Well the ‘headline’ news is that I weighed 217 lbs this morning, which is 2 lbs lost in the week so in theory on track. The weird bit is that having gone from 219 to 211.5 in the first 3 days, to be back at 217 is either spot on or I am retaining fluid.
The only ‘bad’ thing Iate reallyall week was some salted Almonds over the weekend and while these are prone to make me retain fluid, I doubt they would be making me retain that much fluid – and I can’t see that I was that dehydrated when I was 211.5. All very strange. However fluid retention is something that I suffer from and I have a feeling that I am not drinking as much water as I should as it isn’t that hot here and I am not doing as much exercise.
Still we are heading in the right direction, and having started I hope to have a much more active week this week exercise wise ………..
Hope all is going well this week with the exercise/diet. 219 to 211 seems a huge 3 day jump but would be great if it were accurate 🙂
Managing to stick to eating properly so far – breakfast, simple dinner or small evening meal. Have been really really hungry so bought some low fat, 60 cal bars for during day.
Run tonight so you guessed it, it’s raining!
Watch out for the sugar in those low fat bars – fruit and Brazil nuts would be much better.
Is going pretty well this week. Ran today which was OK, but a long way off feeling as fit as I did in the summer. Food good and no snacking, mainly as Sands and I are really good at not shopping so is basically no food in the house!
Probably the best thing is that I still feel really determined so the focus is good and I am working all hours at the moment with Miglia, Forsight, CES, AL and a few new things I am looking at.
Need to sort out Kernel panic that seems to happen every morning at the moment
Go, go, go!
And if I may, my recommendation would be 5 small meals, spread out through the day. Eg, Breakfast at 7:30, snack at 10:30, small lunch with protein at lunch, 3:30 snack, dinner with protein no later than 6:00 PM … and something that’s super-low-cal if you snack after that.
Brought me from 260lbs to 220lbs, and I’m still shrinking, now that I’ve added quick walking and more fluids.
Actually, my ultimate recommendation is to speak to your doctor, ask him what would work best for you and your body type!
And stay away from nuts. You wouldn’t imagine how unhealthy these are!
Hey nuts are REALLY healthy, partic almonds and brazil nuts BUT only in moderation as they are fattening. I go for 4 Brazils and a small handfull of UNSALTED almonds every day to get selenium (for immune system) Vit E and lots of omega 3 etc. The ones to stay away from are peanuts as they are very fatty and not really much use for anything else.
I am with you on the small regular meals. I used to skip breakfast, not each much lunch and then have a big meal in the evening. I know that isn’t right but funnily enough I was much thinner then. I think it may be because I was much younger as well:-)
Fluids as well – need to drink even more water.
My eating timetable is somewhat different to yours theough over here in Spain. Typically:
Breakfast about 10am
Snack about 1 pm
Lunch (main meal of the day) 3pm
Snack 6pm
Dinnr (light meal) 9pm
Bead about 12-12.30
If we go out in the evening for drinks and tapas or a meal it wont be before 10pm, but then we are usually up till gone 2am and so don’t go to bed on a full stomach even if we have had dinner that late.
So far so good this week – 3 workouts, 2 runs and pretty good diet. AM not on low fat foods or a ‘strict’ diet. Eating what I like within reason, jut sin moderation and cutting out the real fattening stuff like alcohol, crisos, chips, meat etc etc.
Have ended up taking two days off from training. Partly weather, partly very busy, partly something that I can tell you about in a couple of days (maybe).
So, what you mean is, you’re pregnant? 🙂 I mean, the wife is…?
Absolutely not 🙂 Physical impossibility in my case 🙂
Sounds like good progress Chris, even with 2 days off.
My update:
4 runs – 3×5 miles, 1×3 miles (I don’t mind running in the ran but this was ridiculous so cut short!)
4 stomach and arm workouts (very basic, low key after each run)
Weight: 207lbs (measuring each morning)
Food: sticking to routine of breakfast, low card & fat snacks/lunch, sensible dinner with 50% veg)
+ only 6 cups of normal tea all week (I used to drink 8-10 a day with sugar) Been on green tea and fruit tea during day with cup of hot water at breakfast.
Quite pleased but aware of weekends being poor for diet so got to be strong willed!
Last couple of days have been house bound with no exercise, and a Chinese Take Away last night 🙁
Still have done some exercises this morning and will run this afternoon, so hopefully if I can do the same tomorrow the weigh in on Monday wont be too bad!!!
@Dunks – you are doing well, especially with the diet!!!