Hi again everyone. I have lost 3lbs this week
That makes 4lb in total since I started
YP1 - My god you are fantastic. How you get to the point where you can run a half marathon, and think about doing a marathon in September... You must be so pleased with yourself for such an achievement. Well done!
Lyds39 - I'm just on a healthy eating diet. I've tried Rosemary Conley's Hip and Thigh diet, but I just felt so tired all the time. I've tried calorie counting and just gave up with the effort. I have never tried WW or any other kind of organised diet programme, but I don't think that I could face the public weigh-in. Slim Fast, or meal replacements just isn't for me as I still want to eat real food, even if I have had the right number of calories. So now I'm eating healthily. My typical daily diet is:
Breakfast: Porridge (microwavable)
After morning walk: 1/2 glass of semi-skimmed milk (if I remember)
Snack mid-morning (if I remember): Some dried cranberries and blueberries
Lunch: Pasta salad/bean salad/salad with a bit of meat/ham sandwich with an apple
Snack (if I remember): 1 piece of malt-loaf
Evening meal: fish/lean meat/small piece of quiche etc with lots of vegetables. Low Fat Organic Probiotic Yoghurt and a mandarin
I don't know how many calories I am actually eating though. As you can see, I do have difficulties remembering to have my snacks, so sometimes I am starving by the time I get round to having my next meal. I have my 1/2 glass of milk because I read about how having something with protein in it is good after exercise because it reduces muscle fatigue the next day.
I am currently walking about 4 miles per day with my dogs (for about a week and a half). Since Sunday I have started to jog two short sections of the walk (about 600 metres in total) and this is enough to leave me completely breathless. My exercise aim is to be able to walk/run in the morning and still have time to cycle 6.5 miles to work afterwards. Then I would like to take various routes home, leading up to extending my daily cycling to possibly 20-30 miles per week-day. I know this aim sounds crazy, but I would love to be fit enough that I don't even really have to think about exercise. To go somewhere beautiful and just think, "I'll go for a long walk/bike ride", or be able to run around in the fields playing with the dogs without feeling breathless and exhausted.
Lou1978 - I currently work as an Administrator for a small charity that helps people who are unemployed or on low incomes, but I really want to go back to college and do the graduate entry course to become a doctor. I have always thought of becoming a doctor, but just like with my weight, I have always sabotaged my dreams. I didn't have the grades to do medicine after school because I didn't work at all, with a similar experience at uni. Now with what basically amounts to an entrance exam, and taking account of previous life-experiences, I am hoping to finally get my motivation going to make such big life changes. I want to lose weight, get fitter, start working on my science subjects so I can pass that exam, and get a job in the JR so that I can show a commitment to medicine when I make my application. I'm already looking for voluntary work that I can do alongside my current job until I leave it in October to go travelling for 7 months (another dream). I just hope that I can keep up with all these changes!
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