[942] Weight Loss

A few months ago I was back to around 89 to 90kg. I knew that that weight wasn't that acceptable to me, so I decided to try to do something about it.

I'm now back to 85 to 87kg. I did this mostly by being disciplined enough to do portion control and improving the quality of my daily exercises.

Instead of aiming for 1 hr and 30 min a week of walking and 20 km a week of cycling, I decided to simplify my goal to 20 km a week of activity. Then I focused on walking because of the brake issue on my bike. I also wanted to keep my pace at around 10 minutes per kilometer.

These things helped but the biggest thing that helped me was the portion control. It is very challenging because I love to eat, but I needed to "check myself before I wreck myself." Yes, I did just quote Ice Cube.

I do set cheat days for me, where I'll eat more than what I usually do. And I do sometimes do it more than once a week, because I'm human and there are times that I do want to eat to cope. I just have to remember that the discipline days should be more often than the cheat days.

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[819] 95 kilograms

I'm finally confident enough to claim that my weight is now hovering in the 94 kg to 96 kg range. While it may not be as fast as other people who do intermittent fasting, I am happy with the results because I managed to control my weight.

Last Friday I decided to ramp it up a bit more by downloading the Zero Fasting Tracker app. What it basically does is it helps me keep track of my fasts. Unfortunately I downloaded it just as we were going to Lucena for the Niyogyugan Festival 2019. This basically meant I wasn't hitting my 16:8 fasting.

It wasn't that bad since I was still getting used to constantly updating the app. Now that I'm back in Metro Manila I've gone back to my 16:8 fasts. So far I've been going over the usual 16 hours, usually by 30 minutes or so.

It is actually normal since I usually eat between 11am to 7pm. And we're usually done eating around 6:30pm.

I've also bought some yellow sweet potatoes I was supposed to only eat at dinner. However my mom has been cooking good food lately so the best I can do is just eat little portions of her food.

Hopefully developing a habit of updating the app will help me focus more on my intermittent fasting and help me get my weight to hover in the 92 kg - 95 kg range. We shall see.

I still have no firm goals with this and am just going with the flow.

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