So this is my new diet and fitness blog. The reasoning behind it is simple. I’m forty five years old, incredibly overweight and even more unfit. Having moved to working at home three days a week, my already sedentary lifestyle has become almost comatose. Sitting at the computer, moving only to visit the toilet or make a cup of tea does not make for a healthy lifestyle, especially when the only other exercise I now get (having stopped working in the pub where at least I was walking a lot) is the stroll to and from the bus stop on work days. It is abundantly clear that changes need to be made before I either turn into one of those people in the freaky dieting shows on the telly or die of some nasty weight/unfitness related illness.

To this end I have joined a gym to improve my fitness and am about to embark on the latest attempt to lose weight through a new eating regime (I don’t want to say the ‘D’ word as I think it’s rather negative). As I chronicle my journey to greater fitness, better health and weight loss there will be daily posts as I think this will help to keep me focussed and hopefully help me to stick to the plan during the bad times I know lie ahead. I intend it to be honest as I need to acknowledge my weaknesses and fails as well as my good progress, which could be painful, but will hopefully, eventually be cathartic and helpful.

Sunday, 18 September 2011

Day Ten


So I bet you thought I’d blow off the gym today didn’t you? Didn’t you? Come on, admit it, you know you did. And so did I briefly. After all, I do tend to be lazy at weekends and getting myself out of the house is always a problem. But I did make it there eventually. Once again I attempted to keep within the fat burning zone, which really is a struggle for me as in my overweight and under-fit state my heart automatically heads for the cardio zone without much provocation. However, I managed to do a good workout in a very quiet gym (people obviously have better things to do on a Saturday) and have a lovely relaxing swim afterwards.

Back home and it was time for breakfast (which was by then lunch as usual) but I wasn’t feeling too hungry so had the ever-easy to grab pack of prosciutto and a couple of Babybel cheddars before I headed for the pub to catch up with some friends that I hadn’t seen for a few weeks. Having just come from the gym and because I’m not supposed to drink anything for two weeks at the minimum, I eschewed any alcohol or any other type of drink for a couple of pints of soda water (I’m a very cheap date at the moment) and a packet of pork scratchings.  

Home again and I should have had a meal, but wasn’t feeling that hungry as it was too early in the day for dinner, so instead had some smoked salmon and Philadelphia cheese before I headed off for my concert, aware that I was probably going to need to eat later. Back from my concert I finally had a chance to eat the steak that I was supposed to have had earlier (I needed to eat it as it was on its use by date), but as I wasn’t that hungry and couldn’t be bothered to sort out a salad etc. at that time of night I just had the meat.

This scrappy approach to food left me severely under-carbed for the day, even with the use of some cream in a sauce on the steak – the final count only raised by the four extra strong mints I’d eaten during the concert (and they were 8 grams!)

Today’s exercise: Arm bike = 5 mins; Bike = 6 mins; Stretching = 10 minutes; Treadmill = 10 mins; Arm Bike = 5 mins; Arc Trainer = 6 mins; Standing Arm Bike = 5 mins; Bike = 5 mins; Swimming = 24 lengths
Carb's Eaten: 14.4G
Exercising to: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling read by Stephen Fry (UK Edition)
Weight Loss = 5lbs
Inch Loss = 0
Mood: Unhappy before the concert, happy afterwards 
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