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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
What makes us fat?
I have used every excuse in the book for being overweight: hormones, medication lack of time to eat and exercise. All nonsense! The simple reason for being fat is taking in more energy than your body consumes. So I have to investigate what I am consuming that makes me fat:
Problem 1 :
Coffee - Note no sugar and milk since 15 years ago but still very problematic http://www.ivillage.com/does-coffee-habit-slow-weight-loss/4-n-142436
Solution: Cut back from 6 cups to 3 cups
Problem 2:
Wine: Some good news at last ! Several sites state that women who drink More often is less likely to gain weight due to metabolic adaption. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Binge-Drinking-Means-Weight-Gain-in-Women-120742.shtml. Tim Ferris also states in his 4 hour body that he had a glass of red wine every night without any influence on weight loss. So I think for now the glass of red every night can stay:)
Problem 3:
Irregular eating patterns - Busy skip meals often slowing metabolism. If you are hungry you crave (an especially crave carbs NOBODY EVER CRAVES CARROT!)
Solution: From tomorrow plan better on afternoon meals and snacks for teatime.
Problem 4:
Calory counting - I have been following low Carb diet without much success.
Solution: I am therefore starting a low calory diet instead. From tomorrow I will be counting each calory I put in my mouth. I found a very helpfull calculator (http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm) and it recommends the following:
| Ex Fat Loss | Fat Loss | Maintain | |
| Monday | 1602 | 1766 | 2207 |
| Tuesday | 1602 | 1602 | 1766 |
| Wednesday | 1922 | 2119 | 2649 |
| Thursday | 1602 | 1766 | 2207 |
| Friday | 1602 | 1602 | 1987 |
| Saturday | 1762 | 1943 | 2428 |
| Sunday | 1602 | 1766 | 2207 |
The challenge comes in to work out how many calories I have consumed already and is allowed. Therefore I will have to plan very carefully every day. LOL I suppose there goes the wine after all, I am sure above does not allow any of that!!!
Who of you have tried any of the above with good results?
Sunday, June 26, 2011
The ugly truth
Nobody wants to believe they are fat. I have for a long time believed that I am not very fat, well at least not as fat as some of my friends. A further lie is that I will start with a diet on Monday. Come Monday I will have a new excuse. So the best possible motivation is to look at these horrible pics every day and measure every week
Amazing how you can delude yourself.so posting measurements here for all to see will help me stay on track.
Bust :97
Middle: 86
Hips : 97
Buttocks: 117
Thigh: 63
Arm: 34
Amazing how you can delude yourself.so posting measurements here for all to see will help me stay on track.
Bust :97
Middle: 86
Hips : 97
Buttocks: 117
Thigh: 63
Arm: 34
The neverending battle
The reason:
1. I want to feel fabulous and hot.
So we all do it: If you are single you say " He should like me the way I am" or if you are not single you say "he loves me despite the extra pounds". Truth is no man wants to date, marry or stay with a mortally obese woman. We delude ourselves in thinking so. Letting ourselves go and using aforementioned reasoning is looking for trouble. So, here I am in front of my computer, glass of good red in hand, looking for your help and hoping to inspire some of you with my stories, battles and ideas on how to become super hot in a short space of time.
2. Horrible Wedding photos
The baby of the family is getting married, being Maid of Honor, Master of ceremonies and of course big sister, therefore there will be tons of photos . Photos which will be displayed in every corner of my mother's house for the next 400 years - so I refuse to appear on them with an ounce of fat to show
3. Competitiveness
Men have it so easy, 6% body fat lost in 2 months on exactly the same diet regime as me. Time to up my game .....
The plan:
Plan A
I like instant gratification, I'm sure most women do. We want to see that scale drop every day with no regard for BMI, fat percentage etc. So I have been following low carb diet for the past 2 months and exercise at least 3 times per week and results are slow, extremely slow so I am done with Plan A, time for some drastic action
Plan B
I decided to go on a 43 day intensive results plan starting tomorrow. Over this period I will adjust strategy, post results , healthy recipes, ideas and anything else needed to keep me on the wight tract.
So ladies help me stay on tract with your comments,help and advise. We can also help each other out, sort of a weigh less online:)
1. I want to feel fabulous and hot.
So we all do it: If you are single you say " He should like me the way I am" or if you are not single you say "he loves me despite the extra pounds". Truth is no man wants to date, marry or stay with a mortally obese woman. We delude ourselves in thinking so. Letting ourselves go and using aforementioned reasoning is looking for trouble. So, here I am in front of my computer, glass of good red in hand, looking for your help and hoping to inspire some of you with my stories, battles and ideas on how to become super hot in a short space of time.
2. Horrible Wedding photos
The baby of the family is getting married, being Maid of Honor, Master of ceremonies and of course big sister, therefore there will be tons of photos . Photos which will be displayed in every corner of my mother's house for the next 400 years - so I refuse to appear on them with an ounce of fat to show
3. Competitiveness
Men have it so easy, 6% body fat lost in 2 months on exactly the same diet regime as me. Time to up my game .....
The plan:
Plan A
I like instant gratification, I'm sure most women do. We want to see that scale drop every day with no regard for BMI, fat percentage etc. So I have been following low carb diet for the past 2 months and exercise at least 3 times per week and results are slow, extremely slow so I am done with Plan A, time for some drastic action
Plan B
I decided to go on a 43 day intensive results plan starting tomorrow. Over this period I will adjust strategy, post results , healthy recipes, ideas and anything else needed to keep me on the wight tract.
So ladies help me stay on tract with your comments,help and advise. We can also help each other out, sort of a weigh less online:)
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