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, 20 October 2011

Day Forty Two

Ooops, I've just realised that I didn't post this last night, I'd left it in draft form. So another late post I'm afraid.

Tiredness last night meant that today’s food was not at all well thought out and because of this my carb count for the day is over the 30 gram maximum. I’m just hoping that yesterday’s low count evens it out and it doesn’t affect my weight loss.

Breakfast was ham, Philadelphia cheese and avocado roll ups, but as I was so late I didn’t have a chance to make them last night and instead just grabbed the ingredients and took them into work with me. Lunch was moussaka, and because I was tired and had forgotten just how high carb that dish was, I put some of the (also high carb) courgette bake with it. By the time I’d added some mangetout and asparagus (which I put in a microwave steamer bag with some butter) to the meal I was already just over my daily limit. It did taste lovely, but it was a huge amount of carbs for one meal. Unfortunately, today is a hungry day so I need to eat more food. I’ve had some prosciutto and a couple of bits of cheese and some wafer thin ham (all of which are fine carb-wise) but I’m still hungry so I’m going to have protein shake – milk chocolate tonight (which was okay but not very chocolatey) and this is going to put me further over.

I'm not going to beat myself up about it though as I obviously need the food, and tomorrow I'll be back to my usual lower carb meals. Anyway, I'm not at the maximum for the two days, so hopefully it won't make a difference.

Today’s exercise:  Just a bit of walking
Carb's Eaten: 34.4G
Exercising to: Listening to my IPod
Weight Loss = 1 stone 1 pound
Inch Loss = 7.5 inches
Mood: 
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