I felt that I hadn't made huge changes but I had watched what I'd eaten slightly more and increased my activity levels. Its motivated me to take a more structured approach to improving my health as opposed to reaching a visual 'ideal'.
My simple plan is to reach a 'happy' weight, inspired by a magazine article I can't recall the name of unfortunately. And the plan has simple rules:
-Exercise for and hour 3 times a week (20 mins cardio, 20 mins resistance)
-Walk on days that I'm not working out for 30 minutes
-Eat 3 balanced meals a day with a healthy mid-morning and mid-afternoon snack
-Drink 8 glasses of water
Not really rocket science is it? However, people definately have the all or nothing approach to weightloss. They starve themselves and over-work their bodies to obtain an 'ideal' as quickly as possible.
This is not sustainable and we all know this. If you want to be healthy and consequently look your best (you're 'happy' weight is inevitably your full potential, either side of this is not your full potential).
I hope to get to my happy weight by following the simple rules to health. And my happy weight is 9 1/2st-right smack bang in the middle of my BMI!
Here's a wee sample of my food plan:
Breakfast: Oats, honey and seeds, coffee
Mid-morn snack: low-fat yoghurt and apple
Lunch: Ham sandwich, mustard and beetroot
Mid-afternoon snack: 2 ryvitas and organic peanut butter
Dinner: Lean turkey or steak mince spaghetti bolognese in homemade sauce with wholemeal spaghetti.
I'm finding my new plan easy to stick and of course I'm watching my portion sizes. If you want me to upload my whole food diary just ask. I'll stick a before photo below (not very good I know):
Current weight: 11st9.8lbs
P.S. the date is wrong :/
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