Weighing In

109kg.
I'm very happy that I'm still losing weight and that I'm managing to stick with the routine of walking, avoiding snacking on junk and eating healthier for lunch at work. It's not really hard work, just a little bit of self control and that's about it. A couple of times this week I've thought that maybe I could cheat a little, but I managed to keep myself in check. Once I'm down below 90kg, then I can cheat occasionally, but by then I may be more keen on still losing more weight, I guess I'll have to wait and see.
I've swapped to Weetbix this week but I still haven't changed what I eat for dinner or how much I eat. I'm not trying to starve myself or lose weight in a hurry. I want this to be sustainable and I don't believe that going on a shake diet or radically changing anything around your diet is a sustainable way to live, who really wants to live on shakes all the time. I like food, I like eating, I like beer, but I don't like being overweight. I do wonder though just how quickly I could lose weight if I gave the shakes a go, I just don't know if I could stick with them and even though I know it is vain of me, I don't want anyone at work to see me drinking weight-loss shakes. I don't know if they'd have enough go in them to keep me going through to lunch if I had one for breakfast, my work can be quite physical at times. I couldn't have them for dinner, I like eating with my kids and I couldn't very well tell them to eat their meal if I wasn't even eating the same thing as them.
So far, I've lost 5kg in total, I don't really feel any lighter but I am pulling my pants up more often so I put another hole in my belt between the one I've been using and the next one down as that was just too tight. I'm going to have to put some more holes in my belt if I keep losing weight as once I'm out of the halfway hole I'll be in the final hole. That'll actually be pretty cool, it'll hopefully give me some more motivation to keep on losing weight and I won't have to measure my waist or anything. 
I do think that in general I've been sleeping better and I've also haven't been getting as hungry in-between meals. At bedtime in the first week, I was getting hungry but I haven't felt hungry at bedtime in the last couple of weeks. I'm hoping that isn't my metabolism slowing down too much and that the water is doing the trick in keeping me feeling fuller for longer and that my body isn't craving as much sugar as it used to. I did read somewhere a long time ago that once you have a fat cell, you have it for life (unless you get them surgically removed) but keeping yourself hydrated is a good way for the fat cells to not retain as much water themselves. It had something to do with back in the day where we could go through periods of feast where we would pack on pounds and retain fluid to help us get through times of famine. I'm very blessed to live in Australia, there are so many other places in the world that are so much worse off than here that I think we're spoiled and don't really realise just how bad it really is out there. Wow, that's getting a little too deep for this blog I think.

Bomber.
Feeling blessed.