There’s nothing like the squeeze of your trousers around your tummy, butt and thighs to make you want to starve and exercise yourself to death.
From the moment I pulled on my work trousers there was a major struggle to button them up and a major threat of ripping! I knew right then that it was time to stop with excuses and start getting my lazy butt into gear!
So on Tuesday I started to eat healthily and drag my butt out of bed to exercise each morning. Five days later and despite working my arse into a state of great pain when getting on and off the toilet, my belly still rolls over the top of my trousers with my butt cheeks still threatened to burst the seams!
Now, I’m not silly, I know that fat loss takes time, lots of time, and I know that I’m not going to see results after just 5 days, but that doesn’t make me any less upset and disappointed when it happens! You see, I just don’t have patience! And that’s the number one thing I hate about dieting and exercising... you need patience…. lots and lots of patience…. and will power, which I don’t have much of either!
It’s weird because when it comes to diet, nutrition, the body and exercise I know a bit about it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no expert but I’ve read enough books and research to know what I have to do, what I shouldn’t do, what’s good for me, what’s bad for me, what works, what doesn’t work, what happens when I eat this, what happens when I do this and what happens when I put a slice of takeaway pizza to my mouth!
But despite this knowledge and despite feeling guilty as I eat food that I know I shouldn’t be, it’s never stopped me. It’s never put me off. And now I’m have to live with the consequences…. a protruding pot belly and pairs of very, very tight trousers!
So once again I’m on a diet! But this time I’m hoping it’ll be different because I’m looking at the longer picture. No more 12 weeks of super strict dieting and exercising to get my perfect shape. Oh no, I’m giving myself until Las Vegas (which is a whopping 9 months away) to achieve a better body!
Lets see if the slow, steady and most importantly, sensible, approach will hopefully help me be motivated, determined and successful!
Saturday 31 March 2012
Saturday 10 March 2012
Thought of the week: (whilst watching Embarrassing Bodies)
I really wanted to go to bed and get an early night tonight but now I want to see this ladies bagels!!
Diet:
Has gone out the window! I haven’t been feeling 100% and when I feel like that the last thing I want to do is eat lettuce leaves and cottage cheese. So this week has been filled with cheese toasties, sausage, egg and chips, lasagne, pizza, chocolate cake and biscuits! Not a fabulously clean and healthy diet but i've loved every meal and, for the first time in a long while, I havent constantly been thinking about food and what i'm going to eat! With mums b'day celebrations, meals out and a trip to London on the horizon in the next coupe of weeks I have decided to eat what I want and sort myself out when things have settled down. Its just easier that way and means I wont feel guilty about the toasties, chips and biscuits that are on the menu this week!
Exercise:
Has also gone out the window! I have somehow managed to tear the calf muscle in my left leg which means I’m walking like I’ve sh*t myself!!
On a more serious note, my leg has swollen, its painful to touch and it aches whether I’m sitting or standing so i've laid off the exercise to prevent any further damage and pain. I've been stinking out the house with plenty of Deep Heat rub and chucking painkillers down my throat in the hope that I would be able to re-start my workout this weekend but its still too sore.
In other news:
Due to my poorly leg I had a couple of days off work to do nothing but sit on the sofa with my leg elevated. During this time my wonderfully kind and caring sister brought me cups of tea, chocolate cake, magazines and even cooked my dinners! I’m very lucky to have a sister who would do that for me so I want to publicly give her a HUGE thank you!! Thank you Louie! Love you!
Also, its national pie week!!! Yay! I love pie.... in fact I love pie so much it is undoubtedly my favourite meal in the whole wide world! Unfortunately my sister isnt a pie fiend like me so I dont get to have them much but tonight she is allowing me to indulge in pie week by cooking me a dinner of pie, new potatos and vegetables. Yum yum!
That's it for this week... well, with a cr*p diet and no exercising there’s not much to say! I'm off to have a cup of tea and danish pasty so until next time....
I really wanted to go to bed and get an early night tonight but now I want to see this ladies bagels!!
Diet:
Has gone out the window! I haven’t been feeling 100% and when I feel like that the last thing I want to do is eat lettuce leaves and cottage cheese. So this week has been filled with cheese toasties, sausage, egg and chips, lasagne, pizza, chocolate cake and biscuits! Not a fabulously clean and healthy diet but i've loved every meal and, for the first time in a long while, I havent constantly been thinking about food and what i'm going to eat! With mums b'day celebrations, meals out and a trip to London on the horizon in the next coupe of weeks I have decided to eat what I want and sort myself out when things have settled down. Its just easier that way and means I wont feel guilty about the toasties, chips and biscuits that are on the menu this week!
Exercise:
Has also gone out the window! I have somehow managed to tear the calf muscle in my left leg which means I’m walking like I’ve sh*t myself!!
On a more serious note, my leg has swollen, its painful to touch and it aches whether I’m sitting or standing so i've laid off the exercise to prevent any further damage and pain. I've been stinking out the house with plenty of Deep Heat rub and chucking painkillers down my throat in the hope that I would be able to re-start my workout this weekend but its still too sore.
In other news:
Due to my poorly leg I had a couple of days off work to do nothing but sit on the sofa with my leg elevated. During this time my wonderfully kind and caring sister brought me cups of tea, chocolate cake, magazines and even cooked my dinners! I’m very lucky to have a sister who would do that for me so I want to publicly give her a HUGE thank you!! Thank you Louie! Love you!
Also, its national pie week!!! Yay! I love pie.... in fact I love pie so much it is undoubtedly my favourite meal in the whole wide world! Unfortunately my sister isnt a pie fiend like me so I dont get to have them much but tonight she is allowing me to indulge in pie week by cooking me a dinner of pie, new potatos and vegetables. Yum yum!
That's it for this week... well, with a cr*p diet and no exercising there’s not much to say! I'm off to have a cup of tea and danish pasty so until next time....
Saturday 3 March 2012
Thought of the week:
12 weeks. That’s 84 days. I’m thinking of ordering a Domino’s. And its only day 1.
Diet:
Fed up of feeling like a hefferlump and eating my weight in cr@p, I decided it’s time to get serious and set myself a challenge! I did this last year when I gave myself 12 weeks to shape up before my 25th birthday and holiday to Ibiza, and I had lots of success with it. It proved that if I keep focused, ignore the negative comments and be patient then I can do it and see results.
So on Monday I started another 12 week challenge! Unfortunately due to birthdays, Easter and various trips away my diet, especially in the earlier weeks, won’t be as strict as before or as I’d like, but if I give it my best shot I should be able to shift a few unwanted pounds!
Today is the 6th day of the challenge and so far so good. It helps that I’m allowing myself one meal a week to have a bit of a blowout to accommodate those birthday parties etc, and having the mentality of “its only 12 weeks- It’s not like you’re never going to get to eat pizza again!” stopped me ordering Domino’s on the first, second and third day of the challenge!!
But, as stated before, I’m fairly busy over the next couple of months so being 100% strict won’t be possible and that includes this weekend- which started last night when my sister treated me to a bottle of wine and chinese takeaway. Then tonight I’m meeting up with a friend who I haven’t seen in ages and, as usual, this will be a rather alcohol fuelled affair so she is cooking up a bit of a pizza feast to line our stomachs! Obviously pizza and alcohol are not the best ingredients for fat loss, add a raging, morning after the night before hangover and it’s a recipe for disaster!!
Therefore I’m hoping to not get too drunk (I often leave the vodka out of my diet Coke which is a cunning way to disguise the fact I’m not drinking alcohol!) and not have the customary cheesy chips in the taxi ride home! Yep, last night wasnt brill for the waistline, tonight will not be good on the diet front either and yet tomorrow it’s Sunday dinner at mums! I really want the roast dinner to be the only naughty thing I eat as a whole day of hung over, soak up all the alcohol scoffing would be waaaaay too many calories for this weekend!
Exercise:
Despite having a niggling pain in my back and struggling to open my tired eyes in the morning, I have still managed to get my sleepy butt out of bed and work myself into a somewhat sweaty state. I’m currently working out 6 mornings a week and have to admit that my legs do feel rather tired, rather quickly! I’m happy to see that my arm exercises are feeling a little easier to do though as I do struggle with these. This, added to the fact I’m not in complete and utter pain for days after, suggests to me that I’m getting a tad stronger and am recovering well.
This morning I have already spent a hardcore 25 minutes doing circuits involving squats, press ups, dips and lunges but as you already know, I’m having a night on the tiles tonight so rather than missing tomorrows session (sleeping at my friends tonight and spending tomorrow at my parents means no time!) I am going to do another blood pumping, muscle hurting weight session this afternoon! Who knows, I may like exercising later on in the day and, fingers crossed, it might make me feel a bit less guilty about the food and alcohol I’m about to consume!!
In other news:
In preparation for tonights night on the town I've just shaved my legs... and for the first time ever I did it without cutting them!!! Man, I feel like a woman! (Da, da, da da, da, da da << Shania Twain style!)
12 weeks. That’s 84 days. I’m thinking of ordering a Domino’s. And its only day 1.
Diet:
Fed up of feeling like a hefferlump and eating my weight in cr@p, I decided it’s time to get serious and set myself a challenge! I did this last year when I gave myself 12 weeks to shape up before my 25th birthday and holiday to Ibiza, and I had lots of success with it. It proved that if I keep focused, ignore the negative comments and be patient then I can do it and see results.
So on Monday I started another 12 week challenge! Unfortunately due to birthdays, Easter and various trips away my diet, especially in the earlier weeks, won’t be as strict as before or as I’d like, but if I give it my best shot I should be able to shift a few unwanted pounds!
Today is the 6th day of the challenge and so far so good. It helps that I’m allowing myself one meal a week to have a bit of a blowout to accommodate those birthday parties etc, and having the mentality of “its only 12 weeks- It’s not like you’re never going to get to eat pizza again!” stopped me ordering Domino’s on the first, second and third day of the challenge!!
But, as stated before, I’m fairly busy over the next couple of months so being 100% strict won’t be possible and that includes this weekend- which started last night when my sister treated me to a bottle of wine and chinese takeaway. Then tonight I’m meeting up with a friend who I haven’t seen in ages and, as usual, this will be a rather alcohol fuelled affair so she is cooking up a bit of a pizza feast to line our stomachs! Obviously pizza and alcohol are not the best ingredients for fat loss, add a raging, morning after the night before hangover and it’s a recipe for disaster!!
Therefore I’m hoping to not get too drunk (I often leave the vodka out of my diet Coke which is a cunning way to disguise the fact I’m not drinking alcohol!) and not have the customary cheesy chips in the taxi ride home! Yep, last night wasnt brill for the waistline, tonight will not be good on the diet front either and yet tomorrow it’s Sunday dinner at mums! I really want the roast dinner to be the only naughty thing I eat as a whole day of hung over, soak up all the alcohol scoffing would be waaaaay too many calories for this weekend!
Exercise:
Despite having a niggling pain in my back and struggling to open my tired eyes in the morning, I have still managed to get my sleepy butt out of bed and work myself into a somewhat sweaty state. I’m currently working out 6 mornings a week and have to admit that my legs do feel rather tired, rather quickly! I’m happy to see that my arm exercises are feeling a little easier to do though as I do struggle with these. This, added to the fact I’m not in complete and utter pain for days after, suggests to me that I’m getting a tad stronger and am recovering well.
This morning I have already spent a hardcore 25 minutes doing circuits involving squats, press ups, dips and lunges but as you already know, I’m having a night on the tiles tonight so rather than missing tomorrows session (sleeping at my friends tonight and spending tomorrow at my parents means no time!) I am going to do another blood pumping, muscle hurting weight session this afternoon! Who knows, I may like exercising later on in the day and, fingers crossed, it might make me feel a bit less guilty about the food and alcohol I’m about to consume!!
In other news:
In preparation for tonights night on the town I've just shaved my legs... and for the first time ever I did it without cutting them!!! Man, I feel like a woman! (Da, da, da da, da, da da << Shania Twain style!)
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