After two days of increases, today I had a decrease. I am down 0.3kgs since yesterday, but the same weight as I was on Monday. I think the extra walk yesterday probably played a part.
Today I intend to go for an extended walk at lunch time, because I am going to a meeting this evening which won’t end until approximately 11:30pm, so I may not be going for my walk this evening.
I went out for a walk at lunch time to use my new Nike Plus device. I walked for 21 minutes 50 seconds and completed 2.22km. According to the ipod I used up 195 calories.
This evening I went for another walk / jog. This time I covered 3.04kms in 25 minutes and 51 seconds. And this time I burned 267 calories. I wonder if the Nike Plus device is a novelty which wares off quickly or will I still be really interested in it in a couple of weeks time!
Up 0.2kgs today. I would be a bit disappointed if I didn’t know what it happened, but I do! Yesterday I had a tough day at work and I was really tired last night. I was going to go for a walk, but instead I decided to have a cup of hot chocolate (made with milk) and a scone, and sat in front of the TV rather than going for my walk. So, I cant be too surprised that I am 0.2kgs up! I also did my weigh in about an hour earlier than I normally would as I had to go out to a meeting early this morning. So fingers crossed I will be back on track in the morning.
I am going to go for a quick walk in a few minutes to make up for last night. I have set myself a few goals on the Nike + site and I am going to upload all of my walks onto it. When there are more walks on display and it starts to look interesting I will put a link from the blog to my Nike + page.
Up 0.1kgs today. Didn’t really expect that. But I suppose, these things happen. Today I am going to try to double the length of my walk, or do two walks. Just sitting down for some lunch right now. I am having a pita bread with some tuna and sweetcorn, and a litre of water.
Just back from my evening walk. I used my Nike + device with my new ipod nano for the first time today. I was a bit disappointed to see that I only walked 2.25 kms and it took me 30 minutes. That is an average of only 4.5km/h! I was a bit shocked.
I had a lovely dinner today; Salmon with pasta. An odd combination, but it was pretty awesome!
A drop of 0.3kgs today. Not too shabby! Well thats another week complete, and this week I have lost 1.2kgs. I am quite happy with that.
I have 31 days left, and I need to lose 5.4kgs to hit my original target. It definitely is possible. I am heading out to meet customers today, but I am going to bring a packed lunch with me, so that I am not tempted to eat rubbish! It is very easy when you are out on the road.
Well today after a great sleep I am down 0.2kgs on yesterdays weight, but up 0.2kgs on my weight from the previous day. I am still on track to lose at least 1kg this week, so fingers crossed tomorrows weigh in will be good.
I am off to the beach in a few minutes to go for a walk. Walking at the beach here is not like walking on the beach somewhere where it is hot. It is going to be cold and windy, but it will be pleasant.
This morning I did the weigh in at 4am, which may explain why I was up 0.4kgs. I assume this is a factor. I had a 6am flight, hence the fact that I was up so early. Had a good day in London. I ate dinner in a Steak House in Leicester Square and it was very nice. I am really tired, having just arrived home.
I did a lot of walking while I was there. I think we walked for about 90 minutes in the wrong direction trying to find an underground station. It was funny, but it was also good for me!
While I didn’t do any formal exercise today, I think the walking in London should stand to me.
This morning I am down 0.5kgs. This follows a 0.4kg drop yesterday, and in terms of stones, I now weigh less than 13 and a half! I am really delighted with this. As I said in a comment on the blog yesterday, there have been some frustrating days along the way, but today I am really chuffed!
Last night I had an omlette for dinner, so I think that must have played a part in the increased weight loss today. It was really nice. I though I was going to feel hungry after it, but I didn’t at all.
In order to achieve my goal, I now need to lose 5.5 kgs over the next 34 days. That is just 0.161kgs per day. That is less than I had to lose on day one (0.164kgs per day).
Tomorrow morning I am going to London for the day, so I have a 6:30am flight. This means that I will be doing my weigh in between 4am and 5am, so the results tomorrow could be a little off. But on Sunday I will be taking the weigh in at the normal time.
Woo Hoo! I am down to 86kgs exactly. I was delighted when I hopped onto the scales this morning, and say it hit exactly 86kgs. That means I am down 0.4kgs since yesterday. My original target weight is only 6kgs away! Wow!
Yesterday I didn’t use the Power Plate, but I did eat healtily and went for my evening walk.
Last night I watched a a really good British documentary called “The Truth About your Food“, which discussed the reasons and excuses why people are overweight. It showed three sets of people who were overweight, and went into their rational for why they were overweight.
First was a family, a husband and wife and their teenage daughter. They were all very large, but they could not understand why. They claimed to have a “healthy” lifestyle and could not understand why they were putting on so much weight. They claimed to only eat one meal per day, which was a bit odd. The wife, who worked as a manual roadsweeper, said she never ate lunch and never snacked. As well as filming the house, they also hired a private detective to follow the woman while she was working. They found her going into a convenience store and buying a hot dog. There was a really good picture where she was stuffing her face with some kind of pie or something and had both hands full of food. After the week, they brought the people family together along with a dietician, and showed them what they had discovered. One meal? More like one constant meal for the entire day. Huge portions each time, and the woman also consumed 30 unilts of alcohol. The family were blind to this. It was incredible.
Next up was a “Belly Dance Teacher”, who claimed that she had a slow metabolic rate, and this was the reason why she was so overweight. Again, her diet was appalling. She said that sometimes she would buy two or four cream pies, and eat three of them together! But then her rational was that “she would not eat dinner, so this is fine“. The program brought her to a medical clinic in London and she had her metabolic rate measured and the doctors found that it was normal. She wouldn’t accept this and made some really strange comments.
Finally, they had a guy who claimed to have the “fat gene” and his obesity was out of his control. This was his excuse for being overweight. They brought him to a medical center and had him tested for the gene. When he was going in, he told the journalist hosting the show that he hoped that he had the gene. They then told him that he didn’t, and the guy looked distraught. He no longer had an excuse. His obesity was purely down to his lifestyle choices, as were the family featured on the programme, and the “belly dancer”. They all had excuses which they claimed were the root cause but this was just to make them feel better about themselves.
Hopefully now that the have been educated about this, they will take control of their diets and sort it out, but I have the feeling they will just go back into denial and find a different excuse.
