Losing Shit And Hopefully Fat But Also Wondering How Long This Title Can Be

[nearly_autopilot]

Wussup homies.

I laid on the couch for more than a year or two and gained around 15 kilograms of weight. I also had excessive weight even before that.

I start this journal in hope that it will help me stay tuned with my efforts.

From tomorrow I will start trying to lose body fat. I'm going to change my diet and jog a lot.

I'm on a very low budget so I mostly eat buckwheat, rice and potato so I'll minimize my daily dose of buckwheat/rice to only half a glass of it (before boiling), plus sausages or something else. In terms of calories it is similar to what you get in a russian psych yard where I've been recently and kept losing weight while I was there which means that I should get similar amount of calories. Right now I'm about 85-86 kilograms and 176 centimeters, I want to weigh 65.

I tried jogging today and only managed to run somewhere around 2 kilometers. I plan to rise the distance to around 12 kilometers, which is around 70 minutes as I jogged previously. If it doesnt rain tomorrow I hope to run more than a half an hour or more than 5 kilometers.

One more commitment: autopilot meditation (do-nothing) for at least a couple of hours a day.

This is it, three commitments: diet, jogging and meditation. 

I will write daily about my successes.

[UnbornTao]

Sounds good!

[nearly_autopilot]

11 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Sounds good!

Thanks!

[Jannes]

What was your diet before? If you ate crap, all you gotta do is clean up your diet and eat until your full. Make your healthy meals taste good, restriction mostly backfires. 

Find cardio that you enjoy, if you like jogging go for that. Some people love to ride their bike.

[nearly_autopilot]

14 hours ago, Jannes said:

What was your diet before?

Same as I wrote in my top post - buckwheat, rice, potato etc.

 

14 hours ago, Jannes said:

If you ate crap, all you gotta do is clean up your diet and eat until your full.

You can't eat till you're full if you want to lose weight, weight loss is not possible with excessive calories. Cleaning up diet doesn't mean you will start losing weight, healthy food can also have a lot of calories.

 

14 hours ago, Jannes said:

restriction mostly backfires

It only backfires if you start overeating again.

[Jannes]

1 minute ago, nearly_autopilot said:

Same as I wrote in my top post - buckwheat, rice, potato etc.

Pretty good foods, but not a complete diet. You need veggies, fruits, fats, proteins. 

1 minute ago, nearly_autopilot said:

You can't eat till you're full if you want to lose weight, weight loss is not possible with excessive calories. Cleaning up diet doesn't mean you will start losing weight, healthy food can also have a lot of calories.

Eating until your full doesnt mean you will eat excess calories. The winning combination of foods that will fill you up the most by having the least calories are proteins + fiber. You already lost weight in the psych yard, did you try to eat less there or were the foods just more filling for the amount of calories?

https://www.eatthis.com/what-100-calories-looks-like/

1 minute ago, nearly_autopilot said:

It only backfires if you start overeating again.

Yeah but willpower is a limited resource. Nobody wants to be overweight, if it were that easy to loose weight overweight people wouldnt exist. If you do a hardcore diet you will only crash. 

[daydrinking]

20 hours ago, nearly_autopilot said:

Right now I'm about 85-86 kilograms and 176 centimeters

I tried jogging today and only managed to run somewhere around 2 kilometers

that's how i started exactly one year ago

good luck on your journey

[Jannes]