About Me

I have come into 2012 with a strong desire to be more healthy and reduce my weight to something more acceptable for a man of my age and height. On the 1st of Jan 2012 at the age of 45 and height of 6ft 2in, I weighed in at 18st 2lbs (that's 256 lbs or 116kg). I have a pretty large frame and have always been able to carry a bit of excess baggage but I think its time to do something about it for my health and energy levels more than anything else. The experts suggest that for a man of my height and age I should be about 13.5 st but I have set myself a target of 15 st (210lbs or 95kg) - thats a planned loss of around 3 st (46lbs or 20kg) This BLOG is a record of my attempt to achieve this goal and I have made it public to help keep me motivated and on track. If you have any comments, thoughts or ideas and suggestions please feel free to leave me a message..

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Post 14

The last couple of days have been really good.

I feel like I have loads of energy and a few people have commented that they are noticing a difference and that I appear to be more awake (dont know what that says about what I normally look like though).

I got past a difficult day yesterday with relative ease. Every few weeks I have to go to London with work for industry meetings and the normal day consists of a coffee at the station, full english breakfast on the train, coffee during meetings with a working lunch of sandwiches and cake then more snacks and a beer or wine on the train on the way home followed by evening meal when I get home.

Yesterday I had my MonaVie shake in the morning with a large glass of water, on the train I then felt full enough to pass on the breakfast and took a bottle of mineral water instead of coffee. At lunch time I took the mushroom soup option with a small chicken salad sandwich and more water then on the way home I had an apple with another bottle of water. As I had eaten at lunch time I had my second shale in the evening after walking the dog for an hour.

I went to bed satisfied and proud of myself and for the first time did not return home tired and feeling bloated after the London trip.

Today I did my early morning gym session and had my 2 shakes for breakfast and lunch, supplemented with an apple and some nuts as snacks. Tonight I had Chicken Fajitas without the tortilla wraps so basically chicken, onions, peppers, mushrooms and tomatoes with spicy seasoning.

Tomorrow is another London trip so I am going with confidence that I can function without changing the current routine. The other thing that is worth noting is that the walking up and down stairs for the tube and the 1/2 mile walk to the office was a breeze as I had so much more energy that normal.

It really feels like it's going well and I am motivated as I am seeing and feeling the results!

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