So I made a promise to myself and so did my wife that this year we will together work on our weight loss. We both set a target and got on with it.
I wasn't really that heavy but I wanted to trim down to a suitable size in preparation for the London to Brighton bike ride 2016, so I set a target weight of 78kg. My start weight was 84.4kg.
I am happy to say that this morning I achieved that goal after 74days in a row (logged by the MyFitnessPal app).
So what did I do?
I basically thought to myself that I will not crash diet I have the health of my heart to think about and didn't want to put any un-needed stress on my body. I wanted to enjoy my weight loss and thought there has to be a simple formula.
Eat less
Eat more veg
Eliminate Fizzy drinks
Drop the snack foods
Grill ALL my meat
Count those calories
You might have noticed I didn't put down "Exercise"?
Well I wanted to be realistic to my health and I thought if I do all the above will I need to exercise at all? so I made it a test to see if it could be done while doing my normal everyday activities.
I work in IT so I have a desk job. My health, hours and family life make it near impossible to go to the Gym on a regular basis.
I like to ride and I do TaiChi once a week so how do I make this work?
So firstly I bought a FitBit band to monitor my steps and give me that constant motivation everyday to get up and move. Friendly "steps" competition with my wife and friends gets you moving.
Fitness Pal, counted those calories, weighed my food.
I decided at first that I want more control on my lunch so out went the buying food an in came the cooking food.
I would buy:
Beef Steak
Chicken Breast
Fish
Cut them up to make them weigh 100 grams (RAW) and grilled them for lunch. I would then have with this either:
Brown rice or
Broccoli
For breakfast Mon-Fri I had two eggs and 25g of Smoked salmon. (EVERY WEEK)
I managed to keep this up for about two months and watched the weight fall off.
At home we grilled EVERYTHING. added more veg to our meals and continued to weighed everything.
Junk food was out, I haven't had a slice of pizza for over three months!!
During all this my exercise was no more than 2hrs a week of Tai Chi. The odd 10mile bike ride (3 times, yeah I know really bad) and that was it.
I made the change in diet my priority and it has worked out fine. along with trying to get 10,000 steps in each day.
So you see there is no magic to loosing weight, none of those stupid magic pills or weight busting shakes.
Going to the gym would have made this process quicker but not if you are not mentally ready to really loosing the weight.
What's the point in counting your calories and then going to the gym, burning 500Kcals off and then thinking oh ill have a chip shop chips and pie for dinner?
Do you know how many calories are in chip shop chips and pie!!!
Check this out 200g of French fries is between 300-450Kcals ALONE!!! add that to your dairy and you will be shocked how much calories pile on.
So look this is my story I'm sure I could have gone in more detail somewhere, I been typing so long i have lost track. So if you want to ask me anything just post in the comments below and ill be glad to help.
I may have met my goal but now I have to focus on bike training and just manage my weight form no on.
PEACE!!!
I wasn't really that heavy but I wanted to trim down to a suitable size in preparation for the London to Brighton bike ride 2016, so I set a target weight of 78kg. My start weight was 84.4kg.
I am happy to say that this morning I achieved that goal after 74days in a row (logged by the MyFitnessPal app).
So what did I do?
I basically thought to myself that I will not crash diet I have the health of my heart to think about and didn't want to put any un-needed stress on my body. I wanted to enjoy my weight loss and thought there has to be a simple formula.
Eat less
Eat more veg
Eliminate Fizzy drinks
Drop the snack foods
Grill ALL my meat
Count those calories
You might have noticed I didn't put down "Exercise"?
Well I wanted to be realistic to my health and I thought if I do all the above will I need to exercise at all? so I made it a test to see if it could be done while doing my normal everyday activities.
I work in IT so I have a desk job. My health, hours and family life make it near impossible to go to the Gym on a regular basis.
I like to ride and I do TaiChi once a week so how do I make this work?
So firstly I bought a FitBit band to monitor my steps and give me that constant motivation everyday to get up and move. Friendly "steps" competition with my wife and friends gets you moving.
Fitness Pal, counted those calories, weighed my food.
I decided at first that I want more control on my lunch so out went the buying food an in came the cooking food.
I would buy:
Beef Steak
Chicken Breast
Fish
Cut them up to make them weigh 100 grams (RAW) and grilled them for lunch. I would then have with this either:
Brown rice or
Broccoli
For breakfast Mon-Fri I had two eggs and 25g of Smoked salmon. (EVERY WEEK)
I managed to keep this up for about two months and watched the weight fall off.
At home we grilled EVERYTHING. added more veg to our meals and continued to weighed everything.
Junk food was out, I haven't had a slice of pizza for over three months!!
During all this my exercise was no more than 2hrs a week of Tai Chi. The odd 10mile bike ride (3 times, yeah I know really bad) and that was it.
I made the change in diet my priority and it has worked out fine. along with trying to get 10,000 steps in each day.
So you see there is no magic to loosing weight, none of those stupid magic pills or weight busting shakes.
Going to the gym would have made this process quicker but not if you are not mentally ready to really loosing the weight.
What's the point in counting your calories and then going to the gym, burning 500Kcals off and then thinking oh ill have a chip shop chips and pie for dinner?
Do you know how many calories are in chip shop chips and pie!!!
Check this out 200g of French fries is between 300-450Kcals ALONE!!! add that to your dairy and you will be shocked how much calories pile on.
So look this is my story I'm sure I could have gone in more detail somewhere, I been typing so long i have lost track. So if you want to ask me anything just post in the comments below and ill be glad to help.
I may have met my goal but now I have to focus on bike training and just manage my weight form no on.
PEACE!!!
