I've started cycling to work and am trying my hardest to monitor my calories.
I've resolved myself to monitor my calories even if they are way over, non of that "I'll start again next week/tomorrow." This was a suggestion of a friend and I think it is quite right, apart from anything else you need to just think of it as data and feedback and not get too emotional about it. Or rather feel good if you do manage to hit your goal but not bad if you you don't. Instead of feeling bad look at what went wrong and try and do something about it.
Furthermore often when you miss your target you actually find that you only took yourself to a sustaining level of calorie consumption or a lower weight loss rate, you don't know if you don't enter it.
Finally don't let precision stop you, it does not matter if you get the calorie count exactly right, estimate if you have to, it is better than not bothering.
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Monday, 18 February 2013
My last confession ...
.... its been three months since my last confession you could say. You can see from the last few postings that things were not going well and to be honest I think a lot of what I wrote was bull shit, I was too ashamed to admit how I was letting things slip.
Since that time a lot has happened, I bought a business unit and I started a business, as of last week I can say that as I got my first payment in. So it just turns out I am not very good at multitasking, my old regime was easy in he summer when I had nothing else to do. Over winter I ate really badly, only huge amounts of DIY kept my weight in check somewhat. I put some weight on but that seems to of drifted off again.
I've just started my first big project, I don't have a lot of free time but I am thinking that some exercise will probably help me keep stress at bay. Food wise if I monitor calories then I should be able to do OK. I also have to realise that a 1kg weekly goal is quite ambitious so going over my daily quoter by a small amount is not so bad, no reason to give up.
Anyway so I'm going to try and go for a lunchtime walk tomorrow, I'll see how that goes.
Also another tip, I've ditched the Monday morning alarm to remind me to weigh myself, instead I set one for Sunday night to remind me to out the scales on the toilet seat, that is a great reminder in the morning.
Since that time a lot has happened, I bought a business unit and I started a business, as of last week I can say that as I got my first payment in. So it just turns out I am not very good at multitasking, my old regime was easy in he summer when I had nothing else to do. Over winter I ate really badly, only huge amounts of DIY kept my weight in check somewhat. I put some weight on but that seems to of drifted off again.
I've just started my first big project, I don't have a lot of free time but I am thinking that some exercise will probably help me keep stress at bay. Food wise if I monitor calories then I should be able to do OK. I also have to realise that a 1kg weekly goal is quite ambitious so going over my daily quoter by a small amount is not so bad, no reason to give up.
Anyway so I'm going to try and go for a lunchtime walk tomorrow, I'll see how that goes.
Also another tip, I've ditched the Monday morning alarm to remind me to weigh myself, instead I set one for Sunday night to remind me to out the scales on the toilet seat, that is a great reminder in the morning.
Thursday, 1 November 2012
Hello again
It turns out enough was not enough.
I wrote the last post full of good advice and then never looked at it again nor followed any of it. A lot is happening in my life at the moment, I was working during the day and then trying to sort out a potential business in the evening.
But what happened to the immovable object of diet and exercise? In particular watching your calorie intake does not actually require much effort, just an app. I even got a fancy new phone. It seems I got it into my head that if I couldn't do it all and perfectly I should not bother and also that a bit of work and stress was a good reason to pig out.
As it happens I have only put about 1kg on over the weeks, probably because I had broken my worst habits already.
Today I started using myfitnesspal again to record my calories. That was easy!
I might reset the old week counter, it is a bit pointless as it stands. No three parts but I will keep to the 10 week sets. 10 weeks it turns out goes by just like that!
I wrote the last post full of good advice and then never looked at it again nor followed any of it. A lot is happening in my life at the moment, I was working during the day and then trying to sort out a potential business in the evening.
But what happened to the immovable object of diet and exercise? In particular watching your calorie intake does not actually require much effort, just an app. I even got a fancy new phone. It seems I got it into my head that if I couldn't do it all and perfectly I should not bother and also that a bit of work and stress was a good reason to pig out.
As it happens I have only put about 1kg on over the weeks, probably because I had broken my worst habits already.
Today I started using myfitnesspal again to record my calories. That was easy!
I might reset the old week counter, it is a bit pointless as it stands. No three parts but I will keep to the 10 week sets. 10 weeks it turns out goes by just like that!
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Reboot, reload ...
OK enough is enough!
I've had a huge project that has taken over my life in recent weeks plus a load of other stress. Exercise has gone out of the window and my diet although better than before is not great. If not for the amount of physical labour I have been doing I would probably of gained a load of weight.
So now I feel like I need to stage my own "intervention" to stop the slide. Positive motivation works best so let's start by looking at the advantages of what I have done up to now:
I've had a huge project that has taken over my life in recent weeks plus a load of other stress. Exercise has gone out of the window and my diet although better than before is not great. If not for the amount of physical labour I have been doing I would probably of gained a load of weight.
So now I feel like I need to stage my own "intervention" to stop the slide. Positive motivation works best so let's start by looking at the advantages of what I have done up to now:
- Clothes fit better
- Feel more mobile
- Fitter
- Look better
- Nice feeling when completing a day as intended
- Nice feeling building up a large number of work outs on endomondo
- Great feeling when entering positive progress in blog
And now what I need to do:
- Read my own blog
- Read the above points
- Start using Myfitnesspal ASAP
- Do some exercise of any sort and log it
- Search for ideas for night time exercise or buy a bigger head torch
Easy, will report back next week adding "nice feeling of reporting back successfully" into my mini goals.
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Week 5/10 Part 2/3
A small gain of 0.2kg. I'm not too downhearted, at least the loss I recorded last week was real. BUT I need to find exercise to do when the nights are dark. AND I need to get back to recording my calories, got out of the habit and it shows! Must keep going, I'm 5kg behind target but am now 1/3rd of the way to my target!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday, 28 September 2012
Week 4/10 Part 2/3
This is a very late post, I did weigh myself on Tuesday but only now entered it into the system. My weight was down by 3kg from the previous week, I have worked my ass off over the week but not sure I believe it however a few weeks ago I could never have seen that weight on the scales no matter what and it is great to break the 10kg loss mark.
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