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.