I finally felt in control with my fasting today. The past four times were pretty tough and I had to sleep it off. I was really hungry around dinner time but I stuck at it and really enjoyed my chicken chow mein. My porridge was yuck today and I had this about 2pm.
We did weights in the morning (upper body) and went for a 55 minute walk this evening. I am feeling really good and feel a lot lighter.
Summary:
Weight
Dar - 120.2 kg
Ta - 104.3 kg
Food
Porridge and a nectartine
Chicken chowmein.
Exercise
Weights upper body
Walk 55 mins
Yours in Pain
Dar
Monday, January 27, 2014
Day 14
Temptation, temptation, temptation! That's all I can say.
The day started promising with a bowl of cereal. However, I decided to try my hand at cooking one of my husband's dishes for lunch. He is the much better cook in the family but I thought I would give it a go. To my surprise, it was amazing! It was a Thai chicken curry with rice. I also cooked some couscous and made a beautiful big salad. Over the day I ended up having 6 pieces of chicken. I also baked cookis as I felt sorry for the kids and I only had one cookie. This is a miracle in itself as normally I would have about 5 straight out of the oven.
So I need to be grateful for small improvements, particularly in habits. I am still experimenting with my diet as I am trying to make it an eclectic approach of various diets I have encountered throughout the years. The Body for Life diet and the Protein diet give you a day off per week. Ta says he doesn't want to do this until he is at his target weight. I'm taking the approach that I will do things in moderation on the weekend. I think our results are showing the differences in our approaches!
The day started promising with a bowl of cereal. However, I decided to try my hand at cooking one of my husband's dishes for lunch. He is the much better cook in the family but I thought I would give it a go. To my surprise, it was amazing! It was a Thai chicken curry with rice. I also cooked some couscous and made a beautiful big salad. Over the day I ended up having 6 pieces of chicken. I also baked cookis as I felt sorry for the kids and I only had one cookie. This is a miracle in itself as normally I would have about 5 straight out of the oven.
So I need to be grateful for small improvements, particularly in habits. I am still experimenting with my diet as I am trying to make it an eclectic approach of various diets I have encountered throughout the years. The Body for Life diet and the Protein diet give you a day off per week. Ta says he doesn't want to do this until he is at his target weight. I'm taking the approach that I will do things in moderation on the weekend. I think our results are showing the differences in our approaches!
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Day 13
It's the weekend again and we are a bit more lax on our eating (well me) but we don't want to let it all go. We both started the day with some cereal and yogurt. We then had a late lunch or early dinner. This consisted of a nice big piece of steak and potato salad. The dressing was creamy and probably very fattening! Later on we had some snacks of rice crackers and hummus, fruit and I had nearly a whole packet of almonds!
Training today was a 45 minute walk.
Summary:
Weight
Dar - 119kg (262.5 pounds)
Ta - 104.7kg (230.13 pounds)
Exercise:
45 minute walk
Food
Breakfast - cereal, fruit
lunch/dinner - steak, potato salad
snacks - fruit, almonds, rice crackers and hummus (Dar had a lot and Ta had a few!)
Training today was a 45 minute walk.
Summary:
Weight
Dar - 119kg (262.5 pounds)
Ta - 104.7kg (230.13 pounds)
Exercise:
45 minute walk
Food
Breakfast - cereal, fruit
lunch/dinner - steak, potato salad
snacks - fruit, almonds, rice crackers and hummus (Dar had a lot and Ta had a few!)
Friday, January 24, 2014
Day 12
Wow! Look at my husband's weight loss in two weeks.
He is wearing the same shirt he wore exactly two weeks ago. As you can see, in the photo on the left the shirt is a lot more fitting around his tummy. He has lost over 6 kg or a stone. Amazing work.
As for me, I am a bit sad that I went back through the 120 kg mark today and weighed in at 120.2 kg. I have to remain positive and keep in mind that there will be fluctuations, particularly if I weigh myself daily. According to the Fast Diet book, realistic weight loss done by sticking to its program is around a half stone or 3.2 kg each month. Of course this is only a guide and overall diet and exercise impacts upon this. For me, I need to drop so much weight that I am in a hurry!
It is an interesting experience to see how Ta and I compare on this program. There are obvious gender factors that impact upon weight loss.
He is wearing the same shirt he wore exactly two weeks ago. As you can see, in the photo on the left the shirt is a lot more fitting around his tummy. He has lost over 6 kg or a stone. Amazing work.
As for me, I am a bit sad that I went back through the 120 kg mark today and weighed in at 120.2 kg. I have to remain positive and keep in mind that there will be fluctuations, particularly if I weigh myself daily. According to the Fast Diet book, realistic weight loss done by sticking to its program is around a half stone or 3.2 kg each month. Of course this is only a guide and overall diet and exercise impacts upon this. For me, I need to drop so much weight that I am in a hurry!
It is an interesting experience to see how Ta and I compare on this program. There are obvious gender factors that impact upon weight loss.
2 poached eggs
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180
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chicken stir fry
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306
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3 peaches!
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111
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2 peaches
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74
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597
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560
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Gee, I ate like the man should! I need to get more disciplined.
Yours in Pain
Dar
Yours in Pain
Dar
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Day 11
I took things easy this morning as it was the first day after my Ptygerium removal surgery from my eye. I still ate quite well and was particularly happy that I only had one plate of chinese instead of eating till I was full like I normally do! I probably should have only had one carb on the plate as I actually chose to eat both noodles and rice. Regardless, I am still happy with my improved choices of food and the fact that this is my second week without chocolate!
Ta, of course, is humming along nicely and continues to make positive food choices. His weight loss continues to drop dramatically. Is it a guy thing or what???
We only exercised once today as that was more than enough for me given one of my eyes was pretty much closed for a lot of the day. I was happy that I completed the training and found that I seemed to run a lot more freely than I had the other night. The medicine ball throws were a killer and consisted of a 4 kg medicine ball being thrown back and fort about a meter between us. It was certainly a pain barrier to get through for me and I needed to call on some serious mental toughness. Ta had a sore achillies tendon so instead of running he varied his intensity on a rowing machine.
We are doing it people!!!
Summary:
Weight
Dar - 119.7kg
Ta - 106 kg
Exercise
20 minute B4L running programme. 3 minutes of medicine ball throws times three sets.
Food
Breakfast - Both: Almond cereal and yoghurt. Tuna salad. Chinese takeaways of noodles, rice and chowmein for dinner (1 plate).
Snacks: Peaches 3-4.
Ta, of course, is humming along nicely and continues to make positive food choices. His weight loss continues to drop dramatically. Is it a guy thing or what???
We only exercised once today as that was more than enough for me given one of my eyes was pretty much closed for a lot of the day. I was happy that I completed the training and found that I seemed to run a lot more freely than I had the other night. The medicine ball throws were a killer and consisted of a 4 kg medicine ball being thrown back and fort about a meter between us. It was certainly a pain barrier to get through for me and I needed to call on some serious mental toughness. Ta had a sore achillies tendon so instead of running he varied his intensity on a rowing machine.
We are doing it people!!!
Summary:
Weight
Dar - 119.7kg
Ta - 106 kg
Exercise
20 minute B4L running programme. 3 minutes of medicine ball throws times three sets.
Food
Breakfast - Both: Almond cereal and yoghurt. Tuna salad. Chinese takeaways of noodles, rice and chowmein for dinner (1 plate).
Snacks: Peaches 3-4.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Day 10
We started the day off with an upper body workout on the weights machines. It was pretty tough as we were still feeling the boxing session from last night. It was good to get this done and dusted in the morning though.
I had a minor eye operation for a Pyterigum. I had my other eye done last year and after it craved Carl's Jnr Burgers. This time I had Subway instead, but couldn't resist a cookie with it! At least I only had one and not my usual two. I haven't done too badly as normally I would be having lots of comfort junk food after going through something like this.
As for the weight, I went back up to 119.9 kg this morning. I have read some where that you should weigh yourself weekly and not daily. However, I will keep up the daily weighing because I would like to see how food and exercise from the day before affects my weight on specific days. I just don't want to go back through the 120 kg mark.
Ta continues the downward trend to 106.2 kg. It won't be long until he reaches his goal of 190 kg.
Summay:
Weight
Dar - 199.9 kg
Ta - 106.2 kg
Food
Breakfast - 1/4 plate of porridge (Dar). Ta - nil
Late lunch - 1 footlong tuna Subway roll - Ta. 1 1/2 chicken teriaki subway roll, 1 savoury muffin and a milo (Dar).
Dinner - The other half of my Subway roll - Dar. Leftover chicken chowmein from two nights ago - Ta.
Snacks - Two peaches, two Cruskits crackers with peanut butter on it - Dar. Fruit for Ta.
Exercise
Upper body weights session for both of us.
Yours in Pain
Dar
I had a minor eye operation for a Pyterigum. I had my other eye done last year and after it craved Carl's Jnr Burgers. This time I had Subway instead, but couldn't resist a cookie with it! At least I only had one and not my usual two. I haven't done too badly as normally I would be having lots of comfort junk food after going through something like this.
As for the weight, I went back up to 119.9 kg this morning. I have read some where that you should weigh yourself weekly and not daily. However, I will keep up the daily weighing because I would like to see how food and exercise from the day before affects my weight on specific days. I just don't want to go back through the 120 kg mark.
Ta continues the downward trend to 106.2 kg. It won't be long until he reaches his goal of 190 kg.
Summay:
Weight
Dar - 199.9 kg
Ta - 106.2 kg
Food
Breakfast - 1/4 plate of porridge (Dar). Ta - nil
Late lunch - 1 footlong tuna Subway roll - Ta. 1 1/2 chicken teriaki subway roll, 1 savoury muffin and a milo (Dar).
Dinner - The other half of my Subway roll - Dar. Leftover chicken chowmein from two nights ago - Ta.
Snacks - Two peaches, two Cruskits crackers with peanut butter on it - Dar. Fruit for Ta.
Exercise
Upper body weights session for both of us.
Yours in Pain
Dar
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Day 9
It's 11.30pm at night and we have just returned from a boxing session. This is a great fitness activity and we really sweat. We felt exhausted but satisfied. Basically this fitness session looked like this:
20 minute graduated run, straight out of the Body for Life Book. This is a really good work out and is explained in the link. We then moved into the boxing which consisted of 5 rounds of 1 minute. We alternated holding the bag and boxing. To finish with we rolled the medicine ball over each other's tummy, arms and legs.
As far as eating goes, we were still trying to control ourselves. I was doing well until Ta cooked a fantastic Thai Curry Chicken and I had two helpings. I was glad we did the workout after dinner. It will be interesting to see how this affects the scales tomorrow.
Summary:
Tar - 106.4 kg
Dar - 119.2 kg
Fitness:
20 minute graduated running
5x1 min boxing
Food:
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs using two egg whites and two whole eggs, plus a peach - Dar. Sultana bran cereal, peach and a slice of watermelon - Ta.
Lunch: Left over chicken chowmein with noodles in it - Dar. No lunch - Ta.
Dinner: Chicken Curry, 7 nibbles for Dar and 6 nibbles for Ta. White rice and salad accompanied this.
Snacks: Dar - 3 peaches. Tar - his above fruit plus a nectarine.
Yours in Pain
Dar
Fitness:
20 minute graduated running
5x1 min boxing
Food:
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs using two egg whites and two whole eggs, plus a peach - Dar. Sultana bran cereal, peach and a slice of watermelon - Ta.
Lunch: Left over chicken chowmein with noodles in it - Dar. No lunch - Ta.
Dinner: Chicken Curry, 7 nibbles for Dar and 6 nibbles for Ta. White rice and salad accompanied this.
Snacks: Dar - 3 peaches. Tar - his above fruit plus a nectarine.
Yours in Pain
Dar
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