{"id":1681,"date":"2016-01-06T23:36:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T07:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2016-01-06T23:36:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T07:36:50","slug":"final-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2016\/01\/06\/final-weigh-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Final weigh-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/img_1122.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/img_1122.png?resize=640%2C1136\" alt=\"2015 final weight chart\" width=\"640\" height=\"1136\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2015 final weight chart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today I did my final weigh-in for a weight loss contest I started with <a href=\"http:\/\/ispraveendead.com\">Praveen<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0last year. I lost. But here are the highlights and lowlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I had a great first 90 days. I was exercising 5 days a week\u00c2\u00a0for 30 &#8211; 45 minutes. It was a combination of strength and cardio. I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2015\/04\/thank-you-live-to-fail\/\">loved<\/a> it.<\/li>\n<li>Then I got sick for a week, and I massively fell off of that bandwagon. I&#8217;ve not been able to get back on, and hopefully the 30 minutes of activity goal for this year will help (so far, it hasn&#8217;t)<\/li>\n<li>Ramadan really got me this year. I lost a ton of weight, and then piled it back on.<\/li>\n<li>Traveling got me a bit too<\/li>\n<li>In September, I got a real downer bit of news at work, and that just sent me for a spin. I didn&#8217;t really recover from the emotional rollercoaster and stress that caused.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t do weight loss by just dieting. I have to have an element of exercise. Even the lowest impact thing (such as Yoga or walking to the grocery store) helps a ton. There just has to be something.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I&#8217;d say if I were to do it again is to not do a contest against someone who can radically change their life pattern in ways you can&#8217;t. Praveen killed it in Berlin, and then in Machu Pichu where he had two massive step functions down in weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing I&#8217;d say, even though I didn&#8217;t see it for long, is that when I&#8217;m below 185 lbs I have way more body confidence than when I&#8217;m above 185 lbs. So, having peaked at 199 lbs in 2015, and been as low as 183 lbs at one point I think I can realistically say this year that I&#8217;m starting at 188.5 lbs, and that I&#8217;ll end the year at 175 lbs.<\/p>\n<p>Here goes nothing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I did my final weigh-in for a weight loss contest I started with Praveen\u00c2\u00a0last year. I lost. But here are the highlights and lowlights: I had a great first 90 days. I was exercising 5 days a week\u00c2\u00a0for 30 &#8211; 45 minutes. It was a combination of strength and cardio. I loved it. Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-r7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1481,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2015\/02\/17\/what-im-doing-for-lent-2015\/","url_meta":{"origin":1681,"position":0},"title":"What I'm doing for Lent 2015","date":"February 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy Fat Tuesday everyone! 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