Weight tracking

For me it is very easy to gain weight. In very young years I was not the fittest, but in my mid/late teens I started exercising a lot, got fit and also enjoyed eating a lot - which I needed due to all the training. We are talking about 6-10 sessions of at least one hour each every week, so it was intense. During that time I weighed about 85 kg.

During my years at university I gained weight, but the last year was very intense in school, I lived quite an ascetic life and ensured I went to the gym a few times plus did some running. I started working being the fittest I have ever been and weighed in on 88 lean kilos.

Working meant a lot of sitting still on the butt as well as starting eating lunches at restaurants, both of which I was not used to. I relatively quickly gained 20 kilos! I felt heavy. When bending down to tie my shoe lasers I got out of breath. I quickly realized something had to be done and by changing some eating habits relatively quickly lost a few kilos and felt a bit better.

Since then I have been around 100 kg, but a few years back I carved out most carbohydrates from my diet and went down to 96 kg, felt - and looked - much better!

This was unfortunately not sustainable and I slowly gained weight again.

Lately I broke my all time high and weighed in on 107.8 kg!!

I believe the gain had been more gradual this time, so did not feel as heavy or tired compared to last time. I still feel that I could row decently on the rowing machine, but of course not as well as back in the days. In any case, the surprising breaking of my all time high has now made me determined to loose weight again and I am on my way, with some setbacks last two weeks, as can be seen in the graph below.

I strongly believe for this to work in a more sustainable matter this time around I need to change some habits, but also keep some in order to not make the change too drastic and thus not sustainable. So, in short:

- no sweets during the work week
- no more french fries during 2016
- weigh myself and keep track of that at least once per week
- exercise more

Regarding the exercise I will only do limited running until under 100 kg again in order not to ruin my knees, but biking, rowing, walking and the odd tennis game is on the agenda. I will keep track of calories burnt via exercise via the Suunto watch described in earlier post (I am not sponsored by Suunto, I just happen to like their product; you might have your own similar device).

I will also make my fight against being unfit semi-public by making posts here on the blog.