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.

Thursday, 29 September 2011

Day Twenty Two


I managed to get a fairly decent night’s sleep even though it was so warm last night (and I even made it to bed before midnight, although it did take a while to get sleep), so I was up and at the gym for 6.15am. It was even busier today than earlier in the week, but getting there before the students meant that I did manage to get onto all the equipment today.

As I’m back at work next week I’ll be at the gym in the evening on Tuesday and Wednesday and so I’ll be restarting my Power Plate workouts (I can’t be doing with all that buzzing and vibration first thing in the morning - ooh-er missus!) and I’ll also be getting my current work out assessed and changed, with hopefully some new machines and maybe some proper weight training added (rather than the random stuff I've been doing on a sporadic basis). I am therefore trying to push myself as much as possible with my current workout – both in terms of time spent on each of the machines, but also the resistance and speed. I’ve definitely improved my fitness even if it still isn’t showing either in weight loss or inches.

It’s day two of the Psyllium tablets and I’m not sure they’re doing anything but filling me up; although maybe it takes a while to see a difference. I’m still having a problem with timings, but hoping that too will get easier as the time goes on.

Breakfast today was ham, avocado and Philadelphia (yes I went and bought some) roll ups. I was very hungry this morning, which may be due to the low amount of carbs consumed over the last two days so I ended up having double the amount of breakfast, although I don’t think this is a bad thing as it means that I’m actually going to be nicely above the minimum 20 grams of carbs today. Of course this meant I wasn’t hungry by lunchtime, especially after the second dose of psyllium, but I made myself have a protein shake to keep those carbs up. Dinner, once the last dose of psyllium has been ingested, will be pan fried salmon in a dill and lemon cream sauce with a mixed salad.    
     
Today’s exercise:  Bike = 10 mins; Stretching = 10 mins; Armbike = 10 mins; Treadmill = 10 mins; Standing Armbike = 5 mins; Arc Trainer = 10 mins; Bike = 10 mins; Swimming = 30 lengths
Carb's Eaten: 28.2G
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: Hot and bothered


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