Christmas weigh-in

I stayed the same! what a result! Especially when you consider the amount of food I ate.

In all fairness, i have been better than most years.

In other news, I will start going to the gym again. A new one has opened up in my town www.thegymgroup.co.uk.  its only £10.99 a month and on a monthly rolling contract so no commitment necessary!

Ate out successfully last night!

So, it was my mum's birthday meal in an italian restaurant last night.

I had calamari to start, which i wouldnt have had if it said on the menu it was in batter, but never mind.

Then i had a caesar salad. Go me!

So thats a low carb restaurant meal dealt with. Not bad.

Have had a couple of slices of home made pizza that the baby wouldnt eat. Its always the weekends where i struggle amd cheat. Ive been up since 4am with the baby and am practically asleep on my feet. Thats why i make bad food decisions at the weekend.

Oh well, roll on Thursdays weigh in to check the damage.

Now with added Carb Hangover!

Yesterday, my boss bought me a hamper full of goodies for Christmas. Bugger!

I gave everything carb-related away. Everything except a box of luxury fruit pastilles.  Last night, I ate the whole box, probably around 600 Calories because I'm stupid, stupid, STUPID!

S-T-U-P-I-D

Anyway,  I'm not worried about the extra calories, but, I have the mother of all carb hangovers!

Seriously, it feels like I drunk 8 pints last night! It feels exactly the same.  Slightly nauseous, slightly tired and lethargic, foggy-headed and a little irritable.

You can go over on your calories a bit, but you really shouldn't eat a whole load of carbs when your body isn't used to them. It just isn't worth it. So no more cheating on the Cambridge Diet for me (hopefully)!

You'd think I'd know better, but clearly I don't. Well, lets hope I've learnt the lesson at last...

I now have a couple of days of feeling ropey until my body settles down again. Bah.

This weekend, I'm going out to an Italian restaurant for my Mum's birthday.  Hopefully, with this carb hangover fresh in my mind, I'll do the right thing and have a chicken salad.

Back to Blogging... Where am I at and where have I been?

Right, here's a little update as to what's been going on.

I last posted at the end of July and was still a pretty respectable weight of 14st2lbs, but had fallen off the wagon a bit.  In my last post, I mentioned that I had moved up to the 1000 calorie plan and that I was struggling to get to grips with it.

For a few weeks, I was putting on the odd pound here and there, occasionally losing a little but basically ended up hovering around 14st4lbs.

Then we had one of those little challenges that life throws at us from time to time. The wife had a ruptured appendix and was rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy. She was very seriously ill, which caught us both off-guard as we assumed that because it's such a common operation, it was a minor one.  How wrong we were.

The rules of the Cambridge Diet say that you can't be on a VLCD within three months of any surgery. As the wife and I are doing the diet together, we both came off the diet together.

Because the wife was so ill, it meant that I was doing everything. All baby-related duties, all the shopping, the cleaning, the washing etc.. absolutely everything for our little family. All whilst working full time.

Between the general tiredness and stress of it all, I was eating for both comfort and extra energy so I put on a little weight. 

I ended up at 15st4lbs.  I felt pretty bloated, pretty ugly and my 34" jeans that I was so proud to be in were getting pretty bloody tight!

So, as soon as the three month's time limit was up, we got straight back on the Cambridge Diet to finish the weight loss journey that we started back in January 2012.

This time, we've started on the 810 calorie plan as opposed to sole-source.  This means three food packs a day and a dinner (no carbs).

I have to confess, I've been having the three food packs, but having a smaller than recommended dinner as I'd prefer to be on sole source because I don't want to run the risk of eating like a pig.

My current weight is back down to 13st12lbs as of 13th Dec 2012.

My lightest weight on the diet was 13st8lbs.  I'm going to remain on the 810 plan until I'm down to 12st.  Then we'll see how I look.

In terms of BMI, I want to be smack-bang in the middle of the normal range.  For my height (6'2") That would be somewhere around 12st7lbs.  I'm going below this because I know that when I add carbs back into my diet, my body will retain up to 10lbs in water.

Cheers,

Rich

Still on it, just differently.

I got down to 13st 8lbs, which was amazing.  I've been consistently err... cheating on the diet.  Essentially, I moved up a couple of steps to the 1200 plan which basically killed it for me.  I found it all too much.  Over the last couple of months, I've stabilised at around 14 stone 2lbs.

That's not a bad result, all things considered.  Not good enough though.

I've also been going down the gym, only once a week, and i've missed a few sessions due to work/baby/life commitments, but I'm seeing results in terms of muscle growth.

The wife and I have decided to re-double our efforts and we're back down to the 810 plan.  I'm hoping to get down to 12 stone dead.

I'll keep you posted.

A month since my last post

And basically fuck-all has happened.

I'm down to 13st, and am stuck there. I'm eating like a pig and am cheating on my diet every day as I'm absolutely crazy for carbs. I just can't help myself.

On the plus side, my gym antics mean I'm starting to see muscle growth which means I must in theory be losing some body fat if I still weigh the same each week.

So even if I continue this way, my body should be looking better in three months time. Of course, I'm desperate to knock the cheats on the head but I can't seem to stop myself.

Must. Do. Better.

Omg! Eating like a pig on the 1000 plan.

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!