two weeks ago I was feasting on Lopwells finest Pizza and Pork, ah sweet memories. Now I’m just back on the scales and a couple of notches down on the belly belt. Don’t know what weight I started off at, I’m guessing around 23. Now at 22 St 3lbs. A loss of 12 lbs or so seems about right in the first couple of weeks given the drastic diet change.
The other day I worked out I was consuming 5-8 lbs of carbs and at least 3/4 lb of sugar a week plus god knows how much fat. That’s now reduced to less than 1 lb carbs (wholemeal wraps and small baguettes) and about a few ounces of sugar and a few ounces of fat. Slowly reducing the sugar further by halving what I have in tea and coffee.
What do i miss the most, marmalade sandwiches, without any doubt!
Artificial sweeteners are always worth a try. You might not like them neat. But you might find that mixed with a little sugar they’re OK.
FWIW I’ll have been off ‘fast’ sugars (sucrose, glucose etc) for 40 years in September. I miss mince pies, although Mrs VB’s home-made mincemeat, using fructose, is lovely at Xmas.
Decided to try to improve my chin up capacity so yesterday’s upper body workout was ‘on the minute’ chin ups. So basically you set your stopwatch and do 2 chin ups on the minute, every minute for ten minutes. Got tough towards the last couple but its a great way of increasing your volume. Next step is then to start decreasing the rest time, or to start doing 3 on the minute and when you fail do 2 for the remainder, haven’t decided which route yet.
Followed this up with some DB bench presses. All done within 20-25 mins inc warm up.
I now have tea and coffee black no sugar. A milky sweet coffee or tea is now urrgh. If you drink a lot those calories do add up to a lot. Perhaps a marmalade sarnie every three days.
I haven’t really done push ups for just over a week now. I felt really weak when I tried some on Thursday, just didn’t have the energy for it. A feeling of general fatigue from the weekend before. Decided to just rest and not try to push though it. When I felt like that before, eventually the fatigue passed and I started progressing again.
Still didn’t feel recovered from last weekend so skipped the normal long Sunday ride. Just went for a ride with the kids which was nice. Not long bought my daughter a balance bike and I think she’s ready for pedals already
After two rest days a 2.2 mile jog . I haven’t been finding it easy to gauge exactly what speed to go. This was run at around 87% of my MHR and it felt OK to me. I have looked at quite a few Utube vids and a tabata session is planned for me tomorrow.
I can’t hear it over the noise of Mrs VB’s body (snoring). She is in our bedroom. I am in the study - opposite end of the house and on a different floor !
Typical.
