Progress?

This is why I am not really a plan of making a plan and everything.

So I had made a plan of losing 4 pounds a week; and I was all over the place blabbering how I am keeping things conservative and practical, and how I am gonna achieve them with no effort whatsoever, slowly I will transition blah blah blah. The goal was to weigh 196 lb by Oct 1. And I have put on weight in the last week or so, instead of losing it. I went from eating like a horse to eating like a pig. There was a Austin trip in between, which was good in some senses, a throbbing hot pain in the a$$ in some other sense. Missed four workouts, that's more than a week of working out.

Took this picture today.

So one of my favorite books (and from favorite I mean a collection of books that I haven't actually read :) is Tom Venoto's fat-loss bible. And in the first chapter he talks about having a plan first, before even reading the second chapter of the book. I guess I will start reading the second chapter of that book now. Since now I have the plan, and reading more about fitness will probably make me think about it more, thinking more about it might probably make me act more on it too. Let's see how this goes.

Goals Revisited

This post on February 8 says I weighed 116 kg (256 lbs) on February. I said that I will try to lose 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) every month since then. And that I will hit 80 kg (176 lb) in three years time, as that is the weight I would like to stay at; though I agree that still puts me in the overweight category.

There were other behavioural goals that I had set. Haven't been able to stick with a single one of them consistently, but have been practising all of them on and off.

So, in the four months that I spent in tableegh, I lost quite a bit of weight. And then there was Ramadan, in which I lost some more, and then I came to US, and lost a little more.

Mar, April, May, Jule, July, Aug, Sep - that's seven months. The plan was to lose 3.3 lb per month, now that I look back my average has been 5 lb/month, roughly speaking.

The new goal that I am setting for myself is losing 4 lb/month. Which means 1lb/week. Which means a daily caloric deficit of 500 Kcal (3500 Kcal make one pound of fat). This is challenging, as I am eating like a horse.

Today is September 15, I am still at 219/220 lb mark. Need to lose these 3/4 lb in the next 15 days.

To summarize, the goals now are:
- 1lb/week or 4lb/ month
- 196 lb on Oct 1
- 192 lb on Nov 1
- 188 lb on Dec 1
- 184 lb on Jan 1, 2014
- 180 lb on Feb 1, 2014
- 176 lb on Mar 1, 2014.

Behavioural goals?
- For now, it's just sticking with 5x5.
- Eating three meals a day.
- Breakfast: Omelette or Cereal; Lunch: Omelette/Fruits; Dinner: Omelette/Chicken/Fish/Meat/Lentils
- [Will throw in 15 minutes of cardio five days a week]

This is tough, but this will have to do. The boredom at home makes is really easy to just keep making Nutella sandwiches, or eating Hershey's or Dried fruits as it some zero calorie snack. Gotta work on that and control the chubs.

Meh

I keep saying I will log later, I will log when I have time, when I can do a better job at logging, And I keep delaying. Whatever.

So, in this post I tell what my goals are. I haven't been able to stick to those goals. But among those goals was one of weight loss. And the plan was that I will lose about 1-1.5 kg every month. And the weight I had logged in for February 1 was 116 kg.

Then I remember weighing myself around July 4, and I stood at 104 kg.

Then I remember losing three more kgs in the month that followed.

Today I weighed myself, and here I am at 220 pounds (From now on, the weight will be in pounds as I'm in US now, most machines only show pounds :)

I don't know whether it's healthy weight loss or not. I can still do 25 push-ups on an ordinary day, and about 30 squats. I think I have lost a lot of stamina over past few years, but that can only be judged when I do decide to do cardio. I haven't done cardio in a long time.

Planning on following scooby's cooking recipes and the training plans as discussed in previous posts.

Since I am pretty much on my own now, in terms of cooking and eating, I can cook whatever the hell I want, no more delicious (and unhealthy) Pakistani food for me!

So far it's been peanut butter and Nutella sandwiches for me. But I did get myself a pack of oatmeal and a box of Kellog's cereal. I thinking I will learn to cook all sorts of beans and peas and what not, while also snacking on fruits all the time. These cereals (and bread and Nutella!) I will save for breakfast. This whole grain bread is Awesome! Just awesome. Gotta myself a toaster man, toaster or a tava cause I like to toast my breads before I have them, and with a tava I could put some butter and cheese while toasting them too!

My my, my mouth is already watering.

I am all set to cook channay ki daal at my place. Have all the stuff, only oil missing. And some utensils, I get those, and the cooking begins! Till then, it's all Nutella sandwiches, bananas, milk and some cereal.

Just wanted to log the weight. Kinda happy I am back in two digits now. Will lose the chub soon inshllah. Then will get on to putting on muscle.