35 days in.....25 pounds down

Hello all.

Word to your relevant mother-ships (random quote a friend once said to me, I have no idea what it means but I assume it means that I hope all is well).

As many of you know, I have been on a diet recently, as well as getting in exercise. This has resulted in a bit of ridicule from people and people eating cake right in front of my face.

Now, for those of you who aren't from the UK, I can assure you this is actually quite normal for Brits to do. It's really hard to explain but the British do have this trait where if you're trying to achieve something, such as weight lot, other Brits will rub it in your face that they can have something and you can't. In this case, because I'm only having healthy foods (natural yoghurts, fruit, etc), I can't enjoy the sweet stuff such as cakes, despite how much I want to.

I've struggled at times to keep myself from eating food such as cakes, sweets, etc, but as you can tell by the graph on the right, it is certainly working.

35 days into my diet (the X axis), I am 25 pounds down on my original weight and that is coming up on half way to my goal of getting down to 200 pounds. I had originally targeted getting down to 200 pounds by my birthday (September), but at the rate I'm losing weight, I am going to be at 200 pounds long before then.

Now before someone asks, yes, I have still been eating and I have been consuming a good number of calories, but the difference is that I'm being sensible with what I eat. I'm still nibbling on food for most of the day, but now what I'm nibbling isn't sweets, cakes or other such foods, now I'm nibbling fruit, yoghurts, etc. For example, I might just eat a 500g natural yoghurt and there's enough of that to fill my stomach, meaning I won't be hungry for more food, but given that it's only 315 calories for the entire pot, I don't put on a lot of weight by doing it......but imagine how much chocolate I would be able to fit into the same space....and how many more calories that is. That's how I've done it.

I do feel great at the moment. My legs and back don't hurt when I'm walking anymore, I have much more mental clarity and I am just happier with my body as a whole. Although I'm obviously not going to be able to run any marathon's anytime soon, I do feel much better and I am not constantly putting my own body under scrutiny. Granted, I'm still not thin, not even close, but at least I now feel reasonably health.

There are other benefits to doing this diet as well. Now I'm fitting into clothes a hell of a easier than I did before, so much to the point where I might even have to start wearing a belt at some point. It's nice to have clothes that were quite tight on me a few months ago fitting quite nicely now. My work attire is usually black trousers and a black t-shirt, the t-shirt was snug a few months ago, and not very flattering, but now it's loose, and it just feels a bit better.

So yeah, that's it really.