A Brand New Start

A Brand New Start

Mar 23

Ok like a million people before me and I’m sure another million after me and indeed in keeping with my own pattern i fell off theight loss wagon.  However over the last few weeks i have felt that the time was now here for getting back on it.

I believe that if i want to be healthy and have the energyto run a business, enjoy holidays as  a healthy social life then it must start with my own body.  To that end it is time to restarts and get on with it and stop making excuses.

Today was the first time that the scales were used since the start of the year.  Weighing in at 22 stone 2lb was a reasonably pleasant surprise.  That is some 310lbs, so it is not ideal but in all honesty the expectation was for a lot worse so in that sense it was a surprise.

I guess my first aim will be for a proper check in over this weekend after a beer session tonight which will be my last for some tiFeel free to use the comments to call me names or offer encouragement, both of which are needed.  If you want to join me in this journey and use thisis as therapy or reporting for yourself then feel free, its not exactly a weight loss forum but maybe it will help.

I will be using MyFitnessPal again to monitor my intake and measurements as well as posting them here on a regular basis.

 

 

What is the Best Work Out Music?

What is the Best Work Out Music?

Oct 11

Not really a question, most folks I know excercise to hard and fast dance music with loads of beats per minute, and certainly in the past this is also what i would have done.

What is your favourite music (or style of music) to work out to.

I ask because recently i came across an old (i think) Tony Robbins  - ‘improve your life’ audio program.  I make no reference to the program and its quality or whether it will really improve your life but within the program was an hours worth of workout music.  I find it very powerful but not like anything i would ever have used before, some of it sounds like it could be from a 70′s porn movie or TV themes or something but it is truly inspiring and positive.  In fact when i come to the end Im a bit sad as i fear the good emotions it seemed to bring will leave me.

Tell me what you listen to and why?

Check In #2

Check In #2

Oct 10

The weight loss continues

 

 

Steady Weight Loss

Steady Weight Loss

Oct 10

Since my post last week things have been going well. Although it took until Wednesday to overcome the effects of the weekend things have been good with Thursday showing a loss of 2lb and another 1lb on Friday.  Then of course it all goes wrong again, it was a big weekend socially although I did my best to get through it with minimal damage.

It all kicked off with the Rugby World Cup, an early start with breakfast in the local pub to watch the game.  Of course i was good, just a couple of poached eggs on one slice of toast with 2 rashers of fat removed bacon and another few gallons of tea.  There were visitors coming in the fternoon for an overnight stay and Mrs Hippi had prepared a buffet type dinner for us all with lots of lovely stuff on it and a lot of it healthy.  What was not healthy was the Scotch Eggs of which  2 full ones (4 half’s) were consumed with gusto, the 6 slices of granary French stick with real butter that seemed to slip down wonderfully, who can resist granary French stick?, not me it seems, and the three full slices of corned beef  that got devoured and that was on top of all the nice bits of salmon, chicken and salad that was consumed.

Then the evening consisted on probably around 8 pints of lager and around 6 Rum & Coke (diet coke of course) and i have a memory of eating a fresh cream doughnut around 4am!

Breakfast on Sunday was 2 croissants with real butter (oops) and a beautiful Sunday roast joint of pork for dinner, none of which was too devastating until the puddings came out, we only ever have dessert when we have visitors!  There was a choice of 3 one of which was bakewell tart and custard – oh oh it was irresistable and i proceeded to demolish a serving of that, but it was only a normal serving and just one at that!

Luckily the scales today (Monday) say I have not gained any weight but those of you with a memory will recognise this pattern after a weekend, scales say maintain on the Monday, you stay good on the Monday only to find that it bites you on the Tuesday with a considerable gain you were not expecting!  I don’t know why it is and hopefully it can be avoided this week.  does this happen to you, recognise any of these weekend patterns, did you manage to control your weekends better, why not let me know, please comment below if you have anything to add.

Hippi

An Unexpected Weight Gain

An Unexpected Weight Gain

Oct 04

Arrrghh  don’t you just hate that.  I was good as gold yesterday, having a good day with food and 2 exercise sessions – guess what, i get on the scales this morning to find I had gained a pound since yesterday.

Now you and I know it was really from the poor weekend I had but it is like a kick in the balls when you think you have gotten away with it just for it to come back and bite you.  Not that it will have too much of a negative effect, this diet is for the long term and cannot be thrown off by just one day’s glitch – Over the week it is hopeful that the overall trend will be down.

Fatty