My God - it is good to be back! Im feelin all ready for action and have reli missed this site. Or maybe thats not the right phrasing....
Anyways - Who cares?! Im back and today was my first day of launching back into action. Cue scary music!
I am trying out a new method of working my regime and today was launch day. It seems to have got off to a really good start, apart from a few minor spanners in the works!
This was my PLAN for today as i typed it up (also includes notes i wrote on my plan of action for this month):
THE FIRST MONTH: 'THE ROOKIE'
• Do not go over 300kcal on a normal day...
• Exceptions to the amount of 500kcal can be made for special days including birthdays and Christmas
• Do at least one exercise a day. The following are exercises that you must do sometime during the next 4 weeks:
Gym, swimming, circuit training, cycling, walking, aerobics, running*
• No foods for the month are: butter (in its primary form), bread, chocolate*
* Both running and chocolate are optional given that they are another level up. They will, however, be added on the next months list of exercise and no-no foods, so the later weeks are a chance to cut down and get ahead of yourself.
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WEEK ONE : 'THE TRYOUT WEEK':
Goal: to lose holiday weight (namely 6lbs!)
Calories to consume: 300kcal max a day (max of 2100kcal over the week)
Exercise to perform: One hour of exercise every day
Leverage: One day without exercise or one day with an additional 200kcal
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Monday
9am-10am ... Get Up
10am-11am ... Breakfast: None
12am-1pm ... Walk into town and pick up groceries (long route back CAL260-)
1pm-2pm ... Lunch: Light salad with tomato and cucumber CAL20+
2pm-3pm ... *Lunch allowed until 2.30pm. Do ironing from pile
3pm-4pm ... Finish ironing and clean bathroom. Find extra jobs if have time.
4pm-5pm ... Go on computer and work on my website
5pm-6pm ... ...
6pm-7pm ... Tea: ½ a Covent Garden soup CAL155+
7pm-8pm ... Do an hour?s high burn circuit training or medium burn gym CAL-500-620
8pm-9pm ... DANGER HOURS! Arrange to meet up with friend for 2 hrs
9pm-10pm ... With friend until 11pm max. Home
To be filled out by you at the end of each day:
Tick the box if you have followed the stated meal above. If you have not eaten that meal, then just put a cross through the box.
Breakfast:
If something other than stated was consumed, state here: ....................................
Lunch:
If something other than stated was consumed, state here: ....................................
Tea:
If something other than stated was consumed, state here: ....................................
Snacks:
If something other than stated was consumed, state here: ....................................
Exercise: 1 2 3
If other exercise than stated was partaken, state here: ....................................
TOTAL CALORIES CONSUMED: .........KCAL
TOTAL CALORIES BURNED: .........KCAL
TOTAL CALS FOR MONDAY ONCE ALL EXERCISE ACCOUNTED FOR:
.........KCAL
...So, thats my new way of doing things. I have already typed up this week. Im trying to fit as much in as possible then im at least bound to manage at least one of those things that day. The plans are quite idealistic - it what i would like to do in the day, if i manage 3/4 that would suit me.
This morning started off well, i steered clear of the kitchen and simply focused on getting out of the house. I enjoy food shopping, although at the same time im kind of scared of it. I had decided to pick up my own groceries so that i could decide what i wanted and take the time to look at the calorie and fat content. I left my sister in bed, probably in shock at me getting up before lunchtime!! lol.
I walked into the supermarket first and was quite content to steer clear of the bad foods. I was too engrossed in finding the nicest looking foods and reading through an entire shelf load of crackers just to find if there were any lower in cals than my current ones (which i didnt find!).
As i was walking around the soup section, a friend of my mums and of mine came up. We chatted and i kept wondering whether she suspected anything. She has seen me in the leisure centre loads and when i saw her she said 'Thats a very healthy looking basket you've got there!'. She is a 'recovered' anorexic so i was worried about how much she'd twig. But then she commented on my weight, saying i looked slimmer. I fended off the comments and said i'd put alot back on after the holiday.
She then said she'd seen these weight watchers meals that looked really tasty and we looked at them. She was waiting for an opinion. I went along with the 'mmm! doesnt that look tasty!''s. But i was struck by my reaction to the food - it is clear that i am in a deep food-orientated calorie-driven state of mind. My eyes immediately flicked over the high fat looking packaging in a thick red cover and deep dish. Then onto the calories - it was almost 400kcal!! omg! There was no way i was going to get one - it was 100kcal over my daily allowance! Luckily she got distracted by another friend and i managed to get away to finish my shopping.
By the time i left the supermarket i was loathed to have to go home, rather than take the long walk around our park back home. It would have burnt extra calories and it had been a nice day. But my mobile was back home and my sister worries easily, so i turned away from the town.
Back home, i handed the awaited chocolate bar into my sisters lap and stashed my own in my room. I took pleasure in re-orgainising the entire fridge, and although i wasnt completely satisfied with the arrangement (i had to share my food shelf with the cheese and ham), it wasnt too bad.
Then straight onto lunch. I made pasta for my sister and enjoyed being in the kitchen with the freedom to add (or not add) what i wanted. Before doing my salad i washed my hands and rechecked the calories of the new balsamic vinegar i had bought. I finished the tea and resisted with all my will picking at the cheese i had grated for my sister's pasta. I was quite proud i hadnt given in. Its all calories!
During lunch i suggested as it was 'a nice day' that we go out for a walk around cowdray. I was determined to get my walk in somehow. We agreed, but the afternoon slipped on and before i knew it i was staring at a clock that had to be somehow wrong! But it wasnt - i had no time for the walk now.
To make my torment even worse, i had 5 squares of chocolate. I had managed to c&s the first three pieces, but sucummed to the rest. It felt awful that that many calories had suddenly plonked itself on your thighs and there was virtually nothing you could do about it. Well, almost nothing...
I spent an hour at the ironing i had promised i'd do before mum came home. At least now the promise if exercise loomed and i got ready to do my first circuit training session with my step dad. For those of you who dont know what that is, its where you go round the hall doing different exercises for about 30seconds before going onto the next. Such exercises can be squats, shuttle runs, weight lifting, trampoline and steps.
I will tell you now - ITS BLOODY HARD WORK! i was really knackered afterwards and still cant hold a squat pose for very long now! But i can certainly believe i lost those 600kcals! lol. Despite cursing it at the time, i enjoyed it and plan on going next week!
Before i had gone to circuits, i had sat in my room brainstorming what i was going to do about calories. If i had followed through with all of my original plan, the result would have been -680. So i had tried to see what i needed to do to get to that same point. I set a backup plan that if i felt ok enough after circuits, i would do an hour in the gym afterwards. As it was though, i felt knackered! I decided that at least i was still in minus calories!
When i got home, i told my step dad that i always hated eating after exercise and would probably have a late tea. With the smell of teatime looming, I dived in the bath and hid in the bathroom until the others had finished theirs. We had planned to make our own today so i hadnt let food go cold and wasted. I sat in my room and read, went on my computer and by the time i looked up it was 9pm and no one had come in about my tea. Yes! At least i could balance it out a little by not having tea. It wouldnt compltely counter the chocolate from earlier, but it would soften the blow.
So now im writing this, praying those 6lbs (6LBS! IN 8 DAYS! it almost seems like it should have been impossible for me to do that!) are sliding neatly off my body and melting away. They are getting nothing but brute force from me! lol.
Here's my brute force in action:
MEALS FOOD CONSUMED CAL
Breakfast
Nothing 0kcal
Lunch
Light house salad 20kcal
Tea
Nothing 0kcal
Snack
5 squares of choc 250kcal
EXERCISE CALORIES BURNED
short walk 20 mins in and out of town 50kcal
high burn 1 hour circuit training 620kcal
TOTAL -400KCAL
I hope you are all doing really well. Thanks for the message lily - i knew i had to get straight on here as soon as i saw your message! lol.
Right, well i must go now because i have work tomorrow. This could equal great opportunity to eat very little, or a downfall into nibbles! Lets hope its the former.
Night night for now
Toodle Pip!
xx * Poppy * xx
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