Easy Dieting?

Easy Dieting?

May 14

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.