82.8kg=182.5lbs. Just 0.3kg to go. This could be happening in a week. Then hopefully it will be "only" retain indefinitely.

The gloves are working well. They are slightly big though, I bought them when needed at the gym well before blister stage, and they had only S and XL! Apparently the more common sold out. But they fit well enough, at least they aren't too tight, the wrist strap keeps them in place nicely.

82.7kg=182.3lbs. Now this is going extremely smoothly. 0.2kg left, so any day I may book the first of three 82.5kg or lower. Then I'll look at what the old scale tells before it retires for good, and benchmark the waistline for completing this part of the weight dropping project, which in all humbleness must be said to have been a success. Think it will be mainly waistline reporting after that if everything goes well. Wouldn't mind it going down to 90cm during the months and years ahead, if getting some muscle at the gym.

Then will feel I'm on a track physically, kind of have done what's possible for the body. And then it's time for me and my log to drop off the frontpage and go for more sporadic reports. Thanks for the support!

82.3kg=181.4lbs! So first of three at or below the goal. May have hydrated a bit less yesterday, but also ate less, you want to get this done. The Old Mechanical Scale I started with showed 82kg, would have expected 81.5. Anyhow digital scales rule in exactness, a great help for follow up.

Waistline was still 98cm, having a bit of belly must be considered being part of me, no big deal. Will be interesting to see if fat redistributes/"turns to muscle" as my training program goes on, keeping the weight at around 82.5kg.

It's the final countdown



Thank you to the music. You have always been there for me. It's heavenly.

82.4kg. Just one day more? The real drop each day is about 0.1kg, may beat variance tomorrow, not sure though. Then must find a way to consume, what is it, 500 calories more each day, but not more

Some math: (2500gr X 9 cal/gr) / 30days = 750cal/day. Can it be that much? Not quite, probably have burned some muscle too at 4 cal/gr. Though training must have compensated a bit.

82.5kg, exactly on goal. Looks almost too neat, which it is. It was 82.7, but when I returned some minutes later it was...82.5, tada! So may as well celebrate the end of this part of the project, a beloved 2.5 months, what will I do now?

Also the old scale performed, its last time, and showed a proper 81.5kg. So have dropped around 6kg=13lbs.

Waistline was 98cm as before. Maybe I realistically can come down to 95cm with training? Not a must though. Think I could measure the waist once a week for picking up on any possible trend? Or bi-monthly.

Warning!

May:
29-new scale-84.1kg

June:
1-83.7kg
2-83.9
3-84.0
4-83.9
5-83.8
6-83.2
7-83.1
8-82.9
9-83.1
10-82.8
11-82.7
12-82.3
13-82.4
14-82.5

Planning to weigh myself practically daily for at least two years, heard that after that time the body accept the new default. Now it will try to gain back what's lost. No problem, when I look at the numbers of my new scale I'd say something as little as 0,2-0.3kg may be significant, any trend will picked up and acted on!

When thinking about it, think I will weigh myself as part of the daily routine indefinitely. That's because it will reduce the risk to be forgotten about until I'm yet again left with a weight dropping project, never again, have other things to do, this has kind of dominated the last 2+ months.

Probably I'll post the weighing results say some weeks, later months, between.

See you, thanks, will stay connected!

82.2kg, lowest so far. Tried to eat just a bit more yesterday, meant three salads instead of two! But think I had a little less smoothies. Planning to ad some sandwich. This is uncharted waters for me. How to eat just a bit more than you feel is immediately necessary, but not put yourself in for a restriction again?

As I think I said earlier, vegetables are here to stay, but their calorie content…

The scale will be a true friend.

82.2kg. Think I ate a bit more yesterday. Took some cheese directly out of the package for example. Think all is about not overdoing it now. It's comforting to know I had a diet which I could stick to a couple of months without bigger issues if needing to drop some hundreds of grams.

82.2kg, third day in a row! Not very common to get the same results within a tenth of kilogram. You could maybe say it looks the downward trend is suitably halted. Think though the following weeks will tell how able I am to keep the result short term. After that we have the long term, lasting years, where the fails usually come (not in this case )

83.3kg, over one kilogram up! The success story is over. Now I don't know how much is real and how much is water. Anyhow will tighten up the diet again, until at or below 82.5. The challenge got tougher again a bit earlier than expected. At least I now have one kilogram to drop, not six. And avoided the small possibility my weight would just have kept on dropping, got kind of used to the restricted diet in two months.

The strategy will be to cut here and there, and see if that's enough. Have got used to have three VLCD-smoothies every morning (circa 350 cal), today I'll have two. Hundred cal here, hundred cal there.

Also decided to have two scales, the other one as back-up if getting shocking weighing results. Still have the old scale, it showed 82.5kg, so the 83.3kg matches well. Will get a digital scale of a different brand, then the old one goes. Or then just keep the old, kind of nice to have one based on simple physics. It saved me today, yet again.

Looks all my potential training centers are closed June 23 . The good thing is it's Midsummer Day. So will book my second day without gym, these things happen..., there will be some more this summer. Will provide lengthy explanations when it happens

83.1kg. That's better.

Felt some flue yesterday, but hit the gym, took it very lightly. It's worse today, so will take a break, however much I'd like to go...

83.0kg. Suddenly had 500 cal in a couple of gulps. I blended raspberry VLCD with vanilla-mango and had a couple of them (must try this blend again, quite good). I'm sick, the body needs some stuff for heaven's sake!

But luckily the flu feels not to be very bad this time, so may go to the gym tomorrow.

82.8kg. Wonder what happened when I suddenly got one kg more. Maybe the body felt it's getting food as before and collected water? Maybe more total amount of salt? Anyhow I'm close to the new default 82.5 again, clearly being on minus calories. Waist is still 98cm, no redistribution of fat. Let me predict (no bets ), in the end of the summer it's 97cm at 82.5kg from muscle training -> less body fat.

Congratulations on reaching your goal. Good luck with the maintenance.

Thanks, glad you are back! As I said in the OP, me starting this was partly out of the allegedly good effect on the psyche, especially the training part. Would say this definitely has been a bonus, have a small flu right now (getting better) but could go to work almost normally. Before this I might have stayed home for a day or two, had less physical but also psychological potential. So can recommend physical training in some form. We are one you know, body and mind.

Was to the gym, took it very lightly, for example watched football when walking slowly on the mill, still not totally recovered. But I can book this hour in.

As I tomorrow with all the gyms closed will have three out of four days without workout, I got inspired to calculate my probably new low percentage of days then at the gym since starting May 8:

(6+(5x7)+6-4) days / (6+(5x7)+6) days = 43/47 = 91%. So if kind of going for 100% under ideal conditions, 90% so far looks to be sustainable. Will hit new lows in July-August though, travel.

What color clothing did you choose for consistency?

Also, congrats on meeting your goal

Ha ha, thanks! The clothing is dark, 'nuff said about color . It's the night outfit, and completed with socks and sportswear trousers, ready to go for the morning routines.

82.8kg, same as yesterday. Will not be hard on myself at this point. Still remember I could probably have continued the diet without bigger problems when having got used to it, that kind of scared me. But if I get pissed I will take this to 81kg for getting some margin.

I don't know anything about any kilograms, but I rest assured that we have a similar build at our best. I'm assured that (based on pics Zeno took of me recently) that I'm not quite at my best. I boxed welterweight and all the weight I've gained since then (215 lbs weigh-in last week when I decided to do something about it) is around my middle. I'm not going to start a blog here, but want to compare notes in your little blog). I'm 210 lbs now. Somewhere around 5'11" I guess since I was once 6'0".

I want to get to the point where I can get into a reasonable bar fight against 2 or 17 people and know that I've got the best of it. Your goals are different, but this could be a fun place for me to get some additional motivation while I lose a few pounds

Edit: I'd have guessed blue

You are welcome, get in your stuff here, and good luck!

I'd say in your situation I would probably decide to go under 200lbs and not ever let it go above again. So below 200 and keep it for a month, then maybe going for some more if feeling like it and being ready.

my goals are greater, but thank you