Yes, predictably with the new year comes all the resolutions and all the big plans to change my lifestyle. I'd like to say "No,; this year I'm not going to conform to all that!" But sadly, yes I am as hubby and I are about to repeat the six week bootcamp I embarked on on November.
https://www.fatgirlgetfit.co.uk/
I had degrees of success with it and lost 10lbs in the first detox week. Then I carried on for a week or so without a problem before going to Leeds and staying at Malmaison for 3 nights. It all went completely to pot and I was very ill on the last day, either through a bug or through eating so much rich food straight after a detox!
After that I kind of half-heartedly followed it as Christmas was approaching and I couldn't be bothered and hubby wasn't doing it and and and... excuses excuses.
I put 1lb back on by the time it came to Christmas Eve and the next time I was allowed to weigh myself so I was pretty pleased with that. I have just weighed myself again and I've put on another 5lbs over Christmas. C'est la vie! At least I'm still lighter than I was 2 months ago!
So today we are eating what remains of the Christmas indulgences and tomorrow I am back at work and back onto the detox.
I'll keep you posted...
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1 January 2018
13 November 2017
6 week bootcamp
Oh my, I haven't been here for a little while, have I? Well I'm back and I'm on it like a car bonnet! On a whim of depression, sadness and outright disgust at myself and my bad eating habits I signed up for a 6 week bootcamp which started yesterday and finishes on Christmas Eve.
There's a facebook group for excellent support and a lot of us with fitbits have become friends on there and are completing challenges. I missed out on success on a virtual Yosemite Valley challenge - the winner (and only person to have completed the whole walk in the time given) had trekked up Snowdon - hence the massive amount of steps. I was the next best achiever, but didn't finish (38500 steps in 36 hours!). I am currently doing the New York marathon and was in the lead this morning but I fear I will have been overtaken tonight. It's good motivation if you're in that frame of mind.
This first week is detox week - no caffeine, no dairy, no wheat, no sugar. My head's a bit fuzzy today - I should be studying for the 3 million things I've got happening in the next 3 weeks but I can't concentrate to learn. I haven't had caffeine since Saturday lunch time - that's ok; I drink decaff after 6pm anyway so I've had that for some drinks. I also have lemon and ginger tea and today I bought Pukka licorice and mint tea as recommended on the group for sweet cravings. It's not too bad actually and I can see the 'sweet' bit is helpful. It recommends not having too much of that if you have hypertension (waves hello) so I'd better not have any more today (2 cups already).
I have always objected to being told what to eat, but I have batch cooked a few meals (as recommended and they will be repeated) and so it's actually a novelty not having to think up 'what to have for tea'. I've made myself a plan of what I think is realistic to make fresh and eat straightaway and what I can make beforehand. I have made the 'smokey chilli' from quorn instead of minced turkey - cannot find that anywhere and it has far too much chilli in for me - it's uncomfortably hot. But I've got 8 portions left in the freezer! I've made 8 portions of harari soup - I limited the chilli and it tastes pretty good. My main downfall is that I want to season everything with salt. And for years I didn't season anything and now I can't, I miss it!
Using the fitbit and taking on challenges is good. I have done over 10,000 steps every day since Tuesday. It's motivational for someone who has seriously lacked motivation for months. My legs ache, my ankles ache and my hip is very sore but I'm trying to manage without painkillers if I can - another thing I need to cut down on.
As for peeing. Well I'm doing plenty of that!
There's a facebook group for excellent support and a lot of us with fitbits have become friends on there and are completing challenges. I missed out on success on a virtual Yosemite Valley challenge - the winner (and only person to have completed the whole walk in the time given) had trekked up Snowdon - hence the massive amount of steps. I was the next best achiever, but didn't finish (38500 steps in 36 hours!). I am currently doing the New York marathon and was in the lead this morning but I fear I will have been overtaken tonight. It's good motivation if you're in that frame of mind.
This first week is detox week - no caffeine, no dairy, no wheat, no sugar. My head's a bit fuzzy today - I should be studying for the 3 million things I've got happening in the next 3 weeks but I can't concentrate to learn. I haven't had caffeine since Saturday lunch time - that's ok; I drink decaff after 6pm anyway so I've had that for some drinks. I also have lemon and ginger tea and today I bought Pukka licorice and mint tea as recommended on the group for sweet cravings. It's not too bad actually and I can see the 'sweet' bit is helpful. It recommends not having too much of that if you have hypertension (waves hello) so I'd better not have any more today (2 cups already).
I have always objected to being told what to eat, but I have batch cooked a few meals (as recommended and they will be repeated) and so it's actually a novelty not having to think up 'what to have for tea'. I've made myself a plan of what I think is realistic to make fresh and eat straightaway and what I can make beforehand. I have made the 'smokey chilli' from quorn instead of minced turkey - cannot find that anywhere and it has far too much chilli in for me - it's uncomfortably hot. But I've got 8 portions left in the freezer! I've made 8 portions of harari soup - I limited the chilli and it tastes pretty good. My main downfall is that I want to season everything with salt. And for years I didn't season anything and now I can't, I miss it!
Using the fitbit and taking on challenges is good. I have done over 10,000 steps every day since Tuesday. It's motivational for someone who has seriously lacked motivation for months. My legs ache, my ankles ache and my hip is very sore but I'm trying to manage without painkillers if I can - another thing I need to cut down on.
As for peeing. Well I'm doing plenty of that!
11 September 2017
And off we go again...
I've not been on here for quite a few weeks now. I'm dillying and dallying where food and exercise is concerned and I just caught myself looking at Slimming World on line. It's £20 a month and £80 to start if you want all the magazines and books. I cannot justify that if I end up not sticking to it. I think the appeal was that I have never done Slimming World before and so unlike Weightwatchers, I wouldn't have all the same dread of what is on offer, pointing and weighing. I don't know how Slimming World works, except that they have 'syns' which gets my back straight up. And I am an intelligent woman; I have discussed many times on here about how it surely just is a balance of input and output - a balance that I have not yet managed to strike successfully.
If I'm going to lose this weight once and for all I need to change my lifestyle and not just fork out spondoolies every month for someone else to say measure this, count that and "should you be eating that?". It's a simple equation of avoiding the obviously 'bad' things such as refined sugar and saturated fat as much as possible, making sensible choices and above all not buying the crap in the first place! But why is that so difficult?
I had a blood pressure check last week, which was OK; not brilliant, but OK. My asthma peak flow is similar - could be better but not dire or particularly worrying. I also weighed myself this morning for the first time in ages and despite my fears, I am relatively stable and am lighter than when I embarked on this in June - hovering around 100kg (100.8 today). But even though everything is ok, I'm dissatisfied. I am an intelligent woman, I relish getting stuck into a project and yet I can't muster the motivation to concentrate on my health and wellbeing as a project - a very worthwhile and ultimately rewarding project.
I've got 10 weeks until my graduation ceremony, where I have my picture taken in a cap and gown. (I got a distinction, BTW) and get plastered all over the newsletters as well as the walls of the education centre for all eternity. I want to look better than I do now. If I could lose between 5-10kg in that time, that would be doable, wouldn't it?
Well, of course, only if I change what I'm doing! That goes without saying!
Tesco this afternoon and I shall be doing my utmost to be sensible about what I chose to put in the trolley. Hopefully hubby is up for it too.
If I'm going to lose this weight once and for all I need to change my lifestyle and not just fork out spondoolies every month for someone else to say measure this, count that and "should you be eating that?". It's a simple equation of avoiding the obviously 'bad' things such as refined sugar and saturated fat as much as possible, making sensible choices and above all not buying the crap in the first place! But why is that so difficult?
I had a blood pressure check last week, which was OK; not brilliant, but OK. My asthma peak flow is similar - could be better but not dire or particularly worrying. I also weighed myself this morning for the first time in ages and despite my fears, I am relatively stable and am lighter than when I embarked on this in June - hovering around 100kg (100.8 today). But even though everything is ok, I'm dissatisfied. I am an intelligent woman, I relish getting stuck into a project and yet I can't muster the motivation to concentrate on my health and wellbeing as a project - a very worthwhile and ultimately rewarding project.
I've got 10 weeks until my graduation ceremony, where I have my picture taken in a cap and gown. (I got a distinction, BTW) and get plastered all over the newsletters as well as the walls of the education centre for all eternity. I want to look better than I do now. If I could lose between 5-10kg in that time, that would be doable, wouldn't it?
Well, of course, only if I change what I'm doing! That goes without saying!
Tesco this afternoon and I shall be doing my utmost to be sensible about what I chose to put in the trolley. Hopefully hubby is up for it too.
10 June 2017
Fitbit and Myfitnesspal
Yesterday I synced my FitBit with MyFitnessPal. I have used this app previously but deleted it as it wasn't helpful at the time. It seems to have been updated and is more intuitive now (and also the barcode database is a million times better than FitBit's.)
MyFitnessPal (hereafter known as MFP because it's far too long to type out in full every time) reckoned I should be on 1200kcal a day. I think not! So I manually changed my goal to 1800 - taking into account what NHS said and MFP. I think 1800 is more doable without being silly or pointless. The MFP nutritional information is so much more comprehensive than FitBit too, and I can get a breakdown of carbs, protein and fats as well as nutrients, vitamins and minerals. This is helpful to me as it is telling me how much of each I have eaten and how much I need to eat or have left.
One thing I did quickly realise this morning was that 30g of All Bran is a pretty small amount compared to what I thought it was. I think portion control is going to be key to me losing weight. It will be difficult especially to begin with as I will inevitably be a little hungry or feel short-changed with considerably less than I am used to. I will probably start using smaller plates to trick my mind while it gets used to it. It's a recognised technique and probably not a bad thing to do permanently; there's no point in 'being good' only to instantly go back to my old ways and wonder why I'm putting the weight back on! I've said it to myself on many occasions previously - "it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle change."
I have done 6700 steps so far today, but I think I'm unlikely to get to 10000 today. I definitely tend to walk less steps when I'm not at work! I had to remember to track my exercise, so when I walked into town I started the timer and stopped it when I got to town and vice versa on the way home. Working the 2 apps together is going to take some time to work out. Also, preparing meals takes more time as I scour the database or scan barcodes and adjust my serving sizes. I was still preparing my (actually very simple) cottage cheese salad when hubby had prepared and eaten his! That says a lot about his eating habits too, but this is about me, not him!
MyFitnessPal (hereafter known as MFP because it's far too long to type out in full every time) reckoned I should be on 1200kcal a day. I think not! So I manually changed my goal to 1800 - taking into account what NHS said and MFP. I think 1800 is more doable without being silly or pointless. The MFP nutritional information is so much more comprehensive than FitBit too, and I can get a breakdown of carbs, protein and fats as well as nutrients, vitamins and minerals. This is helpful to me as it is telling me how much of each I have eaten and how much I need to eat or have left.
One thing I did quickly realise this morning was that 30g of All Bran is a pretty small amount compared to what I thought it was. I think portion control is going to be key to me losing weight. It will be difficult especially to begin with as I will inevitably be a little hungry or feel short-changed with considerably less than I am used to. I will probably start using smaller plates to trick my mind while it gets used to it. It's a recognised technique and probably not a bad thing to do permanently; there's no point in 'being good' only to instantly go back to my old ways and wonder why I'm putting the weight back on! I've said it to myself on many occasions previously - "it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle change."
I have done 6700 steps so far today, but I think I'm unlikely to get to 10000 today. I definitely tend to walk less steps when I'm not at work! I had to remember to track my exercise, so when I walked into town I started the timer and stopped it when I got to town and vice versa on the way home. Working the 2 apps together is going to take some time to work out. Also, preparing meals takes more time as I scour the database or scan barcodes and adjust my serving sizes. I was still preparing my (actually very simple) cottage cheese salad when hubby had prepared and eaten his! That says a lot about his eating habits too, but this is about me, not him!
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