My Weightloss Journey

27y, 168cm, Starting weight: 93,2kg - End Goal: 70kg Working in manual Labor, but moving more and more towards the office.

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24.04 - 30.04.2023

And we’re back with another update!  I have been obsessing all week over over my Watch. 

Today is my first proper rest day, simply because I can feel my body trying to revolt :D Apart from that all the other days I did some kind of Cardio or Strenght Workout.  Food has been going really well, I think by now I have found my favourite foods, even though I still sometimes crave a pack of gummybears. 

This weeks average: 84,20kg (185,63lbs)  Could be way way lower, but my cycle has been messing with me and there’s still so much unnecessary water going on. Should be showing off next week though

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17.04 - 23.04.2023

This weeks obstacle: My back hurt like hell & it took me 6 days to unblock the nerve and be able to walk and sit again. 

Needles to say, that I didn’t have a great time sitting in the car for 2h a day and then 8h+ on a chair.  That also meant I barely went on my walking Pad because my back simply couldn’t handle it.  So I stuck to making sure my diet was in check and that worked perfectly fine this week.

My Polar watch should arrive next week.  Got myself one so I can track some steps. Because my current Calorie Count is based without any steps really and especially with garden season starting, I will need more accurate calculations in order to not loose too much too fast.

Weekly Average: 84,74kg (186,82lbs) Which is below 85kg!!!!!!  Next Goal will be 80!

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10.04 - 16.04.2023

This week was all about getting back into habits and making sure I stick to them.  Food was good and in line all of the days, went on my walking pad 4 out of 7 days, so I think that also went really well.  Apart from that my Highlight of the week was that I went to pick up my car from the repair station and as I get there, the mechanic tells me that I can’t take it home today and it needs a repair that could cost up to a grand. 

I had the car there for more than a week and proceeded to ask him when he knew that I wouldn’t be able to pick it up that day. He knew days before and simply ‘forgot’ to call me.  Fun thing is, the mechanic is the owners son & that dude was on duty alone the whole prior week. I especially left a second number there so he could reach us & told him I need that car by tuesday. Luckily the owner was back that day and was able to find a solution that I would have a car the next day and he’d fix mine up as a priority.  Before the Son takes over the shop, I really hope he gets a grip on his customer service because the current one is just bs. 

Anyway, rant over :D 

This weeks average weight: 85,39kg (188,25lbs) - 0,39kg to got until we hit the next mark of 85! And my H10 also works with my phone again!

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03.04 - 09.04.2023

So as I said before last week was my first Cheat week, due to me visiting my Partner in the UK. 

All in all, we had so much food. I think we ordered takeout or ate at a Pub 90% of the time and then still killed a bag of chips on the couch. I stopped tracking at day 3, because that just made me look at my food choices weird and I preferred to just be able to order without having to think about that. 

All in all we also went on so many walks & bike rides that I felt we had a pretty good food to activity ratio. 

Tomorrow I am starting my first fulltime course for my masters and somehow I am not that excited about the prospect of just sitting around all day. Especially since its gonna be all about bookkeeping and accounts. I am already looking forward to have that done, so I can fully focus on my blinds and smart home solutions, that I actually enjoy.  Luckily I already checked the area and there’s a boulder place and a hiking trail close by, so if the weather will allow it I might take it up on that. 

No weight update today, but I am still right on track (:

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27.03 - 02.04.2023

Another week, another wild ride! 

I am finally off of work until mid June, to do my first Master Course Fulltime.  In order to get more steps in, even with the terrible weather, I bougth myself a walking Pad and its been the best decision!  I’ve been on it roughly an hour a day and have been able to eat fully with more than my planned deficit at the end of most days. Now I am about to fly to the UK tonight and will be without any restriction for next week since its my vacation time. And while I might watch that I don’t completly go off the rails, I won’t track anything or weight myself. So next week I migth make a little recap on what I did and how the week went, but there won’t be a weight recap of the week. 

This weeks average was: 86,17kg (189,97lbs) which means we are down another 0,73kg and its only 1,17kg until I hit the next Milestone!

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20.03 - 26.03.2023

So this week has been as normal as it gets. 5 long days of work, but still not as bad as during the actual season. Next week is gonna be my last week until Mid-June, so I can take my first fulltime course for my Masters & a week of vacation before it. 

H10 is still not working with Android 13.

The only thing that sucked was the weather. If it could stop raining that would be great. I really thought we are over that weather and my mood swings that come with it, but this weekend alone has proven me different. 

All in all, good week for weight loss, keeping that up would be nice!

Weekly Average: 86,90kg (191,58lbs) - 1,9kg to go until 85kg

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13.03 - 19.03.2023

This week has been a ride. In order to prepare for my Master of Trades, I have been sent on two training days. Both of them have been quiet interesting but both of them also had food included. Not just lunch, but also dessert and then coffee and cake later on.

While i definitely enjoyed all of it, I found it quiet hard to have any idea what to track and how to implement it in my diet. Eventually I just took rough amounts, went for my walks and then said "Screw it". Worked out better than I expected.

Next weeks plan is taking the dust off of my jump rope and starting to implement it after going for my walks. Won't have time tomorrow for either but the rest of the week should be fine. My Polar H10 is still not working with my actual phone.

Weekly Average: 87,6kg (193,12lbs) - 2,6kg until 85!

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06.03 - 12.03.23

New week, new luck! Or so I thought. 

A new problem that I encountered this week, was realizing that I really have to consider what kind of day my workday has been. So far, due to being out on construction sides most of the time I was fine using the same amount day by day.  This week it was a pure office week for me and for the first couple of days, the scale just refused to move at all. Due to long hours and constant rain, I didn’t go on walks either. Yesterday I did a little experiment with the H10 to see what I normally burn on a normal office day. Turns out, the food intake I had so far was the same or sometimes even higher than my office needs. 

So now I have the option to cut down to 1500-1600, on office days, in order to get some kind of deficit or go for walks in the evening when the days get longer again. Probably gonna do the latter, since I just like food and a beer too much :D

Weekly average: 88,2kg  (194,44lbs) - 3,2kg to go until 85!

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27.02 - 05.03.23

This week was the second week that went completly overboard with bullshit that happend in my daily life. 

I am so glad that at least my weight loss is still going more or less great! 

Even though it was my brothers birthday yesterday, I got my early walk in before everyone else was even awake. And the scale is still going down, even with cake and alcohol! 

Now its another two weeks before the next social event happens, so all the time for many many walks! Have been adapting to my two phone Polar trips as well.

Weekly average: 88,47kg (195,04lbs) - 3,4kg to go until its 85!

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20.02 - 26.02.2023

I went on two 6-7km walks through out the week and on a smaller on on Saturday.  Both times, my Polar Beat app messed with my tracking.  The first time it didn’t show the kilometers because there was something wrong with the GPS and on Saturday it didn’t recognize the heartbeat anymore.  Fun thing I learned after hours of searching for the problem: Android 13 messes with the bluetooth order and therefor my H10 is unusable for an unknown time. 

Good thing I kept my old phone. Dusted and charged, it was ready for its final purpose: track my walks :D

Surprisingly Walking on tracks, with a murder podcast in my ear has become a favourite of mine. Somehow it helps me decompress because there’s noby else, just me and my headphones. 

Weekly average: 89,31kg (196,89lbs) - Finally down to my first Goal! Next one will be 85kg!

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13.02 - 19.02.2023

So Freeletics ended up taking a toll on my knees. Bad enough that I willingly went on a walk. (Spoiler: Getting me to walk anywhere is normally not gonna happen. At least after work) The first one I took on a sunday. To my aunts house and back. 6,6km. 

Took me a bit over an hour. For my Birthday I got a Polar H10, so I could optimize my calorie tracking and surprisingly that walk burned far more than I would have thought. 

So maybe, I’ll do that more. Just putting in a Podacast about some Serialkiller and then its off to walking

Weekly Average: 90kg (198,4lbs) - Not much lost this week

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06.02 - 12.02.2023

As I suspected, with the lack of sports and the amount of birthday cake, there was no loss of weight.  BUT I kept the weigth so thats pretty nice. 

I have also decided that since my weight can fluctuate so much between days, that I will start to step on the scale each day and then build a weekly average and see how that changes to the week before. 

This weeks average: 90,05kg (198,52lbs)

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30.01.2023

Current weight: 90,1kg (198,6lbs)

I don’t have too much high hopes for the week coming up, since its my birthday. 

With a split family it means, there’s gonna be cake and alcohol twice. Lets see how this works out. 

Freeletics has been going on the whole time as well, but my knees are really staring to take it out on me. I migth have to change to something thats better for them soon. Not looking forward to that

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23.01.2023

Current weight: 91,3kg (201,28 lbs)

All of it still sucks. But after trying myself through the third bran dof oatmeal, I finally found one that tastes decent enough to be part of my every day breakfast

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20.09.2023

Current weight: 92,7kg (204,36lbs)

The first week of Freeltics and actually measuring my intake wasn’t too pleasing. 

But I got it all done. I am trying to aim for a calorie deficit of 500 per day, in order to loose 0,5kg per week (1,1lbs)

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09.01.2023

Weightloss has always been my personal enemy. 

No matter if it was as a kid or as an adult, trying to loose weight always ended up doing the exact opposite. 

Still, I am once again on a Journey, to finally reach an acceptable weight. 

My Plan: 

- Calorie count (because I got absolutely no idea just how much I consume daily) 

- Cut down on alcohol/beer (This is gonna be hell when the weather gets nicer) 

- Freeletics 

- Weight myself every week

Starting weight: 93,2kg (205,5lbs)