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I didn't find the time yesterday to write an article as I was really exhausted in the evening. During the day, I was really busy at work, so didn't manage to write one. In the evening, I wanted to spend some time on Hive but as I wanted to curate threads for the #freecompliments community, I preferred to fullfill my job over writan article. Today was busy at work once again, in the evening I did some sport and now, right before going to bed, I found some time to write an article. This time, I will write about being healthy. It's definitely a theme on which I've (nearly) never written, so thought to touch it atleast once ^^
Alarm
A couple of months ago, in April of this year to be more precise, I had a medical exam. One of the aspects was to measure my weight. As I sometimes check it but definitely not that often, I was a bit surprised to see it at 98kg. The last years I hovered around 90kg, so 98kg was a decent climb. I wouldn't consider myself fat, although I definitely have a belly, but think that having too much weight can't be healthy. As the 'milestone' of 100kg was coming really close, I decided to change some patterns in my daily life.
As I don't believe in crash diets, I decided to change my meals slightly. I don't often breakfast but when I do it often contains quite some sugar. Now, I don't breakfast anymore (I know it's often considered as the most important meal etc.), but I'm not hungry and not feel like taking a breakfast. As lunch, I used to eat bread with meat and or cheese. As bread has a lot of carbs in it, I decided to get rid of this kind of meal. I replaced it with some yoghurt (without sugar), fresh fruit and nuts. In that case I would have a variety of nutrients in my food without having too much sugars, bad fats or carbs. As I really enjoy bread with meat, I decided I would still eat it in the weekends. Knowing that I wouldn't lose weight that fast that way, but it would be more easy to stay consistent. My meal in the evening is usually quite balanced. Probably sometimes too much meat but I usually eat meat with vegetables so it seems okay to me. It's not that I'll never eat carbs at dinner, more like 50% of the time I do.
Another important aspect of my plan was to sport more. I do some sport, but definitely don't move enough. As I am able to work from home a lot, I don't set enough steps on these days. Days with just a couple of 100steps were no exception. I've tried a couple of things in the past like running and swimming. I swam in the pool of a city nearby but the barrier of grabbing my swim stuff, driving there, changing clothes, etc. was a too big barrier. So I decided I should go running, did some research and found out that the underground is very important. For example a Finnish runway is perfect. As I had to drive towards one, the barrier was too big once again. Thus I decided to start walking over noon when I worked at home. When I had to commute, I usually reached my 10k steps, which was fine for me. These walks over noon were atleast some movement I had. A couple of weeks later, we got Molly, our dog. Since than, we're slowly building up her walks and so are mine. It definitely helps me to go for a walk a couple of times a day. Although it's just 20 minutes for a walk, doing a couple of these is already something.
Conclusion
By taking above actions, I managed to loose 5 kg so far over the course of 4months. It may not sound that much, but as said I rather do it step by step than crashing and rebouncing afterwards!
Thanks for reading!
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That's great! Crash diets, fad diets and actually most advertised "diets" are shit and lead to yoyo dieting which sucks. The "breakfast is the most important...blah blah blah, is kind of just a thing people say without anything to back it up, so forget that too, nice! I lost some weight years back by portion control. Sounds easy but it's not for some. I ate mostly low calorie foods but also ate trash like pizza and candy, just in SMALL amounts, and I tracked the calories. I lost about 4.5 kilos this way.
Recently (in May) I stopped eating all processed sugar and most carbs; pasta, bread, and my favorite treat, cookies!!! :(
But I have lost 10+ kg and I feel great.
I say all this not to brag about myself but to say, keep going, you can do whatever you want in this realm of weight loss!
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Thanks for the support!
About the breakfast thing, I believe that as long as I get all my essential nutrients during the day, I think it should all be fine so not worrying too much about that.
Portion control is definitely something I could work on. I am a big eater who really enjoys all his meals. I used to eat until the pots were empty, kind of 'learned' it that way from my parents. Not blaming them, but grew up like that. I am getting more and more conscious that I can just have some leftovers which I can eat the day after.
That's really great! I am not ready to stop eating processed sugars / most carbs. I like bread with meat and cheese so hard. The same with fries, pizza, etc. Thus so far I rather try to eat more conscious than banning them. Although I am definitely aware it would be better to ban...
I definitely wouldn't consider it bragging, rather great that you share your journey as well! 🙌
Yeah, my mom struggled with the "clean plate award" throughout her life. She was taught to always clean her plate as a kid and it continued into adulthood.
I love pizza too!!! Have not had any since April :( it's fine though, I am feeling good about my decisions and about the results.
Keep it up!
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