Sunday, January 8, 2012

Weight Loss

I last posted about weight loss over 18 months ago.  If my scheme then had worked, I would be about 74 kg by now, but I'm not.  Why, well my scheme just didn't work, I found it impossible to limit myself to three meals and three snacks.  Not only that when my three snacks came from the selection above, you can see why I actually gained weight.

So after a year of pigging out on chocolate I hit a high of 94 kg and I felt terrible.  In November 2011 I decide to stop eating chocolate.  By day 12 of no chocolate I was feeling good so I decided to cut out dairy too.  Cutting out chocolate was easy, but dairy was harder.  Still on day 14 I went to a party and ate chocolate cake, so back to square one.  The Christmas came with more chocolate on the menu.  But for some reason New Years no chocolate or dairy, easy, maybe because I hosted the party and there was no chocolate or dairy on the menu :)

The result is that since mid November I have had very little chocolate (by my standards, probably normal amounts for most people) and almost no dairy.  My digestive system is thanking me and I have lost 4 kg in 2 months.  Last time I hopped on the scales I weighed in at 89.9kg, so a loss of 4kg and my first goal met, I now have a weight that starts with 8.  My goal for 2012 is to have a weight starting with 7 by the end of the year, and my all time goal is 74kg.  At 173cm tall that is well within the healthy weight range, and the weight I looked best at after having Amber 16 years ago.