Good Monday Morning! :)
It’s the day before the day, and I gotta start preparing. Tomorrow is my meeting with the doctors regarding my skin removal surgery. This is when I should know whether I qualify for the surgery or not, and what the next steps hopefully are. I’m confident that I DO qualify – from what I can tell I have ticked all the boxes when it comes to rules and regulations. All I need is the evaluation from the doctor. I hope I can pass what ever requirements he/she goes after.
Tomorrow is also the day I consider my LAST real weight loss journey day. This is the day that I have been waiting for, eager to get to. This is the day where I want to be below my goal weight, in the normal weight range, qualifying, and mentally prepared and there.
Status today is that I am at my goal. This morning I weighed in at 76.7 kgs, 300 grams under the max for "normal weight". It’s a climb since Saturday’s 75.9, but I do think this was an extremely low weigh-in. I’m okay with being higher.
I will, however, try to push it down further for tomorrow’s weigh-in. I think it would be cool to finish strong, so I will do my best and use all the little tricks I have gathered, just to get a little lower than what I am this morning.
I doubt that I’ll be lower than 75.9, though. That’s a tough one to beat. I’d just like to be a little bit further away from 77, if at all possible.
I do think this is accomplishable.
This weekend went okay, I think, though I could have done better on a few things. I skipped my Saturday Indulgence Day, to not kick up my weight for Tuesday. I will have my Indulgence Day tomorrow instead, when I’m done at the hospital.
We went out to do some shopping, bought a chopper/grinder kitchen machine for Wife at 70% off, and just did a few things that needed to be done. It was a nice day, but too cold to really stay out all day. Of course, this means most of the day was spent at home, and that is where trouble is for me. We watch movies, and hang out, and I want snacks. Most of the urge was taken care of with protein bars, though, they were pretty satisfying, and I didn’t do too bad. I stayed within RDI on both Saturday and Sunday.
Sunday was much harder. We stayed in all day, and I did more protein bars. I did have a serving of ice cream, simply because it was gnawing at my mind. It was good, I enjoyed it thoroughly and I moved on afterwards. I also enjoyed a couple of cookies, keeping an eye on the calorie count to not exceed RDI. I did well.
Of course, I am UP a few hundred grams today. The question is, of course, if this is because of cookies and ice cream, or if this is because of the über-low weigh-in Saturday readjusting a little. Who knows, right?
My smart smart scale gives me great pointers (when it works right – I still get that ”Our of bounds” error constantly), and it tells me that my body fat percentage today is 6.1, and that my visceral fat (from why I understand, this is the fat around my intestines) is at 5, so it’s supposedly REALLY low. There is no way I can take more off this.
Which again begs the question: How much skin will be removed by the surgery, how much will it weigh (and, essentially, will I lose), and how will that affect both fat percentage but also the functionality of my scale? I hope it will make it read me more easily, so it can get back to normal.
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My buddy Ryan75 asked a little while back what motivated me to get going efficiently on my weight loss journey this time around.
I don’t think I really have a real epiphany-story to tell, more simply a voice of reason within me that helped nudging me along.
I’ve tried out FatSecret twice before this time. First time was really half-assed. I downloaded the app for my phone – this is how I found FatSecret in the first place – and tried it out. I couldn’t get a grip on it, and let it go. It lasted less than a week.
Second time was a few months later, I think. I went for it full blast, like this time, but lasted about a month or so. I think I lost about 10 kgs, which really is good. I just didn’t have the motivation to go for it. I knew I needed it, but I didn’t feel that I needed it enough to actually do something.
Then I went to see my doctor. He asked me why I didn’t lose weight any longer, and I told him that it was tough when I was working night shifts (which I was – at the time. It was a different job I had back then). He just looked at me and said ”You know… all those reasons… they’re nothing more than excuses for you to not do it. What are you waiting for?”. Then he ordered blood samples to just check my general health, as planned.
I went back to see him a few weeks later, to hear about the checkup. He told me that he was very surprised to see that my colesterol numbers were fine, and that I did not have diabetes. He had be sure I had diabetes. And of course, he was a little concerned that I was on two types of blood pressure medication. He just left it at that.
I went home and thought about things. What hit me was that he was suprised that I didn’t have diabetes. It runs in my family, so there is a chance I can get it, maybe more than some other people.
I figured, that if I was to have diabetes, then I’d need to completely change my life style, eat right, lose weight. WITH diabetes. Then I realized, that if I did it NOW, then I could simply design my diet on my own, take it in my own pace, and do it WITHOUT diabetes.
Might as well get going, right?
Well, I re-installed the FatSecret app, got on the website and google and started reading, reading, reading. I wanted to learn. I wanted to find out what works. I wanted to do this right – and efficiently – from go.
I already knew that it was fairly easy to count calories using FatSecret, so this was my initial approach. I just wanted to learn more about how many calories, how low I could go without plateauing, how much water to drink, etc. – yes, I get REALLY nerdy about things when I dedicate.
So, I ended up realizing that did NOT have to live without the foods I really like. I did NOT have to say no to all the fun stuff. I just had to moderate and compensate. That’s all. I just had to not go overboard when it came to the goodies. This was accomplishable.
First week I lost 5 kgs! How’s that for efficiency! This of course motivated me to keep going. I essentially did this for about 9 months, losing a LOT of weight. Then in July 2011 I stalled, and had to find other ways. It turned out that I wasn’t eating enough calories! Who knew that would EVER be a problem? Right? :)
Anyways, I then got nerdy about it again, and the result is my Indulgence Diet. It works wonders for me, and I keep hearing from people who’s getting results with it too. Nice!
I’ve been doing the Indulgence Diet ever since, and it still works. I have changed my numbers around a little to not lose as much weight – since I’m done – but I use it to moderate my ways still. It’s a good way to keep in check.
So there. That’s my story, briefly.
…. Now, the next step is to slowly ween off counting calories, and get back to ”real life” outside FatSecret. I want to be able to NOT count every calorie I eat, but instead have a good idea of what I am eating and what I can allow myself to do. I’m half there already, I just need to handle letting go of the calculators. Nerds like me HATE this. :) It’s such a good tool, but I really don’t want to be a slave to it for the rest of my life.
My game plan on this is simply to let go after I have been under the knife and have recovered. This is when my ”real” weight will show, and this will be my starting point.
I will then allow myself a few kgs of ”overweight” to climb, but not more than 2 or 3. I will weigh in EVERY morning, to keep things on a short leash. If I reach my upper limit, I will have to get it back down to where I want it, either going back to counting calories, or – preferably – to simply do better, make wiser food choices and exercise more.
I can do this. It really shouldn’t be TOO hard.
Anyways, here’s me babbling.
Today I am thankful for: - STILL being under 77 kgs. - Having had a great weekend mostly at home and stayed under RDI. - Easter coming up! 5 day weekend! (only working today and Wednesday this week. Nice!) Have a great day, everyone. Tell someone that they look great today – and mean it! Life is good!
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76.7 kg
これまでの減量分: 78.3 kg.
残り: 0 kg.
ダイエット続き: まあまあ.
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ダイエットカレンダーを表示, 2012年 04月 2日:
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814 kcal
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脂質: 20.73g | たんぱく質: 73.51g | 炭水化物: 78.65g.
朝食: Rye Bread, Egg. 昼食: Tuna in Water (Canned), garden salad, pita bread. 夕食: Salmon, Mixed Vegetables (Solids and Liquids, Canned). もっと...
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3137 kcal
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運動:
自転車(ふつう) - 時速21km - 30 分, 立つ - 8 時間 30 分, 歩く(ふつう) - 時速5km - 30 分, 睡眠 - 8 時間, 座る - 6 時間 30 分. もっと...
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週に2.1 kg増量中
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