Weekly weigh-in number 6

87.9 kilograms, a loss of 100 grams from my last post.

Not much change, right?  I'm still hovering between 86.5 and 88.5 kg.  Still having the occasional 'blowout', mainly due to that dreaded white stuff, sugar.  However, I'm really trying my best to go off of sugar.  Currently I'm about 47 hours without it.  That's not a lot, but it's better than nothing.  I'm kind of dreading my cravings, however.  About 5 1/2 years ago, I stopped having caffeine.  I have to say that I'm quite proud of my achievement.  Anyway, I haven't counted how many times I've craved a Coca Cola, but it'd be in the hundreds or thousands. 

I hate to think how many times I'll crave sugar.  I just don't want to know.  Sugar is less 'addictive' than caffeine.  But I really love going to a cafe, having a coffee and slice, reading the newspaper and enjoying the whole process.  My brain has become acclimatised to the whole experience and pumps out those endorphins when I do it.  I'll miss it.

Anyway, enough rambling.  Let's talk about food intake.  I'm counting kilojoules, and have a 10 day total, the last one was 7,120 kJ per day.  Ideally, I should be losing weight on that.  But I do know that some food values will be wrong, some weights will be wrong, and other unknowns to worry or think about.  But let's assume that I'll be losing on that.

 My weight is a function of about half a dozen variables.  Water seems to be a major item on this list, you can expect major variations depending on how much salt I eat.  I've seen this effect numerous times.  However, no matter how much salt I eat, eventually I'll start losing weight if my intake is less than maintenance.  I just don't know how quickly it'll happen. 

So really, it's just a waiting game.  See how quickly or slowly I'll lose weight.  Slowly reduce how many kilojoules I eat, and see if that makes a difference.

I've also decided to not go low carb.  It's great, low carb, mainly because you don't feel hungry (or I didn't).  But I don't want to go below 6,000 kJ per day, it's my hard limit.  I have just decided that I love fruit more than I love not being hungry.  Really, if I could only eat fruit, I might just do that.

Bit of a long post today, if you got this far, congratulations.  See you next week.

Weekly weigh-in number 5

Rather late because I have been exceptionally busy at work, and just didn't have the spare time to make a posting.  When I'm busy, I'm not concentrating my efforts to lose weight, and unfortunately that's the case this week.  I weighed yesterday 88.0 kg, which is a gain of 200 grams from last week.  My weight is hovering around 86.5-88.5 kilograms with no change.  I've got a few plans to change things, but I'm not prepared to tell you all what those are yet.

Catch you next week.

Weekly weigh-in number 4

87.8 kg, a gain of 400 grams from last week.

So how am I going?  I was going well, except the day, on Friday when I woke up in pain and spent most of the day in pain as well.  It turns out that I have low self control regarding food when I am sore, it was unexpected and I didn't have the mental resources to keep things in check.

So what happened?  I ate my normal food, then I went to a cafe to have a 'treat', then I have more yummy food at home.  I went crazy.

I guess I spent most of Friday in bed, or at a cafe, or briefly at work, or eating.

I dutifully logged all of my food on the Lifesum app.  One problem.  You know how some cities have built a tall structure in the middle of the city, often called a "tower"or "needle" or similar?  It's basically a very tall, thin building with a rotating restaurant at the top.  The problem is that my graph on the Lifesum app looked like a skyline photo with a tower building at the far right end.

I cringed whenever I saw it.  I did the only thing I could do.  I deleted 10 weeks of data so my graph would not contain that damn tower building.  It really did look awful.

So I'm doing a refresh now, starting new.  I'm hoping to still go low carb, that plan has been in the works for a while now. 

I haven't lost weight, realistically since February.  Time to get started, go low carb, get off sugar and lose some weight.

See you next week.

Weekly weigh-in number 3

This morning I weighed in at 87.4 kg, which is a small loss from last week.  A loss is a loss, no matter how small it is.  I'm counting kilojoules using the Lifesum app on my smartphone, and that's going well.  I am slowly going low carb still, yesterday I ate about 112 grams of carbs, which is not yet low carb.  I'm hoping that there are no problems around the corner regarding low carb.

This morning I weighed the lowest in 2 weeks, which is a small, very small accomplishment.  But I haven't lost weight in the last 6 months.  That's pretty bad.  I could be shacking up with Miss Philippines in 616 days, which means 35 grams a day, totally achievable.  However, that number was 28 grams a day 6 months ago, slightly easier.