{"id":712,"date":"2009-06-06T09:29:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T09:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/?p=712"},"modified":"2015-06-26T16:03:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T16:03:31","slug":"weight-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/06\/weight-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight – Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m four weeks into my lose weight regime. My gym work has been good i’ve been lookin for the bowflex selecttech 552<\/font><\/a> for too long to avoid it, and my eating has been mostly good. Actually my eating is not too dissimilar from normal, however I have managed to cut out the hunger cravings that normally lead me to chocolate and crisps and rubbish. And my quantity control is better. So I kind of feel balanced.<\/p>\n

One major milestone for me is drinking water. As a rule I don’t drink much water – as I don’t like it. To drink water it has to either be ice cold sparkling water on a hot day, or flavoured sparkling water. So at home I drink Bottlegreen<\/a> cordial with sparkling water. But I generally only drink one large glass with my evening meal; that and a couple of coffees over the day is all I drink.
\nI don’t go in for the mantra of how much water you must drink, I think everyone is different. I’ve gone 38 years without problem and I can count the number of water infections I’ve had in that time on 1 finger…
\nThat said, I decided that I needed to force myself to drink more during the day as I no longer drink coffee while on my current contract. So I now take a litre bottle of made up flavoured sparkling water to work every day. The thing I’ve noticed is that I grab the drink quite frequently during the morning and I wonder if previously that would have been an urge to eat, which often meant I would get to lunch having already eaten my lunch!<\/p>\n

Anyway, 4 weeks ago I was 94kg ( 207lb\/14″ 11) approximate BMI<\/a> of 27.3 ( overweight ). I use approximate here because the BMI calculation is a croc really, because it doesn’t take into account physical size rather than height. A tall muscular person is going to show as overweight based on their BMI, despite the fact that they are relatively fat free.<\/p>\n

First week I lost 1.5kg ( 3.3lb ), then 0.1kg ( 0.2lb ), then 0.4kg ( 0.8lb). I was a little dissapointed after week 3 that the trail off had occured as I wanted to lose about 2lb a week. However I knew that over those 2 weeks I had gone to the pictures and had a meal with friends. Which although by my standards I had done very well (2 bottle beers and 2 glasses of wine, and a more than wanted but less than previous, quantity of food), they were nevertheless still potential blips. I took solace in the fact that my stomach ( not waist ) measurement and gone from 41 inch to 39.5 inch. So every movement down was good no matter how small.<\/p>\n

Weigh in this morning – 91kg ( 200.5lb ) down 1kg ( 2.2lb ) on last week.
\nSo in four weeks I have lost 3kg ( 6.6lb ). I am below target but very much happy with that, it’s not just that the weight is going down, but I already feel better for it; I no longer have the hunger which means I am less likely to fall off the wagon!<\/p>\n\"Technorati\"\/<\/a> Bottlegreen<\/a>, BMI<\/a>\"Wikipedia\"\/<\/a> Bottlegreen<\/a>, BMI<\/a>

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