I finished reading one book. It is about how to lose weight.
I found some common factors with the author, so that I could easily project myself into her.
The author is a Japanese woman who is around my age. She weighed 62.5 kg, which is also similar to mine. She loves rice and tends to eat more than necessary.
This book is about her success story to have lost 10 kg in two years. She now weighs 52.5 kg and keeps her ideal weight.
In the book she also includes two coworkers who followed her method. These two women are also around my age. Their heights are same as mine. Their weights were different from mine though. They weighed 53 kg, which is pretty light, but they still wanted to lose 4 to 5 more kg to enter in 40s in kg. The standard weight for Japanese is different from Americans. The majority of Japanese are very skinny but they want to lose their weight more.
From my own experiences, the majority of my friends in America who are in my age group are not skinny as Japanese. Their common weights are somewhere between 150 lb. to 160 lb. (68 kg to 72.6 kg).
Now I clearly understand why I didn’t realize soon about putting more weights in this area. I am now well-blended in to the current environment.
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Anyway, these are the suggestions from the author to lose weight.
1. Analysis
* The history of weight, eating pattern, and body figure
* The cause of gaining weight
* The average daily intake calorie
* The average daily burned calorie
2. Goal setting
* The reasons to lose weight
* How much weight you want to lose weight
* Until when you want to reach the goal
3. Reasons
4. Action plan
* List up action plans
5. Review and revise accordingly
* PDCA; Plan, Do, Check, Act
6. Find out your own pattern
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My weight fluctuates, going ups and downs. My recent lightest was 58.8 kg in September 2018, while my recent heaviest was 63.4 kg in January 2019. These numbers fit to my pattern. I lose some weight in summer and put extra weight in winter. I exercise more and eat less in summer while I do the opposite in winter. In 2015, I kept the good weight of 56 kg for about one year. Then, in 2016, with the situation of my husband’s unemployment situation (stressful and too much worry and concern), I regained back to the heavy body.
While young, I never gained too much weight. I never thought I would need to be on a diet. It was when I turned to 44 years old that I started gaining weight.
The cause of gaining weight is the amount I eat. I eat in the same way as I was young. My body does not have a high metabolism system as I did in younger years. Thus, I need to reduce the amount I eat.
The average daily intake calorie is around 2,000 kcal while the average daily burned calorie is around 1,500 kcal.
My goal is to weigh 56 kg. As of today I weigh 60.0 kg, so I will need to lose 4 more kg for my goal. I want to reach the goal by February 2020. So, I want to lose 4 more kg in 4 months.
The reason is I want to regain my good health. When l am in a good body size, my organs function normally. Also, I want to look young and pretty.
My action plan is to keep the intermittent fasting of 16/8 method. I already have incorporated good amount of exercise daily; more than one hour a day. I will keep doing this.
I hope I will be able to report my success in losing weight in my short article in February 2020.
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