Here it is 60 days into my journey to build a healthy body. Like all things new, when starting out we all have a tendency to really go like heck. My first 30 days I had a steady drop in weight. I went down to 178 & ¾ pounds by July 17th.
I was stuck there for a good week still going along as I did as the first month. I was eating 1300 calories at the lowest end to 2000 calories daily at the highest. But I was still eating a good amount of carbohydrates, and my calorie intake was 1600 calories on the average. I did this till the end of July.
Me at 178 pounds 60 days into my journey
By the end of July I was stuck around 180 pounds give or take 1 pound. I was getting frustrated with the lack of weight loss. I thought that I was doing ok on my eating. But looking over my log I see that I was cheating on food a lot.
Going into August I thought I would eat a lot of carbohydrate to shock my body. But I had been eating too many already with too many calories to loss any weight. I stopped my lifting weights for eleven days. I walked on the treadmill for only five of the days during that period.
My weight jumped up to 183 pounds at the highest. Witch was a wake up call for me. Yes it is really easy to slide back into the old ways. It is the path of least resistance. Witch is not always the best traveled. This is way I say just because you do some thing for 30 days does not make it a new habit. That is a load of crap in my opinion.
My old ways as a lot of others has many years of eating what ever I wanted and gaining no weight hardly at all. In my 20’s and early 30’s I was as I was in high school, lean and very active. Life by its self will change you if you do not keep a watchful eye on it. One day you will look in the mirror or see a picture of yourself and wander what the hell has happened. One always has a tendency to think of them selves as you were in your earlier years.
It is still very easy for me to back slide if I am not careful. Just this Saturday the 15th I ate way more than I should have in carbohydrates. And a lot of the food was junk, high sugar crap. I still struggle with this type of food, and probably will for a long time to come. I just have to stay away from it all together, that way I am not tempted.
For my body type, and myself my eating habits has to change with time, as my life has. I have been very healthy in my life with next to no problems except injuries that has just happened. And even then, I sprang back very fast.
178 pounds 60 days in my journey, 41 inch waist
So I have decided 2 months ago that if I want to keep my healthy body, I better quit stuffing it with crap food and give it some exercise. It has been 2 months and I have had more up time at this than down time. Less slacking off is what I mean here.
I have posted 2 more pictures of me at 2 months in to my journey. I see some change. My waist is now 41 inches instead of the 44 inches at the start. My clothes do fit better than before. Just have to keep at it, is all. You want to see the first pictures at the beginning you can go to here.
I am not as fare along as I could be. But I have started and I think that is half the battle. I am going to keep at it. There is really no stopping point with this now. This will be the way I live the rest of the time. If I go back to the old ways of eating, all this will have been then is another diet that does not work. As I have said before, as we change with age, we have to change our habits to stay healthy.
