This is the best part happening in my life after several weight loss plan failures over the past 2 years:-)

I can’t say how much exactly I have lost in the last one and half month, but I can feel it everywhere on my body. Maybe because I have never been a fat person (from most of people’s points of views except my husband), I guess that this is some changes that could only be told by myself but anybody else, though I think the difference is quite significant and “huge”.

I actually decided to start another round of weight loss fight after I came back from China. I found in the photos that we took in Beijing and Hong Kong, my face looked a bit of swollen-ish as if my head was pumped into excessive air. At the same time, one of my girlfriends in Beijing sent me emails and her recent photos saying that she lost 7 kilos since we met in July, which looked quite promising and very encouraging. I guess I did get to the point that I need to seriously think about losing weight, so I prepared a weight monitoring form to record weight twice a day, and have been actively doing some exercise, also limited what I eat.

To be honest, I think I have lost at least 4 kilos in the last month. I have a pair of jeans that I use it as my weight indicator. Now I can slip myself into those pants without too many difficulties. I can also feel my face getting smaller, my cheek bones are standing out and my body is getting lighter and more portable

The lessons I learned this time:

• Identifying the biggest factor which causes your weight gain is the most important thing for your weight loss plan. For example, if you find that you actually eat too much, then the first thing you need to do is to at least cut off one third or the half of the amount of food that you take every day; Or if you have too much fat, sugar, snack, just cut down those intakes and try their diet substitutions.
• Work on the little habits that contributes the most to your weight gain and work on it intensively.
• Make your plan to fit into your lifestyle. It’s no good to take on a bunch of actions that you are not used to, such as suddenly increasing exercise, forcing yourself not eating at all or eating something that you are not used to eat, because it won’t last long and you won’t be able to stick on to your plan if there’s too much effort that you have to make.
• Explore the capacity of your existing lifestyle and make it accommodate more of good changes. For example, I normally do Yoga on every Saturday morning, but I added 1 hour intensive walking on Sunday morning. Also I make it a weekly thing to go out do something every weekend with my husband, which took us away from sitting in front of the computer.
• Take small steps and try healthy alternatives but do it constantly with a great determination and strong resolution.
• Be patient! It takes time to see the difference, but have faith in yourself. It will all come together eventually.
• At the last, don’t try to find excuses for not precisely carrying out your plan . You actually can’t really afford it happening.