Tuesday 1 October 2019

No more sugar...

Today I have stopped having sugar.  That's a very hard challenge to achieve, I'm failed dozens of times.

My plan is - I'm allowed to have sugar whenever I want, but I need to eat 3 bananas first.  That's because after eating the bananas, I (hopefully) won't want to eat the sugary food.

I'll give an update in a few days.

Most recent weight: 88 kg.

Saturday 31 August 2019

Update

Well, my weight has been hovering around 20-21 kg for the last month or so, it turned out that there was a bit of scale error at the gym, or gyms which I used, so I don't really know how much I weighed 6 weeks ago, or even a couple of months ago.

That's changed, today I weighed at 86.9 kg, which means I have got 20.9 kg to lose in about 300 days.  I'll try and do a weekly update.  Catch you next week.

Tuesday 16 July 2019

Update...

Yes, it's been a while.  Nearly 4 months in fact.  I'm not entirely sure why that's the case, but I'm back and ready to tell you how I'm going.  I wasn't eating particularly well, slowly gaining weight, so I decided to challenge myself to see how many days my daily intake could stay below maintenance.  Initially, I just wanted to get below maintenance, and that was successful.  I've been losing weight, rather slowly, but I'm losing.  Or rather, I assume that I've been losing, I haven't weighed myself in about 6 weeks.  It's going to be another 4 weeks until I weigh myself, but I'm alright with that.  I trust the accuracy of my record keeping of what I'm eating.

That's pretty much it for my weight loss, still struggling to get off sugar.  I know that I have doubts that I'm actually losing, but those doubts are small.  My scales are in storage and I don't have much desire to get them.

Sunday 31 March 2019

20 kilograms to goal

Today I weighed in at 86.0 kilograms, a weight that I've been bouncing around at for 3 months.  That's due to my father dying, so I'm not feeling guilty or annoyed at myself for 'wasting' 3 months.  I'm trying to get off of sugar again, today I lasted 5 days until I decided for some reason to seek it out.  That's fine.  I'm not sure how often I'll post here, it could be a while before I do one but hopefully it'll happen when I've lost another kilogram.

Monday 18 March 2019

Christchurch...

You may have read far earlier in the blog how here in Christchurch we went through a series of earthquakes, in 2010 and 2011.

Three days ago, eight years after the large earthquake hit Christchurch, causing 185 fatalities, an Australian man who was living in Dunedin (the city I grew up in, 400 km south of Christchurch) travelled to Christchurch, and in an act of terrorism killed 50 people who were in two mosques here in the city.  I just don't know what to say.  It's that feeling where you are in a dream, and you expect to wake up.  I've been living in Christchurch for over 30 years, and no way would I have believed anyone who said that in 2019 such a terrorist attack would occur.

I don't know what to write, apparently the killing was similar to some extent of the terrorist acts done by Anders Behring Breivik who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011.  The most popular New Zealand news website (https://www.stuff.co.nz/) is filled to the brim with stories about what the man has done.  I've been trying to not read too much, it's heartbreaking.

So my father died at the start of December, 3 1/2 months later, this happens.

Anyway, I'll leave it here, I've been trying to lose weight, with not much success.  I gained weight after my father died, I've been dieting but in reality, my weight has just maintaining, which is not a bad thing.  I guess I'll start posting again soon, perhaps twice a month.