reach my ideal weight

Better! Some weeks ago, while preparing for the half marathon I put on some weight, reaching 79.5 kg (as I ate a lot, because I wanted to make sure I was going to have enough energy for the 13 miles). But as I am getting into new habits (more sport and more diet awareness, instead of short-term dieting or unsustainable training), I didn’t take too long to recover a healthier weight!

That’s quite different than the way it was some four years ago (I lost weight as fast as I recovered it later).

Long-term habit is the only way to be where I want to be.

Uhm.. my ideal weight.. well it isn’t that I consider myself fat or something it’s just that little obsession I have about weight.
I don’t have any pictures of me full body at the moment. I’ll take a picture and put it here theese days.

NOW
14th June 08

THEN
4th Nov 05

I’ve recently lost just over a stone and I’m hoping going to lose another stone before I go away on 18th July which gives me a month, do-able definitely.

Getting closer :)

I’m happy with myself. If I want to challenge myself to anything, I want to get in shape.

Yay for being happy with yourself :)

Ok, I have set up a deadline to achieve this goal (my ideal weight is 70kg = 154 pounds).

I don’t want to lose weight too quickly. That is very easy (the only thing you have to do is stop eating), and very ineffective (because that means you didn’t change your way of doing things, so you will get back to your usual weight, as it happened to me).

I want to lose weight by changing my attitude (eating better and less, and burning more calories). This is the hard way, but the most effective. It is hard as well, because you lose just a bit every week. And the closer you are to your target weight, the slower you lose weight.

So, I’m ok with losing 200 g/week, and 100g/week when I will be less than 74 kg. Fluctuations will occur, and the error due to water drinking and so is bigger than those 200 grams, so I have to think long term. For the moment I think I am in the right way, as I have lost exactly 4kg since the 26th of February!

Then, the date I will put to myself to reach this goal is the 15th of August 2009, and the 9th of November 2008 to reach the 74 kg.

It may seem it is very far, 64 weeks to reach 70 kg! But in my opinion it is the only way of doing it well.

I hope that I can reach my ideal weight soon too! I’m around 18 pounds from where I would ideally like to be, but other programs are telling me that my ideal weight is far below what I thought MY Ideal was….so we’ll see.

It has been a long and hard road, but I am finally nearing my goal. I have eaten just about everything that is good and bad for you, and have been trying to workout regularly (weight train). Granted, I have a little more baby fat than I would have liked, but it will come in handy as I transform into the incredible hulk :)