I must be worrying to much. Already thinking about what I can tell after I've reached my weight goal. Haven't come up with much . Possibly how my a bit peculiar training regime gets differing emphasis as time goes by. How much power, how much aerobic, how much stretch, how is all cooked together in a daily hour? And of course: the waist line. Will it change or not after reaching 82.5kg?

First day without workout since starting seriously. Think I can manage it. There will be some of the 365.24 days in a year anyhow. Anything else would be an obsession.

As math partly brought me into poker I'd like to estimate how great part of the days I will be working out long term. The estimate that keeps coming back is 90%. Because it will naturally not be exactly that I'd say 85-90%. 10-15% of non-working out days seems realistic. You have a flu now and then, you travel, and so on.

So will log all my non-working out days for keeping count, not the other way around!

But selectively of course reporting the active days. I can see some progress now. For example rowing a few minutes was super comfortable at 360 cal/hour when I started, now it's 440. Partly I naturally have learned how to do it effectively, but anyhow. When it comes to weights: tend to use a bit heavier ones, the one kg (!) really starts to be too light. I grab the 4-5 kg ones more often, do more with them. On the treadmill a pulse of 120 feels alright, when starting I preferred 100.

Just wow. Weight 84.0kg=185lbs. And even better: waistline 101cm=40". So 1.5kg more down to go. At least the waist will go beneath 100cm. Then maybe training cuts off some more during the following months, while I intend to keep the weight stable.

Have you read Starting Strength? (You mentioned ordering it.) Barbell training is a lot more fun than cardio or machines.

Have looked in it here and there, it's coming up directly when opening the kindle collection. Think I need to build some general agility, getting used to some movement and resistance first. Need to minimize the possibility of getting injured or having remarkable soreness.

I can disclose I'm a bit over 50 years old, so could easily hurt myself. If that happens I have a plan B of continuing going to the gym every day but using parts of the body not injured, but would be a loss anyway. Every actual goal with weights would rise the possibility of some overload. So maybe in a month I can be looking into what I can do.

The treadmill feels like the most fun gadget right now, quite far from lifting weights. But I'm naturally doing them all, all-around physical ability within the borders of realism is the goal.

Nice, yet again 85kg. May comfort myself by with that I probably would have weighed 85.5kg a week ago under the same conditions.

Had my first pasta "salad" in two months. Slowly loosening up the food absolutism.

Will tighten up if any kind of setback appears.

84kg. Still 101cm waist, even if it appeared like 100 for a moment. At least the 84kg looks more real now.

Getting closer the goal



This is quite near how my workouts look

This looks comprehensive enough at the moment...

https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/rudy9.htm

This is the first day I'm fed up with the vegetables. Have endured close to two months. I may as well use the VLCD-drinks to lose the last 1.5kg, and then move forward to "real food". Nice as an experience though.

The daily one hour workout though is here to stay. Will go through boredom, probably temporarily, if it becomes like that. So far it's among the best decisions I've made.

Here's some critique of the barbell

http://physicalliving.com/the-pros-a...ngth-training/

Will try to take care when integrating it a little more to my program.

My goal is getting genrally fit outside the gym, not caring about records inside. And have fun, that's the psychology of continuing.

I think this is pretty important and something I'm trying to make sure I implement.

Yes, otherwise the easy way is just not showing up, much used. Think about all potential gym users, not being there! They found the short term easy solution. No pain!

Today I'm feeling a general well-being and easiness to move that must be because of the workout, some weeks in. This is definitely a long term solution.

Started today to get power in the legs (apart from with the machines) by simply making part of the squat move without weights at all. When being able to go up and down comfortably without weights I can start using some. First lifting my body of 80+ kg, matching gravity. Feels natural to train this way. Will most probably be able to go comfortably deeper and deeper + increasing amounts, and can report the progress.

Bet it will feel more easy to walk uphill.

Just ordered digital scales. Then I can report every time I go do down with a tenth of a kilo, not just with a half

Seriously, will need it when starting to fine tune, as much you practically can and want to do it. At least one unknown will be more defined.

Already selected the video I'll post when reaching my goal.

83.5kg=184lbs. So you can confidently say I've dropped about 4kg, totally fine. What occupies me more right now is what the new scales will show. With the old one I'm today 1kg away from the goal, but my guess is that the new default (I'll place the maybe 25years old mechanical scales in the metal trash) will be maybe half a kilo of different "opinion". Can't wait to see! "Fear" it will show more. Even half a kilo means one week of altered plans.

Weighed myself for the first time at the gym. It was 84.6kg . Then I internalized I had my training shoes on, weighed the plastic bag with them: 0.8kg. So it would be 83.8kg then

Will naturally report more tomorrow, going to a different gym with different scales...

Weighed myself at the gym, another scale (looks older) than yesterday: 82.8kg! Even a little less depending on how I stood on it. Sure, not very believable even if I had very light clothing on. Got home and it's still 83.5. Interesting to see what the scale soon arriving will tell. Anyhow I will be using only that one, so I know what the ups and downs may mean.

Measured my waistline and it's 100cm=39.5". I always measure it when simply standing up normally, but it's far from exact science. But somehow that region looks better in the mirror and is more toned, even if there are miles to a sixpack.

This is looking good, so far I've missed just one day of gym since starting the log 8 May, so it's even around 95% of the days. No need to let any day slip, until it's necessary for some reason.

The new scale is shipped today! Though the weight goal right now has become kind of secondary to the workout progression.

But think a permanent diet change is I will add a lot of vegetables. One of the easiest ways to do this is to buy ready meals from the supermarkets, where vegetables dominate but also with some fish, chicken, ham, cheese, eggs and so on. There are lots of those to choose from especially at the big supermarket a bit away I use to get my NA beers from, will be a weekly highlight, the meals can be stored in the fridge for some days.

83kg=182lbs! One pound to go! (according to the old scale…)

Yesterday was the first day in two months I'm not entirely sure the calories balance was negative, probably was anyhow, even if it was the first time I've had two compounded meals. Had a little less of the VLCD smoothies instead. Soon I will have to get used to eating more, but not as much as before, wonder how that plays out.

Edit, timed out. Recall the first couple of weeks of my diet before starting this log were quite wild, so don't bet on the daily calories content then after all. Ate ham and cheese directly out of the package. Can't be sure how much I consumed, but looking at the numbers now it could have been more than the this month.

So 2 April I weighed 87.5kg, 8 April it was the max 88, at the end of the month: 86.5, 87 and 86. Started May with a bang at 85. Last time I've weighed that much was May 20. And then nicely downwards, yesterday was a disappointing 84, but a "new record" 83 today. As a whole May looks a bit more successful than April. Let's see what the last days tell.