Our Journey Begins

Introduction

This is me, Alain, and my girlfriend Anne. This photo was taken at Viking's restaurant-- a buffet-type restaurant-- earlier because it's Anne's birthday. 

We've been struggling with our weight for the most part of our relationship (me, for the most part of my life) because we really love to eat.  We like to experiment with what we eat. She likes to experiment with her cooking. We even travel to different places just to try out their dishes.

Today, though, we promised each other that this will be the last buffet we will ever eat and we'll do our best to lose our excess weights and live a healthy lifestyle. For our future.

As It Stands

Currently, we have a sedentary lifestyle. I have a desk job as a developer and the best exercise so far is playing Ingress. I weight about 212 lbs. Anne weighs at 135 lbs.

We also have other measurements but this will be our main gauge for weight loss

Goal

From readings, most are saying that a very fast weight loss (more than 2 lbs per week) is unhealthy. We tend to agree but I think we can push it a bit more. Our goal is to reach our ideal body weights (mine: 145lbs; her: 110lbs) as soon as possible. Probably around Christmas (December). This will be about 15 weeks.

Method

JeFit

We are fans of saving money so we'll be employing a number of techniques that balances saving money while maximizing our returns.

1. Gym - exercising at the gym is better since if we can't do it at home. We've enrolled for a lifetime membership at Slimmer's World. We will also be using the android app JeFit Pro (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=je.fit.pro). This app has great collection of exercise routines and helps out in doing sets. 

Zombies, Run!

We will also be accompanying cardio with the app Zombies, Run (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sixtostart.zombiesrun) which, as I heard, a great way to motivate runs.

2. Aikido - we've always been aikidoka but recently, due to our unusual schedules, we were not able to participate. We will be returning to this fun activity.

Calories Counter

3. Random exercise - what's life without the surprises. We will be engaging in other exercise activities like boxing, arnis, biking or running.

4. Diet - exercising will be in vane if we do not reduce our food intake. We will be using the idea of calories counting. To help us with this, we will be using Calorie Counter from My Fitness Pal (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myfitnesspal.android). 

We've previously used this app and it was effective until we stopped.

A Promise

Me and Anne will be posting daily pics and screenshots of our routines and intakes here. We will also be posting updates on the measurements every week.