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26 July 2017

Weigh-in: 169.3 lb lost so far: 35.7 lb still to go: 15.0 lb Diet followed poorly
   add comment losing 0.9 lb a week

18 July 2017

Dear Reader,

I'll try to keep it brief this time, but no promises.

I've been doing good today, Diet wise, I didn't eat anything I'd deem 'unhealthy'; just veggies and fruits mostly. I'm at 95% of my RDA but it didn't count any exercise I did so I think that's good.

Speaking of exercise, I did PiYo Upper Body today. It was a relatively easy workout and I remembered why I liked this program so much the first time around; you can see your progress very easily and even if you are a total couch potato, you can do enough with it to feel satisfied. It felt good to follow the 'advanced' modifier when once I used to follow the beginner one and even tho it's just an introductory workout of only 20 minutes, I was sweating a lot afterwards, so there's that.

Beside PiYo, I had to teach some of my little cousins for almost six hours (that I spent standing) and I decided to take public transports instead of just taking a taxi, so that was an extra hour of walking! It's only 9PM but I'm really tired already, but I'm happy about my day so there's that.

Thank you for reading,
Yours,
Almanio.

PS: I know it kinda weird with the letter setting lol; But I like treating this as an actual journal ♥

17 July 2017

Dear Reader,

So, I promised you and myself that today is the day. It's 9PM now and I guess it's time to see what I accomplished so far.

Diet wise, I'm trying to do begin slowly; adding in healthy habits one by one, baby steps you know. I wasn't presented with any junk food so that was good; I tried (and succeded) in avoiding my mother's home made bread, even though it's delicious; so that's the high point of today diet wise. The low point was when my mom made some 'baghrir' with butter and honey; it's a local dish that I love with my afternoon coffee and I ate a couple of those; mostly cause eff it lol; my mom only makes them like twice a year so I didn't want to miss it.

I did miss dinner tho, because I reached my RDA in the afternoon. It's okay though, I'm not really hungry.

Exercise wise, I begun PiYo. Today was 'Define Lower Body', a nice 20 minutes workout. It wasn't too difficult since it's the first workout in the program; but it does give you a nice sweat when you follow the advanced guy in the video. I was litteraly dripping by the end of it; so there's that. I remember the first time I did PiYo, I couldn't even finish this workout! So I've come a long way since then (:

Talk to you tomorrow!
Yours,
Almanio.

17 July 2017

Dear reader,

I'm Almanio, a 22 y-o medical student and I need to shed weight.
Roughly two years ago, I was severely overweight, going into obesity actually. I was terrified of the scale and shied away from all cameras; mirrors were my worst enemy since I didn't want to see how overweight I let myself become but it was necessary to use them.

My confidence was ... well, I didn't have any confidence to speak of. I'd let anybody walk over me because I didn't respect myself, or feel worthy of respect. I know it's unhealthy and wrong to think that being overweight somehow makes me sub-human but that's just how I felt.

On November 2015, I finally decided to do something about it. I started doing some light workouts (PiYo, by beachbody) and had some results. I started wondering how much the results would be better if I actually ate healthy portions and foods and ... I don't know how to describe it, but something just 'clicked'. I started eating healthy, avoiding any and all processed food; I was feeling great and started to actually enjoy working out. It was the best time of my life; I started to grow more confident, not only because I was lighter but just because I DID IT. I was really proud of myself and it did wonders for my confidence levels.

All in all, I lost about 21kg (46.3lbs)and was satisfied with how I look. I managed to keep the weight off for a bit over a year and half; but the last months have been really hard. I started working out less and less, it became less enjoyable and now I'm not working out at all. My diet is all over the place; I already gained 5kg (~11 lbs) in just as many months and this has to stop. I can't go back to where I was.

So this is the start of my new Journey, and this journal entry is my statement that today is IT.

I have tried to do this a lot of times before to no avail; but I think I've been going at it wrong. Each time I tried these past few months, I've just stopped eating all the junk food and begun a high intensity workout and I'd stop two days later.

So this time around I'm going back to the beginning, do it like I did it that first time. First by just doing some conscious choices when eating without feeling guilty if I slip while doing some good old PiYo. That's what got me into working out and that's what'll get me back into it. Once I'm used to this new regimen; I'll try to bring it up a notch by implementing a new work out program and upping the quality of the food I'm eating (a.k.a no junk food at all).

I hope, no, I KNOW that this time, it'll stick.
Yours,
Almanio.

PS: I joined to this entry a before-after photo of my first journey's results.

17 July 2017

Weigh-in: 170.4 lb lost so far: 34.6 lb still to go: 16.1 lb Diet followed N/A
   add comment gaining 2.3 lb a week

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