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, 1 February 2012

Tuesday 1 February 2012


So it’s a new month and a good time for me to get back to chronicling my health and nutrition plans. I’ll be honest that a combination of the bad time I was having earlier in the month, combined with disappointment at having gained weight even though I’d gone straight back on the hardcore Phase One of the IPD left me severely demoralised and not feeling inclined to blog (nor really to exercise, although I did manage to force myself to the gym a few times).

Additionally, my birthday threw up a few treats and a considerable amount of chocolate (it appears everyone suddenly forgot I was IPDing) and so I haven’t been quite so good as I could be in the last week or so either, although I was pleased to discover, upon weighing myself on Monday, that I am back down to my immediate post-Christmas weight and have thus once again lost 2 stone and 2 pounds.

I am still in the midst of celebrations, with a birthday meal re-scheduled for Saturday evening, and I’m having a bit of a chocolate crisis at the moment too, so can see a bit of yo-yoing going on until I finally manage to settle down and get back onto Phase One properly again. I have at least managed to get back into doing my regular gym workouts which should help a bit – especially as I am now finding time on a Sunday to go and do a full workout, a full power plate session and some swimming as well – over 1,000 calories burnt and a goodly amount of fat too one assumes.

So breakfast today was ham, cream cheese and avocado wraps with a lunch of creamy gammon, cabbage and mustard casserole. Dinner was picky stuff as I forgot to get anything out of the freezer this morning as my brain wasn’t working. I did have a chunky peanut butter KitKat (one of the Limited Edition ones so I needed to try it – and it was scrummy), but apart from that I’ve done pretty well today.

No exercise tonight, but I’ll be going tomorrow. I just need to drag myself out of my lovely warm bed and out into the freezing cold! 


Today’s exercise:  walking to and from the bus stop
Carb's Eaten: 47.1
Exercising to: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J K Rowling read by Stephen Fry (UK Edition)
Weight Loss in 2012 = 4 pounds
Total Weight Loss = 2 stone 2 pounds
Inch Loss = 19.5 inches
Current Goal: To wear my M&S ‘magic’ dress (size 22) (hopefully by Easter)
Mood (according to Moodscope): 25%
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