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Originally Posted by Taiwanrules
Nice man, if u could maintain that for a month you would do well. I actually read this over the pizza buffet and probably had 5k calories in one sitting, but you have motivated me and 9/1 I will be starting new diet plan. How the rest of the week go, hope you 1/4th of the way through crushing it.
Thanks man, I'm glad I was able to encourage you. But don't wait until the 1st, just start now as that sort of motivation tends to fade even after just a few days. If you feel it in the moment, just go with it and start.
I finally bought a scale on Saturday, which I believe was 8 days into the bet, and weighed myself before dinner. When this all started I weighed in at 116.8 kg as you can see in the YouTube video I have linked in a previous post. I was shocked to find that I weighed in on Saturday at 112.6 kg, a loss of 4.2 kg. It is now Monday morning and as my trainer friend told me to do I weighed myself as soon as I woke up and took a piss. I now am 110.9 kg and have now lost 5.9 kg of the 9 kg I need to lose for this prop bet. My friend has not weighed himself yet as he is on a 2 week trip to the islands with his girlfriend and he tells me that they have limited food options there. I was thinking of going with him, but am now glad I chose not to go.
My life has completely changed during this diet as I go to sleep by midnight on most nights and wake up by 7:00 AM (I'm currently writing this at 7:45 AM UTC +7). I wake up and generally have a green apple and a hard boiled egg. Then I'll hit the gym and do an hour on the treadmill at about 3 km/hr at an incline of 2-4. Then I'll jump in the pool for an extra 30 minutes to do about 10 laps. I'll come back down to the condo and tend to some agency business then eat lunch which is almost always a tuna fish sandwich with light mayo. For dinner I'll either have a 4oz piece of chicken breast cooked in an air fryer with some spices, or I'll have what I consider a healthy Korean meal. If I go with the latter I'll allow myself 1 bowl of white rice along with some soybean paste tofu soup or Korean curry. I'll also load up on kimchi and nori as the former is low in carbs and the latter high in protein. I'll have a snack in there somewhere, usually another green apple or a bowl of corn flakes. I've cut out most carbs except for the bread in the tuna fish sandwich and sometimes the rice should I eat Korean for dinner. Also I've cut out most liquid calories drinking mostly water and sometimes coke zero. If I need to go out with someone to eat I'll usually go to the Hyatt where they have a nice Salmon lunch, but I'll ask them to replace the potato side with broccoli. I'm meeting some friends for dinner tonight and we're going to a steak house. I plan on ordering a lean tenderloin at 250g, which should be around 500 calories, so I have to limit the rest of the day to 700.
That's been the playbook thus far. Perhaps I'll go more protein or even keto once the bet is over and I settle into a more permanent routine. But this has worked for me thus far so I'll probably stick to something similar for the duration.