Today didn't really go to plan. The restaurant we went to at lunchtime was very yummy, and my husband knew the chef so he gave us some extras on the house which I just had to eat. I am incapable of choosing just "pasta in tomato sauce" at an italian restaurant. It seems like such a waste!
Luckily as we went out at lunchtime I just haven't eaten anything else for the rest of the day. I think the calorie count would probably come in at around the 2000 mark but difficult to tell.
Breakfast: pain au chocolat, clementine
Snack: mint imperial
Lunch (Italian restaurant): cheesy garlic pizza bread, olives, lasagne, mixed salad, some onion rings, mint choc chip ice cream
Snack: chocolate mint (from lunch)
No exercise
Here's to a healthy day tomorrow!
28 February 2010
27 February 2010
Here we go again
I see I haven't posted on here for nearly a year now. Well I can still jog for 30 minutes in one go, but I'm not a lot faster than I was. I have stopped going at lunchtimes during work now as I was having difficulty getting faster without getting really sweaty and disgusting, and even with a bathroom that's not quite what you want if you have to sit through an afternoon at work.
And since the clocks went back I haven't had chance to get out during the week as its dark when I get home. Only a month to go and then maybe I will get back into things again.
Anyway, the weight has been creeping a little recently - I'm 5'4", and around the 9 stone mark. I lost a lot of weight about 5 years ago and have maintained it, and my original goal, which I achieved was 8st 7lbs, but I've spent most of the time since around 8st 10lbs. I've just got back after a weeks holiday, and to be honest the last six months I've struggled to keep my weight below about 8st 12lbs, and tomorrow is my post holiday weigh-in which I suspect will come in just over the 9st mark.
I want to stop the creep - but the problem with being relatively small is that its terribly difficult to get those last few pounds off. So I'm starting an experiment. A countdown to my next holiday in June when I will be wearing a BIKINI for the first time in my life ever (outside of my back garden that is.)
So I have a plan that will hopefully help me lose half a pound a week for six weeks, maintain for one week, then half a pound a week for another six weeks, then maintain for about four weeks before my June holiday. I'm going to keep this blog as a food and exercise diary.
I'm the kind of person who enjoys food far too much to be accountable unless I'm writing it all down - and I quite enjoy writing it all down anyway so I don't have a problem with that.
Here's the plan:
Exercise:
- 20-30 min walk every week day at lunchtime
- 3 cardio sessions a week lasting between 30-60 minutes, either jogging, exercise bike or exercise DVD
- 2 strength sessions a week lasting between 20-40 minutes, either free weights or exercise DVD
Food:
Following a calorie shifting plan - so I don't get fed up with not being able to eat enough.
Weight loss phase:
Sunday 2000 cals
Monday 1300 cals
Tuesday 1500 cals
Wednesday 2000 cals
Thursday 1300 cals
Friday 1500 cals
Saturday 1500 cals
If I have a social event planned on a Saturday I may swap the calorie allowance for the Sunday.
The only food/drinks I will not be counting are water and tea (with or without milk).
I'm not restricting any foods but I will by trying not to eat sugary foods as snacks, as I've had quite a few fillings in the last two or three years.
We begin tomorrow - and I have holiday leftovers to eat up plus I'm going out for a meal with a friend, so may not be a great start but will do my best.
Tomorrow I will weigh and measure myself, and then do it again at the end of the first six weeks.
Here's todays food diary for starters, I haven't counted calories I reckon its around 2000-2100.
Breakfast: baked beans on toasted sunflower seed roll, glass of pineapple juice
Snack: packet of french fries, few mint imperials
Lunch: sunflower seed roll, few slices of various cheeses, few slices of mexican chicken, salad, clementine, cereal bar
Snack: handful of salted nuts
Dinner: sausage and mushroom pasta, white magnum
Here's hoping I weigh less than I think I do tomorrow morning.
And since the clocks went back I haven't had chance to get out during the week as its dark when I get home. Only a month to go and then maybe I will get back into things again.
Anyway, the weight has been creeping a little recently - I'm 5'4", and around the 9 stone mark. I lost a lot of weight about 5 years ago and have maintained it, and my original goal, which I achieved was 8st 7lbs, but I've spent most of the time since around 8st 10lbs. I've just got back after a weeks holiday, and to be honest the last six months I've struggled to keep my weight below about 8st 12lbs, and tomorrow is my post holiday weigh-in which I suspect will come in just over the 9st mark.
I want to stop the creep - but the problem with being relatively small is that its terribly difficult to get those last few pounds off. So I'm starting an experiment. A countdown to my next holiday in June when I will be wearing a BIKINI for the first time in my life ever (outside of my back garden that is.)
So I have a plan that will hopefully help me lose half a pound a week for six weeks, maintain for one week, then half a pound a week for another six weeks, then maintain for about four weeks before my June holiday. I'm going to keep this blog as a food and exercise diary.
I'm the kind of person who enjoys food far too much to be accountable unless I'm writing it all down - and I quite enjoy writing it all down anyway so I don't have a problem with that.
Here's the plan:
Exercise:
- 20-30 min walk every week day at lunchtime
- 3 cardio sessions a week lasting between 30-60 minutes, either jogging, exercise bike or exercise DVD
- 2 strength sessions a week lasting between 20-40 minutes, either free weights or exercise DVD
Food:
Following a calorie shifting plan - so I don't get fed up with not being able to eat enough.
Weight loss phase:
Sunday 2000 cals
Monday 1300 cals
Tuesday 1500 cals
Wednesday 2000 cals
Thursday 1300 cals
Friday 1500 cals
Saturday 1500 cals
If I have a social event planned on a Saturday I may swap the calorie allowance for the Sunday.
The only food/drinks I will not be counting are water and tea (with or without milk).
I'm not restricting any foods but I will by trying not to eat sugary foods as snacks, as I've had quite a few fillings in the last two or three years.
We begin tomorrow - and I have holiday leftovers to eat up plus I'm going out for a meal with a friend, so may not be a great start but will do my best.
Tomorrow I will weigh and measure myself, and then do it again at the end of the first six weeks.
Here's todays food diary for starters, I haven't counted calories I reckon its around 2000-2100.
Breakfast: baked beans on toasted sunflower seed roll, glass of pineapple juice
Snack: packet of french fries, few mint imperials
Lunch: sunflower seed roll, few slices of various cheeses, few slices of mexican chicken, salad, clementine, cereal bar
Snack: handful of salted nuts
Dinner: sausage and mushroom pasta, white magnum
Here's hoping I weigh less than I think I do tomorrow morning.
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