A weigh-in and a change of plan

So only 2 weeks ago I posted on how I planned to lose weight relatively quickly and then slowly drift into goal weight over an extended period of time.  I also said how my plan might change, well, guess what?  It only took 2 weeks for me to change my mind about things.

Losing weight is hard.  The faster you lose it, the harder it is.  Why am I losing weight?  Fundamentally, because I like being slim, and I have been slim up until the age of 25-29.  I'm not a muscular guy, and the hormonal weight regulation system I was blessed with meant that my 'natural' weight was relatively low, meaning I didn't have a lot of fat on me.  Not a lot of fat, and not a lot of muscle meant that I was thin.  That's a reasonable description of my body up until my late 20's.

I have decided to just lose one kilogram a month, until I reach goal weight.  That's 21 months away.  March 2020.  There is a lot of risk in this method, because if I gain weight, it'll make it harder to reach goal weight in March 2020.  But I've decided to use this method well - because it's easier. 

Although Miss Philippines (I've referred to her a few times in the blog) aren't officially in a relationship yet, I'm thinking that it's likely that her and I will live together in 2020, probably in April.  We're not in a relationship because there aren't many relationships where the couple stay two years apart, or even one year.  With the exception of my going swimming, she's the only person who'll see pretty much how my body looks under my clothing. 

Because she's elsewhere, there doesn't seem much reason to lose weight quickly.  It'll be much easier to just lose weight linearly over a 21 month time frame.

However, I absolutely want to get to goal before we live together.  I don't want her to go through what I put Becky and Gill through. 

Apart from that, I'm doing okay.  Counting kilojoules.  Today I weighed 87.2 kg.

I'll post an update, probably in a week.

Another plan

It's been a while since I last posted, how am I going?  Well I gained probably a few kilograms, and then I lost probably a few kilograms.  My last weight was 88.1 kg, about a week ago.  I've restarted using a kilojoule counting app called Lifesum, I have used it in the past successfully, for a whopping 6 months between January and July last year.  I'm aiming for about 6,000 KJ per day. 

One of my big concerns is what happens when I reach goal weight.  Will I rebound?  Well, I really don't know.  I've been at goal weight 5 times I think (I don't have my spreadsheet installed so I don't exactly know).  That's 4 times too many.  One time I was at goal weight for only a few days.

My idea:

So the idea I've had for a while (and I maybe even wrote it on the blog somewhere) is to smoothly cruise into goal weight so slowly that I barely notice it.  If I'm always 3 months away from goal weight, I will reduce my weight loss rate as I get closer to 66 kg.  Eventually I'll get tired of not being at goal weight, and just lose normally for a few weeks or so.

Why 3 months?  In my opinion, that's the longest period where I still feel I am not very far away from goal weight.  In other words, it's not too bad.  6 months is too far away. 

If I assume that I can lose 100 grams a day, that means 9 kg left to lose at 75 kg.  That's 13 kilograms away, or 130 days.  That's mid October.  So once I hit 75 kg, I won't slow down my weight loss, but I'll keep track of how I'm going and plan things.  Of course I could change my opinion tomorrow, but I'm hoping that doesn't happen.

I'll try to post at least monthly, maybe even weekly.  I also want to post graphs from the food intake app.