Well it’s official, my clothes are too big for me. Slowly my trousers are getting looser and looser. It’s both a great feeling and a terrible one. I’m not a big fan of clothes shopping so the thought of having to go out and get more doesn’t really appeal to me.
Anyway, I’ve now started to get to the point where people are noticing that I’m losing weight. I’ve had a few comments and obviously I’m starting to feel it in the fit of my clothes. So it got me thinking about putting this weight into context. Now that I’m lighter by 6kg how different is it?
Well, one way of putting it is in water. Go out and buy 3, 2 litre bottles of water and carry them home. Those 3 bottles of water weigh the same amount as the amount of fat I’ve lost. Also, if you get another litre to make it to 7 litres, that’s roughly how much volume my body has been reduced by. (Human body fat has a density of about 900kg/cubic meter.)
I find it quite cool to think of it like that. If I had to walk around with 3 bottles of water for the entirety of my life I wouldn’t be that happy. But that’s what I’ve been doing.
By the time I finish my bout of weight-loss and get to 100kg I will have lost 15kg. That’s the equivalent of 7 and a half 2 litre bottles of water or 3 of those big 5L bottles. Not only that but my body volume would’ve gone down by 17 litres.
So tonight, when I get back from work and the gym I’m going to grab a tape measure and see how I’m progressing with my measurements. It’ll be interesting to see how they’ve changed.
Sid.