16 WEEKS

This is not the first time when I have decided that I am going to get thin. But this is the first time in last many years when I know that I am going to get thin. I am going to lose 16 kgs in next 16 weeks. I am going to get thinner than I have been in years. I will be as thin as I was when I met Mrityunjay for the first time. And I am going to lose all these weight before Jiya’s next birthday. 

Why do I want to lose weight?

I have realized one thing. Weight is never just weight. Weight is a measure of the will power a person has. Weight is a measure of the food a person eats and the activities a person do. Weight means the respect a person gets from people around him/her. There is a person in my life I love more than my own life. She has acquired a new habit. She has started drinking more than she should be drinking. This time when we were around, I badly wanted to tell her that her drinking is excessive. But I didn’t. I didn’t feel it appropriate. I feel that my own eating is addictive. I can call myself a sugar addict. I am also a food addict. From morning till night, I keep thinking about food all the time. All the time I am planning my next meal. If there is one thing which is responsible for my obesity, it is my diet. And therefore I want to get rid of this addiction. I want to free myself from this addiction. Once I am sober, I will tell this person how I fought with my addiction. I don’t want to preach. I want to be a live example of how to lead a healthy life. I want to be the person who can help others getting thin. I want to trek my journey day to day. I want to see how I lose these 16 kgs.

Today I don’t know how I will lose this weight. I just know that in next 16 weeks, I will lose this weight. Even at this very moment, I am feeling really hungry. Mrityunjay is much better in his will power in relation to food. He eats in the morning and then almost for the whole day he doesn’t eat anything. His next meal is at night. Starting today, I am eating 6 meals. The thing is I need to make sure that other than the 6 meals I eat, I don’t eat even a morsel. 

I am also planning to join the gym on weekends. I know I can’t commit for more than that, so I don’t want to make false promises to myself. I rather would say that I will work out 3 times a week and then do it rather than saying I will work out for 5 days a week and do nothing about it.

AIM TO LEARN

AIM TO LEARN ABOUT WEIGHT LOSS

Most of the people who are obese make an unforgivable mistake. When they start a weight loss program they expect their bodies to obey them and reach to their so called ideal weight. What they fail to understand is this- if a person fails in math exam, you order that person, next time you should get 100 marks, what the person should do if at all he is serious about reaching your expectation. The person should start to study Maths, right? Of course right. But the same logic people don’t apply to weight loss. They go to gym. They try to follow the diet their gym instructor asks them to follow, but they don’t try to learn the dynamics of weight and weight loss. 

In the ideal world, your gym instructor should be personally interested in seeing that each person entering into his gym should go back home with fulfilled dream of getting thin. In reality, gym people don’t care much. They have too many clients to attend and you are just one of them. So where is the hope? 

The only hope lies in your own self. If you are interested in weight loss, you will have to learn how you get fat. You will have to learn how you can get rid of that weight.

There is this book “How we get fat and what to do about it” by Gary Taubes. I will strongly recommend it to any person who is serious about his weight loss dream. The book doesn’t give even one advice on how to lose weight, but it talks about the urgency of understanding obesity.  

So where am I on my journey to understand the story of weight loss? 

Yesterday only, I made a sheet about the first workout of Jillian Michaels’s 30 days shred. I am going to make such sheets for every single workout. Why?

I need to know my workouts by name. I need to know which exercise is called what. I need to know how many repetition of each exercise is recommended. It’s one thing to just put in DVD and start to follow. It’s also exercise but it doesn’t increase your understanding of exercise. But when you try to learn each method by name, you are going that extra mile. Happy weight loss journey!

30 DAY SHRED- LEVEL 1
SR.NO	EXERCISE	REPS	WORKOUT
1	Arm cross	15	warm up
2	Windmills	25	warm up
3	Jumping jacks	20	warm up
4	Hip circles	12	warm up
5	Knee circles	12	warm up
6	Jumping jacks	20	warm up
7	Push up	18	strength training
8	Squat and press	25	strength training
9	Push up	12	strength training
10	Squat and press	20	strength training
11	Jumping jacks	30	cardio
12	Jump ropes	30	cardio
13	Jumping jacks	30	cardio
14	Jump ropes	30	cardio
15	Basic crunch	18	abs
16	Reverse crunch	12	abs
17	Dumble roll	15	strength training
18	Static lunge with bicep curl	25	strength training
19	Dumble roll	15	strength training
20	static lunge with bicep curl (opposite leg)	25	strength training
21	Butt kicks	30	cardio
22	Punches	30	cardio
23	Butt kicks	30	cardio
24	Punches	30	cardio
25	oblique crunch	15	abs
26	oblique crunch (opposite leg)	15	abs
27	chest flies	12	strength training
28	side lunges	25	strength training
29	chest flies	12	strength training
30	side lunges	25	strength training
31	Jumping jacks	30	cardio
32	Butt kicks	30	cardio
33	Punches	30	cardio
34	Jump ropes	30	cardio
35	Bicycle crunches	30	abs
36	leg stretch	1	calm down
37	finger stretch behind back	1	calm down
38	shoulder stretch	1	calm down
39	quadriceps stretch	1	calm down