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.

Monday, 21 November 2011

Day Seventy Five


It’s amazing how much better and easier the gym seems on a good day when I’ve had plenty of sleep and when I’ve lost weight. I was on quite a high after discovering that I’ve lost another two pounds, which made everything seem better and my day was more pleasant for it.

I even managed to get right on track with the low carb way of eating (and drinking) and have three meals and snacks. Even another stupid headache that had me sleeping during my lunch break didn’t stop me from getting a fair amount of work done.

Breakfast was a banana cream protein shake and a litre of water (my second of the day), lunch was chicken and bacon salad with some mayonnaise as a dressing and another litre of water and a cup of vanilla rooibos tea and dinner was a sirloin steak with a mushroom cream sauce with buttered green vegetables. Amazingly, after all this food (and prosciutto and cheese for snacks) I was still under my minimum carbs for the day, so I also had a greek yoghurt to bring the total up slightly. Another litre of water (this one sparkling, from my fabby Soda Stream) and I’m well and truly full up and still under the limit for the day.

I had intended to have celeriac dauphinoise with the steak, which I was going to make and then freeze the rest for use with the roast beef when I get round to cooking it, but having logged the ingredients in Fitday, I discovered that, what is considered one portion in the IPD Cookbook, (and would use ½ of the celeriac in my fridge) is actually 38.8g of carbs (yet another huge carb recipe lurking in a low carb book). Not wanting to ruin my good day, the celeriac was returned to the fridge. I will make the dauphinoise at some point, but I’ll need to split that one portion into three or something in order to take it down to a decent carb amount.

Work tomorrow and I’m trying to work out what to have. I desperately want to stay within my carb limit as much as I can and still have three meals, but as the prepared food is all quite high carb it’s going to take a bit of juggling. I’m off to play with figures in Fitday. See you tomorrow.
  
Today’s exercise:  Bike = 10 mins; Stretching = 10 mins; Treadmill/weights = 10 mins; Cross Trainer = 8 mins;  Arm bike = 12 mins; Bike = 5 mins; Arc Trainer = 5 mins; Stretching = 10 mins;  Swimming = 20 lengths
Carb's Eaten: 29.7G
Exercising to: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling read by StephenFry (UK Edition)/ Various swim tracks
Weight Loss = 1 stone and 4 pounds – finally shifted another couple of pounds!!!
Inch Loss = 12.5 inches
Mood: Feeling positive

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