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If you do it on that website I provided a link for you can see how many calories you've eaten and it will inform you if you're eating too many or too few.
I had a bit of a shock this morning when i stepped on the scales. No, it didn't say "ONE AT A TIME PLEASE", but it did say 19 stone 10 pounds!! aargh
So, today I hae eaten only healthy things so far. I had a muller rice for breakfast and 2 bananas, and some carrots for lunch. For tea I will hae a quorn cottage pie (£1 from Asda) and its only 200 calories and hardly any fat.
I also walked briskley to and from work about 1/2 hour in the driving rain!
My next target is to get to 19 stone, which i hope to achieve within the next two weeks.
I can't wait to get my first gold star from Tommy. I saw him afterwards last night and it wasnt pleasent. I must be a good boy from now on innit
Dylan, im sorry you feel like your struggling a little... I don't think the excerise is as crucial as the diet in the early stages of this challenge. If you cut out the fatty stuff and consume less calories than your body naturally burns, you will lose weight anyway, and this will motivate you to start exercising. Why not suggest a game of badminton, tennis or squash with a friend as a starter? Jogging/walking solo is pretty boring unless there is a purpose to your trip.
But also cut right down on fruit juice (seems healthy but contains natural sugar), bread, pasta, rice etc. as much as possible because it's fattening. Try not to eat any of these foods after 6pm. Yeah, I know just like the film 'Gremlins.' Also, make sure you eat a good breakfast- the best one is porridge- it will fill you up with good nutrition and stop you from pigging out for the rest of the day. Add some blueberries to make it a little more interesting.
After breakfast, eat little and often. Every 3 hours something 'snacky' like nuts, chicken, salad, banana etc. Have a small lunch and a small dinner. The idea is you're trying to make your body stop it's habit of storing all the food on the belly because it's not sure when you're eating next and therefore is making sure it has emergency supplies of fat. If it 'knows' you eat very regularly, your metabolism will naturally speed up. It won't store as much fat for a rainy day.
Rich, thanks for your comments, much appreciated.
The only thing im not sure about is doing weights, as i don't wish to join a gym. I guess i could lift tins of beans at home though! lol I will be walking/jogging and playing badminton weekly, also hope to find a game of fun footie locally.
The food part is the bit which I'm fine with (im not a great biscuit fan like certian Welsh people (Diaboot), and i guess that a ban on alcohol makes perfect sense. But I'm not sure i can manage this! I guess the best way is to use a glass of wine (or 2) as a treat once i hae reached a weight target.
Still going good today, only 180 ish days to go
I've just gone back over my original post and added some stuff to it and clarified other bits.
I didn't give myself cheat days, but I'd go easy on myself if I had the odd cheat meal or cake/biscuit/burger etc.
But don't aim to give yourself cheat meals. Always aim for perfection- the lapses will come naturally anyway without you trying- and when they inevitably happen then go easy on yourself about it and push straight back on with eating well again.
All the stuff I've said is general consensus stuff and nothing is radical or left-field in it. It just works from the experience of a lot of people.
As for your diet today- pretty good on the whole.
It's a damn sight better than a fry-up but Crunchy Nut cornflakes contains a lot of sugar, mate. Swap it if you can for unsweetened muesli with skimmed milk, or better still, wholegrain organic porridge. Definitely eat a snack mid-morning. Banana or nuts. Otherwise you might get ravenous later and fall off the wagon. Always eat little and often. Starving yourself has the opposite effect of losing weight, you end up storing the fat because your body is bricking it that you won't put any more food in it for days!
Other than that, the diet looks pretty much on track.
Keep that up and you're laughing. Well, kind of laughing. I realise it's a really boring diet.
Next step- some exercise. Gotta be done. Just live with the pain of that- there's no avoiding it! Start out by walking briskly for exactly 30 minutes (time it on your phone countdown timer) at lunchtime somewhere pleasant whilst listening to some music. Pretty much anyone can do that and you'll feel better for it. Unless it's chucking it down. In which case, swerve it until the next day! Let's not become insane here! Lol!
Once you've got a bit of general walking under your belt then you can build from there. Maybe next week jog really lightly and slowly for exactly 5 minutes (no more, no less) and then walk the other 25. Then each day run exactly one minute more and walk one minute less of the 30.
That way, without really noticing a big jump-up anywhere along the line, you'll be running for 30 minutes non-stop within about a month.
Let me know how you get on.
I've been in the gym the last 3 days- not doing anything major but lifting a few light weights, generally reminding myself what the place looks like and having a nice shower-lol!
I haven't run though for about a month, thinking of giving it 10 minutes at some stage this week! Baby steps!
Er, maybe just hold back on that one then for a couple of weeks till you've got the diet and exercise in place! To be honest, if you start properly exercising you won't feel like smoking. True story.
That said, I'm not some holier-than-thou fitness guru. All this take time, if, like me, you've spent all your life doing bad stuff to your health. You have to unlearn habits and addictions and you can't do it all in one go.
I've followed all my own advice for the most part last year, but I still messed up on several occasions and over December just gone it all went out the window- no exercising, eating anything I like and in large quantities, drinking profusely and smoking like a chimney.
January sucks, man!
Don't worry too much about the whole Crunchy Nut cornflakes thing- it's not that big a deal- esp if you were eating fry-ups or toast with jam or even nothing for breakfast before that! if that was the case, then it's a massive improvement!
Whens the first weigh in?
Because I care.
Also thanks to everyone who have given advice and encouragement on this thread. Thanks to Tikay as well.
Ok guys, tomorrow for the inaugural weigh in then. I would advise you to weigh yourself at the same time every week, and with the previous discussion in the thread being Saturday morning, after the AM *ahem* of course. Let's try to get this at the same time every week for an accurate idea of how everyone is doing. If you need a running buddy to get you going I'll do the same for the first few weeks and post it on here. I'm trying to obtain fighting weight myself.