If you haven’t caught up yet on my old post, I am actually training for a marathon for next year. I figured the best way to get in running shape for the marathon is to lose weight.

I have been struggling with weight loss for nearly my entire life until this year when I completed 75 Hard for the first time in August 2025. Before that I was struggling to maintain my lifestyle and lacked the discipline required to drop the weight.

When I completed 75 Hard I lost 15 kilograms of weight and I continued the lifestyle for a few weeks until I started gaining weight gain. In a matter of weeks I gained 5 kilos and went from 104.5 Kg to 110.4 Kg. Previously having gone down from 120 Kg to 104 Kg.

I did not want to lose this progress so I decided to keep myself in check. Today was my first day of the second round of 75 Hard. I am going to combine 75 Hard with my marathon training because lately my diet has just not been up to mark.

The rules of 75 hard are as follows:

• Read 10 pages of a Non-Fiction book.
• Drink a Gallon or about 4 Liters of water daily for the duration of 75 days. (One can check with a medical professional for the right amount, if that amount is too much for their body.)
• One exercise of 45 minutes (Indoor or Outdoor)
• One Exercise of 45 minutes to be compulsorily done outdoors regardless of weather. (The two exercises must be 3 hours apart in order for the tasks to be considered complete.)
• No alcohol during the 75 days of the program.
• Stick to a diet of your choice- I am going to choose Caloric deficit in order to lose weight. I cannot consistently choose to eat clean as I travel more often than I’d like to and I have to attend a lot of meetings and conferences which usually don’t provide healthy and clean food.
• Take progress pictures of yourself everyday for 75 days to track progress.

The rules are pretty simple and each of these tasks is easy to do individually. However these tasks need to be completed around your schedule and must be completed before you go to sleep at the end of the day. The time you choose to wake up and sleep is completely up to you. This program is tedious if you have other plans and you have to include these tasks in your day. The credit for creating this program goes to Andy Frisella.

I have done this once before, but I feel like I needed a refresher in just a few weeks just so I could build the discipline required for a healthy lifestyle.

My day was quite hectic today. I woke up at around 6AM and headed out for a run. I did some running workouts for around 90 mins before I headed to the gym. At the gym I did around 60 minutes of abdominal exercises and then I headed out for a swim to my local swimming pool. I swam for about 60 minutes and headed home.

I had taken my progress photo in the morning as I find its better to do the simpler tasks as soon as you wake up. I started drinking my water early so I could pace myself throughout the day. I finished my reading when I got home from the swim. I am currently reading The Snowball by Alice Schroeder its the biography of Warren Buffet. Funnily enough the book is over 900 pages and I started reading it in the middle of my last 75 Hard and I haven’t finished it yet because I took a break from reading it.

As far as my diet is concerned I am focused on getting in as many nutrients as possible focusing mostly on vegetables, dairy, eggs and complex carbohydrates. I had chickpeas, rice, eggplant, bananas, buttermilk and yoghurt for lunch. I did not eat breakfast and after lunch I had a small meal later in the day in stead of dinner. I managed my calories accordingly.

I got work done after my first workout and headed out for my second workout in the evening. I usually walk as a form of recovery at the end of the day and it also counts as my outdoor workout.

If anybody is interested in doing 75 Hard I suggest doing your own research first and checking with a healthcare professional before doing this program as it can cause an effect on both mental and physical health if you are not well equipped to handle it.

Until you decide to do it for yourself, you can follow my journey because this program does have several benefits that stick with you long after the program is complete.

My current weight is 110.5 Kg. Day 1 was a success.