Hey guys. I have a mustachioed friend who has been singing the praises of MyFitnessPal at me for a while now. I’m not someone who needs to lose a lot of weight, but for the past few months I feel like my running speed has been impeded by few excess KGs.
It’s been a little bit inspiring seeing some of the stories here!
Healthy weight range is 60-75 according to standard BMI tables and I started on Sunday with the app at 76. I also ate 2500 calories on Sunday (typical) and that made me cringe.
It’s Friday morning, and sticking to the plan of 1600 calories (+200 allowance for exercise) I’m down to 73.5. A loss of 2.5Kg in six days, and this is the lowest weight I’ve been since I was 18-19. I had been as high as 84kg in my early 20s (now 34)
Key takeouts:
- I’d been unknowingly having three servings of cereal for breakfast. It amazed me what a normal portion size should be. Extra cereal equals extra milk too so cutting it down by measuring one serve has really made an impact. I’ll aslo save a couple of hundred dollars a year from this because I no longer go through so much brekkie each week.
- I can still have a snack, but it’s a piece of fruit (apple, orange or pineapple slices)
- My daily hot chocolate (sobs) needed to be eliminated.
- You don’t get as much credit for exercise as you feel you should. It takes a long time to walk off the smallest “cheat” food... IMO everything simply comes down to CICO.
- Margarine, olive oil and sauces are the real killers. Whatever you use, cut these down as much as you can.
- A slice of bread is 100 calories. My standard lunch of two sandwiches is already 450 just for bread and margarine before I add any toppings (ham, lettuce, tomato etc). If you’re going to have this, then you’re going to have to trade off elsewhere.
- Weight loss happens at night. You basically breathe out your weight as you sleep as your body turns carbon atoms (in carbohydrates, protein and fat) plus oxygen into carbon dioxide. If your weight in the evening is within a couple of hundred grams of what it was in the morning then you’ll be lighter the next day.
Not all of this will apply to everyone, but for all of you here who have found what works for you keep at it and well done on your progress!