Update and a New Diet

Ok so I know I am a little slow in getting to this. Believe me too, I really need to get started. I have been eating badly recently and with my dad coming to visit this weekend I'm sure I will be eating and drinking all kinds of bad stuff. There has been a lot going on lately which has sort of taken my concentration elsewhere. The biggest upcoming event in the next few weeks is going to be my move as I have found a little apartment to call my own, finally! So the plan to start exercising has been put on hold for a while, at least until I can get around to downloading the workouts. I feel terrible that this has happened and I know I am just being a cop out. But I will start this. Once I am moved I will have no one else to worry about if I decide to wake up at 6am and work out. So the long term plan will be just that.

But for right now, starting after this weekend, I am trying a new diet that I read about online today. It's a diet that is similar to my eating habits so I feel I would be able to keep up with it. It's a little controversial but I am going to give it a go anyways. Even if I only do it for a short time at least I will have some kind of plan to follow.

So here it is:
The intermitant fasting diet
You can eat whatever you want on feed days and on fast days you eat less than 500 calories. So in order to deal with colourguard on the weekends and allowing myself some nights during the week where I can socialise, this will be my diet plan:

Monday - 500 Calorie Day

Tuesday - Eat Normally

Wednesday - 500 Calorie Day

Thursday - Eat Normally

Friday - 500 Calorie Day

Saturday - Eat Normally

Sunday - Eat Normally

 

I know that the fasting days are going to be tough but at least I can get by knowing that if I want to go to Chipotle for dinner the next day I can and not have to feel bad about it. Hopefully knowing that whatever I am craving at that specific moment is never more that 24 hours away should make this diet do-able. And people have lost weight on this diet. Now of course, if you go crazy on the days you are allowed to eat whatever you want then you won't lose weight. But if you just eat normally, and enjoy the things a normal person would, then supposedly, you should lose weight. So we will see.

 

Anyone else who is interested in this diet can read more about it in this Daily Mail article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2195408/Starve-day-pig-Is-perfect-diet.html

 

So the short term plan. After my dad leaves this weekend I am going to weigh in and take a before pic, then the diet will begin. My plan is to try this for a month and then see if it is worth continuing while I do the Insanity work out. It may not be physically possible to do a work out like that on the fast days, but we will see how I feel.

 

Have a nice Labor Day weekend everyone and I'll check in next week to get started.



Here We Go

I want to be fit. I have always wanted to be but I have just never had the motivation. Actually I think the motivation is there to start with, but I have never found a plan that I can stick with. When I was a kid I was BIG!!! Around the age of about 9 I would say is when it started. I gained a lot of weight, and I just didn't care at first, until it was too late. And even when I did care I never did anything about it. All through high school I was big. I wore a UK size 16/18 which would be a 12/14 over here. Not huge but definitely considered one of the fat kids in school. When I was 16 I joined weight watchers and although it was tough I ended up losing about 28lbs. I did feel better, but I was still around 180lbs and I got stuck at that weight for a couple of years.

However, everything changed when I was 19. Someone told me that I looked like I was losing weight. This made me so happy and finally gave me the incentive to take control and do something about my weight. But I didn't know how to do it sensibly, and that summer, the summer of 2002, I got into a habit of eating only once a day. I would allow myself one meal, but that meal could consist of anything. Due to my schedule of work and hobbies, that usually consisted of fast food or a sandwich, but it worked and I lost weight. For the first time in my life I felt happier with my appearance.

During 2003 and 2004 my body went through some extremes. I spent 3 months on the road in the summer of 03 and got really fit. Then I moved to Boston MA for 6 months through the winter, and the bordom coupled with the lure of American food contributed to me gaining some serious weight. Then in the summer of 04 I lost it all again on tour.

After I got home in 04 I tried really hard to eat healthy and maintain my tour body. I figured it's easier to maintain than it is to lose it again. And I did pretty well, until I fell off the wagon a bit when I started dating someone new. It was a brief romance and he ended up going back to his ex who was incredibly thin. This sparked my obsession with my weight, and the summer of 2005 resulted in me becoming addicted to illegal diet pills and surviving on a bowl of cereal, an apple and a bowl of soup a day. I coupled this with an hour a day of exercise and soon had my friends worried that I was developing an eating disorder. They were right to be worried.

At the end of 2005 I met my husband. We married just 6 months later and I began to gain some weight again. I was happy and felt comfortable eating again. But due to my husband's obsession with me remaining skinny my weight yo-yo'ed again and during our three year marriage I went went up and down from a size 12 to a 4 and everything in between. After my divorce, this continued up until today where I am now a size 8. Definitely a very healthy size, but my eating habits are still erratic and I don't exercise.

So my aim is to be in shape by Christmas. I want to march winterguard this year, and as I am pushing 30, this is no small task to undertake. It's going to be tough and in my current physical shape I know I could do it, but I would feel terrible after practice. For this reason, and because I am tired of just feeling "meh" about my body, I am vowing to get in shape. I plan to purchase the P90X DVDs and actually stick to the plan. I know there are going to be days when I hate it! But I am detirmind to get through it!!!

So watch this space. I will post before pictures when I start and plan to keep a running blog on my progress, complete with photo's. Wish me luck. It's going to be a long few months.