from the dark to the light
A second shorter intermittent run around 2.5 miles. After walking half a mile to warm up I’d tlrun as far as I could at a good pace, walk far enough to catch my breath and repeat.
It feels good to be ruñning again, even though my legs don’t agree, as they’re a little out of practice.
OK I’ve been virtually sugar free since February but I’m stalling, so the simplest change I can make is to chop my nuts in half, (now stop laughing and get ya minds out of the gutter)
I’ve been having 80g of mixed nuts in my pack up for work, but Friday I deliberately reduced my amount to 50g and I didn’t miss the remainder. I had them there but I left them alone.
So the calorific value has gone from 534 to 334 calories according to mfp. I’ll report back this time next week if things change or not.
ok so i am having a bit of a stall, ive tried varying things a little to no success, so this morning i added in a new HIIT work out,from you tube, with 3 stages of
and repeat three times after a warm up of course. according to MFP the 20 minute burns 250 calories, so that must help and i did that and walked Stella
all before having my 2 Weetabix, with just milk.
so far as i can see, ive eliminated all the sugar i can, so if this doesn’t work i shall start reducing the fats,
well last week saw my first plateau, but then i did experiment with my intake, my fiber went thru the roof, creating unexpected problems. but then my calories were also relatively high.
So i am able to look back via my fitness pal on my dietary intake and see what was good and what wasn’t so good. however 14 stone 11 isn’t as bad as i was when i restarted this plan, and i’m doing well with my 10000 step schedule, achieving the goal 5 times last week which is not bad either, when you think about fitting it around a busy working schedule.
Also it helps that my Fiancee is doing a similar plan to me, so the unhealthy stuff is disappearing from the cupboards and it does help when we can motivate each other.
i shall weigh again tomorrow, and i shall hope for but not expect to have lost, as my intake over the weekend has been reduced, although yesterday i did indulge little with a portion of sticky toffee pudding but then i was celebrating my 45th birthday.
I also realise that I am rediscovering the more positive me, when i can see solutions rather then problems, the old me would have been frustrated, at plateauing but I’m not i’m researching why it happened.
Plus I’ve put in place another 2 parts of my plan to study, ive bought a second hand laptop,(which I’m writing this post with)and my fiancee is on board with, and aware of the plan.
Well well well
Reduced sugar is working, I weighed in this morning at 14 st 11 or 93.8kg.
The strange thing is sugar when I have it now is a treat I don’t crave it anymore. I’m not suggesting it is easy, but I found it easy. The hardest part was a couple of sugar slumps, but I’m past them now.
Another unexpected result of reducing my sugar is that I can taste things, especially salt.
I feel great too, I’m continuing to attempt 10000 steps a day and for now I’m holding back on the running until I need to break a plateau.
It also occurs to me, I wonder what effect being less anxious has on my weight.
But to bring back an old closing motto it just goes to prove I can i can i can you just watch me!!!!!!
As I write this, I’m waiting for the phone to ring, as I’m back to work after my week off. I’d set myself a 10000 step target per day.
And I more than achieved it, the total target was 90000 steps and I did around 125000
Even with the extremes of hurricane Doris I still set my goal and achieved it.
7 out of 9 days, with 2 to go I’ve done 10000 steps.
Also 16 days of less than 80g of sugar per day.
I feel fine, if a little lightheaded at times, probably the bacteria crying out for sugar, well guess what you ain’t getting it
As I write this I’m on my fourth walk with Stella of the day, I’ve already clocked up 23000 steps approximately 12 miles. According to the apps on my phone including mfp which collates all my calories and activity my walks of
And the one I’m on now, have burnt a total of 1000 calories.
I’m not sure that Stella is so impressed, I think she wants me too go back to work by the look on her face.
On top of that I’ve again come in at under 80g of sugar only 51g to be precise.
Fourth day of 9 that I would like to achieve my target of 10000+ steps along with achieving my target of consuming less than 80g of sugar for 13 days straight.
I feel great, and my pod is deflating although I’ve not lost any weight since last Tuesday. So i might do a couple of runs before I weigh again on Saturday.
I’m starting a week off work, and had to take my van back down the yard, so I thought I’d kill 2 birds with one stone, by walking Stella back.
45 minutes 3.2 miles, a fairly quickly pace.
Most of the walk is pavement which will have helped with Stella’s claws, with a half mile stretch across the ranges where she was able to do what I needed her to do.
My aim for the 9 days of my break is to complete 10000 steps plus every day. It’s an easily achievable target, that will require a little effort.
Hopefully so long as I can maintain my discipline re the low sugar approach I should continue to lose weight and inches. Although I don’t consider myself to be overweight I would like to shift a little and maintain that target.
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