[Mannie]

This is a personal challenge I've given myself. It's very simple. Lose 75 grams (or more!) a day, until I reach goal weight. I have been slacking in my journey to lose 32 kg, it's taken me 3 years and almost one month so far, and I'm just about to reach halfway. So although I'm still losing, it's pretty much glacial speed. I also spent 8 months dithering about, a few kilograms up, a few kilograms down and repeat.


I live in a little community and walk around the subdivision 5 times, which takes about 45 minutes. I need to do that twice a day. Maybe I will walk to the supermarket or other stores. I'm certainly walking a lot. I also walk in the rain, so I can't use that excuse. One of the perks of living near the equator, although I'll be going back to a cool country soon, no walking in the rain then. I can run there, however. It's too hot to run here.


I track my intake on an app. I want to eat an average of 6,000 kilojoules. This is critical, I feel that I squandered my time in 2021 and 2022 when I tracked for 678 days in a row. I averaged 6,480 kilojoules. If I averaged 6,000 kJ I'd be 9.3 kilograms lighter than I am today.


I've walked around the subdivision 130-150 times and I have to admit that I don't know what 6000 kilojoules and 90 minutes walking actually generates in terms of weight loss. Well, we're going to find out.


What do I get out of the challenge if I achieve my 75 grams a day? I get to feel proud of my losing the second half of 32 kilograms. Because I don't feel proud with what I've achieved, so far.


I'll be posting daily.

[Mannie]

How did my first day of my Grand Challenge go? Good. I walked two lots of 45 minutes, and ate 6675 kilojoules. I decided to have a celebratory ice cream for the start of the challenge. That put me over my goal of 6000 but it's only the first day. I have been tracking for 4 days now, and I'm 1700 kilojoules over what I should be. That's not a thing to worry about, I have plans for the next few days.

I weighed 80.3 kg this morning, a drop of 300 grams from yesterday. I have graphed on my spreadsheet the last 5 days. I'm using a linear trendline to show how things are going. I'm losing 310 grams a day right how. Obviously that's not all fat, but I'm hoping that some of it is. If that 310 number drops below 75, I have failed the challenge.

I told my girlfriend of the challenge. She's happy for me. But she's probably wondering how long this will last. She's never seen me at goal weight, that was back in 2012. The good news is that I've been losing weight for 15 weeks now. Obviously a switch in my brain has been flipped but if you asked me which switch and why, I wouldn't be able to tell you.