YAY!!! IVE REACHED ANOTHER GOAL - HAVE LOST OVER 20KG!!!
Jumped on the scales this morning after a few days of not looking and have reached one of my big goals - I have now lost a total of 20.6kgs and am sooo stoked!
Today is day 31 of my mission and I am happy to report that I'm still going strong.. it's so easy to be motivated when the weight is comming off quickly!
Have done a couple of decent walks this week, its been crazy busy with work and traveling but have managed to keep up 5-6km per day on average. Have done four weight training sessions on the arms this week,and upped the weight yesterday - feeling it today. My little brother Steff showed me a couple of lifting exercises for working on your pecs..one in particular is a killer(thanks Steff)! Have realised that laughing helps me when im doing weights - might be due to endorphins (is that how you spell it? hmmm might just start calling them endolphins) endolpins being released into the system are supposed to make you happy right? well whenever my arms turn to jelly and I am facing a realistic fear of dropping 26kg's of dumbell into my face I cant helpbut crack up laughing - it gives you a little extra boost and helps you get through the third set of 15...especially from 12 to 15 - those last three lifts are seriously an effort!
Have also decided that I should start doing sit-ups after my weights session also to build muscle and help with the skin factor.. havent done a sit up in years, geez it's been hard enough just getting up out of a seated position (heh) let a lone actually doing it for fun... managed to do 30 lastnight which I guess is a good start!
Am thinking I will go for a walk to the vid store soon and drop off some dvds. The weather outside is absolute she-ite so im going to have to talk myself into it!...because I plan to go out and dance for a few hours tonight with my mate Sarah Ive been rationalising to myself that I dont need to go for a walk - luckily my disatisfaction with being big and unfit is still top of mind! Im going to go put my walking shoes on...
Peace.
Mike
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
On the mission..
Evening. Just had a nice shower after a long walk in the rain... light rain, you know the type I mean.
Ive noticed that when I walk, my mind wanders to a place in the future when im enjoying life; Joining the soccer team, going for regular cruises on my bike, going for a run....I find it motivating, and its often the thing that will make me walk the extra block. Ive always listened to people when they have told me to visualise what you want - but ive always quietly thought it was full of hot air...might have to rethink that because it seems to be helping.
Righhto.
Went to the doctors today and saw the nurse. Had a couple of conerns about my blood pressure - Im taking a blood pressure pill everyday for hypertension and have been for a few years now.. today I noticed when standing up from a seating position im getting dizzy - thought maybe my blood pressure had naturally dropped and was now too low with the pill ... no such luck. Blood pressure is down but not significantly enough to take me off the pill. One day! Have followed up with a few people online and need to make sure im keeping up the water intake. by the way the nurse cracked me up ...her solution was for me to stand up slowly! so there you go.. haha.
Peaace.
M
Ive noticed that when I walk, my mind wanders to a place in the future when im enjoying life; Joining the soccer team, going for regular cruises on my bike, going for a run....I find it motivating, and its often the thing that will make me walk the extra block. Ive always listened to people when they have told me to visualise what you want - but ive always quietly thought it was full of hot air...might have to rethink that because it seems to be helping.
Righhto.
Went to the doctors today and saw the nurse. Had a couple of conerns about my blood pressure - Im taking a blood pressure pill everyday for hypertension and have been for a few years now.. today I noticed when standing up from a seating position im getting dizzy - thought maybe my blood pressure had naturally dropped and was now too low with the pill ... no such luck. Blood pressure is down but not significantly enough to take me off the pill. One day! Have followed up with a few people online and need to make sure im keeping up the water intake. by the way the nurse cracked me up ...her solution was for me to stand up slowly! so there you go.. haha.
Peaace.
M
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Just checking in....
Here are the pictures that I promised to post - the first is of me today and the second is of me at the end of Feb this year....
Today is the Sunday the 19th of April, its 10pm and Im just peacing out at home tonight... have just finished a couple of hours work an though it would be a good idea to log in and drop a few lines.
My week has been good, ended up down in Tauranga for the weekend and got to tkae my niece to the park.. cute attack, even though she was in a mood! heh, kids have got such a sweet deal.
I busted out a couplt of nice walks on the beach over the weekend and even managed to catch a sunrise on Sat morning...there is something about watching the sun rise that is soo cleansing and refreshing. I walked away feeling like a newer fresher version of me.... throughly sugest everyone tries to watch the sunrise from the beach at least once every 6months.
Weightloss total as of today day 24 is 16.8kg....am really pleased as early in the week I was strugling to move any weight, i decided on wednesday that weighing myself everyday was getting a little bit OCD and so I left it until this morning... :-) Im hanging out to reach the 20kg down goal but its good to have a motivating goal.
Have also noticed that my fingers and wrist circumference are getting smaller watch is getting loose and a ring fell off my finer today... its a good feeling, and something that im not used to.
I saw some cool clothes shopping today - seems that my interest has begun peaking. Looking forward to having options - its been a long time since I have been able to just rock into a normal menswear / street style shop and grab something off the rack...exciting.. might have to start a new savings account just for clothes. At the moment am going to make do with what Ive got in the way of clothes (ive got heaps and heaps and heaps to be honest) will just use a belt and wait until my current pants get a bit too MC hammer before I invest... just incase I awake the shopping monster I know sleeps inside.
Peace.
M.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
So far its been a really interesting 20 days, Optifast is a full meal replacement program with shakes, bars, soups etc. the only non processed food that you eat on the program is 2 cups of non starchy (no root based) vegetables.
I have found it can get some cautious responses from people who dont suffer significant weight issues. Usually after spending some time talking about it people are really supportive!
I caught up with family and friends in the weekend and they were so pleased to see that Ive taken control of my weight! Have had a couple of true tests - my best friends 30th birthday where we rented a beach house for the weekend and everyone drank and ate and partied all weekend, I of course cannot jsut eat anything (other than the optifast 3 meals a day) and definatley cannot drink alcohol. We had one day at a winery for lunch where I managed to talk the owner into making me a basic salad luckily.. can you believe that this wasnt on their menu!?
The other test was easter weekend - when everybody is all about chocolate, funny enough i didnt see one single easter egg so the weekend went extremely well, shouldnt really be labled a test I suppose but it was just the knowledge that if i wasnt on this lifestyle change I would have smashed a few cadbury eggs without a doubt!
Part of my plan to a healthier life is about excercise - Over the last 20days I have walked 136km and have built this in to my daily routine with 3kms in the morning and 3kms at night everynight... Have discovered that I really enjoy walking the street with my ipod on, gives me an opportunity to either think about all the things going on in my life, day to day, works stuff etc - or it gives me the time to notice little things -like how much i like trees and how acorns remind me of my primary school days! Excercise is definatley something that I will have in my life from now on.
Started lifting weights in the weekend to help build lean muscle mass in my arms - at this point I am clearly a complete sissy, am working my pecs (actually man boobs at the moment) and am doing a couple of different excercises - they hurt like sin yesterday but managed to bust out a good session on them lastnight, and to my surprise they are nowhere near as sore as they were yesterday. not sure if i will do again tonight or give the body a break.. who knows, will make the call tonight.
Will post a couple of pictures for you later - a photo of me the week before I started and what I look like today... Not a HUGE difference in my eyes but still a change.
Peace.
Mike
I have found it can get some cautious responses from people who dont suffer significant weight issues. Usually after spending some time talking about it people are really supportive!
I caught up with family and friends in the weekend and they were so pleased to see that Ive taken control of my weight! Have had a couple of true tests - my best friends 30th birthday where we rented a beach house for the weekend and everyone drank and ate and partied all weekend, I of course cannot jsut eat anything (other than the optifast 3 meals a day) and definatley cannot drink alcohol. We had one day at a winery for lunch where I managed to talk the owner into making me a basic salad luckily.. can you believe that this wasnt on their menu!?
The other test was easter weekend - when everybody is all about chocolate, funny enough i didnt see one single easter egg so the weekend went extremely well, shouldnt really be labled a test I suppose but it was just the knowledge that if i wasnt on this lifestyle change I would have smashed a few cadbury eggs without a doubt!
Part of my plan to a healthier life is about excercise - Over the last 20days I have walked 136km and have built this in to my daily routine with 3kms in the morning and 3kms at night everynight... Have discovered that I really enjoy walking the street with my ipod on, gives me an opportunity to either think about all the things going on in my life, day to day, works stuff etc - or it gives me the time to notice little things -like how much i like trees and how acorns remind me of my primary school days! Excercise is definatley something that I will have in my life from now on.
Started lifting weights in the weekend to help build lean muscle mass in my arms - at this point I am clearly a complete sissy, am working my pecs (actually man boobs at the moment) and am doing a couple of different excercises - they hurt like sin yesterday but managed to bust out a good session on them lastnight, and to my surprise they are nowhere near as sore as they were yesterday. not sure if i will do again tonight or give the body a break.. who knows, will make the call tonight.
Will post a couple of pictures for you later - a photo of me the week before I started and what I look like today... Not a HUGE difference in my eyes but still a change.
Peace.
Mike
Stats and Details
Okay so thought I should post some details so you know what we are dealing with!
My name is Mike and I am 27 years old. My height is 182cm and on the 26th March I weighed in at 163.5kg's.
I am currently 20 days into a strict VLCD (Very Low Calorie Diet) called Optifast weight loss progam and today weigh in at 148.9kgs... needless to say I am bloody stoked!
I have been waling approx 6km a day and have developed a schedule where I get up at 5:30am everyday and walk 3km and then repeat the same track after work at 7pm...
SO FAR SO GOOD...cant complain, cant complain.
:-)
My name is Mike and I am 27 years old. My height is 182cm and on the 26th March I weighed in at 163.5kg's.
I am currently 20 days into a strict VLCD (Very Low Calorie Diet) called Optifast weight loss progam and today weigh in at 148.9kgs... needless to say I am bloody stoked!
I have been waling approx 6km a day and have developed a schedule where I get up at 5:30am everyday and walk 3km and then repeat the same track after work at 7pm...
SO FAR SO GOOD...cant complain, cant complain.
:-)
Welcome
Welcome to my new blog, the description reads that this is all about my journey to a smaller me, but that is not entirely true. Yeah it is about my weight loss but it is more importantly about what I want from life and what I see through a refreshed set of eyes on the way. Sometimes you are going to get me talking pounds lost and cm's gone, and other times you might hear about how beautiful my walk was..or that bloc party are the goods to listen to on your ipod while pounding the pavement... this blog is mine to do with what I see fit - I will keep you posted along the way.
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