WHAT KIND OF PERSON ARE YOU ?

Now please take the time to decide what type of person are you for dieting!
My assumption (I'm avoiding to say theory) is that there are two types of people when it comes to putting yourself on a diet: one is "The All or Nothing" kind of guy and there is the "Always Ready for Compromises" type.
Now you're guessing what I'm gonna say: I'm the All or Nothing type !!! Please let me elaborate, I am not trying to patronize myself, just merely describing how I can bear with diets. I've discovered, since I already lost weight several years before the same way, that I can easily say "NO" to food at all i.e. if I restrain my self with very little amount and tastes then I can get through more easily in the overall situation. But when I try several things with different tastes in small portions then it's like some valves are opened and just crave for more and I end up eating everything in big portions. You might say I'm a food addict because once I'm into it, I can't quit so easy. Maybe it's just the food for me, maybe I can make compromises with my behaviour regarding different subjects.
At the other end, "Always Ready for Compromises" guy will have just small problems with obeying the rules of the diet. These people can also have little difficulties with keeping the the desired body figure, something that I will have to work on a lot after I finish this project.

Choose THE KIND OF PERSON YOU ARE !!!

MY TODAY'S ONLY MEAL!

Well, to have a good subject on the blog it has to sound like the above written title.
Now today was an exhausting day for me, I had to take some antibiotics early in the morning and go to work as fast as possible, so I had a banana - the only thing to grab between me and the door out. By the way I'm having antibiotics because of my dental works prescribed by the dentist which is preparing me for the surgery on the 2nd of July.
Now let me describe my day.
Got up 6:20 am, washed, got dressed, ate the banana drank the antibiotic and by 7:00 I was traveling to the next town to get some tractor tyres for a customer. I borrowed a car from a friend 'cause I didn't have a hook for "another friend's trailer" and got back in my town around 10:00 am. As fast as I could I loaded off the tyres, and want to give back the trailer and the car, but the trailer had a flat tyre so, half an hour at the neighbour workshop to repair it, and the guy there had to seal the inner tube tyre but also had to change the outside tube type tire..... hummm... That's what happens when you borrow other people's stuff. But the good moment was: the guy had a used tyre and he needed an oil seal for his bike, and since I sell oil seals - A BARTER WAS DONE IMMEDIATELY !!! Right after that, I barely got on time to my appointment with my hairdresser , then buy some stuff for home, get to work to pick up my wife and rushed again to the next town to my dentist appointment and to get some paperwork done at the polish embassy for my wife, later we got back to our town, almost right away drove our daughter to the doctor's for a check up and finally we got home at 19:20.
YEAP, NO *HIT! YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT!
So the final thing to end this post is with a pic of the meal that I had at 19:30 at last, and a glass of cola as you can see in the pic.
The meal is called "tzatziki", it's a greek name and I don't know if my wife's recipe is the same as the original but it's damn tasty.
Here's the ingridients and how to prepare it yourself:
- 2 fresh cucumbers
- 2 x 200ml sour cream
- 5 garlic cloves
- some salt and
- some pepper. (nothing more)
Just put the cucumbers through a grater (to get thin longish shaped pieces), they will give some water in the bowl, add the sour cream, garlic, salt and pepper. Mix all together and VOILA you've got a heck of a salad for lunch or dinner(you can put it in the fridge for 10-15 min, so the garlic spreads it's taste).
NOW That was MY TODAY'S ONLY MEAL !
Enjoy!

BACK ON TRACK !

Hey people!
Now I'm often reviewing my blog and I want to say that my intention is not to make it look like a lot of TV Series which start with the right subject but somewhere along the way they loose track of what they were all about. Take CSI for example, (don't get me wrong - I love CSI) but instead the forensic - crime solving, all high tech, DNA testing and God knows what, it transfers into emotional "stuff" between colleagues and so on. For me it should stay more objective and refer to science for every case, but nevertheless human element is unavoidable, therefore I've made some posts referring to small or larger details which somehow supplement my experiment or are an inevitable part of it.
Don't get me wrong I'm just trying to make some suggestions and better explain my effort to achieve my goal !
So the reason I'm not giving new pics and weight numbers is because I plan to do it when one full month elapses since the start of my project. This choice I made was because few days or a week is a very small period to get your hops on and the changes will be relative to see in real.
The first month is the slowest, it makes the body adapt to burning fat from the reserves it stacked during the "winter", and so the next two months should show an increased reaction of the experiment.
So don't think I've quited, on the contrary I hold my case firmly.
SO GUYS, THE FIRST RESULTS WILL BE ON THE 10th of JULY !!! KEEP FOLLOWING ME!

SPEAKING OF DIFFERENT AGES!

Now I must make a difference between dieting when you are a teenager and after twenties - single or married.
You have to bear in mind that when you are a teenager it's much easier to put yourself on a diet. And the circumstances allow it better because you can sleep late up 'till noon (I'm referring to summer time period when you're on vacation) then go out with friends and hang out all day long, afterwards just a shower at home and off you go out side again. Late walks or hanging out in the street with some neighbour fellows are welcomed so when you turn around the time has flown by. Somewhere in between you can insert a couple of salads, or a soup, but if you are not around home all day long you can have a small size potato chips so it kills your need for food. Don't exegerate 'cause you'll end up enjoung different tastes and eventually it will remind you how tasty some dishes and meals are and the next move is..... full stomach and feeling sorry that you broke the "code"(diet), that always happens,... ONE IS ALWAYS KEEN ON STARTING A DIET WHEN HIS BELLY IS FULL, BUT IF EMPTY - "I'LL EAT JUST THIS ONCE AND THEN I'M STARTING MY DIET" !!!
If you are married or single that's another story! Your wife or friends often may prepare tasty, delicious meals, baked, cooked or boiled stuff and man that's hard to resist. So bear in mind not to get yourself involved into even debating about the next meal. Yeap that's the thing in my house. Huh.... Tough !
Be strong try to isolate yourself from these subjects and don't hang out a lot with your buddies when they eat, or if you wanna put yourself to the test... BE MY GUEST!

About weather seasons when loosing weight !

Now I'm publishing this 'cause I need to stress out how important is the weather season when going on a diet and submitting yourself to harsh nutrition.
In my country summer is the period when you have a lot of fruit and vegetables on the market for very prices, and I mean it's cheap.
During this period you are covered with all the essentials for the "A La Darko Diet".
I'm not patronizing myself but nearly pointing to the diet model.
During the summer you've got everything: vegetables - cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage....., fruit - all of it, peaches, apricots, strawberries, cherries and my favorite "water melon". Man you can eat water melon a lot, it's not gonna make you fat, someone may say there is a lot of sugar in it, yeah but I'll say what's that compared to not intaking surar at all during this period, and you are not intaking any complex sugars (carbon hydrates) and therefore you will burn this plain sugars immediately plus you'll have plenty of room to burn your own piled up fat. Haha!!!
The water melon is good because you can eat a lot of it and it will satisfy your desperate need to fill up your stomach.
Maybe I'm blessed to have this fine fruit at hilarious price per kilo over here but if you have it too, use it wise.

Supplemental Photos!

My last night's dinner and today's lunch. For dinner 1 fresh tomato an a couple of thin sliced pieces of cheese, For today's lunch boiled potatoes and cucumber salad.

DAY SEVEN!

Hi guys,
Sorry for not writing 5 days but I've been busy as hell and the main reason is I painted the walls in my house for the weekend and every cable was disconnected and so was my router.
Anyways I'm holding OK, eating only vegetables (salads to be more precise) and a couple of times I've included boiled white rice for a meal.
I must admit that I was tempted a couple of times to reach for french fries and ice cream but I've made it through. You should bear in mind that sometimes it may happen that you will totally forgot you are on a diet and reach out for some tasty snack.
But try not to disappoint yourself and just keep on going, you will endure and become victorious!
Guys, the next two weeks will be extra easy for me to keep up with my diet because I'm going to get my teeth done the next week i.e. prepare them for the surgery I have on 2nd of July. I have a cyst on my lower jaw which needs to be removed and as you can imagine at least for 10 days I will only drink liquids.
Brace yourselves Folks. Pull the belt tighter to feel the extra fat every day as a reminder what you are trying to achieve.
Chin up high!

DAY TWO !

Sorry, no pics today. I had a salad, yeah cucumber salad with some garlic for lunch.
Breakfast was also around 12:30- same as yesterday. I haven't mentioned - It is better to have your breakfast later during the day because I don't know if anyone has noticed but if you start eating early in the morning it makes you wish for more in shorter intervals afterwards. So skip the torment but instead have a coffee, juice or water.
I said earlier that I did this once and therefore I can give tips before I see the results.
Now, my stomach made some desperate sounds for food but disregarding it helps.
You know when I started yesterday my wife started asking me what I am supposed to eat, will I eat this if she cooks, will I eat that, does my diet include "rice with potatoes cooked in an oven.....
Well guys I'll give you this advice: You can take a peek in the fridge, you can fantasize for diverse feasts but one thing is best if you want to loose weight - limit your meal list to minimum. That way you won't spend time thinking about every type of meal you can prepare with the "allowed" ingredients, instead you won't be thinking about food and eating at all, 'cause you only make intake of uniform, annoying food which makes you pleasure no more but only keeps your mind strait.
So if you have a mama that wants to help and will cook for you everything you ask, just don't speak with her on that subject and tell her it's fine and you'll take care of it. Eating diverse and flavorful food just arouses the appetite and can drown you in a mouth-full desperate urge.

DAY ONE !

This is my breakfast/lunch since I had at 12:00 o'clock . You can imagine it's a salad : tomatoes , cucumber, paprika, onion and cheese on top with an olive.
I said mostly vegetables and this is our national Macedonian salad (called Shopska Salata) so the cheese is a must.
The second one is as well the samo recipe with less cheese but in addition some more olives.
That is the dinner at 18:30 o'clock.
Don't forget fluids, I already had 1,5 water plus a couple glasses of juice and a Pepsi Cola I must admit.
You can have one more salad late at night if you are a night owl never mind what time it is because you are only having essentials, nothing is gonna add up or pile up, on the contrary the rest that your body needs is going to burn off your fat.
Two to three coffees during the day is acceptable as well - as you can see on my breakfast image.
Moving on.

PHOTOS !!!!!!!!!!!!

Well Folks with image No.5,6 and 7 you see I've got "some" belly, titties, stomach Skin Strech Marks (red ones), love handles, double chin.... you name it.
Now, image No. 1 is natural body position, No.2 is when you pump your chest and abdomen when you inhale so you don't doubt that I'm doing some kind Before and After trick like they do it on TV commercials. No.3 is natural position topless and No.4 is with stomack sucked in again to eliminate doubt with before and after.

Everyone, You guess that I don't have a good body figure.
Now I'm showing what excess weight I have.

BIG START

The BIG START. Well It's going to start tonight 10.06.2009 ! (06.10.2009 if the Americans prefer that way).
Now people, I have some blood and urine tests results today from the doctor's (regular annual check) and it seems everything is OK except the cholesterol which is a bit higher in range than it should be. I hope to get that in order with this experiment or someone should say diet, but I would say "starving" is a bit more adequate word.
Anyway beside the lab tests a scale weighting and height measurement was done.
I'm not at all proud saying ("writing") I weight 128 kgs (kilos, that's 282.19 lb, wow), and 178 cm tall(5.83 ft).
I don't have photos of that since it would be awkward to do that at the doctor's :D , but I'll make some tonight of myself just before The Big Start.
I just want to say, I'm doing this for myself, don't intend to impress or moralize someone, but I don't mind if someone sees it as trigger, or find it hopeful.
The battle starts tonight midnight!
Just for the record it's better not to have dinner the day before starting a diet, because in the morning your guts make sounds and make you feel hungry a lot, but if skipping dinner this ends during your sleep and that makes it easier to get through the day.
MIDNIGHT PEOPLE- LIKE Cinderella LOL :D .

THE REASON AND THE CONCEPT.

I'm gonna do this, Loose Weight in 2-3 Months. And I mean to loose a lot of weight.
I'll submit pictures so that you can witness. It's not a hoax nor it will be.
If I fail I won't be embarressed to admit it, although it may turn out that a lot of people that I know will see this blog. So I got a big stake in it.
First I wanted to make this blog on a white surface, sparkling white, like the web sites which sell fancy pills for loosing weight, and I mean they are everywhere, they bombard on youtube as well and have promoters like Oprah or others. No offence, I don't want to get in any kind of legal shit with those guys. But white surface idea fell out because I don't feel sparkling white with my 120-130 kilos. I say 120-130 because I haven't scale weighted my self, was a bit scared to be honest. But not any more!
I'm throwing everything I've got on this bet, since I achieved it once before, for my Prom. I'll submit pics for that too, so no-one gets confused or thinks that I cheat.
No pills people, no vitamin shakes, just plain vegetables and fruit but mostly vegetables.
I'll add up once daily for every meal or snack.
And the real reason to get Fat-To-Thin-ASAP is my family and myself, and the concept is to do it on my own(and not pills) so I can get the credit. You feel me? Work the bike myself not someone pushing me from behind.
Any comments are welcomed, just don't be rude.
Plus I want to have results fast-ASAP, and not celebrating loosing 1 kilo a month and wait years to see my expected body figure. That way I'll quit in the middle of the process for sure or at the very beginning like most people do(even I for a few times).
Now spread the word people, these will be 3 hard months for me.
Following:
Photographs,
Scale weighting,
Testimonals.