4 posts tagged “100 days”

My '100 days' tracking on Vox experiment didn't go well in terms of public messages, mainly because I discovered that I'd rather not subject people to my rants about chocolate cake cravings and such. But on the positive side, I'm still going on with the whole weight loss thing - have lost  3.5 kg so far since Jan. 1st. So the methods may be different but the result is okay, so far.

In case you wonder what the heck this is, this page explains what I'm doing. In a nutshell I am using my Vox blog as the journal following the course outlined in the book 100 Days of Weight Loss, or the first 100 days of a weight loss plan I embarked on on Jan. 1st. Ah, resolutions and all that.

And in case you read day 1 and wondered what happened after that, the days in between have been set as private (viewable by family)...since they had a lot of personal thoughts that I didn't want the interweb to be able to read, if they were bored enough to do so. To be honest I had not really used the various privacy settings on Vox since I joined up, since I don't really communicate on a regular basis with my family or met-in-person-longtime
 friends by blog. (Well some of them read my more official blogs, but if they want to know how it's going with the big pimple on my.. I mean, the more intimate news about me, they would just call or maybe email, or IM.

But a personal blog is perfect for a diary or journal of course, and even though it's just been a few days I've found that writing things out does really help. I've already slipped up once (agh), and in the past this would have made me slide off 'the program' all together. But because I wrote it down, the next day I was fine.

Which ties in neatly with the advice and tasks for Day 5 outlined in the book. It says to get a 'magic notebook' and do the following:

• Whenever you think about a particular food you want, write it down in your notebook.
• Plan that you'll eat it at another time. If you wish, add the amount you'll have and how often you'll fit it into your program.
• Stretch the times farther apart for eating this food. You may discover that after a while, certain foods don't seem as important to you as they once did.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

(I am however still keeping the what-I-ate journal in a paper notebook, because it's more portable.)

The task for Day 1 is as follows: Make a list of any fears or negative behaviors that have hurt your weight-loss success in the past. Read each one out loud, then say "I used to be that way, but now I'm different".

So here goes the list.

• I used to get bored of keeping a food diary after a few days, but now I'll keep track of what I eat since I know this is a key to successful weight loss.
• I used to let the negative comments of other people sabotage my efforts. Now I will discard/ignore the negative comments and do things at my own pace, for my own reasons.
• I used to get too ambitious with my exercise plans so that I'd exhaust myself or injure myself. Now, I'll start slow and build up my strength and endurance.
• I used to let bouts of depression or bad days get to me, and try to relieve my stress or frustrations on food! Now I'll use my journals or blogs as an outlet for my feelings, and to keep myself on track.

Whew, that's enough for one day.

For a while I'll be using my Vox blog here to track the first 100 days of a weight loss plan I'm trying. Background for this is on Just Hungry.