January 2010

I'm hoping that this blog will become a monthly record of my thoughts as I work on my weight over the coming year. I'll public some personal statistics. I'll also give a running commentary on my weight changes (hopefully a loss every time!)

I was torn. I knew that I had failed diets in the past, but my entire character is built around structure. I needed some kind of organised system to my food intake.

This time, I wanted an entire lifestyle change.

It would be no good if I was to do the same things I had done previously over and over again. I quickly realised that setting my tendency to set weekly targets was disincentivising me. Once I had started to slip behind the (somewhat arbitary) target, the thought of having to lose the normal amount of weight (which was hard enough) PLUS some extra was a big problem.

So out went the target date, and I knew that this was about the long term - quite frankly, this was the rest of my life.

So I made small changes. I would walk more, and quicker. I would not see "being out of breath" as a bad thing. I would cut down on the crap food, and reduce my alcohol intake.

My plan was to see what a month of cutting back would do.

Weight

So here's what the sadists out there have been waiting for; my starting weight.

January 1st 2010: 18st 0lb

For a 5'10" man, this put me firmly in the category of morbidly obese. Wow. I had a problem. By making the small changes I outlined above, this is what happened.

February 6th 2010: 17st 1.5lb

I was now simply "very obese" rather than ready to drop, but I still had a long way to go.