3 kg a month challenge - on pause

Today I weighed 95.5 kg for the third day in a row.  Why?  Probably because I had Subway, and that is riddled with salt.  Pretty much every food item in a Subway filled roll contains salt, with the exception of vegetables.  But it's disheartening to see the scale not shift, and not know exactly the reason.  Especially at the start.  So I've decided to put the whole 3 kg a month thing on pause, until I see what's going on. 

My new plan is to just keep my intake at 6,000 kJ (yesterday I ate 6,012) and exercise ideally at 30 minutes a day.  However, I currently am not fit at all, so I want to do a gradual increase of exercise over the next 10 days.  So that's an increase of 3 minutes per day.  I may break up the sessions into two per day if I'm struggling with one session. 

Once I reach 30 minutes of running a day, I'll start calculating my metabolism.  That's how many kilojoules my body uses every day.  That's going to take 2-3 weeks. 

What I need to find out is whether I can lose 100 grams a day while eating 6,000 kJ and running 30 minutes a day.  I don't know whether that's possible or not.  If I can't, I'll see whether I can lose 80 grams a day, for a long long time. 

My new challenge is to eat at or less than 6,000 kJ.  What I've been doing is eating slightly more than 6,000, but that has to stop.  Less than, or equal to 6,000 from now on.  My exercise has to start today at 3 minutes of running, and increasing by 3 per day.  I'll post tomorrow on how it's going.

3 kg a month challenge - day 3

Today I didn't lose weight as the graph shows, so I'm below my intended 100 grams a day goal.  That means I need to exercise today, but it's raining, so I decided to skip my exercise.  Let's see what the weather is tomorrow.  I ate 6,004 kJ yesterday, which is ideal.  I wasn't hungry which is probably because I overate the day earlier. 

3 kg a month challenge - day 2

I missed a post yesterday because I was busy, but I've been thinking about speeding up weight loss.  The eternal dream of having fast weight loss.  Can I do it?  I don't know.  I've done it in the past, but not for long periods of time.  Can I lose 3 kilograms a month?  I don't know.  Or rather, how long can I lose 3 kilograms a month?  I decided to have a plan.  One of many, as you no doubt have observed about me.

I want to have three stages of weight loss.  I want to lose weight at 3 kilograms a month, for a certain number of days.  Aiming for 6,000 kilojoules of food intake a day, and up to 60 minutes of exercise a day.  If I'm losing weight too quickly, I'll reduce the exercise.  Tracking my weight every day, am I losing at 3 kg a month (100 grams a day)?  If yes, everything is fine.

One day, I'll be exercising 60 minutes a day, eating 6,000 kJ, and I will be slowly edging below 100 grams a day weight loss.  I'm just not losing fast enough.  The thing to do then is to have a bit of a break, and drop it down to 2 kilograms a month.  Maybe I'll drop the exercise to 30 minutes, and then increase/decrease my food intake so I'm always at 2 kg a month.  Who knows.

I think that I can probably continue at 2kg a month until goal weight, however I do want to live with my girlfriend when a vaccine has been made, but when we live together I'll drop my intended weight loss to 1 kilogram a month only.  That's because I won't have access to the gym, and the Philippines doesn't have numerous parks that New Zealand has.  Running on roads/footpaths is definitely unsafe, so there's not going to be any exercise in the Philippines for me.

Today I weighed at 95.5 kg and I weighed 95.6 yesterday.  That's 100 grams a day, which is what I want.  Let's see how I go tomorrow.

2 kg a month challenge - day 2

A slight gain from yesterday, 100 grams.  Slightly disappointing, but it's probably due to increased salt intake.  Yesterday I ate 8,158 kJ, which is roughly around maintenance intake.  

2 kg a month challenge - day 1 restart

I continued gaining weight after my last post, but I've finally stopped.  I still want to lose 2 kg a month, so I'm going to see if that's achievable.  Let's see how that goes.  Anyway, I weighed 95.2 kg today, which is really high but that's because of all of the salt I've been having.  I've been using my intake tracking app for about 25 days.  I want to post daily if at all possible.  I'll check in tomorrow.