This is the start of the end... lol.. well I hope not.

for brekkie i had porridge with 1 teaspoon of jam
lunch today was a chicken caesar salad
and dinner was this.... grilled fish
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wozza2k said:
Go sugar free if you need flavour in your drinks.

5/6 cans of coke a day is asking for trouble on the diabetes front.

Typically 3 cans of coke is 400 calories odd, just think that can be equivalent to a small meal.
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Hence, why I weening myself off it!
 
Well I have used all the salad and veg stuff I bought on Monday, so now I need to go get some more (I still have some mushrooms left thats it)

I'm going to try making a Mango, broccoli & ginger soup today :) Says only 233cal.

I will give feedback later.
 
Just been to the gym, did 30mins on exercise bike and 30mins on the running machine. Totalling about 350-400 cal according to the machines.

Today I've had a pot noodle for lunch lol
Prawn and Mushroom Salad with lime dressing sauce for dinner.
Didnt have brekkie as I didnt get up till 11:40.

Had 1.5 cans of coke today and 2 bottles of water.

I will have an apple later if I get peckish.
 
The plan for tomorrow. Normally a roast beef dinner with about 8 large roast spuds cooked in duck fat and loads of beef gravy with roasted veg and some boiled veg and a big yorkshire pud.

We are having a beef dinner, but my plan is to do some sweet potato mash instead of roast spuds and the usual veg just boiled. No yorkie! Dunno about gravy, is that quite fatty (I cook the beef in a big cassorole dish with hot water poured over it before I put it in the oven, so effectively boil the beef, but then I use the water with all the juices for the gravy, I assume that is quite fatty and calorific?
 
No gym today, but I did do a 2.6 mile walk in 57mins, burning 350 calories according to runkeeper :)

Brekkie - Mushroom omlette
Lunch - Roast Beef, Mash Sweet potato, 1 x new potato, carrots, broccoli and a small amount of gravy! (NO roast spuds, NO yorkshire pud)
Milkyway cake bar (only 110 calories)
Drinks - 2 cans coke

Going to make the mushroom soup in about an hour.
 
Today

Brekkie - Skipped
Lunch - Apple and Cinnamon Porridge Pot from Sainsbursy
Dinner - Boiled rice, carrots, sliced green peppers and a single piece of oven cooked white fish.

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I'm having 1200-1400 calories a day and yes I'm logging everything. I'm still having quite large portions. Look at how much rice I had, thats more than 1 standard portion.
 
Gibbo said:
oh and not drinking beer. ;)
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This has happened easier than I expected. So far its been 12 days without any booze. And as Gibbo, and other people who know me well know that I really love booze! I drank a beer almost every day prior to this new lifestyle change :)
 
Well todays food was

Brekkie - Plain porridge, with orange juice.
Lunch - Prawn and noodle salad, with bottle of water.
Dinner - Gammon and new potatoes with mushrooms, bottle of water.
Evening snack - wholemeal toast with no butter, but philidaphia light.

Better?
 
LiE said:
That's not a lot of food. You'll loose weight on that, but too fast, meaning you'll be dropping lean muscle mass too. It's easier if you track the calories, have you got yourself myfitnesspal app? It's very easy to use.

You've listed bottles of water, I hope you actually drink more than that throughout the day.
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Those bottles are 2litres :)

I have myfitnesspal. Using it daily :)

Deception said:
Ace, when you get a moment, try punching that food in to www.myfitnesspal.com as I'd be interested to see what the macros are on that meal.
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Which meal?
 
Well went to gym tonight, did my first session on the weights, just some free weights to start with.

Did some more cardio on the running machine and bike also.

Still not had any beer, and also not had any fatty foods.

Porridge for brekkie, omlette if I'm home or salad if on the road for lunch, and for dinner fish/chicken and veg mainly (did have spag bol tonight though). I'm topping up with a round of wholemeal toasted bread with some phili light on an evening now if I get peckish.

Well I have not lost any of belly yet in size, but the firm hard fat is certainly less solid and I have lost just under 1/2 of a stone so far in 2.5 weeks. Gone from 16 3/4 to 16 1/4 stone.
 
icecold said:
1/2 a stone in two weeks is good steady progress.

Well done for resisting your vices. Post up what you did with the weights at the gym, it's good to be able to build a structure that gives you and idea of your progress.
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I just used the free weights (the round heavy rubber balls with the grab handles) I spread my legs apart and lifted them up, one in each hand in front on me straight forwards, held them there for about 10 seconds then lowered them back down. Rinse and repeated 15 times.
The I did the same again but lifted them out to my side and held for 10seconds and lowered.

I used the 14kg weights.

I will be 100% honest I aint got a clue with weights, I don't feel comfortable using the machines, as I ain't got a clue how most of them are used correctly. Don't wanna look like a plum when I do it all wrong lol.
 
well a quick update.

the 19th to the 26th I didnt do any gym work due to preparing for i49. was working in the day and building rigs on the evening for my Antec stand. ate well though. until the actual friday/sat/sun as i was stuck at i49, and there is no real healthy food to eat there. but was on my feet for 9hrs every day none stop so that combatted it a bit

last week did good with food, however the weekend was write off BBQ for my birthday, with about 30 friends. ended up drinking for 13hrs too. sunday was bad hangover day, have dominos in bed lol and about 20 bottles of water.

This week has been good though gym 3 times so far and great eating and drinking water all week.

oh and ive started doing weights properly at the gym too, only about 20mins then about 40mins of cardio, so hopefully will help, ab crunches, with 36kg on the machine, especialy should help work the flabby belly, right?????

Typically I'm doing 20 reps of the ab crunch machine. around 36kg-40kg in bursts of 5.
20 reps of the machine where you push the bar forward to work you chest, around 30kg, in bursts of 5.
20 reps of the machine you sit and pull the bar down to your chest, around 25-30kg, in bursts of 5.
20 reps of leg presses with around 40kg, in bursts of 5.
Then do the same over a second time.
After that 40mins of mixed cardio, usually on treadmill and bike machine. (i hate the cross trainer)

Reckon thats a decent work out for a weakling, who is chunky?

putting of weighing myself till next monday.
 
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