Yikes

Weighed myself today, and yikes have I really let myself go. 112.7 kgs, terrible stuff. I went from a high of 142 to a low of 103, put a lot back on. Focus on what I can do and not the past tho!

A friend of mine told me about this website, Calorie Count. It looks pretty handy so I've set up and account and will be logging everything I can. So I've put in my usual breakfast meal: Weetbix, lowfat milk and a tablespoon of raisins. Total calories: 405.

The Calorie expenditure on this website says I burn 3380 calories day. I should aim to take 2,269 calories a day to hit a goal weight of 81kg by August the 18th 2010. I'm planning to aim to go as low as 1800, though will have to wait and see if I can sustain that!

Suddenly a post.

So I've never posted on this blog before, but recently my darling sent me a link to an interesting article on CNN here.

Part of his success, besides taking a pragmatic approach to losing weight, was recording his experiences on his blog. It helps to keep yourself accountable to other people other than yourself, cause you can always fool yourself.

I tried to keep a photo diary of what I was eating but invariably I'd forget, and once I've eaten it was gone. Writing about it however would work for as long as I remember to actually blog about it! So Tyler (the guy who wrote that blog) has some really really simple steps.

1. Calculate your daily calorie intake
   
2. Substract calories
3. Burn calories

I do 3. a fair amount but I have terrible self-control when it comes to food. So I'm hoping this 'accounting' of my food intake will go some way to helping that.

My daily calorie intake should be 3,620, based on the tool he blogged about. So I'm gonna try and aim for 2500. So let's see how I go, starting with breakfast tomorrow *looks at the time* or should I say later?