Day 11: steadily losing

Ok, so things are slowly working, but I'm still not doing things the way I should. I still aren't fully onto the modified Zone diet, and that's where I should be. Must try harder. Still on track for mid December for completion. Lowest weight in 9 weeks.

Day 4: Sudden weight gain

So I was losing weight quite happily, and all of a sudden I start gaining weight, as the graph shows. What's the cause? The amount of water in my body. I thought that if a person drank a lot of water, then they would urinate it within a few hours or so, and they would then weigh the same as before. Well, this is not the case. I wasn't drinking much, then suddenly I drank a bit of fluids, suddenly my weight started increasing. That's not a problem really, so long as I know about it, then I can allow for it, in fact the easiest thing to do is to ensure that I drink a certain level of liquids each day, and hopefully weight fluctuations won't occur.

Apart from that, things are going ok. As from tomorrow, I'll be hopefully eating what I should be eating, in terms of nutrients and protein, as I've been a bit naughty so far, and not having all the things that I need.

Lowest weight in 33 days.

Day 3

As expected, the weight loss is going well. Of course, that's because my body is emptying itself of all of the food inside me, I probably haven't lost much fat. But I should include it as actual weight loss, because when I finish this diet, my weight will suddenly gain as my body fills up with food again.

I'm not sure how often to post weights, but today I am 81.25kg averaged, which means that I am the lowest weight in 7 days. I like thinking in terms of "lowest weight in ... days/weeks/months/years" because there is nice feeling when I lose weight so instead of being lowest weight in say, 12 months, the next day I am lowest weight in 18 months. Of course that's because 12 months earlier I started putting on weight.

I have decided to modify the Zone diet: because of various concerns, I have decided on various minimums and maximums:

at least 500g of vegetables (usually frozen)
maximum of 70g of protein
if I am losing weight too quickly, eat a quantity of nuts

I will probably modify that as time goes on and I get the 'feel' for this weight loss.

Day 2: if only...

if only losing weight was this easy. Yes, I have lost weight since yesterday, but that is likely to be the fact that my body is emptying its quantity of food, since I am now eating small amounts. That loss will probably stop in a few days. Yesterday I completed my intake by eating a whole tin (400g) of salmon, which stopped any hunger that would likely to appear overnight.

Because my recent weight graph (to be displayed here in a few days) shows that I am well below what I am supposed to be, I am allowed a coffee and slice. Yes, I had that yesterday, but today I have to have 500g of veges, as well as fruit.

One thing that concerns me is emotional eating. Because I have depression, I am more likely to get myself into a situation where I am upset - and there is nothing that reduces that 'noise' in the brain like 2 litres of ice cream or a Big Mac combo or a large 140g bag of chips.

When this happens (and it will, no doubt) I will have to make a judgement about how much extra to eat. I'm not saying I will and I'm not saying I won't. Usually, it is some external cause that gets me depressed. I may disclose the reason to people here, I'm not sure about it all.

Anyway, that's all for now. Will post tomorrow about what I have to eat for the rest of the day.

Day 1

Today has been what I would call a "high energy, low nutrient" day. That means that I had some cake and a bit of coke, plus a few other things, but little of nutritional value. That's not good, but it's just for today of course. Also some sardines for protein. Not sure how much fish I'll be having, I'm writing this in the evening, and I'll probably have some more food before going to bed. Tomorrow will be different, it'll be veges and fruit, plus the inevitable fish for protein.

Oh by the way, today I am the heaviest I'm been in 18 months. That's disappointing of course, but that's life I guess, you gain weight, you lose it, repeat as required. I've got a plan to stop the repeating, my brother and I have set up an arrangement so the first person to put on 2kg (he is the ultimate yoyo dieter) gives the other person money, and if they want to cancel the arrangement, pays the other person money as well. Although that means I get lots of money, I really just want a stable weight.

Now about actual weight values. In this blog in the last month, I've been writing what I weigh naked (which is how I almost always weigh myself). However, my whole spreadsheet of data is dressed weight (about 2.5kg higher), plus I haven't allowed for the fact that the scales have an error of about 700 grams. Adding those together means that I have suddenly 'jumped' 3kg, which is not the case. I have fiddled with the postings and added 3kg, but if there happens to be anyone out there in cyberspace who tracks peoples weights (unlikely but you never know...), this explains the sudden gain.

That's about it for me today. I do believe that I have lost weight today, no doubt we'll all find out tomorrow.

I've been doing some thinking

Last night, I thought about this whole losing weight thing and how it's not working. So, I have decided to go onto the Zone diet, which I've done in the past. I found it relatively easy. So today onwards, I'm making changes to things. Posting here almost daily, controlling how and what I eat, that sort of thing. I'll do this for about 16 weeks, as I want to lose about 16kg in that amount of time. The important thing is control. Many things will be under strict control. Anyway, that's all for me today. Will post tomorrow.

Things don't seem to be working

I weigh myself regularly, but the old scales show that I'm putting on weight still. I think that I really need to increase the amount of protein that I have. That will happen in a few weeks, but not yet, for various reasons related to money... Anyway, that's the update for the moment. Today I weighed 82.0 kg, highest in a while I think. I'm thinking about having my metabolism measured, by counting the energy of everything that goes into my mouth, but it's such a pain to do.

Finally getting into it

Well, as it turned out, my girlfriend's sister is doing better than expected in the old losing weight thing. That's good for her, and good for me. So I'm finally settled into the eating more protein (she's on Atkins, I'm not) and less high fat/sugar food. Sorry about the lack of contact but... well you get the idea.

Sunday 81.5

Monday 81.3