Why does my scale enjoy playing mind games with me?
Ridiculous beyond ridiculousness.
I can’t believe how my weight fluctuated this week, yet I have stuck to my diet.
Gaining or losing 1,4kg (about 3 pounds) in a day seems a little crazy, if not illogical.
On September 14, I hit the scales at 121.5kg.
Then the following craziness happened…
Sept 16 122.6kg
Sept 17 121.1kg
Sept 19 121.1kg
Sept 20 122.4kg
The question is this. Is my scale messing me around or is my body totally out of whack?
I will see weight fluctuations during the duration of my diet, but at these levels, it seems a little crazy.
And, as I have mentioned previously, this weighing myself daily creates more stress than anything else. Back to a weekly weigh in.
I have been doing an 18:6 fast, and it has been easy to stick to. I may not be following it 100% as I drink coffee with a dash of milk. The amount of milk may be a teaspoon or two per cup with three cups per day.
A daily food diary controls my food and calorie intake.
Documenting everything is paramount to being successful on a diet.
The EAT LESS diet is a perfect companion to someone who is obese and loses weight. It is difficult going from chewing something every other minute to limiting yourself to eating within a relatively brief window of time. The first two days were a little tough, but I hit my stride on day four. Eight days down the line and all I have to complain about are the weight fluctuations. This, and the 600g weight gain. I know 600g is not much, but the strange thing is the size of the daily weight changes. A gain of almost 3kg between the second and fifth of this month. A little too much for me.
Hopefully, these weight changes are because of the amount of water I am drinking every day. I have doubled my water intake, and I do it early in the day. When I started dieting a while ago, I drank water when I felt hungry and that suppressed the shark that was floating around in my belly to an extent. Water is a natural appetite suppressant. Use it.
Anyway, the next part of my journey starts today.
I have mentioned being a couch-athlete for decades. I couldn’t even secure a sponsorship during my long career of doing nothing on my couch but eat and watch TV. I have nothing to show for my athletic prowess but a big, slovenly body.
The goal is to see ‘how the other half live’. You know, the thin people.
Another goal is to bend over and touch my toes, something I haven’t been able to do since about seventh grade. When I bend over now, my fingertips reach halfway down my shins. In the past, I was touching the top of my legs and eventually got down to my knees. That stomach really got in the way. There is progress being made.
I start with a few weights today, and my exercise will last for about twenty minutes per day initially. I have bought myself a Mi5 band to see if this is another avenue of motivation for me. I need all the help available to me. While I get my mind into shape, technology had better do its part.
Mindset will be more important than anything else, so my focus will be on this. The exercise and weight loss result from a lifestyle change.
Now I need to decide if I weigh myself every day or resort to tears of joy or sadness once a week on a Monday morning.
What I did though is start writing all my thoughts along the way and put them into a book I will publish the day I reach my goal weight of 95kg. Who knows, I may even lose more weight than that, but I’ll see what I feel and look like.
Stick around.
This is going to be hard, but fun.
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