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.

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Day Twenty One


I have to say that getting up this morning was a real battle considering I didn’t get to sleep until at least 2am. But although it was tough, I did manage to get to the gym by 7am.

The gym has been very busy recently as a group of students on a dance course down the road are coming in every morning before their classes start and they take up a lot of the machines that I usually use. This meant a slightly reduced work out on the machines today, although being so tired it was probably a good thing. A visit to Comet afterwards gave me my new snazzy blender (reduced by £30 so another bargain).

I was starving this morning so had a cooked breakfast – oak smoked back bacon, mushrooms, tomato and peppered scrambled egg – which I thoroughly enjoyed. I also began taking the psyllium husks today (it was agonising having to wait at least thirty minutes for my breakfast after taking the tablets when I was so hungry).

After a lunchtime nap, I had the usual prosciutto/ham/cheese combo, all I fancied after the second dose of psyllium.

I have just taken the third dose and have to admit that I’m still not feeling hungry. But today’s carbs are already miniscule so I need to bulk them a bit (although I’m still not going to make anywhere near 20 grams again). Dinner this evening will be lamb steaks with a mixed salad with some blue cheese salad dressing.

I am feeling achy and uncomfortable this evening. My feet and knees are sore and I seem to have pulled a muscle in my right shoulder/neck. I feel like a real crock!
     
Today’s exercise:  Bike = 10 mins; Stretching = 10 mins; Treadmill = 10 mins; Armbike = 10 mins; Arc Trainer = 7 mins; Standing Armbike = 5 mins; Swimming = 40 lengths
Carb's Eaten: 15.4G
Exercising to: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling read by StephenFry (UK Edition)
Weight Loss = 10lbs
Inch Loss = 0

Mood: Achy and old


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