{"id":109,"date":"2013-01-01T12:32:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T12:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hownothavingweightlosssurgerysavedmylife.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2023-08-25T09:04:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T09:04:10","slug":"every-moment-is-a-new-start-but-new-years-days-is-the-most-laden-with-weighty-expectation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Every moment is a new start but New Year’s Day’s is the most laden with weighty expectation."},"content":{"rendered":"

Every moment is a new beginning but New Year\u2019s Day\u2019s new beginning feels even more laden with expectation than any other new start. While I\u2019ve managed to maintain my weight at around 85kg while being on holiday but I notice that, based on how my clothing is fitting me, my body shape is changing. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m bored nor that I\u2019m hungry but I am eating more than I usually do while I\u2019m not in my usual \u201cwork\u201d routine although I\u2019m trying not to be too hard on myself providing that the scale keeps me where I want to be.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve learned:<\/p>\n

Despite having a detailed exercise programme I\u2019m not working out hard enough at the gym unsupervised. Look, it\u2019s not a train smash \u2013 I\u2019m still training almost every day and getting in about 30 minutes of cardio and doing bicep curls and triceps kickbacks, but I can see that my tummy is flabbier than it has been recently and my shoulders are not as strong as I\u2019d like them to be.<\/p>\n

Planning ahead is my proven solution to not overeating. I took along my own meal to last night\u2019s old-year\u2019s dinner even though I didn\u2019t end up eating it then. Knowing that I had a meal with me allowed me the opportunity to choose wisely what to eat and not to succumb to making bad choices because I was hungry.<\/p>\n

I have to train first thing in the morning. Even if I manage a second bout of physical activity later in the day my window of willingness closes the moment I\u2019ve had breakfast so I have to plan to get to the gym, onto my bike or both along with the sparrows.<\/p>\n

The more people hear my story and affirm the way I\u2019ve changed my life, the more anxious I feel about regaining the weight. Without exception, everyone who tells me how they\u2019ve lost weight continues to say they\u2019ve regained it. I hope that by sharing my experiences here that I will stay conscious and keep up the healthy lifestyle that I\u2019ve worked so hard for.\"Brian_BerkmanSpeedo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If your new beginning is about becoming healthier in 2013 I hope that I\u2019ll be able to contribute to helping you achieve that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every moment is a new beginning but New Year\u2019s Day\u2019s new beginning feels even more laden with expectation than any other new start. While I\u2019ve managed to maintain my weight at around 85kg while being on holiday but I notice that, based on how my …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21,60,89],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight_loss","tag-brian-berkman","tag-healthy-eating","tag-new-years-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}