{"id":237,"date":"2013-01-23T10:14:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T18:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emaren.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2013-03-18T15:12:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T22:12:38","slug":"bmi2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/bmi2\/","title":{"rendered":"218lbs Now merely Over Weight…."},"content":{"rendered":"

As of this morning I am down to 218lbs – for my British friends that is 15st 8. This means that my BMI is down to 28.<\/p>\n

At 6-2 and 218lbs I am merely overweight, rather than obese.<\/p>\n

This is pretty significant as my progress over Christmas was inthe wrong direction, from December 6th to January 8th I went from 219 to 225 and then back to 221. The last two weeks have seen me back on track, losing 1.5lbs per week on average. I over ate all holiday season, but I continued my fitness regime.<\/p>\n

My target of ‘about 185’ remains in place, I have lost about 33lbs (2 stone 5) and I have another 33 to go, so I am, I guess, half way to my target.<\/p>\n

While being ‘merely half way’ after all of these months of watching what I eat and working out on a regular basis may seem a little sad, I feel like I am much further towards my goal that the scale actually tells me.<\/p>\n

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The first few pounds were actually very easy, going from sedentary to active and from ‘eat everything’ to a more balanced approach meant that I instantly lost perhaps ten pounds of weight. These were easy pounds. The next ten took a lot more effort, but because I was in the right mode, they dropped off. By the time I hit 230lbs (16st 6), I felt like I was on the home straight. Suddenly my pants were loose and my cardio ability had increased hugely.<\/p>\n

The pounds from 230 to 220 have been really hard. Mostly because of the holiday season and sickness. I picked up a sinus infection along the way and I gained back some of the weight I had lost. I found myself fighting for every ounce of loss.<\/p>\n

I have been using ‘myfitnesspal<\/a>‘ to track my food intake and my exercise since I started this quest, but I still found that the recommended calorie count for my level of slothness was too high and my weight loss not as dramatic as expected. I came to the conclusion that I did not have enough technology.<\/p>\n

After all, why rely on old proven methods when you can buy a new gadget to track your every move and some how tell you in real time that you really, really need to get off your fat ass and move around a little ?<\/p>\n

So I added a fitbit <\/a>to my arsenal of fitness tracking weapons.<\/p>\n

I wear it every day. All day. It monitors my activity and adjusts my calorie limit in real time based on how much I walk around. Some days it tells me that I am borderline comatose and reduces my limit by a couple of hundred calories, other days it tells me that I rock and gives me space for a beer or a cupcake.<\/p>\n

So, is it working ?<\/p>\n

For me, yes it is, knowing real time, or at least close to real time as the sync via my phone is sometimes a little slow and sloth-like, is valuable to me and it manages to encourage me to do more every day.<\/p>\n

So, yes it helps, it makes me move around more and it makes me earn extra calories, so yes it helps.<\/p>\n

Today I am 218.<\/p>\n

The last time I was 218 was something like four years ago. The last time I was under 210 was about six years ago.<\/p>\n

I am getting there slowly.<\/p>\n

There is a hidden downside to this loss though, I have so far given about half of my wardrobe to goodwill. I have dropped to comfortable 36’s and am able to wear some of my 34’s already – I need a belt with the 36’s but I need to breath in for the 34’s. All of my XL shirts and tops are now too big. I am now buying L rather than XL. My favorite jackets are too big, my suits hang off me and there is room for an additional person in many\u00c2\u00a0 of my clothes it seems.<\/p>\n

This is not the downside that it sounds like, it is expensive but a great motivator.<\/p>\n

At the gym I have gone from burning 600 calories in an hour on cardio devices to burning 1000+ in any given hour and I can bench-press 140lbs, leg press 600+ and I can do 200 situps in 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

Oh and I can run a bit too…..<\/p>\n

I feel great and it is only going to get better…..<\/p>\n

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As of this morning I am down to 218lbs – for my British friends that is 15st 8. This means that my BMI is down to 28. At 6-2 and 218lbs I am merely overweight, rather than obese. This is pretty significant as my progress over Christmas was inthe wrong direction, from December 6th to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,5],"tags":[53,52,89],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet","category-fitness","category-life","tag-bodyfat","tag-fat","tag-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}