Getting Fit

One of my most important targets for this year is to duplicate my success from last year and lose another ten kilos from my waist. By Christmas, after two years of steady progress I should finally reach my target weight. And this time I believe it will be permanent weight loss.

Loosing weight is easy, you just need to eat less calories than you consume and that is easy, right? You only need to count calories from what you eat and what you consume, third grade math problem. Unfornatelly it's only easy in theory. I've been on this path earlier and I've got quite close to my ideal weight during my earlier weight loss periods. Somehow however the kilos have been coming back.

I have used quite a lot time to analyze the reasons for failure and mostly it feels that it's a matter of loosing too much weight too fast and doing too big changes to my daily routines that caused me to fail. I was really pumped up to exercise more, start running and going to gym, but one business trip or holidays could kill the momentum as quickly. All of a sudden I was back to my old habits and couldn't reach my target.

This time I have take a different approach and I have increased the amount exercise in small pieces over a long time. I have a dog and I take him to a walk two or three times a day. Instead of taking up running I started to take little bit longer walks with the dog. After a while I also started to walk to work (instead of taking the bicycle) to spend more calories. I also joined to Audible to get some audiobooks so I can learn something new while improving my physical condition.

I get my all important cardio exercise by playing floorball twice a week (1 hour at a time) and as I love to play that game, it's never difficult to motivate myself for that. I don't like going to gym or running as much and those habits won't stick no matter how many times I start. Walking on the other hand is something that I could add as a daily routine and the total amount of calories burned everyday is a big help in going down in weight. My target is to reduce a bit less than half a kilo per week and I'm succeeding mainly due to the daily low intensity training. At the moment it doesn't even feel like a diet as after about a year walking has become part of my daily routine.