and gets herself depressed about it :/ With my family, veg is a general no go for the men of the family. My mum has lots of veg but gives none to my father or brother, which I think is horrifying. She does, however try and give me potato in dinner all the time, but ends up doing it by mashing it or microwaving it, in which she will add butter to it all the time >.< My brother isn't exactly a pain, but doesn't realize that I dislike consuming my share if I don't want it, since he's obsessed with my father being, and I quote; a "greedy, watery eyed b*****d" but the problem shall arise and I will make it apparent. The bad food constantly will probably end when my brother is back at university in the next couple of days, because the food is only because he misses home food a lot cause of his budget. I am just thinking of modifications I can make to slowly improve my diet and when and what I can do for my exercise regime to aid the dieting. I've been told a generally good rule is to remove the skin from chicken if they leave it on and remove 1/4 to a 1/2 of all the foods I eat which are unhealthy. Their serving method is meat and 2 sides of choice, which you have to select something for, but you can't select healthy foods for the 2 and so they are required to be bought as extras. The sugary and fatty foods are slowly being depleted from our cupboards as we prepare to ship my brother back to manchester for his university work and so it should be easier from then on to do it :)
 
Have you got any options for doing some of your own cooking ? All of my boys can cook their own food if they want something different to what everybody else is eating.
 
Cooking for yourself sounds a brilliant idea... You could ask your mother if you can do that sometimes. It will also mean that you do not struggle to eat healthily when you go to university.

Some healthy things are very easy to put together and very inexpensive... I am a big fan of baked beans... I get the Tesco light choices baked beans... They are very good for you... I am having a can of those with grilled meat tonight.

Baked beans are high in fibre and protein and they are very good for your cholesterol level.
 
Well, I could think of something :) I commonly eat before everyone else because I don't like eating what they eat and so I just cater to myself a lot, with whatever I can find that they have bought that isn't fried black or coated in butter >.< I did get a massively high grade in food tech and I could probably whip up something I remember from that :D thanks.
 
I don't recall ever eating beans before, so I guess I will have to try them. My mother only usually buys processed peas which are disgusting :puke: I'll have to find something that goes well with them then ^^ Thanks Omega
 
Thursday; 03/01/2013

Same for breakfast and lunch as yesterday, which was OK. Went out to the restaurant and it wasn't that difficult to make it healthy. Didn't like the olives though >.< Things seem to be improving.
 
Friday; 04/01/2013

Finally confronted my mum about my need to lose weight before we went shopping and she was really glad I said it myself. We went shopping and planned everything out for me to be healthy, using the MEND and slimmingworld binders I and she had. It's turning out to be quite simple and all I need now is some sort of plan for exercise. However, my mum is going to hospital for an operation soon. When the operation is done, me and my father will have to take control and do some serious hard work and maybe it will open my father's eyes as to how tough mum finds life, and maybe he may make a weight loss commitment too. He had gall stones removed and yet he still eats a lot and I don't understand how he can be so ignorant. It feels better knowing my mum is with me on this though, and it's gonna make things easier, for sure. ^^
 
Well done for speaking to your mother on this. I was sure that she would welcome your wish to embrace a healthier lifestyle.

It is great that she is supporting you with everything. :party:

You mention Slimming World... If you look carefully at the little picture that I use for my profile picture (you can see it easier in the album on my profile) it is actually my old Slimming World book covered with some of my sticker awards that they gave me regarding my weight loss...

I actually think very highly of the Slimming World approach to weight loss (I actually prefer it to Weight Watchers)... The SW approach is based on the concept of how filling and satisfying the different foods are...

It would be great if your whole family joined you on your journey to a healthy lifestyle... At the end of the day that is a decision for each family member to make. Your father may be ready - or he may not be... The key think is for you to not be deterred if he is not ready to join you...

The main thing is that the healthy food will be available for you (even if you cook it for yourself when your mother is not able to).
 
Thanks Omega :) My mum discussed it with my dad, and he said he would see it as good for himself as well. The doctors tell him his back pain is due to his stomach being very large and weighing him forward and so he said he would be perfectly happy to do it alongside me. So, when the operation happens, all the extra work will just be more work towards his weight loss. ^^
 
Saturday; 05/01/2013

Started today with all my new foods to try and eat for the weight loss journey. My brother went back to university today so she cooked him something nice but I made sure she didn't give me any and for lunch, ate thin strips of meat with the fat removed in wholemeal bread. For dinner, I stuck to the same but because of the nature of the food, I was able to reduce the quantity I cooked and all the values were below 100% of my daily amounts ^^
 
Well done for sticking to your plan for today's meals and also for influencing your father in a positive way...
 
Monday; 07/01/2013

Back at school today... Seems that i'll be consistently sticking to my food plan for school and tomorrow is sports, but I don't know what we're doing. Hopefully, it shall be something that interests me, like basketball, so that I enjoy the lesson and actually do good in it. Found that I was a bit peckish when I got home but there was a bowl of apples, pears, bananas and clementines on the table, calling me towards it. XD Wasn't a bad day at all with the new foods.

(P.S. I forgot about yesterday but nothing interesting happened so I don't feel the need for a post about it, so i'll just talk about it here.)
 
Wednesday; 16/01/2013

Oh no! I've completely forgotten about this forum >.< Haven't posted in a while but it doesn't matter. Nothing really has seemed to change. There's the potential at the end of January for me to be invited to a trip to Oxford university, which is pretty interesting and I've also agreed with my mum that I will weigh myself on Sunday. If any change has happened at all then I shall stick to what i'm doing and throw in some extra exercise here and there but if nothing then I shall make a larger effort towards exercise. The ice outside is ridiculous so it's tough to go on walks but I've made sure that I am going swimming on Saturday and i'm going up to Manchester next week to visit my brother ^^
 
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