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.

Friday, 14 October 2011

Day Thirty Six


Apologies for being late yet again, but yesterday was a very strange day and I just didn’t have the time or the inclination to post.

Even though I had an early night on Wednesday I just couldn’t manage to drag myself out of bed this morning. Although the alarm did go off at 5.20am and then every ten minutes after that for about another hour or so, I really was feeling absolutely dead and didn’t finally get out of bed until almost 9.30am.  When I did finally emerge I still wasn’t feeling quite right, not ill exactly but completely fatigued with a headache to top it off. In fact it was the worst I’ve felt since I started this way of eating and exercising.

Maybe if I say that I only managed to have 14.6 grams of carbs today, and that included a glass of wine and some nibbles (including a chocolate) from a jewellery party I went to at my friend’s house in the evening, you’ll get an idea of just how bad I was feeling. Although I did manage to get my day’s work done, as soon as it was finished I went straight back to bed for a few more hours sleep, knowing that I needed to go out last night. And whilst I did make it to the party, I was by no means the life and soul.

So food yesterday comprised of gluten free sausages and creamy, buttery egg for breakfast, followed by lunch of prosciutto and a couple of pieces of cheese. Still not hungry and not feeling at all right I made myself a sweet protein shake with cocoa and splenda in hopes that it would give me a boost. At the party I had some cocktail sausages, some salted peanuts and, as I said before a chocolate seashell and a glass of Merlot.

My Splashgear MP3 player arrived this morning and so I spent a while adding songs to it whilst charging it up so I can use it tomorrow. I was also expecting to receive the whey protein powder that I ordered yesterday as I had paid for next day delivery, but when I looked at my order on the site it appeared that it hadn’t even been sent.

A phone call to customer services at MyProtein.com put me through to a lovely man called Adam, who was very apologetic about the order not going and set off to find out why. It turned out that one of the flavours I’d ordered wasn’t in stock and so they’d held my order up whilst waiting for it to come in. To be honest I was a bit peeved that they hadn’t bothered to notify me that there was a problem, but eventually it was agreed that they would send the powder they had and follow up with the missing ones once they came back into stock. I’m hoping this means that they’ll arrive tomorrow now.  

Today’s exercise:  Finding it hard to even move!
Carb's Eaten: 14.6g
Exercising to: Silence needed and gratefully accepted
Weight Loss = 12lbs
Inch Loss = 7.5 inches
Mood: Fatigued

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