Hi everyone,
So I just thought I would add an update to my blog, although with only two entries so far I'm not sure if I can call it that!
With the help of Duromine, (and an embarrassing quantity of blood sweat and tears) I managed to lose 19.7 kg off my 96.6 kg, 154cm frame within the first three months of my weight loss journey. My first post was basically discussing this and what sort of things had helped me make those changes.
It now seems like a good time to make a further blog, and I am happy to report that my weight loss has continued, with a few bumps along the way of course
I am now 65.6 kg, so I have lost a further 11.3 kg over the 4 months from September to November, and January 2018. I intentionally wrote December off for weight loss, partly because I knew it would be extra difficult with all the social events that come with Christmas, but mainly because I wanted my body to have a chance to adjust to it's new shape, before it changed even further. I also knew that a little practice at maintaining my weight along the way would be a good thing for me!
So now, at the beginning of February, I have a total weight loss of 31 kg exactly, and am getting ever closer to my goal weight- yay!!!
Since the last post, I must admit I haven't really taken the Duromine with any degree of frequency or consistency. I have just naturally become used to my lower calorie diet and now I no longer rely on the Duromine to control my appetite and calorie intake. I have to say I am quite relieved and happy about this- for a number of reasons. Firstly, it means I have a safety net of over three months of Duromine pills stashed away in case I ever need them again, although hopefully I never do! I think psychologically just knowing that I have this little secret weapon gives me the confidence to keep going and to believe that I can stick with this forever. It is also a boost to me to know that that I am coping fine without the pills. I am such a worrier, and I know the anxiety of what might happen to my hard-earned weight loss if I ran out of pills while still reliant on them would definitely have a damaging effect on my ability to keep trucking with all the exercise and low calorie living!
That being said, after Christmas and New Years (and a lot of naughty but delicious carbs) I took the pill for a couple of days in a row to help me ease back into my clean low calorie diet. This helped me through the transition period enormously while my body and my food expectations/cravings reset themselves. And since then it's been pretty much plain sailing and I have just continued with the diet and exercise regime without the Duromine. I also like to know that if I ever get into a rut with my weight in the future, a pill or two might be all I need to get back on track again At that rate, the Duromine supply should never run out and I will hopefully never stray so far from a healthy weight again!
So those are the good-news items of my journey to date, but of course nothing is ever perfect, and to give a more complete picture I would like to mention one particularly nasty bump I did hit along the way. This was around my goal weight. For the first half of my weight loss journey, I had been working towards a weight loss goal of under 61 kg. This was based on the WHO guidelines for BMI for people who are 156 cm tall. And then about 6 weeks ago, horror of horrors, I discovered that this would not be enough! Turns out there are more tailored BMI recommendations which factor in age, ethnicity and gender; and according to these, my BMI must be under 24 (not under 25) to be considered healthy. And just to exacerbate the situation, it turns out that I am only 154 cm tall, not 156 cm as I had previously thought As you can imagine, this makes a big difference weight-wise, and is a blow in and of itself when you don't exactly have excess height to be throwing away anyway! Gutted! So long story short, it turns out the maximum weight for me while still having a healthy BMI is actually 56.7 kg! ARGGGHHHHH!!!!
Thank goodness I didn't know that at the start- or I might have been too overwhelmed to even begin. Even when I did find out I found it quite demoralizing. It did if I'm honest derail me for a week or two. Grhh. But I have reconciled myself to the bad news now, and I know I will just have to pick myself up and keep going. Even though the goal posts have now receded slightly, it is at least a consolation to know they are still significantly closer than they have been for a long time. So now, moving forwards, I know I need to lose at least another 9 kg to be just under the maximum healthy weight for me. Well, I managed the first 31 kg, so whats another 9 or 10 kg?
I am hoping that I will be able to reach this weight within the next 3 months, so I will repost then to let you know how the final few losses have gone. In the meantime, I will just continue with what I've been doing since I started- the tricks I talked about in my first post haven't really changed. I still do all the same things. I suppose the only new additions/alterations to my arsenal of weight loss weapons would be:
1) I now take protein shakes daily, and
2) I have replaced my long walks with weight training and running, and
3) Every month I recalculate my basal metabolic rate in order to ensure that my weekly calorie deficit remains at the same level and doesn't tailor off as I (and my energy needs) grow smaller.
Hope this is helpful to someone, or at least a good time killer when your putting off going to the gym (like I am right now hehe!)
Best of luck to everyone else out there still pursuing their weight loss goals. It's a mission but it is so so so incredibly worth it!
You can do it!!!!
So I just thought I would add an update to my blog, although with only two entries so far I'm not sure if I can call it that!
With the help of Duromine, (and an embarrassing quantity of blood sweat and tears) I managed to lose 19.7 kg off my 96.6 kg, 154cm frame within the first three months of my weight loss journey. My first post was basically discussing this and what sort of things had helped me make those changes.
It now seems like a good time to make a further blog, and I am happy to report that my weight loss has continued, with a few bumps along the way of course
I am now 65.6 kg, so I have lost a further 11.3 kg over the 4 months from September to November, and January 2018. I intentionally wrote December off for weight loss, partly because I knew it would be extra difficult with all the social events that come with Christmas, but mainly because I wanted my body to have a chance to adjust to it's new shape, before it changed even further. I also knew that a little practice at maintaining my weight along the way would be a good thing for me!So now, at the beginning of February, I have a total weight loss of 31 kg exactly, and am getting ever closer to my goal weight- yay!!!
Since the last post, I must admit I haven't really taken the Duromine with any degree of frequency or consistency. I have just naturally become used to my lower calorie diet and now I no longer rely on the Duromine to control my appetite and calorie intake. I have to say I am quite relieved and happy about this- for a number of reasons. Firstly, it means I have a safety net of over three months of Duromine pills stashed away in case I ever need them again, although hopefully I never do! I think psychologically just knowing that I have this little secret weapon gives me the confidence to keep going and to believe that I can stick with this forever. It is also a boost to me to know that that I am coping fine without the pills. I am such a worrier, and I know the anxiety of what might happen to my hard-earned weight loss if I ran out of pills while still reliant on them would definitely have a damaging effect on my ability to keep trucking with all the exercise and low calorie living!
That being said, after Christmas and New Years (and a lot of naughty but delicious carbs) I took the pill for a couple of days in a row to help me ease back into my clean low calorie diet. This helped me through the transition period enormously while my body and my food expectations/cravings reset themselves. And since then it's been pretty much plain sailing and I have just continued with the diet and exercise regime without the Duromine. I also like to know that if I ever get into a rut with my weight in the future, a pill or two might be all I need to get back on track again
At that rate, the Duromine supply should never run out and I will hopefully never stray so far from a healthy weight again!So those are the good-news items of my journey to date, but of course nothing is ever perfect, and to give a more complete picture I would like to mention one particularly nasty bump I did hit along the way. This was around my goal weight. For the first half of my weight loss journey, I had been working towards a weight loss goal of under 61 kg. This was based on the WHO guidelines for BMI for people who are 156 cm tall. And then about 6 weeks ago, horror of horrors, I discovered that this would not be enough! Turns out there are more tailored BMI recommendations which factor in age, ethnicity and gender; and according to these, my BMI must be under 24 (not under 25) to be considered healthy. And just to exacerbate the situation, it turns out that I am only 154 cm tall, not 156 cm as I had previously thought
As you can imagine, this makes a big difference weight-wise, and is a blow in and of itself when you don't exactly have excess height to be throwing away anyway! Gutted! So long story short, it turns out the maximum weight for me while still having a healthy BMI is actually 56.7 kg! ARGGGHHHHH!!!!Thank goodness I didn't know that at the start- or I might have been too overwhelmed to even begin. Even when I did find out I found it quite demoralizing. It did if I'm honest derail me for a week or two. Grhh. But I have reconciled myself to the bad news now, and I know I will just have to pick myself up and keep going. Even though the goal posts have now receded slightly, it is at least a consolation to know they are still significantly closer than they have been for a long time. So now, moving forwards, I know I need to lose at least another 9 kg to be just under the maximum healthy weight for me. Well, I managed the first 31 kg, so whats another 9 or 10 kg?
I am hoping that I will be able to reach this weight within the next 3 months, so I will repost then to let you know how the final few losses have gone.
In the meantime, I will just continue with what I've been doing since I started- the tricks I talked about in my first post haven't really changed. I still do all the same things. I suppose the only new additions/alterations to my arsenal of weight loss weapons would be:1) I now take protein shakes daily, and
2) I have replaced my long walks with weight training and running, and
3) Every month I recalculate my basal metabolic rate in order to ensure that my weekly calorie deficit remains at the same level and doesn't tailor off as I (and my energy needs) grow smaller.
Hope this is helpful to someone, or at least a good time killer when your putting off going to the gym (like I am right now hehe!)
Best of luck to everyone else out there still pursuing their weight loss goals. It's a mission but it is so so so incredibly worth it!
You can do it!!!!
