A Brand New Start

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.

Steady Weight Loss

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

What happens when you forget to diet

Forgive me, It has been about 4 months since my last confession!

Of course since then i have done nothing to improve my health and well being at all, in fact i seem to have been on some kind of mission to make it even worse, all of that of course is quite depressing in itself but not as depressing as cancelling the holiday that was booked for October for a variety of reasons.  That is not to blame for my lack of weight loss, that is just me!!

A New Start

I hear the cries already “oh c’mon”, I know, I know ok. I’m sure we have all been there many times and it never seems like a good thing to do, a new start means forgetting your failure and probably not learning from it but I am still going down the new start route as there was many things wrong with my last start it seems.
Currently I am at the same point when i started all those months ago

23 stone 11 lbs

333 lbs

151.4 Kg

Health effects of too much weight

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Easy Dieting?

No!!!

Well that is my answer so far.  I have not exactly covered myself in glory since I started midweek as the following will show..

Day 1 – managed to stay under calorie allowance (just).

Day 2 – managed to stay under calories but still had too big a chinese meal in the evening .

Day 3 – Terrible, overate by approximately 1000 calories.

How could this happen?

Easily, and i fully understand why it happened and there are 3 reasons for it.

Reason 1 – Lack of Planning

What is that saying? Failing to plan is actually planning to fail!  I could not agree more with that sentiment right now, you see i didnt really plan ahead for the week and that is what made it easy to fail and fall into the usual patterns I have had in the past, the very ones that will kill me if they are not mastered.  You see Day 1 was not a falure other than not making time for exercise but that would have still been positive but i had planned for that, eating sensibly at work, drinking plenty of fluid and ensuring I ate up to my calories.  Unfortunately work commitments in the evening meant that i just did not get time to exercise.

Reason 2 – Family were not on board.

A recurring theme in this household is starting a diet and immediately going off the rails, perhaps we have come to expect it and perhaps even enjoy it!  Anyway what i did wrong was to enforce the idea that it is for real this time, that if i do not deal with this weght loss issue it will kill me.  So we were invited to friends after work, not for a meal or anything just for socialising and actually doing something for them.  We had a couple of drinks, 1 bottle of beer for me, however as is often the case we were there much longer than intended, not returning home til around 10pm.  Lack of planning meant that we had nothing that didn’t seem like a timeconsuming pain in the butt to get ready at that time of night, not even sandwich ingrediaents which would have been better than the Chinese meal we ended up having.  Add to that the fact that although after approximately half of my dinner i was full, i continued to eat until it was all gone and i felt full and bloated, another habit that should be broken.

Reason 3 – Greed/Old Habits

Additionally after the chinese incident with greed on day 2 day three was always a planned party, i knew i would be drinking more than i should and knew (as is the case after such sessions) that we would likely eat takeaway.  I’am an intelligent man, and my wife is an uber intelligent lady and we know that we can make sensible choices even in such situations.  Why is it then that i bought a turkish chicken doner kebab and chips (fries) which on its own is a 2000 calorie meal never mind the quite large amount of beers I had before hand.

It’s not too difficult to see where i need to take control, that is the aim over this weekend is to gain control over my decisions – wish me luck!

For those overseas or other readers that have no idea what a chicken doner kebab is like let me explain – it is (i suspect very poor quality) chicken, probably stripped from legs and necks and all the non premium areas and made into a compressed fatty block and then heated and sliced off and put in a large fat round bread which completely gets soaked by the fat that comes out of it.  It is known to me and my friends as death on a plate! it has to be the most unhealthiest thing you can buy in terms of weight loss.

A Weight Loss Diary

Why Losing Weight Is A Good Idea.

Today was a realisation that  I am a 45 year old man who has suddenly reached a state of morbid obesity.  It was not always this way of course.  Struggling with weight issues was always a way of life, however only in the last five years has it ballooned to these massive proportions, In the last 5 years a gain of approximately 6 Stone (72 pounds) has made it imperitave for some action to be taken, currently I am over twice my ideal weight at 22 and a half stone, thats 315 lbs which is way too much and is having detrimental effects on my life as outlined below.

Although I’m more than double my ideal size, i have no ambition to make that my goal. My ultimate weight loss goal will be 15 stone (210 lbs) which is a loss of 105 pounds or 7 and a half stoone, and the journey starts here, today.

My first goal is to lose the 8 pounds that will take me to 21 st 13lb (307 lbs), i would like to do that quite quickly, however I’m setting my calorie goals to a level that will allow me to lose 2lbs per week.

How to lose weight?

Why with a Calorie controlled diet of course and that scientific truth that says if you expend more calories than you eat then you will lose weight.  I will use a calorie counting tool to help and will use a food and exercise diary to the same end, also i will record my eating and exercise habits in a less formal way here in this blog.

Measurements and progress will be measured several times weekly and recorded here for all to see whether for inspiration for themselves or just to laugh at my attempts and progress.

Of course Misery loves company so if you wish to join me and tell me of your own progress just register here or use the register link in the sidebar and you can comment, take part, keep your own journal, diary or measurements and join me in general on this journey back to health. Otherwise just enjoy the read andplease feel free to comment and return often, if you have any questions you should leave a comment – which I moderate – or use the contact form to email me directly.

Yours

Fatty