Tuesday, 4th January 2022
So tomorrow is the day I begin my Detox & Diet program.
Bodyweight right now 01:03am – 82kgs
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POINT & PURPOSE OF THE DETOX & DIET
- Lose the unwanted fat & weight gained by eating useless junk, sugar & mindless eating
- Lose the bad habit of wanting to keep eating non-stop
- Reset my taste of sugary foods
- Deprive my body totally of sugar as I’ve been eating too much of it and more & more of it
- Lose the capacity to eat more and more as my capacity has increased considerably
- Have a sense of discipline which I have kind of lost
- Get off the addiction cycle as I’m aware I will face a massive & ugly hangover
- Clean my body completely from all these crappy foods. I especially want my insides clean. For this I need to fast.
THE BIG WHY?
WHY do I want to do this – ie go through all this pain & inconvenience?
- I started to get knee pain & back pain due to the weight gain
- I have started to develop a big belly that wasn’t there and I can literally see the fat all-around my waist which wasn’t there. Seriously my tummy is the FATTEST it has ever been since my operation.
- The main reason I had gone through the bariatric surgery was to have a healthy lifestyle but somewhere down the line now I’ve become a slave to this habit again
- I’ve developed an addiction to chocolates, Red Bull & unwanted chocolates again
- I’ve started to eat nonstop every few minutes. I’m always busy snacking
- I’ve started to eat more and more. My capacity has dangerously increased to nearly 4 times what it was immediately after the surgery
- I keep getting more and more hungry no matter how much I eat
- I do not like how my body is shaping out to be. The respect I have for myself as a fit & healthy person is slowly getting eroded.
- How can I coach and train anyone if I myself am not disciplined?
- My wife & my baby will develop my bad habits which I need to put a stop to. I need to inspire them to develop good habits. Not bad. First I need to practice before I preach to them. By showing an example – they will slowly follow
- I don’t want to end up diabetic, with blood pressure, heart-related issues or have my brain cells die out to my poor diet
- I want to look good, feel good and stay healthy.
HOW DO I MEASURE SUCCESS?
What is my End Goal? Or When would I like to stop this?
- I would like to do this for 3 months from now all the way to March 31st 2022. This however, is the minimum number of days. Even if I reach my goal before this date – I will still continue sticking to this goal.
- I want to reach a bodyweight of 69kgs which I have NEVER achieved in my life. I would like to reach this bodyweight and see how I look and feel
- I want to free myself from the sugar addiction – NO MORE SUGAR in my diets
- I want to eat less from henceforth
- I want to feel healthy, fresh, smart & intelligent.
PLANNED STRATEGY & TOOLS I’VE INCORPORATED
- I have purchased a weighing scale (Digital) which I will use to measure my weight every day in the morning after getting up. I will not go to the toilet or empty myself. I will get up and immediately check my body weight after waking up. Note the weight. And this weight will be recorded in an excel sheet on google docs
- I will keep the key landmarks, not as days or dates rather on every kg lost. This will be used to mark key calendar dates
- I will take videos and record my progress in a series of videos into a playlist to record my journey
- I will ensure running a bit faster than I normally do. The exercise intensity I will increase slowly but surely.
- I will also have some other exercises incorporated to ensure a fun & more fat loss. What I have in mind right now is pushups or abdominal crunches or squats. But this will be done later as I do not want to do too much and then fail.
WHAT WILL MY DIET CONSIST OF?
- Soups + cup of soup
- Fresh juices with NO addictives
- Black Coffee
- Carbonated water
- ALL Fresh Fruits is permitted
- Raw vegetables – uncooked like carrot, cucumber, Cabbage, Greens
- I am tempted to say Fish soup but the problem is if I taste fish, then I am actually eating something. And then I may end up eating meat. So the only exception here is the boiled water of any fish. NO other meat soup or boiled water as I don’t want to get the taste of it
- I will avoid eating any cooked vegetables otherwise I may end up eating or getting tempted to eat dal or any Indian cooked food like Potato dish with gravy which I wish to avoid.
- Also – I will be having Vitamin B, C, D, Minerals just to ensure I do not get deficient in anything.
FAILURE – WHAT HAPPENS IF I WISH TO QUIT
- If in case I feel weak or I feel I want to give up – The worse to the worst-case scenario – I may break my diet/fast. If this happens (which I doubt), I will take a few days break and then evaluate what to do next.
- If and when I do wish to give up or quit, I will take a nap, sleep and give myself 48 hours to decide if I really want to give up this journey.
- However, the only situation where I will give up without any hesitation is if my health is compromised or in question.
COUPLE OF OTHER THOUGHTS
- I’m aware that I will lose water weight at first. I may end up losing up to 5kgs in water weight. THAT is NOT fat. It is just water weight.
- My ‘normal’ weight at this diet minus water would be in the range of 75kgs. But that is NOT fat loss. And no, that is absolutely NOTHING to be proud off.
- The actual weight loss starts only after the body goes into ketosis OR after a period of one month of getting used to this diet
- I’m pretty aware of the fact that it will be hard for me to stay without sugary stuff for one month. So I am mentally prepared for a massive painful hangover.
- I am concerned & worried if I can sustain and hold on to this for so long. But I need to at least try.
SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT?
- I will write this diary and put my thoughts every day if needed
- I will record progress in terms of pictures whenever I do lose a kilo
- I will take short videos and save them in a file to use later in one big video
Let’s see how it goes.
Loy Machedo
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