Day 3

Weight is 86.7 ...... I'm getting heavier..... or it's because I've just eaten. I've got to standardise when I take my weight. I've read some sites which tell me that the weight taken at different times of the day give different results..... but I see that as being obvious because of what and when you eat. I've got a feeling that they are talking about something else though. Anyway, I've got to take my weight the same time every day.... I'm thinking just before I write this blog at night. I'll do the same with the picture.

How do people do it? How do people know what the calorie count is of every food item. I like to cook my own food, so I'm really not going to be able to have a handy number to look at from the packet. There's got to be some sort of iphone app that I can use to find the calorie count easily and probably also recommend what exercises to use to lose weight.

Breakfast
A little later in the day, but toast

Lunch
Noodles
random meet

Dinner
turkey escalope
fish sticks
can of baked beans

Exercise wise, playing around with 20kg weights. They are way too heavy for me, I pretty much got 20 slow lifts before I had to stop for the time being and let my arms ache and stretch out. I moved onto sit ups. I didn't know that my tummy is so large that it actually feels in the way and I can't do a proper crunch, and it hurts a little. Hmmm, I forgot to count, but I'm assuming about 20 because I was a little distracted by some other stuff.

Day 2

Weight: 86.5kg - no change

For the picture, I might as well use the same one as yesterday's because I haven't done anything significant yet.

Maybe yesterday wasn't a good day to start. My Mondays are occupied by having to help out with my parents so I haven't been able to look into anything or do an exercise properly.

For breakfast
Eggs Benedict that I was experimenting on. Overall, I failed to make the hollandaise sauce so I've got to improve that, but that's not the point. How many calories is it? I had 2
muffin - 155cal
poached egg - 71cal
ham - 22cal x2 for 2 slices
sauce - it was a failure, but it had a load of butter in it and I only had a table spoon.

For lunch:
I went to Ikea and had fish and chips with peas and a glass of sparkling apple juice.
Ikea fish and chips - 732kcal

For dinner:
I've got a feeling that this is going to be a challenge to get the calorie count. I had 2 bowls of rice, some fish, some green vegetables and something on the line of a Chinese salty beef jerky.

What exercise have I done today?
I've been playing around on this resistive stretchy band thing, which I really need to find the name for. I also need to get a work out plan. I'm really fat so I don't feel comfortable going to the gym to let everyone see the fat swing.

Wow, I've done 14 and a half press ups. I never used to have this much trouble doing press ups. It was also after dinner while I was pretty full and couldn't really move. I've got a feeling I'm not meant to workout right after eating.

There's got to be an easier way to get the calorie information off of something. After reading a number of different sites, there are answers saying that kcal and cal mean the same thing - calories. This is so damn confusing. So if the calories are printed on packaging these days, why can't they be standardised to use just the one.

Day 1 - The Beginning

This is me. I'm 5 foot 4 inches tall (163cm) and weighing in at 86.5kg (13.6 stones). According to the NHS height/weight chart, I'm not just overweight, I'm obese. I'm comfortable with my body, but I am fat. There's no doubt about that and sooner or later, it's really going to affect my health.

According to calculator.net my ideal healthy weight should be approximately 107.8lbs (48.8kg) to 145.6lbs (66kg). There are other calculations which seem to be adding weight per inch over 5 feet. The range is from 129.4lbs (58.7kg) to 136.3lbs (61.8kg) so I'm going to average it out and say that my aim is to reach 60kg. (I'm going to stick with kg because that's what my scales give me). That makes me 26.5kg over weight.

What I also need is a safe time scale. I've seen on TV and heard that losing weight too fast is not a good thing. It could bounce right because of how the body reacts to starving yourself of what it needs. I'll need to do a little more research before I can label this.

So here's my plan. It's about self discovery and hopefully applying all I've learnt previously and during this process. I hope to be able quantify everything I do and eat so that I can really keep track of what I'm doing. This won't just be trying to do something, but more on the line of changing habits.

So, to start things off, what have I eaten today?
Breakfast - Kit-kat chunky with a can of coke (sorry, I was in a rush for the train)
Lunch - Burger King Rodeo meal with a coke no ice. (damn eating out alone)
Dinner - Home made spaghetti sauce with pasta and a turkey escalope.

The recommended calorie intake for a man is meant to be 2550 calories, but it should vary with what you're doing during the day. I believe that there's meant to be things about fat content and salt intake but I'll need to do more research to figure out how they will affect me. The norm is to calculate everything with calories, so lets see what I've gone and done.

kit-kat chunky - 280cal
can of coke - 141.9kcal (is this right? this is from the side of the can) - 97 from a website.
BK Rodeo burger - 380cal
BK regular fries - 360cal
BK coke no ice - 200cal
turkey escalope - 341cal
pasta - 221cal
spaghetti sauce - 120cal (kinda guessed with this one because it's home made)

Which gives me a total of 1999cal..... which doesn't seem quite right. I'm pretty sure dinner should have been under estimated and I may have had a number of chocolate biscuits somewhere.

I really need to find a good website with good references to calories. I'm using this one at the moment but it's a bit annoying with the pop-ups and I'm not even sure if it's right.

What is the kcal number's relation to cal? The kcal number can now be found on food products but if that's right, then that would mean thousand of cal and the numbers just don't like right. It would be really useful if I can use this somehow, because it'll be much more useful to just pick that number from what I eat. I'll need to do more research to figure out what it really means.

Anyway, exercise wise....... walking for about 4.5 hours. About 238cal per hour for normal working. Which works out that I've done about 1071cal of exercise...... which falls well under the low estimate of what I've eaten....... oh dear.

So, what's my next step...... I've got to do more research, but the general idea from just looking at the above is to do more exercise.... but what exercises? I might need to buy a Men's Health magazine to figure this out.