This is a private blog of a nice guy living in Vienna (Austria) who set on in Jan 2014 to shed some (over)weight. I want to help motivate myself to keep going by blogging some bit about it.
To start with: It's January 2014, and I have a BMI of 29,9 after a nice and rather calory-rich Christmas season. Maybe I'm cheating myself just a tiny bit about it, by adding 1 cm to my size for the BMI calculation, but honestly trying to avoid the ugly BMI 30 mark, which in most systems indicates "obese" while anything below 30 still is just "overweight" :-/
Soooo... I certainly DON'T want to get into the BMI 30 zone. At 44 years of age, weight just seems to accumulate. I haven't really dieted so far, just tried leaving off carbs at night, or so. Now I need to start in earnest.
And I happened to run into http://www.10in2.at/ just when I needed to. It sounded quite good to me - eat what you want (OK, with some reason, but really no rules) one day, and fast the next day. Rinse and repeat. And with "fast", they mean "zero calories", just water or tea or coffee (and a glass of wine in the evening, if you want). This is way stricter than 5:2 or the "every other day diet", where you eat around 25% of regular daily calories.
I have done single zero-fasting-days in the past and not really had any severe problems with them. Actually, it just feels like this is a good thing for me to try. And so I decided to go with intuition and start 10in2 on a whim.
In this blog, I will keep my personal record of how I'm doing.
To start with: It's January 2014, and I have a BMI of 29,9 after a nice and rather calory-rich Christmas season. Maybe I'm cheating myself just a tiny bit about it, by adding 1 cm to my size for the BMI calculation, but honestly trying to avoid the ugly BMI 30 mark, which in most systems indicates "obese" while anything below 30 still is just "overweight" :-/
Soooo... I certainly DON'T want to get into the BMI 30 zone. At 44 years of age, weight just seems to accumulate. I haven't really dieted so far, just tried leaving off carbs at night, or so. Now I need to start in earnest.
And I happened to run into http://www.10in2.at/ just when I needed to. It sounded quite good to me - eat what you want (OK, with some reason, but really no rules) one day, and fast the next day. Rinse and repeat. And with "fast", they mean "zero calories", just water or tea or coffee (and a glass of wine in the evening, if you want). This is way stricter than 5:2 or the "every other day diet", where you eat around 25% of regular daily calories.
I have done single zero-fasting-days in the past and not really had any severe problems with them. Actually, it just feels like this is a good thing for me to try. And so I decided to go with intuition and start 10in2 on a whim.
In this blog, I will keep my personal record of how I'm doing.
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