There is nothing permanent except change.

Although it would seem that I’m permanently bouncing between 2 kilos of weight right now. The upside is that the centimeters/inches are moving to lower numbers at least.

This coming week, ie. next reportday will be silent. I’m guessing that my weight will have increased substantially by then. This weekend is my birthday and we’ll be taking a 40 hour long cruise to Helsinki, with this little boat (Silja Serenade) and back and all the while we’re having #cheatday (a seriously long one) and as such I KNOW that I’ll be gaining weight but hopefully, fingers crossed, I will be down to where I used to be by the week after.

Old Status: -19,7kilos (-43,3 LBS) and -70 centimeters (-27,1 IN)
New Status: 99 kilos, 9 kilos to go, heading for #90kilos

So basically I’ve been hovering between 98 & 99 for two weeks. Lost about 3 centimeters meanwhile. But, I have been “slacking off” and saying this much “non-slow-carb-ingridient” won’t do much difference and it would, in my humble opinion, seem that it does do a lot of difference. 

I’m excercising on a semi-daily basis using my kettlebells and that seem do something for my posture at least - although I’ve not lost much weight. But as I said, I know why and this week - until the cheatday extravaganza starts on saturday afternoon and runs along until sunday night - I’m going to be stringent as **** and not step outside the box at all. The two glasses of wine that are allowed have been scrapped until friday! :)

Wish me luck.

You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

Bad week, so bad that I don’t want to do a report - so I won’t be doing anymore reporting than the above comment. “Bad week”.

We kind of had a overpowered #cheatday saturday and it showed on the scale in a bad way so I’ll report the progress next week instead (no #cheatday this week since we’re going to have a “double” cheatday next week).

So by monday it should be fixed. What? The current ‘problem’ with weighing more than last week :)

On Display - now when I’ve reached one of my goals.

I’m not comfortable showing off my face/body on photos but but here goes a wee bit at least :) Why? Because I promised that I would tell you when I reached a goal…

When I started my 4 hour body diet I promised that when I hit my secondary goal - which was to get under a 100 kilos - I’d tell you the story of where I started losing weight and so on. As Tim would say - My Harajuku Moment.

The day has come. I’m officially under a 100 kilos and here goes.

Please note that this is not all due to 4 hour body, although, it is by far the diet that’s been easiest to follow. I’ll tell you when and where I started 4HB a bit further down.

My start day was May 1st 2005. (the image on ”before” is in february 2005 and I actually gained a few between then and the start day - also trying to hide my double chin - like it would make a difference).  

Starting weight: 132 kilos (290 LBS).

That was my ”top” weight, and of course, a low point in self-esteem.

I got on the now discontinued, due to health reasons, diet pill called Reductil, together with smaller portions (i.e. if you cook according to recipe for 4 persons you can’t eat half of the cooked food and lose weight). At the same time I tried to quit smoking, which was another bad habit. Suffice to say my wife told me ”choose your battles” since I was not easy to live with on a diet and trying to quit smoking at the same time. So I chose to get myself down to below a 100 kilos before I quit smoking.

I did.. About a year later I ”dinged” 99,9 kilos and went to my doctor and asked for help to quit smoking. He put me on something called Zyban and two weeks later I was smoke free (although battling with some things for a few months - like wanting to light a cigarette every time the phone rang and so on). 

Unfortunately. I replaced nicotine with candy and junkfood. So during a few years I went from the 99,9 to close to 119 kilos again.

In may 2012 my sister (thanks sis!) gave me a tip to check out 4 hour body by Tim Ferriss and the diet he had worked out. I read what I could find on the internet and then bought the book.

May 31st 2012 both me and my wife embarked on the 4 hour body lifestyle (with a break for vacation). I started at 118,7 kilos (261.1 LBS) and have until now gone down to 99,3 kilos (218,5 LBS). About a week after starting this journey the craving for sugar was more or less gone - no interest in candy anymore, apart from a piece of high-quality chocolate from time to time.

My primary goal is 90 kilos (198 LBS) BUT(!) I’ve already made it clear to myself that I can continue eating according to this diet for quite some time - if not indefinite - so.. after 90 kilos I’m going to make a run for my ”ideal” weight which would be, according to sources, below 86 kilo (189,2 LBS).  It isn’t that far in between so why not try it, eh?

There you go.. the full monty so to speak.. Now, onwards towards 90 kilos. 9,3 kilos to go… 

Wish me luck.

Lost and found..

I wrote a long post and managed to screw it up and lost the whole post.. *grmbl* and since I’m a bit too busy to repeat myself fully here’s the shortversion:

* Gained a few over the holidays which I thought I would, but I also hit “all time” low in the passed 20 years. Heading there again.

* Bought a Kettlebell and have been overdoing it a bit but wth, it’s there, might as well use it.

* Next ‘extended’ cheatday will be in a months time when me and my wife go to Helsinki for my birthday and spend 40 hrs on a bigass cruiseship.. but I’ll try not to overdo it.

* Next full measurement and weigh-in will be on monday when I hope to be over the next milestone. A milestone I have the aim to never go over again.

Status: -17,7 kilos (-38,9 LBS) - post-holidays and post-fatso-cheatday :)

Your past does not equal, nor does it dictate, your future.

Last weeks weigh-in was a disaster. I do know why it was a disaster so it was ‘easily’ corrected. Lay off some bad stuff and do some good shit. 

Do some good shit? Well.. I actually only managed one visit to the gym but the other two days I was aiming to go there I, at least, did some #cheat-day excercising - and this passed #cheatday was excercise-intensive. So much in fact that I actually feel a bit sore in certain muscles.

Heading to the gym this evening for a quick kettlebell and myotatic crunch-session.

Status: -17,3 kilos (-38,1 LBS) and -58 cm (-22,6 IN)

This means that I’ve actually GAINED a few centimeters - I’m guessing doing excercises can do that for you, specifically those muscles that I’ve been doing those with seem to have expanded - but I don’t view that as a bad thing.

In regards to the weight I’ve only lost 0.6 kilos in 2 weeks since last week was a no-show for numbers. Heading for double-digits by monday since this week actually is “slow” - the only things we’ve got planned is a dinner att mom & dads for saturday but that will be sans alcohol for me since I’m driving. So basically I should be able to have doubledigit (in kilos) by monday - that’s my goal for this week.

Image? Swedish Glögg, or Glühwein, or Mulled Wine - one of our things that we had this passed cheatday. 

If at first you don’t succeed - try, try again

This is a lousy week. I know why it’s a lousy week but nevertheless I’m annoyed. Not with the diet, it works, but this week I didn’t.

1. I started cheating friday night (ie. too early) and also made my stomache feel bad already then and there.
2. My moms gingerbread cookies are addictive (ie. too many of those on saturday).
3. Pasta with gorgonzola & pancetta for lunch (ie. too much lunch).
4. Chocolate cake. (ie. sweet-tooth anyone?)
5. Pizza for dinner.
6. Visit a winebar and see others eat delicious cheese (ie. we ordered that as well).

Suffice to say, I was not sleeping well after this #cheatday. My stomache was almost killing me. It was a good #cheatday, because it was cheatday.. but it wasn’t good on the scale this morning - I gained a lot over the weekend. I’m guessing/hoping that it will drop quickly, as usual, this week but you never know. 

So, this week will be “clean living week” until saturday when we’ve scheduled a traditional swedish “julbord” (christmas buffét). But that’s the only #cheat during that #cheatday - a very big #cheatmeal to say the least but that’s the only #cheating I’ll do this weekend. That is, unless someone whom I’ve been waiting for, calls me and tell me I have to work. Then the ‘julbord’ is dead in the water. And I wouldn’t mind if they’d call and told me that… :)

Status: Too bad to display.. I’ll let you know when I’m back on track again (ie. next week hopefully).

You’re never beaten until you admit it.

Yep! You got it. This week is a ‘bad’ week since we had our little get-together at home on saturday (#cheatday). It was a success. Four courses that wasn’t, at all, slow carbish (well.. the ‘secondi piatti’ was actually) but the rest wasn’t - pair that with a beer or two and some sandwiches earlier in the day… gives you…

Status: -16,7 kilos (-36,7 LBS) and -59 centimeter (-22,8 IN). 

Yep again. Standstill on the weight from last week. In the rearview mirror with the #cheatday being as it was I’m not upset. Especially since I know where I was pre-cheatday. I know what’s going to happen this week as soon as I start shedding the #cheatday excess. So I’m still in it for the long run and, fingers crossed, come next week I’ll be celebrating (with moderation) that I’ll have reached a long-awaited goal. Not the final goal, but still a goal. That statuses will change character after I’ve reached that goal. We’ll go from counting lost to counting how far it’s left to my primary goal! :) 

The cake? Our dessert :) It was yummy to say the least - we have two weeks worth of cheatday dessert in the freezer as well!

Goals, are dreams with a deadline

This saturday morning, pre-cheat day, I had reached one of my goals. That I was not being “obese” according to the very wrong measuring-system called #BMI.

I knew from the get-go that this wouldn’t be the case come monday since it was a pre-cheatday weight. But it also means that I’ll hit that number any day again.

#cheatday was filled with pasta and cheese. Suffice to say, the gluten-inflammation was extensive late saturday night. For those who haven’t tried being without flour - try it, and then eat something with flour and you’ll notice it, the inflammation, a lot more than if you don’t.

Status: -14 kg (-30,8 LBS) and -50 centimeter (-19,5 IN).

So.. the passed week I’ve lost 2,2 kilos. But(!) remember that last week it was a gain rather than a loss since we had a #cheat-weekend rather than a #cheat-day :) I’m quite OK with the result. I’m aiming to be steady below the #BMI obese-line by next week.

Wish me luck! :)

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

The reality this week, not so funny.

The passed week was slow on excercise, due to mostly workrelated things that kept me late at work. This week I need to do at least two visits since we’ve planned another epic #cheatday for this coming weekend - we’re going on a cruise to Turku that is a winecruise with a lot of food as well.. so we know that we might stand still, or even gain some weight the coming weekend. 

This status for this passed week, after another epic #cheatday consisting of the burger on the image and some cheese and wine was bad. So… here goes…

Status: -13,2 kg (-29 LBS) and -49 centimeter (-19,1 IN)

That basically means that I had no weightloss during the last week, but I still lost some centimeters and all loss is good loss - and I know that is due to the cheatday since I know where I was friday morning. Retaining some water after some sodiumrich food might be a good reason as well. Anyway, it’s not a big problem you’re bound to plateau from time to time.

The coming report might be even worse since we’re going on that planned, 24 hour, #cheatday cruise friday -> saturday. Yeah, we’re on #cheatday from when we get on board to when we get off.

Wish us luck :)

Back on the wagon again…

… after putting on 4,8 kilos (10.6 LBS) during the vacation  - which I think is not _too_ bad considering we’ve had almost four weeks of #cheatday’s.

This will just be a short “back on track”-post and I’ll report in more next week after we’ve been back for a week. We’ll have a cheatday on saturday, but after that we’ll do a double week for a “kickstarter” - ie. no cheatday next saturday apart from two glasses of wine perhaps. We can “cheat” without actually cheating since we like to cook :) So we can make a #slowcarb dinner with good food without doing it like a real cheat, but still a treat :)