OMFG -5kg in one month!

OMFG - the reaction I have been getting looking in the mirror lately and also from friends and work buddies.

I've been away lately - stuck on a boat in the Natuna sea to be exact. Not exactly the ideal place to diet and exercise at all. Last time I was on the boat last year I put on about 6kg in 2 months, so I was pretty worried what would happen this time.

The first thing I did was buy an exercise bike before I left and put it on the top deck of the boat. It was a good investment for sure though I'm going to try to find a way to claim it as a work expense hehehe. I found a pretty simple one, it was about $200 and had 8 levels of resistance, fully adjustable seat and even an RPM and calorie counter with the timer.

The second thing I did was pull aside the boat's chef and have a chat to him. Normally he cooks the awesomest fried food and stirfrys but I explained to him about my diet. It was pretty hard to explain at first because the chef is Balinese and his Indonesian isn't that very good though it is better than mine. After a few meals of leaving my steak on the plate yet finishing all of my salad he started to understand.

I basically ate salad for lunch and dinner every single night for about 30 days. Often I would take a small piece of steamed fish or grilled chicken and mix it with my salad. Instead of using olive oil or fatty creamy dressings, I would take a bit of the sauce used in some of the other dishes he was cooking where it be squid pasta or stewed vegetables. For dinner I would have a small cup of soup for an appetiser, just because it was so good. I avoided all rice as much as possible until we started running out of salad.

Working out on the exercise bike in the mornings was so awesome. I'd get up to the top deck of the boat just after the sun rose and sky was changing colors, then just listen to some music and watch the ocean current and waves. Once I saw a pod of dolphins swimming by with the light pink sky in the background, pedaling away listening to a DJ Hype mix. It took me 20 mins to warm up sometimes so early in the mornings but I was able to bust out 450-500 calories of exercise within the half an hour I allocated. I wanted to go every day but sometimes I felt sick or my workout clothes were in the laundry...I guess I averaged 5 days out of every week.

On the boat I had no access to scales, and even if I had scales it would be hard to get a good reading with the motion of the boat going on...so while away I had no idea what I weighed or if I was losing. I knew I must have lost a bit because my size 36 shorts were feeling exceptionally loose, without a belt they were practically falling down and sagging around my butt.

I knew I had lost a lost but wasn't sure how much as I only weigh myself in the mornings, my girlfriend kept telling me that I felt different when she hugged me....so in the morning I checked on my digital scales and BOOM!! 5-6kg less than what I weighed before I left. I weighed 89.8kg, and the difference was so much that it confused the programming with water% and fat% sensors and the smart scales couldn't detect who I was.

I am pretty happy about it, been wearing my clothes with more confidence as they actually fit me properly now. I feel quite good and ready to push through even further =)