The Method to Weight Loss for Free

Project Sub 90

How it worked.

Set your goal! My goal was to get to under 90kgs

Time –Don’t worry about a time limit. You put yourself under too much pressure if you do.

You should not need to spend any money. The only investment I made was to get a gym membership ($100 for 3 months ) and eventually I bought a pair of bike shorts but more on that later.

The best way to attack it is with what you eat and exercise. Let’s look at food first.

Plan your meals. I mapped out what I was going to eat in the week. So dinners were all written down with the flexibility of which day I ate what. This also helped budgeting. The best meal that I had before weigh in day was chicken and salad wraps. I really didn’t change what I ate for dinner; I just ate less of it. Portion control.

I am sucker for sweet food and because I can be gluttonous, I limited my treats to one a day. The treats I use to have in the day time were replaced with fruit or healthy alternatives.In fact I tried to take this one step further and tried not to have treats in the house, because I would keep going to them until they were finished. I also found that nuts were really good just before going to the gym for the energy. Although apparently a honey sammy and a cup of coffee are really good before you do some serious cardio work.

My toughest time was at Christmas where everyone was getting on it, out and about but I guess I never over indulged because I was focused on my goal. Now a tip for you before your weigh ins. Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a commoner and eat dinner like a pauper. The other best piece of weight loss propaganda is don’t eat carbs after 2pm. Bet you can’t though.

Now with exercise you just need to do it, get into the habit of doing it because if you do and you choose to skip it, you will miss it and your body will it. You should do something you enjoy and it doesn’t matter what it is just as long as your heart rate goes above 110 bpm to about 150bpm. But then everybody’s bodies are different so that’s  an example that should suit most people.

The longer you spend doing exercise the quicker the results. I tried to go hard for an hour each time and probably did it four times a week. The best for me is running. However cross trainer and the stepper featured a little too. But it’s also good to have a challenge for a fitness goal. My Strait to Strait challenge of biking from Picton to Bluff is a good example. 952 kms on the bike and I have only 82 to go. This has been awesome, and I have been able to lose yet another kg. In fact my personal best is 43.02km in an hour…this is on a spin bike.

Make your weigh ins a weekly appointment, all at the same time, same scales, same place you weigh yourself. I have found writing a blog has been worthwhile. I did it for my own benefits, but I have had lots of feedback from it and that has kept me going. So again thank you to those that have helped.

It has been nearly a month after achieving my Sub 90, and I’m proud to say that I have kept it off and my lowest figure on the scales has been 88.9kg.