Back on Diet

OK, Monday. New week, festive season over, snow and cold weather gone. No more Christmas chocolates in the house. Time to get back on track.

I had hoped never to weigh myself again. The scale was a source of negativity.

Well that is not possible. You can't diet properly and not follow your weight. So I weighed myself again today. Actually I have weighed myself 3 times since I paused the diet just before Christmas. I went up by 2.7 Kg around New Year. and have lost almost Kilo a week since then so I'm basically a little more than where I left off. I'm at 106.9 Kg, 63% of my goal. I had reached 67% (105.3 Kg) on the 17th December when I stopped.

So I'm back eating protein and going for walks.

I have figured out a major reason why people find it very difficult to break through to their goal weight once they have lost quite a bit of excess weight. Part of the problem are the old clothes in the cupboard.

I used to be quite trim - about 16 years ago. I had a small collection of clothes then, nothing fancy.

As I did well in business there was more stress, more sandwiches and booze - got fat. More money allowed me to buy some very nice clothes during that period and I never threw anything away. These were about XL sized clothes - jackets, pants shirts etc.

Got fatter - Bought fat clothes. Big ugly XXXL T-shirts, fleece over garments and baggy jeans. Not nice.

Went on diet (this one that I'm on), lost weight and a few months later found that I could fit into a whole wardrobe of XL clothes that I hadn't worn for 10 years. This is where I am now. Enjoying the state I'm in. Feeling healthy, fitter and looking better.

Now I need to move from 63% to 100% and then perhaps another 4 or 5 Kg for good measure. I still need to loose 20 Kg. That will mean that even these XXL and XL clothes will be too baggy and I'm going to have to by a new wardrobe of  L sized clothes. I hate clothes shopping... now perhaps you see my dilemma ;-)