lose weight

Well, I’m mostly at my target weight, but I could still lose another 2 kgs and not be skinny. 81.2 kg was my morning weight today.

I’ve stopped eating candy, so I’m rather desugared now, though I still enjoy cakes and ice cream. After a while, I now don’t even want to drink coke and other sodas. I’m pretty sure that’s what brought me to a stable level around 82 kg for the last month (in spite of vacationing and such, which’d normally mean I’d gain a couple of kg) and now below that. Yay!

I reached my goal of weighing 85 kilos on May 26. This morning, I had 84.1 on the scales, and I’m pretty stable around 84-85. This is great!

I’ve lost weight. Not just a kilo, either – I’m now at 86 kilos. That’s 10 kilos less than when I weighed the most. Yay!

On November 26th last year, I set myself a goal of 85 kilos 6 months later.

Two things have changed in that time: we changed catering at work so lunches are now less fatty, and I’ve taken up eating a cereal based on rye – nice and filling.

So now I’m pretty much stabilizing around 86, and almost 3 months to go on my plan. That means the goal is slightly changed. Now I have to stay at 85 until the end of the 6 months.

Erm, well… There’s this BMI thingie that says under 25 is normal, under 30 is overweight, over 30 is obese, right?

I just got under 30 again, so now I’m just overweight. Yay!

I’m still having ups and downs, but I think my weight swings are based around a number about 2 kilos lower than before, which I’m pretty satisfied about. Still plenty of work to do, but I think it’s getting easier with spring coming up – outdoor training has begun!

Wifey has taken up on losing weight as well, and decided that if she’s gonna eat healthy, she’s going to have varied food as well, meaning that we’re making a food plan, one week ahead at a time.

This is a great idea (we’ve tried it before, but kinda got out of the habit) – now instead of trying to think of something exciting every morning (you know the deal – what’re we having for dinner tonight? Uh, I dunno, something healthy… chicken? What, again?), we’re concentrating the creative process into a 15 minutes brainstorm every Sunday afternoon/evening where we just fire away with ideas for dinner for next week.

Write it down as well, not because you’re going to stick to it no matter what – we end up changing plans every now and then, maybe just switch two things around, or skip one planned meal in favour of something else (people we have to visit and such). Write it down, because then you can check them off when you’ve had that, and remember the ones you haven’t had to make next week’s planning easier. If there’s one thing you keep pushing ahead of you from week to week, though, drop it – it’s probably because you really don’t want to eat it, even if it sounds delicious on paper.

Oh, and a friend of mine popped by Put Your Burden Down (http://whee.dk/burdendown/) – and started registering his weight. Not just that, he suggested a few additions, that I’m now considering. Nothing earth-shattering, but moving the application towards something more social, more web 2.0 ;)

Any thoughts and comments on PYBD are welcome. ;)

This is my curve from Put Your Burden Down, my weight registration web app (http://whee.dk/burdendown/) – and it updates automatically, so whenever I put in new data, you can see it right here.

This is a new option that you can enable (and read more about) at PYBD when you’re logged in – look for the link under your graph.

The graph shows only your own progress, so even if you’ve selected friends for showing on the graph within PYBD, they won’t show on your public graph.

Uses? Well, put it on your blog in a sidebar or whatever, or on your profile pages.

Stepping onto your scales every week is measuring your progress.
Stepping onto your scales every morning is measuring the unfairness of the world.

I’ve had a couple of really good days, feeling good and doing exercise (rugby training equalled 75 push ups and 70 sit ups among other things – within 75 minutes; and Tuesday I spent 2.5 hours walking through town with the mrs. and baby.) – and I thought I’d been eating quite reasonably as well. Both days offered slight increases in weight. I hope tomorrow is better – I’ve been baby-swimming and staying away from unhealthies.

In the morning show on the radio, they had a hypnotist in the studio, and he did some suggestion thing about how we’d overcome obstacles on the path to weight-loss. I mostly think hypnosis (in the side-show fashion) is pretty much bogus, but suggestion could be a powerful technique. I’m not expecting too much, but I haven’t felt the need to drink coke today at all, nor eat any of the candies in the big jar right next to my table.

Onwards and downwards!

So, various Christmas dinners and such took their toll on me. Not as much as usual, I guess – I tried to keep the alcohol intake down (only three beers and a glass of wine on Friday night with the guys, one beer and a glass of wine on Saturday with family and friends), but the food got the better of me, at least in part. I still feel pretty good about not hitting 98 again (97.8 is pretty close, I know), and I’m back at 96 as of this morning.

Rugby training went well last night. I managed to do two pull-ups from stretched arms to chin above the rail I was holding on to. I’d expected zero. We also did a lot of push-ups, due to the kids being tired and unfocused. Add in a bit passing practice, some running, and some high-pulse exercise, and I think we all got a pretty good workout.

Other than that, I’m thrilled to have found several new accounts on my weight recording app, and one person even allowed me to see their progress – thank you! I’ve added all the new folks to my list of friends so they can see my progress if they want.

I’ve already listed a few things that could be done to improve the site, but I’m really interested in feedback from you folks, on what needs doing. I guess I might redo the site in Ruby on Rails some time, but I’m still not sure whether it’s useful enough to warrant working on it.

Put your burden down!

Yeah, well, I’m not doing so badly, I think, just that I had a bit much for dinner last night, so the scales said 96.1 this morning.

Tonight though, is going to be one big test. Two words: Christmas buffet. Everything I love eating, and as much as you can eat. Including ice cream buffet. And bowling. Bowling is good, though.

Been doing my push-ups, though, which is good, and Monday night had me doing all sorts of excercise – being an involved rugby coach does that to you.

... translated that weight graph web thingie I’d made.

Check out http://whee.dk/burdendown/ and create an account there if you want to try it out – it’s very simple, I know, but it’s a start, and I guess if people are interested, I might do some more work on it. Among other things that would be cool are:

• Being able to put your graph on your blog or whereever.
• Being able to register more than one thing – like, not just weight, but pant size, number of pushups you took that day, number of calories or whatever you want to register.
• Linking in with your entries on 43things, so you can blog from either place about your weight losing strategies, and it appears in both places.
• Being able to put an ‘Add me as a friend’ button on your blog.

Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.