Energy levels feel quite low today but I am up earlier than normal as I have an early morning training session. Im also getting very tempted to cheat as I am craving chocolate or cake (something sweet that isn't fruit!)
It's also come to my attention that next week is valentines day and I've been informed that I must book a table at a restaurant. I've decided that I will use this meal out as a mid term reward for sticking to my plan. Still to sure if ill go the whole hog and drink alcohol (I probably will but not too much) this should give me something close to aim for and stop cheating and guilt me into keeping up the plan till the end of the month.
Got through the day without any major cheats although when I got home I found that my mother in law had cooked a sausage casserole that I couldn't resist. It was all ok in the main part with potatoes and vegetables (cabbage, mixed beans etc). Sausages obviously can contain some dodgy stuff but I think ill let it go. There was also gravy which I am assuming was from some sort of packet so contains god knows what. Technically a cheat but considering what could have been (chocolate, ice cream, beer etc) I'm happy.
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Day 5 - Tuesday 5th feb
Got through yesterday without a hitch but very nearly succumbed to temptation.
I looked in the cupboard at lunch time and saw my wife's weight watchers chocolate bars and was so tempted, then I read the ingredients the first of which being "bulking agent"?????? WTF!!!!! I left well alone.
A supper time I nearly had a pork and vegetable wrap until I read the wrap ingredients and saw things like "emulsifiers" and " whiting agent" so I just had pork chop and vegetables.
I have a hard training session on the bike today so my usual morning fuel of soaked oats etc etc and large espresso for breakfast. To help fuel the bike ride I may have to use a glucose tab instead of just water.
I may treat myself to some pasta for dinner (whole meal of course)
Weighed myself again this morning and I've gone down a touch more but it's hardly worth noting as its probably just daly fluctuation anyway (83.1 ish)
I can't believe I'm only 5 days into this diet/challenge! It feels a lot longer and I feel pretty good already. 23 days to go I suppose. Writing this blog has made things much easier for me too, writing down my daily plan really helps keep me focused.
In the end the days dinner consisted of a mixed paella which meant a minor cheat of some stock (2stock cubes and 1 gel stock)
It was so good I had 2 portions but I didn't start this diet with restrictions on portions did I ;)
I looked in the cupboard at lunch time and saw my wife's weight watchers chocolate bars and was so tempted, then I read the ingredients the first of which being "bulking agent"?????? WTF!!!!! I left well alone.
A supper time I nearly had a pork and vegetable wrap until I read the wrap ingredients and saw things like "emulsifiers" and " whiting agent" so I just had pork chop and vegetables.
I have a hard training session on the bike today so my usual morning fuel of soaked oats etc etc and large espresso for breakfast. To help fuel the bike ride I may have to use a glucose tab instead of just water.
I may treat myself to some pasta for dinner (whole meal of course)
Weighed myself again this morning and I've gone down a touch more but it's hardly worth noting as its probably just daly fluctuation anyway (83.1 ish)
I can't believe I'm only 5 days into this diet/challenge! It feels a lot longer and I feel pretty good already. 23 days to go I suppose. Writing this blog has made things much easier for me too, writing down my daily plan really helps keep me focused.
In the end the days dinner consisted of a mixed paella which meant a minor cheat of some stock (2stock cubes and 1 gel stock)
It was so good I had 2 portions but I didn't start this diet with restrictions on portions did I ;)
Monday, 4 February 2013
Day 4 - Monday feb 4th
Today's weight 83.3kgs
Lost over a kilo and a half no doubt partly due to yesterday's calorific deficit. The task is now not to put it back on.
Breakfast was my usual, soaked oats, Greek yogurt and berries. Washed down with espresso.
Long day of teaching today and a little light training so big lunch (chicken stirfry and veg again - but ill try and leave out the soy sauce)
Fruit salad as a meal whilst working and hopefully a low carb meal when I get in tonight (trying to cut out late night carbs and won't be home till gone 10)
Lost over a kilo and a half no doubt partly due to yesterday's calorific deficit. The task is now not to put it back on.
Breakfast was my usual, soaked oats, Greek yogurt and berries. Washed down with espresso.
Long day of teaching today and a little light training so big lunch (chicken stirfry and veg again - but ill try and leave out the soy sauce)
Fruit salad as a meal whilst working and hopefully a low carb meal when I get in tonight (trying to cut out late night carbs and won't be home till gone 10)
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Day 3 - Sunday 3rd feb
Breakfast - soaked porridge oats, Greek yogurt and mixed berries, espresso (actually triple espresso!)
As I had a bike race ( reliability ride, basically a long and hard organised group training ride ) I knew there would have to be some minor cheats today. I took out one bottle of water with a electrolyte/carbohydrate tablet added to it (750ml), a banana and 2 nakd fruit bar thingys I brought in tesco last night (all natural ingredients) also took 2 sis energy gels as back up, just in case.
Drank all the drink, the banana, both bars and 1 gel on the ride. When I got back to the HQ there was soup (I think it was some powdered soup stuff and bread rolls with fake butter spread. A had a small cup of soup and 2 bread rolls as there was no other alternative foods around and I had to ride home still.
Lunch was stir fry of chicken, egg fried rice and mixed veg and I added a dash of soy sauce and rice vinegar.
Supper will be salmon fillet and salad probably.
A few little cheats today (powdered soup, fake butter and cheap bread are no doubt full of preservatives etc and the glucose drink and gels were a necessity) but 90 miles on the bike and probably 4000 calories plus makes me less guilty especially after hearing a lot of other riders talk about their plans for a few beers and a take away tonight.
Saturday, 2 February 2013
Day 2 - Saturday feb 2nd
Yesterday was successful. Went to the pub after karate training and drank mineral water!
Weekends are always hard to diet over so I'm glad this one comes toward the beginning of my motivation!
Today's breakfast was apple juice soaked oats again with Greek yogurt and a banana.
Lunch will be a fruit salad of melon, pineapple, mango and orange.
Snacked on carrot sticks and hummus and dinner was peppers stuffed with brown rice, corn on the cob (with a little butter) and chicken breast glazed with honey and pesto.
No cheats today so all good!
Tomorrow I have a bike race so will need to break the diet a bit with carb drinks etc.
Snacked on carrot sticks and hummus and dinner was peppers stuffed with brown rice, corn on the cob (with a little butter) and chicken breast glazed with honey and pesto.
No cheats today so all good!
Tomorrow I have a bike race so will need to break the diet a bit with carb drinks etc.
Friday, 1 February 2013
Feb 1st 2013 - day 1
Day one of my new diet challenge.
Obviously started with breakfast which was a mix of porridge oats and museli (3/4 oats to 1/4 museli) soaked over night in some un concentrated, unsweetened apple juice. Topped off with some natural Greek yoghurt and some mixed berries. Washed down with an espresso coffee.
Today is a busy day for training. I have a core workout to do followed by about 90 mins interval training on the bike. I also have a karate training session tonight.
Post ride recovery meal is likely to be a fruit salad (melon, pineapple, mango and banana) and dinner will be a stirfry of brown rice (maybe egg fried) with king prawns and veg (broccoli, mange tout,baby corn etc).
As its day 1 of the diet I am going to try the bike ride on just water (no carb drink) and leave the soy sauce out of the stir fry (just a dash of oil)
Weight this morning was bang on 85 kilos
Cheats
Hummus - I had carrot sticks and hummus as a snack but it was good hummus without any other crap in it (just garlic purée and lime juice)
Soy sauce - some reduced salt soy sauce which contains a colouring and some preservatives, only had a tiny splash but will try to cut it out next time.
Obviously started with breakfast which was a mix of porridge oats and museli (3/4 oats to 1/4 museli) soaked over night in some un concentrated, unsweetened apple juice. Topped off with some natural Greek yoghurt and some mixed berries. Washed down with an espresso coffee.
Today is a busy day for training. I have a core workout to do followed by about 90 mins interval training on the bike. I also have a karate training session tonight.
Post ride recovery meal is likely to be a fruit salad (melon, pineapple, mango and banana) and dinner will be a stirfry of brown rice (maybe egg fried) with king prawns and veg (broccoli, mange tout,baby corn etc).
As its day 1 of the diet I am going to try the bike ride on just water (no carb drink) and leave the soy sauce out of the stir fry (just a dash of oil)
Weight this morning was bang on 85 kilos
Cheats
Hummus - I had carrot sticks and hummus as a snack but it was good hummus without any other crap in it (just garlic purée and lime juice)
Soy sauce - some reduced salt soy sauce which contains a colouring and some preservatives, only had a tiny splash but will try to cut it out next time.
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Beginnings
Welcome to my new blog.
To be brutally honest, I don't care if no one reads this. It's not really for you, it's for me!
I've come to realise I am greedy! When it comes to food I just can't stop eating. I love food, I love chocolate, beer, wine, ice cream, fish and chips and all other foods both healthy and less healthy.
To counter act this I train - pretty hard. I teach karate every day, train in karate as often as possible. I also race bikes at the velodrome. If I didn't do this training I would be HUGE! Even with this training my eating has created a little bit too much of a spare tyre for my liking so I've decided it's time to do something about it.
About 8 months ago for some reason I started reading up on the foods I ate. I was quite shocked to discover something that is pretty obvious, foods are pumped full of crap that shouldn't be there and it's not really good for you. I decided to try and cut out these additives and preservatives and see what happened. The results was that I lost about 5 kilos and it has pretty much stayed off.
Fast forward to x mas and new year 2012/2013 and a couple of weeks of excess meant I put a lot of the weight back on. My New Years resolution was to go back on my all natural diet and shift even more weight than before.
This worked fine for a bit but a few temptations and meals out meant it didn't quite go as planned. I found it too easy to give in to a pizza or slice of cake and although I have cut out a lot of the bad foods, I am still not happy with my progress.
This is where the blog comes in. As of February 1st 2013 (tomorrow) I am going to blog my progress with my diet and training here. The idea being that if I have to face the reality of sitting down and writing about any blips in my diet it will make me less likely to cheat.
Basically my diet will involve only eating food that is natural, fresh and real!
Fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and meat/fish are all in.
All processed foods are gone. As are sweets and chocolate. All alcohol is gone too.
Other foods to avoid are - bread or bread products, cheese, pasta is ok in moderation and tinned foods should be avoided where possible.
If it grew or lived its all good, otherwise leave it be!
To be brutally honest, I don't care if no one reads this. It's not really for you, it's for me!
I've come to realise I am greedy! When it comes to food I just can't stop eating. I love food, I love chocolate, beer, wine, ice cream, fish and chips and all other foods both healthy and less healthy.
To counter act this I train - pretty hard. I teach karate every day, train in karate as often as possible. I also race bikes at the velodrome. If I didn't do this training I would be HUGE! Even with this training my eating has created a little bit too much of a spare tyre for my liking so I've decided it's time to do something about it.
About 8 months ago for some reason I started reading up on the foods I ate. I was quite shocked to discover something that is pretty obvious, foods are pumped full of crap that shouldn't be there and it's not really good for you. I decided to try and cut out these additives and preservatives and see what happened. The results was that I lost about 5 kilos and it has pretty much stayed off.
Fast forward to x mas and new year 2012/2013 and a couple of weeks of excess meant I put a lot of the weight back on. My New Years resolution was to go back on my all natural diet and shift even more weight than before.
This worked fine for a bit but a few temptations and meals out meant it didn't quite go as planned. I found it too easy to give in to a pizza or slice of cake and although I have cut out a lot of the bad foods, I am still not happy with my progress.
This is where the blog comes in. As of February 1st 2013 (tomorrow) I am going to blog my progress with my diet and training here. The idea being that if I have to face the reality of sitting down and writing about any blips in my diet it will make me less likely to cheat.
Basically my diet will involve only eating food that is natural, fresh and real!
Fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and meat/fish are all in.
All processed foods are gone. As are sweets and chocolate. All alcohol is gone too.
Other foods to avoid are - bread or bread products, cheese, pasta is ok in moderation and tinned foods should be avoided where possible.
If it grew or lived its all good, otherwise leave it be!
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