Day One

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I’ve set my weight-loss target at a pound a week, or a kilo a fortnight, and the strategy is to try to mostly balance out my breakfast and lunch calories with exercise, and then have something with a healthy GI for dinner. Alcohol is out Monday to Thursday, and reduced elsewhen. Chocolate, cakes and crisps are off the menu.

I managed to get into the gym just before 7.00 this morning, and clocked up 363 calories in half an hour on the cross trainer. That’s about 10% down on what I was burning in November, but not bad for a first day back. I was using the high heart rate warning (over 160 b.pm.) to set my pace, so as I get fitter I should be able to push harder. That’s how it’s worked in the past, anyway.

Breakfast this morning was a bowl of porridge (about 180 calories) and lunch will be soup (about 350 calories) and a wholemeal pitta (no idea). That probably puts me around 600-700 calories, and I’ll be snacking on bananas. I think that 400-500 calories is about as much as I’ll burn in one session in the gym, so I might throw in a couple of double sessions this week. Tomorrow I’ll either do that or go to badminton after work, and I’ll be at fencing on Thursday.

Hmm, just realised that as long as the weather is OK I can add in a walk at lunchtime – 20 minutes will add on about 70 calories or so, and I won’t be eating while I walk.

Weekends are going to be more tricky, but I can do longer walks with Merlin, and if the weather is fine I can get the bikes out.

Comments

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I've found that it is easier to gradually shift to smaller meals. My meals are now half the size they used to be.