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, 5 January 2012

Post 5

So, 2nd day done and its been an interesting start to things....

My routine has changed so it has been a challenge getting into the swing of things.

I have forced myself to eat breakfast and made a concious effort to get a healthy lunch

Both days I have had Cornflakes with semi skimmed milk to start the day and had home made soup from the organic deli in town with wholemeal bread for lunch.

The biggest change has been cutting out coffee and replacing it with water, in fact I have had a bit of a headache and I have put that down to removing the caffeine from the routine. I bought a litre of mineral water on Tuesday morning and keep that bottle on my desk with the plan of ensuring that I drink at least one full bottle of water each day. So far so good.

The biggest challenge will be keeping away from the cakes and sweets and the first day back to work was no exception. This is a picture I took of the meeting table just a few feet from my desk on the first morning at work - I am clearly going to have to be strong on this!

















Evening meals have been healthy with Cottage pie on Tuesday and a chicken and vegetable curry with boiled rice on Wednesday.


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