TENTH DIARY – Written Words on Passing Pages

When you are in the routine days, it’s easy to follow the weight loss routine. When the daily routine is disturbed beyond a limit, the weight loss routine goes for a toss. At least this is happening to me. I was staying near my cousin’s place. We used to have dinner together. He got a job in Pune and so he had to leave Delhi. The last few days involved cooking lots of chicken and mutton, biriyani, and other tasty stuff. Of course, my taste buds had fun while the weight loss blabbered. And then I decided to change my flat. The whole searching, shifting, and adjusting to the new place has been quite hectic throwing my daily routine to a toss, and thus my weight loss. To many, and often to myself as well, it sounds like a series of excuses. But one of my teachers used to say, we shouldn’t fight wars on many fronts at once. 800 Cals on a hectic day with lots of physical activity isn’t healthy. On most of the days in the last two weeks, I was on the verge of a cheat, a bit more or les...

They say at the beginning it’s fast but soon it slows down. It seems like they are correct. Today morning I weighed 86.10kgs (after 3 glasses of water). Considering my last time recorded weight (Day 12, 87.55 kg), in ideal case it should have been 85.84kg, and in target chasing case 85.90kgs. This is a lag of approximately 1 day. Just to note again, ideal case corresponds to no cheat days, target case means 72kg on day 120, and the normal case leverages 10% cheats over ideal. I’m still cheering up because I’m still on ideal weight line (86.01kg on day 21) of my weight loss projection. What might be the possible reasons for the slowing up thing? I’m counting five factors. One, a bulkier body needs more energy to sustain. When I was over 90kgs, probably I had more cells, all of which needed to be fed. Now I have lesser. Or maybe, energy consumption per cell decreases. Currently, I’m not in the mood to research this, so leave this for later. Two, metabolism slows down. The weight lo...