I’ve not really been watching what I’m eating lately. Well, not in terms of volume anyway.
I’ve been trying to eat much less snacks, mainly crisps! Instead I’ve taken to eating rice cakes. Surprisingly they taste pretty good! I’ve found some with lemon and pepper flavour that contain almost nothing in terms of calories, sugar or fat. Just a bit of salt, which is fine with me as I’m sweating lots with the running and generally have a lowish salt intake.
As for the numbers, this week I weigh 13st 9lbs. I’m pleased with that as it’s a loss of a few pounds and included a belated family Christmas gathering. I was very restrained and ate hardly any chocolates and only went up for seconds of the main meal, no thirds or fourths for me! How restrained!
I’ve not weighed myself for a long time. Partly out of fear to be honest.
Well, this week I did it… and was shocked. Not in a bad way either.
I was 13st 13lb which is about what I was when I started running. Okay that’s 5lbs more than last time I weighed myself but I expected to be well over 14st. I definitely felt like I was.
This week I have mostly been weighing 13st 8lbs.
I’m not sure if that’s a blip or the 1lb loss from last week will be a permanent thing. I guess we’ll see next week.
I’ve started to think more about my diet and think in general it’s pretty good. We eat well and perhaps I could reduce portion sizes but I don’t want to!
The two things that I think I need to address are:
- Not eating large, family-sized bags of Kettle Chips on my own, in one go.
- Reduce the amount of sugar in drinks
The first one is easy to be honest. But the second is hard.
I like coffee and tea but have sugar in both. In coffee I have a LARGE teaspoon, and tea a flat teaspoon. If I make coffee at work I’ll probably end up having 6 cups a day (that is usually 4 decaf, so not too much caffeine) but it is a lot of sugar.
I’ve thought about Splendid sweetener or something similar but it just seems so artificial and full of crap, modified chemicals and such like.
The other option is to try again having no sugar in hot drinks. The problem is that they taste rubbish without sugar!
Does anyone have any hints or tips for me? Please help me reduce my sugar intake!
This week I weigh 13st 9lbs.
I’m happy with that to be honest as in my week ill I ate a lot of crap.
Now I’ve started running again I’m starting to feel more tired. Still no increase in energy levels but I’ll keep waiting…
This week I’m mostly weighing 13st 10lb.
So that’s a 1lb gain from last week which is a bit disappointing but I feel trimmer (should that be ‘more trim’?) so it’s not all bad.
I’m still not experiencing increased energy levels that people say you get when you do more exercise. In fact I’m tired. All the time! Is that normal? When does this extra energy kick in or is that just some myth created to get people to do more exercise?
As part of this exercise is to lose some (okay more than just some) weight, I thought I’d post details of my weekly weigh ins here.
For reference purposes, before I started running I weighed 13st 12lb.
On Wednesday 16th September 2009 I weighed 13st 9lb, a difference of 3lbs which I’m very happy with.
I don’t really know what weight I’m aiming for, if anything, but standard height to weight charts show that someone 6’1″ (which is my height) should be between 10st 9lb and 13st 7lb. I’m not a naturally lanky person and so I think a good weight would be about 12st 7lb.
So that’s 3lb down, 16lb to go!
To be honest, I don’t know if this is vain or not, but I’m more bothered about shape and looks than actual weight. With that in mind I’d like to see a big reduction in my stomach fat, moobs and the extra chin I seem to have been developing lately.
The last week has been good though and I’ve definitely noticed an improvement. I’m not too sure whether this is due to actual weight loss or the fact that my muscles are tighter from exercise as that changes the shape of your stomach area in particular. A few people have said that I look thinner around the face too so that’s always good.
My word, don’t I sound like a girl…
