Christian-Thibault-My-Journey

Some stats

Weight, age and height

Born: 1962

Height: 193 cm (6,3Ft)

Max Weight: 198 kg (436,5 lbs)

Weight as athlete: 87 kg (191,8 lbs)

Weight in February 2020: 167 kg (368,2)

Target weight: 98 kg (216 lbs)

My highest measured weight was 198 kg (436,5 lbs) about 10 years ago. In those days i was very shy and scared about using a scale, it was just too hopeless and depressing to see what was going on with me. Usually i would go on a short and hard diet when i knew i would need to go anywhere near a scale, for example at the doctors. So i might have been well over 200 kilos at some point. I had since gone down to 146 kg (322 lbs), meaning i lost 50 kilos in 7 years, but this was only partly due to my work and partly, about 18 kilos due to some illness. The weight came back then with the medication for it. I will tell more about that chapter later. My goal are 98 kilos, as i am a lot more muscular now than in my playing days and also because i believe it is not good to be at the lower limit. Being slightly under 100 kilos, i hope, will give me a motivating limit to set an alarm when i reach that line.

This means that so far, i am down 30 kilos of my target of 100.

Diary

My weight loss diary:

I will update this section soon

Warning

Please don't read this diary as some kind of textbook to follow. Everyone of us is different. I add this section to inspire you and to stay inspired, organised and disciplined myself. Which is why we should keep a diary in the first place. So there is lesson one, if any lessons are asked for. Lesson two would be to understand that weight control is not just what we eat and the work outs we do. If it was that simple! It is far more than that. It is self care, physically and mentally and also to care about the environment we live in and where we set our boundaries. Not only eating boundaries, but also whom we let get to us and how.

So to gain a deeper understanding of the root causes, i will write far more than just a diary.

So again, please don't just read the diary without the context, i might be doing crazy things which at this point are good for me, or even just experimental, but not good for you. Without context, there might be misunderstandings.

Please press the bottom and read on:

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My life journey

Introduction: My life journey in terms of weight, gain and loss

Do men have weight problems? Yes. Do they talk much about it, or is there much information about it? No.

During my life journey i must have gained and lost hundreds of kilos, i just seem to have that disposition. I have been an athlete and also did physical labour as a landscaper and nursery gardener for a long time. There was a long period when i did not need to care about weight. But since 30 years now, when being a football player turned into coaching and club management and social activism into NGO leadership and representation in committees, i have to live conscious and with discipline. I had turned vegan back then, abandoned it and returned, i had to live through mentally challenged times and learned a lot about myself and about many different and helpful techniques, small and big. We all have our different journeys and challenges, but some of what i went through might hopefully inspire you. I have learned a lot and always planned to share my experience, but thought i should first reach my goal, before doing so.

Now, at my 58th birthday, family and friends have encouraged me to invite you all in, even as i am still at it. I am planning to share views on life events since my childhood, to see how it could be connected to physical shape, while updating on my current process. Not always necessarily in chronological order. So here we go, are you in?