I’ve noticed that I’ve lost two kilograms when I eagerly stepped onto the weighing scale this morning. Hallelujah!

Sure it is just another no pain no gain game; I’ve been cutting down my food intake since last week Monday. The first two days weren’t easy, I kept craving for food and sometimes I even got a slight headache, apparently from lack of “the usual amount of nutrition I’d been taking”, or it had got to do with my blood sugar level which got effected by my eating less. However, I guess after a while the whole body finally understood my intention and got more and more cooperative. Which I like. It would be a disaster to work with a counterpart who has exactly the opposite objective than what we are holding on to.

I understand that I am not obese in any way, neither I am overweight, however these extra pounds I’ve been bearing really got a bit annoying at some point. It seriously made me sad when bending over for putting on panty hose became no longer effortless, or when the sales lady in my favorite clothing shops had to run to the store room to find a cute dress for me and only came to say that they didn’t have my size. What did I become? What have I done?

That morning, when I saw that the number on my weighing scale had become totally ridiculous and unacceptable (65.1 kilograms last week Monday morning. Disaster!), I said to myself, well that’s it. I am not going to let this go on and on and on. This avalanche has to stop. From now on I am the one who decides how I want me to look like. I am taking over control. No discussion. Period.

And so it goes. I did some research and made a quick glance on the comparison of a few different type of diets that are now popular in the market. Even though I was very much eager to lose weight, I thought trying out to do it myself first is the best way to go rather than signing up for some online dieting program. From my research I came to know that you basically need to burn calories everyday to get you going. Weight gain occurs when you take more calories than what your body needs daily (which depends on your height, weight, age and how active you are in a day). So, in view of this fact, if you take the same amount of calories as what your body needs you will maintain your current weight, and if you want to lose some pounds, all you need to do is to reduce your calorie intake to be lower than your daily maintenance level.

It is quite simple, isn’t it?

So I’ve been cutting my calorie intake down to 1300 calories whereas my daily needs is around 1800 calories. With the time, I gained a little bit of knowledge about guessing how much calories are there in particular type of food, which is quite practical and opens up more options in choosing the food for your diet. Makes it more interesting and fun, rather than torturing yourself over and over by telling yourself you’re not supposed to eat this, you’re not supposed to eat that. Diet does not have to be horrible.

As about the exercise part, I am planning to add this to my weight loss project as soon as I hit 60 kilograms. Multi-tasking is simply not my area of expertise.

Anyway, who am I to brag about dieting, while I’ve only lost two kilograms and just been doing this for eight days so far? We’ll see how it goes. Would be a nice feeling to wear size 36 again sometime, or I don’t even mind 38, in stead of the frustrating 40.

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