However it does seem to be the perfect day to start this blog, and hopefully my journey that will lead to a happier, healthier and skinner me. This blog, whether it is read by anyone other than me or not, is my way of being accountable to my goal, I simply cannot tell you the number of times I have started this journey and given up a week later, having not seen the 15 Kilos I want to lose disappear of the scales overnight.
Not this time.
This time I am going to achieve my goal.
Firstly a couple of key details.
I am 23 years of age, stand at 1.65 cm (or 5'5 for those of you stuck in the past) and weight 77.7 kilos (170.9 pounds). This gives me a BMI of 28.4, ugh that is higher than I remember it being..... Needless to say those of you who already know how BMI works, I am overweight.
To rectify this situation I have 3 goals:
- Firstly to be in my healthy BMI range - which is a goal weight of 68Kilos/148pounds
- To lose 15kilos - which would put me at 62.7kilos (well under my healthy BMI)
- To feel healthier and to look healthier - especially my skin, which is currently prone to acne, no doubt thanks to the suger I eat.
My plan involves the following steps:
- Updating this blog post, detailing what I'm eating each day and what sort of exercise I am doing as well as my weights and measurements. I am hoping this will put some responsibility into what I am doing since I am now reporting my successes and failures to the world wide web.
- Participating at work in my boss's "healthy goals challenge" (he wanted to call it "Fat Bastards challenge, but decided that might be a little bit lacking in the PC department). This challenge is to lose 7.5% of our body weight in 10 weeks, for me this is 5.8 kilos in the next ten weeks, whilst this is only a 1/3 of what I want to lose it seems like a responsible way to do it.
- Participate in exercise every day, at the moment I have futsal on Thursdays, aqua aerobics on Saturdays and walk most days during the week. However I come unstuck on weekend, do nothing and eat crap this has to change. Also using my Wii Active 2 is a key part of my plan.
- Consider using the aid of a program such as weight watchers to track my food intake - this one will be a determining factor as I get further down the track.
This week I am going to start slowly, keeping a record of what I am eating without making drastic changes, just cutting down on the sugar and packaged foods, at the end of this week, along with my weight in, I will take some measurements of my size so that I can track this as well.
I hope that anyone who wishes to join my on my journey feels free to read along with me, and maybe even work along with me, otherwise I'm over and out until tomorrow... after my 5am walk.
- Aitrune
