Day 80

Finally got some time to go out kiteboarding yesterday and what a great session! Typhoon just north east of us brought in some nice solid wind and swell. I now can use my smallest kite in winds I would have used my biggest kite for. The weight loss makes a big difference in overall performance. Dragged my feet a bit while moving home and dealing with never ending furniture deliveries. Wasn't a day that someone wasn't coming over and mucking about. Now I am free I am getting back into more outdoor activities and overall lifestyle changes.

Day 62

Been a while since my last post, sorry, been busy moving. Tried to upload some pics to Flicker but it seems that I have been blocked out. Not sure why. Anyways. Been plugging away, doing all my workouts besides 2 days when I was just too busy moving. I am down to 95kg now and dropped 8% body fat. Need a bit more off the mid section but feel in 2 weeks I'll be pretty trim around the edges.

Here are my 2 month pics. Took them a couple days ago on the fly. No flex poses sorry. Just a straight pic.

Day 44

Keeping at it. Though had a couple Oolong Hi drinks last night 2 and a half to be exact. Haven't missed a workout and feeling stronger than ever. Went out and bought some new shorts as all my other shorts are way too small and I look like I am wearing some fat dudes cloths. Even my tank top for the gym is like double to big for me. I will pick up some small ones. It's hard to size up cloths as I pick it up and think NO WAY that I will fit into that, then find out I do. I can finally go shopping in Japan!

Day 40 did a test the other day

OK here it goes. I did a test to see how my body responded, as I am so curious as to what works exactly and what doesn't as this is a long term thing for me not just a 90 day thing. Though PCP is the best thing I have done to date health wise, I feel there is still room to tweak things as it's impossible for Patrick to know exactly what is going on within my body.

So the other day about day 3 of this week's diet, I had some problems to deal with, was at home mulling over them, then WHAM like a ton of bricks I felt like a beer, maybe 2. was in a pissy mood so said screw it off to the store to get 2 cans of light calorie beer 125 cal each. Drank them feeling well not any better, but now the food craving kicked in. (beer makes you want to eat crap food) Again said screw it woofed down some cookies and a turkey sandwich. Went to bed woke up to see my weight didn't change. sounds good right? Well nope, I usually loose .4 to .6 kg every morning, so I didn't get that loss I would have usually have had. Then did my workout of course, (never missed a day) then the next day had a .4 kg loss. So here is the kicker. If you cheat on the diet twice a week you will loose only half the weight as supposed to following the diet. The binge was a test as well, which proved to be quite motivating. Since then I have been much more motivated to stick to the diet, as it clearly works well.

Yesterday I also started to run 30 min level 9.5 instead of skipping and think (for me) burns a lot more calories during the day. Don't get me wrong skipping is awesome but getting my heart rate up keeps my metabolism up all day even though running is cardio more so than fat burn, the long term calorie burn seems to be better for me. I'll keep an eye on how the weight loss goes this week while I run every day instead of skipping. Seemed to drop even more quickly for me.

Last night I thought about beer a bit but after remembering how UNSATISFYING it was last time it was easy to pass on. This was a really good feeling.

Some people can look at this as being weak, but for me it made me stronger. Exactly what I wanted. I now love my veggies very much more so than the crap food. I also love my Perrier and plums. I crave those. This is what is needed to maintain this new body. Not torture and wishing I had a pizza instead.

Saying that the egg white dinners suck and very boring, but needed for the cause. Once we are off this hell dinner I am sure I can replace it with a very healthy satisfying dinner.

Day 39 and reached the 99kg mark!

Yup dropped 12 kg a good sign. People are starting to say I am skinny. Funny thing is I went to the gym today first time in a couple months and the owners and staff all kept asking me how I lost the weight. Got a bit to go as the last bit is always the abs for me. Will be running this week as my foot swelled up from the skipping. All's good. Diet a bit hard especially evenings. egg whites, milk and an apple is nothing much to look forward to. Also miss socializing which is hard to do as it's always based around food and drink. Besides that, had a cookie last night. But still lost weight over night. Walked over 2 hours yesterday on top of my exercises to not a big deal.

Day 36 and short on Eggs

All the supermarkets are closed due to the Typhoon, and the Convenience stores are sold out of eggs. I'll have to compromise today with a bit of chicken for dinner. Last night I could not fall asleep as the power went out and the aircon was off. Soaked in sweat in bed till wee hours of the morning. Skipped, but sucked royally. I took a video for ya. Think it was 150 in a min, but you be the judge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pelmy-6SsQ0

Day 34 Shorts fell down!

Alright, when I signed up for the PCP I was told to buy a scale, bands, push up bars, pull up bar and maybe a yoga mat. There was no mention of buying new cloths in advance! All of my shorts are so big they don't stay on, I mean fall right off! I had to use a plastic tie to hold my shorts up as they were about 5" too big. I can't imagine what I am going to do with the thousands of dollars of cloths I have. The question is what to do right now, as this is only month one? We have 2 more months so should I buy some cheap transition cloths? Resize my cloths now? I did that for 5 shirts and they are already too big. Change is happening too quick to keep up. Seriously wonder what I am going to wear today....