I've only been on this plan for just over two days and instead if satisfying me more, it's actually making me hungry!
I've cheated and eaten 3 pepperami's yesterday, thankfully no carbs and only 100 calories each. I also added about 50g of ham to my lunchtime salad which is supposed to be plain. To make up for this, I didn't have chicken with my dinner. According to an app on my phone, I consumed around 1600 calories yesterday. I also did some exercise which might have helped a bit.
Thankfully, I should be able to get a grip on this and still lose a little weight this week. I still ate less than the maintenance amount of calories so should be ok.
My CDC wants me to stop losing weight anyway so I guess I'm helping her!
Sunday, 8 April 2012
Friday, 6 April 2012
Day 94 result, and the start of my food rehab
4lbs off!
I'm now 13st 10lbs and am officially on the road to foodie recovery! My CDC has now moved me up to stage 3 which is 1000 calories. I have eaten so much food today it's unreal!
I also cheated a little as it's Easter. I ate a cadbury's creme egg. I figured what the hell, if I'm going to be eating 1000 calories and exercising too then why not? A normal, thin person wouldn't worry about it and nor should I.
So far, it seems as though what I'm choosing to eat has improved so maybe my brain is being rewired as part of this process.
I'm now 13st 10lbs and am officially on the road to foodie recovery! My CDC has now moved me up to stage 3 which is 1000 calories. I have eaten so much food today it's unreal!
I also cheated a little as it's Easter. I ate a cadbury's creme egg. I figured what the hell, if I'm going to be eating 1000 calories and exercising too then why not? A normal, thin person wouldn't worry about it and nor should I.
So far, it seems as though what I'm choosing to eat has improved so maybe my brain is being rewired as part of this process.
Thursday, 5 April 2012
Weigh in tonight. Will I be in the 13's?
I have no idea, I certainly hope so! I'll let you know!
:-)
:-)
Gym and excercise in general
I've reached the point where losing fat isn't enough any more. Although I'm extremely happy to be where I am in terms of my body shape, I know that being slimmer isn't the end of the journey.
I have good solid legs from carting too much fat around for years, but my upper body strength is almost non-existant. For some reason, I thought that once I'd lost the fat, I'd have a good body with some muscle definition, however there's none.
This means I must excercise!
Because I have a baby, I have no idea how many times a week I can get out to the gym, therefore I run the risk of losing out financially if I go to a posh gym and pay the ~£60 monthly fee. I need a gym where you can just turn up, pay a fiver and think no more of it.
Now, this rules out all the "corporate" gym chains like Virgin Gym, Fitness First etc. Luckily enough, there's two council run gyms in my town. One is tiny and only has about 10 machines but has the benefit of being 5 minutes from my house. The other is a bigger "flagship" gym in the sports centre across town which has more kit, but is further away, and costs more per session.
I had my induction at the local gym with a lady who was in her 50's but was as fit as a fiddle. She ran me through all the machines and knackered me out quite sufficiently. She was totally lovely and put me at ease as I was actually pretty nervous.
I now know what I'm doing and will be hitting the gym regularly.
In order to build muscle, you have to lift heavy weights. It's no good running miles and miles on a treadmill. That will keep you slim certainly, but you could actually lose muscle doing that.
Also, bigger muscles burn more calories so it's a win-win situation really.
I'll keep you posted with photo's and logs still. This blog will continue to include my weigh-ins, cambridge diet plans too. I'm just expanding it a little.
This will take a while, be very hard work, but should also be well worth it.
I have good solid legs from carting too much fat around for years, but my upper body strength is almost non-existant. For some reason, I thought that once I'd lost the fat, I'd have a good body with some muscle definition, however there's none.
This means I must excercise!
Because I have a baby, I have no idea how many times a week I can get out to the gym, therefore I run the risk of losing out financially if I go to a posh gym and pay the ~£60 monthly fee. I need a gym where you can just turn up, pay a fiver and think no more of it.
Now, this rules out all the "corporate" gym chains like Virgin Gym, Fitness First etc. Luckily enough, there's two council run gyms in my town. One is tiny and only has about 10 machines but has the benefit of being 5 minutes from my house. The other is a bigger "flagship" gym in the sports centre across town which has more kit, but is further away, and costs more per session.
I had my induction at the local gym with a lady who was in her 50's but was as fit as a fiddle. She ran me through all the machines and knackered me out quite sufficiently. She was totally lovely and put me at ease as I was actually pretty nervous.
I now know what I'm doing and will be hitting the gym regularly.
In order to build muscle, you have to lift heavy weights. It's no good running miles and miles on a treadmill. That will keep you slim certainly, but you could actually lose muscle doing that.
Also, bigger muscles burn more calories so it's a win-win situation really.
I'll keep you posted with photo's and logs still. This blog will continue to include my weigh-ins, cambridge diet plans too. I'm just expanding it a little.
This will take a while, be very hard work, but should also be well worth it.
Thursday, 29 March 2012
Day 84: Weigh-in result
14 Stone dead!
That's a total of four stone, two pounds off since the fifth of January this year. That'll do me nicely.
My CDC also told me that this will be my last week on step 2, the 810 plan. Because apparently my BMI is now 25 ie NORMAL woohoo!
The next step for me will be to move up to step 3: 1000 calories. This mean that I eat the following:
Breakfast:
Something like shredded wheat
1/2 pint skimmed milk
1 Cambridge diet food pack
Lunch:
Green Leaf salad
Mid afternoon:
Cambridge diet shake
Dinner:
Same sort of dinner as per the 810 plan but with carbs! That's right, CARBS!!!! Home-made oven chips for me, jacket spuds with cottage cheese etc! Mmm delicious!
This actually sounds suspiciously like a regular diet to me :-)
That's a total of four stone, two pounds off since the fifth of January this year. That'll do me nicely.
My CDC also told me that this will be my last week on step 2, the 810 plan. Because apparently my BMI is now 25 ie NORMAL woohoo!
The next step for me will be to move up to step 3: 1000 calories. This mean that I eat the following:
Breakfast:
Something like shredded wheat
1/2 pint skimmed milk
1 Cambridge diet food pack
Lunch:
Green Leaf salad
Mid afternoon:
Cambridge diet shake
Dinner:
Same sort of dinner as per the 810 plan but with carbs! That's right, CARBS!!!! Home-made oven chips for me, jacket spuds with cottage cheese etc! Mmm delicious!
This actually sounds suspiciously like a regular diet to me :-)
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Back From Centre Parcs
Hi everyone,
I'm now officially back from Centre Parcs where I had a lovely time with the wife, baby and my brother. We did every activity going from Tennis, to Pedalo-boating, we surely burnt a few calories there!
I suspect you'll be wondering how the dieting went...
My Mum and her new fella came up to visit and took us out to dinner so we could hardly refuse. I stuffed myself silly with a Calzone pizza, Mozzarella balls to start and a chocolate ice cream for dessert. I felt like I would go pop!
We also had a £50 food voucher from Centre Parcs because we had a plumbing problem in our villa so of course we ate out again, this time I had a Philly-style CheeseSteak sandwich which was absolutely divine!
Each of these meals were probably well over 2500 calories, but frankly I don't care. The only thing that I did care about was the fact that I knocked myself out of ketosis so I knew I was in for a rough couple of days whilst my body used up the stored glycogen etc from the carbs I consumed.
Yup, I had the dreaded "day 3" again. and this time it was a real drag.
I absolutely refuse to feel guilty about eating two big meals as I've lost nearly 4 stone. Also nothing will make a mess of your head like guilt will.
One thing that did massively surprise me was how groggy and sluggish I felt for the following couple of days. I also developed carb-face. It visibly adds chins, bloats cheeks and makes you look 2 stone heavier than you are. I also weighed myself on the Centre Parcs scales just to get an indication as to how much damage I'd done. They calmly (somewhat too calmly for my liking) informed me that I'd put on 6lb by eating 2 large meals. Obviously that's not 6lb of fat, most of it will be glycogen and water. To prove this point, as soon as I got back on plan it all fell off again within a couple of days.
So, those meals notwithstanding, I ate strictly as per the 810 plan, and I continue to do so. A blip, or a break from your diet is not a cheat, it's a decision. You know that you're delaying your weightloss a bit and you know that you'll need extra will power to get back on track again, and that's fair enough.
So, I'm back at work and the scales (at work) are showing 14st4lbs. Now, my last official weigh in 12 days ago came in at 14st5lbs, and these scales over read by 4 lbs so I'm looking at around a 5lbs loss over the last two weeks which no doubt could have been 7lbs but thats the choice I made.
Having said that, this is all conjecture until the official weigh-in, in two day's time. I may have lost another pound or two by then anyway. I'll let you know.
In other news, I've joined a gym, kind of. Actually, I'm having a hell of a time trying to join the gym. I'm attempting to join the local council run gym which is near my house. So far, I've registered on their website for a leisure card, traipsed over there complete with ID to get said leisure card. I even attempted to go there and use the gym and this is where the problems occurred. Not content with making me jump through hoops to even be allowed through the door, I apparently, for insurance reasons, have to have a gym "induction", whatever the hell that means. I also have to pay extra for this for some unfathomable reason. Of course, there was no one around to sort this out there and then, so I stood there like a plum in my shiny new gym kit like its my first day at school or something and got told I wasn't allowed to do anything!
Apparently, my induction will be this thursday at 7pm, but I've not had confirmation so I'm really none the wiser. I think this is why people actually pay a fortune to use nice gyms, it's all a lot easier, you just join up and start lifting weights. Stoopid Gym.
I'm now officially back from Centre Parcs where I had a lovely time with the wife, baby and my brother. We did every activity going from Tennis, to Pedalo-boating, we surely burnt a few calories there!
I suspect you'll be wondering how the dieting went...
My Mum and her new fella came up to visit and took us out to dinner so we could hardly refuse. I stuffed myself silly with a Calzone pizza, Mozzarella balls to start and a chocolate ice cream for dessert. I felt like I would go pop!
We also had a £50 food voucher from Centre Parcs because we had a plumbing problem in our villa so of course we ate out again, this time I had a Philly-style CheeseSteak sandwich which was absolutely divine!
Each of these meals were probably well over 2500 calories, but frankly I don't care. The only thing that I did care about was the fact that I knocked myself out of ketosis so I knew I was in for a rough couple of days whilst my body used up the stored glycogen etc from the carbs I consumed.
Yup, I had the dreaded "day 3" again. and this time it was a real drag.
I absolutely refuse to feel guilty about eating two big meals as I've lost nearly 4 stone. Also nothing will make a mess of your head like guilt will.
One thing that did massively surprise me was how groggy and sluggish I felt for the following couple of days. I also developed carb-face. It visibly adds chins, bloats cheeks and makes you look 2 stone heavier than you are. I also weighed myself on the Centre Parcs scales just to get an indication as to how much damage I'd done. They calmly (somewhat too calmly for my liking) informed me that I'd put on 6lb by eating 2 large meals. Obviously that's not 6lb of fat, most of it will be glycogen and water. To prove this point, as soon as I got back on plan it all fell off again within a couple of days.
So, those meals notwithstanding, I ate strictly as per the 810 plan, and I continue to do so. A blip, or a break from your diet is not a cheat, it's a decision. You know that you're delaying your weightloss a bit and you know that you'll need extra will power to get back on track again, and that's fair enough.
So, I'm back at work and the scales (at work) are showing 14st4lbs. Now, my last official weigh in 12 days ago came in at 14st5lbs, and these scales over read by 4 lbs so I'm looking at around a 5lbs loss over the last two weeks which no doubt could have been 7lbs but thats the choice I made.
Having said that, this is all conjecture until the official weigh-in, in two day's time. I may have lost another pound or two by then anyway. I'll let you know.
In other news, I've joined a gym, kind of. Actually, I'm having a hell of a time trying to join the gym. I'm attempting to join the local council run gym which is near my house. So far, I've registered on their website for a leisure card, traipsed over there complete with ID to get said leisure card. I even attempted to go there and use the gym and this is where the problems occurred. Not content with making me jump through hoops to even be allowed through the door, I apparently, for insurance reasons, have to have a gym "induction", whatever the hell that means. I also have to pay extra for this for some unfathomable reason. Of course, there was no one around to sort this out there and then, so I stood there like a plum in my shiny new gym kit like its my first day at school or something and got told I wasn't allowed to do anything!
Apparently, my induction will be this thursday at 7pm, but I've not had confirmation so I'm really none the wiser. I think this is why people actually pay a fortune to use nice gyms, it's all a lot easier, you just join up and start lifting weights. Stoopid Gym.
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