Day - 11

Entry for 02/27/2014 -- Slept only for 4 or 5 hours and woke up and couldn't go swimming as I had to take care of another friend's upcoming b'day gift arrangements... So no swimming, had rice pancake again for breakfast, lunch 3 flat bread with a dry mix veg curry, evening had 2 green teas... Evening around 7pm had a 2 egg omelet with a bun... Not a bad day i guess... looking forward to swimming tomorrow...

Day - 10

Entry For - 02/26/2014   --  Finally one perfect day... Breakfast had a thin rice pancake ... then swam for 1.5hrs... For the first time since I started learning to swim, I did more rounds of the length of the pool than the width of it... started breathing during the swim... its not perfect or balanced breathing technique by any means, but it lets me continue to swim... Trying to smoothen my breathing technique and I should be set after that... Lets see... Lunch as usual my friends dragged me to the restaurant but I managed to control my urge and had only a chicken manchow soup... Evening had a green tea, no sugar only honey... Dinner had very thin flat bread with a boiled cabbage curry and boiled cauliflower curry... 27th is my friends b'day so some of my friends and I went to his home at midnight to surprise him and we celebrated his birthday... managed with only a sliver of cake here as well... but sleep has been a rare luxury .... need to sleep well tomorrow... All in all a perfect day... hope to continue this...

Day - 9

For Feb 25, 2014.....  An absolute disaster of a day... Lost all my TT matches in all categories... Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles..... Ate like I used to before the experiment, all junk nothing good... definitely I'm slipping into the old habits, weight has been the same, checked again today... tomorrow going to office 2.5hrs early to have a good swim... got to get back on track... waiting for the tomorrow's swim....

Day - 8

Slept very late last night.... So had to sleep till late, no breakfast... for lunch had chicken fried rice, Not ideal... but couldn't help... Playing TT for few hours everyday and in an inter office competition... So I need some carbs... Didn't eat anything else till dinner time... just had a green tea... Played TT for 2hours... Tomorrow morning have a quarterfinal match with a very good player... never seen him play, but the grapevine is he plays very well, may be a little better than me, so I'm hoping to play my best game tomorrow... So played very seriously today... For dinner had 3 flat bread, with a mixed vegetable dry curry... Going 2.5 hrs early tomorrow, 1hr for preparation and warm up then the match... lets see how I fare...

Day 4,5,6,7

From 20th to 23rd... I've been stuck with some stuff.. Been on and off with my diet... swam on 2 days... today for 2hrs... feeling good but ate a lot in the afternoon lunch.... I have to move to a different place, searching for a new flat... so that's taking some of my time... Got to pick my self up and run my ass off... and may be some swimming... next week is the serious workout week, I'm at 94 now... want to get into 80's very soon, i.e. in next 2 weeks... Lets see...

Day - 3

Having a hard time in the 4 to 5 days... So much has happened in such a short time that I'm finding hard to sleep without getting lost in my thoughts... So the result is that I wake up late and don't have time for anything else.. Wanted to wake up early so with some effort managed to get up by 10am, no breakfast, I had a ping pong match at 2pm, so couldn't eat lunch as it would make me sluggish... had a cream roll with banana milk shake, then in the evening had an egg puff and a veg puff.... night had a lot of rice with an assortment of curries and veg dishes (called Thali). Played TT for almost 3hrs, so needed some good dinner... Anyway won all my ping pong matches so that's good... a lil tired and sleepy... ate lot of stuff... its bitter sweet...

Day - 2

Nothing went according to plan... Didn't have any breakfast, went out to a clinic in the morning... Then went for lunch, had a Fish Tandoor, i.e. a whole fish cooked in a oven called Tandoor and its covered in a marinade of spices... not very unhealthy but had a rice dish called Chicken Biryani... That screwed up my day... it was just the beginning, didn't eat anything in the evening had just a Tea... Dinner had small quantity of rice with yellow lentil soup... no exercise, was pretty busy with work today... tomorrow got my table tennis (ping pong) singles and doubles matches... Lets see how I fare... still not getting to good habits will try to get on track in next couple of days...

Day - 1

Saturday and Sunday i.e. yesterday and day before yesterday... did swimming for 3hrs and 2hrs respectively... I love spending long hours in the pool... I don't swim continuously, but don't take too many breaks also... so it was a good weekend... I have been swimming all these weeks, had to stop it a couple of weeks... but other than that I've been fairly regular... I'm at 94 now... planning to go down into the 80's pretty soon... that would be the first time I'm in 80's in 9 years or so... So looking forward to it... and my Bicycle purchase lies on going below 90... so got to start my efforts in getting there... My back has been a little sensitive in the past few weeks, while on a jog one day had a sharp pain, then I have not been running... So swimming is the one and only big part of my calorie loss plans... So got to keep it up.... Registered for my inter office TT competition... I'm pretty good, but winning is difficult as there are much better players... and I've kind of a performance pressure in competitions... so lets see how it goes... playing singles, doubles and mixed doubles.... should be good exercise at least... Now to food... yesterday I let myself go completely and ate like hell... Today started with the 180days... No exercise, rest day of sorts... Started slow, slept till late, went to office and did regular work... Food...

No breakfast
Lunch - 3 flat breads made of whole wheat flour...
Post Lunch - A friend got engaged, he brought sweets, had to eat some ( ok ok I ate more than some)
4pm    - Had a tea and 4 biscuits
7pm    - Had a tea again ( office AC was screwed, it was way too cold, so needed a tea)
Dinner - 2 boiled eggs

Not an ideal day, but it will get better from tomorrow....

Visiting a clinic tomorrow, planning to try something new in terms of my looks, lets see how it goes...

Excited to start this activity again.... looking forward to a big difference this time... Fingers Crossed...

Here we go again..... Againnnnnn ;) ;)

So here I'm again... much better than how I was before the 100days experiment... My planned 2 week vacation extended to a 3 week vacation... My foresight of over eating was absolutely true... But surprise surprise.... I jogged like hell during that time... I thought I wasn't going to have a place or company in my village... but as the luck would have it... I found both... After couple of days of missing to jog, I came to know about some of my childhood friends who started going on morning walk one was just my neighbor... So I found company but in my small village, I thought I wouldn't find a place to jog, the dirt roads, the rocky nature of the terrain wasn't promising at all... I started off with a road, but after a week found another place, which was a inclined hill atop of which stood a university... the road is like any other university, laid on a million years ago, the soil underneath visible everywhere... hardly perfect for jogging or so I thought... I was scared for my left ankle... and I didn't even take my usual jogging shoes... I just had my flat sneakers... they were new... But they felt so great while running...  I always heard about hill training and how it is good for your strength and for improving your running form, but I never ran any road other than my regular one back in the town where I lived... So I took on my new running course without knowing how challenging it will be... but I understood it the very first time I did the uphill... I enjoyed running there so much... The elevation increased my heart rate exponentially like it had never gotten before... Its length was probably around 400 to 500 meters... The uphill used to be excruciating but I could relax while going downhill... So the awesome unexpected morning run began... On my average day I managed to do the uphill and downhill combined 8 to 9 rounds in about 35 to 40mins... on my best day I did 13 rounds... then I came back from my vacation on Dec 13th and I not only maintained my weight despite of the loads and loads of food I ate but I also increased my leg strength and the new course showed me new possibilities, I missed it for days after my return.... I missed swimming though, so I booked my tickets to allow a day in the pool... So I came back tried running, I couldn't get the satisfaction even after doing 5kms because my heart rate never raised to the level that I got used to by now... thoroughly enjoyed 3 hours of pool time that day... So I got back on to my routine well, and I was sure I didn't need the blog anymore... but boy was I wrong... ankle pain started again, lot of pressure from other corners.. couldn't keep up both running and swimming... Slowly running started taking back seat... Then my back started aching a little, swimming was fine running doesn't seem to be possible... I did take long walks every now and then... Ate a lot of unnecessary food for sure and there was no place to confess since I stopped writing here... again few more problems of the heart... in spite of all this thanks to some miracle my weight stayed constant at 95... An aching heart is hard to carry around... but a broken spirit is unbearable... Thanks to god... I'm just aching and broken at places but definitely my spirit is intact and strong... So here we go again, this time 6months is the period 10kgs is the target... All rules are the same and the experiment start on 17th.... in between the last couple of months I turned 31... Visited my spine doctor, he was very happy to see my small weight loss, he asked me to loose 8more kg before he can allow me to do a half marathon... Hoping to do this by July... I kind of had my first GF (embarrassing I know... but not uncommon in the country I'm from) for 3days that was 2days ago... then she freaked out and got out... because she realized that she is still to get over the last guy... Beginner's luck yaaaayyyy .... anyway she is still very much a friend... no grudges... managed to learn swimming did the full length of the pool 3 times till now... but cant breath yet.... so I still hold my breath and swim as long as I can... trying to learn to breath, lets see how it goes.... spending 3hours on weekends in the pool... that really helps... Checked my weight after the pool time today, I'm at 94.... Planning to loose the rest of the 4 very soon and then will buy a bicycle... March 1st moving into a new flat, its a huge society of flats, with jogging tracks, a running group, a swimming pool and a Gold's Gym nearby... So hoping to do this in a much more serious manner in the next 6months.... Work is as usual, a dear friend is getting married next week, but cant go... too much on my head... need to clear my head and get into a good running rhythm soon.... Kind of left my French classes hanging in the air have to start them again soon... Had plans to go for a study tour to France, but it got cancelled.... so lets hope I can achieve all the goals.... Lets see how these 180 days go.... Time to get my shit straight and take these 180days seriously... Tomorrow is the party day... going to eat a lot of bad shit ... :) :) ... the preparation day ..... :) :) ... wish me luck...