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..

Monday, 9 January 2012

Post 7 - Nearly the end of week 1

Its now Monday morning and tomorrow will be the weigh in for the end of week 1.

The last few days have been quite good, I am getting used to substituting two meals per day for the MonaVie RVL shakes and not feeling too hungry, although I expected to feel like I was missing something after all the poor eating and snacking that I am used to.

On Thursday last week I had an appointment after work that would have meant getting home late so I chose to have a shake for breakfast, some soup with a granary roll for lunch and the second shake for evening meal which worked quite well. I also went for a walk for 30 mins at lunch time instead of sitting at my desk.

On Friday I had shakes for breakfast and lunch, supported by snacks of nuts and an apple which stopped my energy levels dropping in the afternoon. On the way home I called at the gym (first time in about a year I think). Nothing heavy just 15 mins on the bike followed by some static weights on chest and shoulders and some quad and hamstring exercise as I need to build my legs up to help with my current knee injury. I then finished with 10 mins on the cross trainer. 45 mins in all but felt good for getting the first visit out of the way. For evening meal I boiled up some vegetables (carrots, parsnips, leeks, onions and sprouts) and then made a soup with rice, tomatoes and beans. This has lasted me all weekend as my main meals and I have felt full and satisfied without feeling the need to snack.

Over the weekend the food intake has been the same with shakes for 2 meals and my home made soup for the other. I have has a couple of low fat yoghurt's and some grapes too. Exercise has been OK, I took the dog out for a couple of hours for a fairly quick paced walk on Saturday and did some jobs in the garden and washed my motorcycle on Sunday which kept the heart rate up for a couple of hours.

I have coped with this first week pretty well. I am struggling drinking water but I think that's only because I am so used to sweet coffee and sugary soft drinks. I am already feeling that my energy levels are increasing and this week I am planning to focus a little more on exercise to support the change in food consumption.

I am looking forward to the weigh in tomorrow morning as I need the motivation that it is working to keep me going.
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