Vanity dictates that I need to lose weight - but for health reasons, it would also be a good idea. According to this body mass indicator, my BMI is 26.2 making me 'slightly overweight.'
This means I need to lose about 18 or 19lbs.
It's worth visiting this to see what you healthy weight range is - and to see whether your weight loss goal is for reasons more legitimate than just good-old-fashioned vanity.
Showing posts with label weight loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weight loss. Show all posts
Monday, January 14, 2008
Operation Sexy Update!
Wow,, again it's been five days since I last posted anything. I'm sorry.
Well, I weighed myself last night (I always seem to weigh more at night, so I'm using that as my measure) and I'm pretty sure I'm at around 188lb. So I might have lost a pound! Wooohoooo!
Seriously, though, I was disheartened that my caffeine pill diet was ultimately a total waste of time. But Operation Sexy is not dead! I just need to think of another way to slim down.
So I have decided to do the inexplicable and actually try eating less - and more sensibly.
So wifey and went shopping and managed to stock up on Weight Watchers and cereal. One thing I've definitely noticed is that I tend to skip breakfast and that probably explains why I get cranky and irritable. So for breaky, I'm going to have a bowl of Cookie Crisp (I know, I know, but it's pretty good for you and it's the only 'edible' cereal at the supermarket we go to) and a glass or two of orange juice.
With that lining my stomach, I'm going to try and keep my input of calories down by eating Weight Watchers microwave meals. They're cheap from our local BJ's cash&carry.
Considering a chicken sandwich in a kaiser roll with a couple of slices of cheese and a can of Mountain Dew got my lunch-time calories up to a whopping 600 or 700, keeping them about 300 or less - thanks to Weight Watchers - is probably a good way to keep my intake limited.
And I have broken my soda rule! Even through it tastes like crap, I find a diet Pepsi or Coke (with no calories) is a fairly good way of filling my tum-tum without ingesting any calories.
So we'll give this change of lifestyle a week and see if I have any positive or negative effects on it.
Well, I weighed myself last night (I always seem to weigh more at night, so I'm using that as my measure) and I'm pretty sure I'm at around 188lb. So I might have lost a pound! Wooohoooo!
Seriously, though, I was disheartened that my caffeine pill diet was ultimately a total waste of time. But Operation Sexy is not dead! I just need to think of another way to slim down.
So I have decided to do the inexplicable and actually try eating less - and more sensibly.
So wifey and went shopping and managed to stock up on Weight Watchers and cereal. One thing I've definitely noticed is that I tend to skip breakfast and that probably explains why I get cranky and irritable. So for breaky, I'm going to have a bowl of Cookie Crisp (I know, I know, but it's pretty good for you and it's the only 'edible' cereal at the supermarket we go to) and a glass or two of orange juice.
With that lining my stomach, I'm going to try and keep my input of calories down by eating Weight Watchers microwave meals. They're cheap from our local BJ's cash&carry.
Considering a chicken sandwich in a kaiser roll with a couple of slices of cheese and a can of Mountain Dew got my lunch-time calories up to a whopping 600 or 700, keeping them about 300 or less - thanks to Weight Watchers - is probably a good way to keep my intake limited.
And I have broken my soda rule! Even through it tastes like crap, I find a diet Pepsi or Coke (with no calories) is a fairly good way of filling my tum-tum without ingesting any calories.
So we'll give this change of lifestyle a week and see if I have any positive or negative effects on it.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Pills Ahoy
That's it. I've quit the caffeine-pill diet.
After feeling nauseous all week and having terrible trouble sleeping, my two morning caffeine-pills eventually helped me to lose - no pounds.
Hopping on the scales this morning, one week after starting the diet, I was astonished to see that I was firmly at the 189lb mark. That was even more disappointing given that I'd started exercising (well, started taking walks) and watched what I ate all week long.
So objectively, I can state that caffeine pills to lose weight DON'T work. It's as simple as that.
After feeling nauseous all week and having terrible trouble sleeping, my two morning caffeine-pills eventually helped me to lose - no pounds.
Hopping on the scales this morning, one week after starting the diet, I was astonished to see that I was firmly at the 189lb mark. That was even more disappointing given that I'd started exercising (well, started taking walks) and watched what I ate all week long.
So objectively, I can state that caffeine pills to lose weight DON'T work. It's as simple as that.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Oh dear!
Been far too long since my last post.
Well, I'm still on the Caffeine Pill diet and so far - I haven't lost any weight. Not even a pound.
Things looked pretty promising on the first couple of days, when I seemed to have a couple of pounds drop right off like butter. But this weekend - and I was a bit naughty diet-wise, I'll admit - they came crashing back on.
Now Wifey tells me that four days is not a fair approximation of how a diet is going, so I will withhold official judgement until Wednesday, when I'll weigh myself and see if my first week of dieting has had any success or not.
But in terms of 'diet' the caffeine pill routine isn't all that pleasent. I've had nausea pretty much throughout my routine, especially in the mornings. I've also found sleeping a lot more difficult (surviving on about four or five hours a night at the moment) and I get headaches and, strangely enough, tooth-ache. Not like a specfic toothache. More like my teeth are too big for my mouth or something.
So I'm pretty miserable - and since I have definitely been eating a bit less, we'll have to see on Wednesday whether this 'get thin quick' scheme is really worth it.
Well, I'm still on the Caffeine Pill diet and so far - I haven't lost any weight. Not even a pound.
Things looked pretty promising on the first couple of days, when I seemed to have a couple of pounds drop right off like butter. But this weekend - and I was a bit naughty diet-wise, I'll admit - they came crashing back on.
Now Wifey tells me that four days is not a fair approximation of how a diet is going, so I will withhold official judgement until Wednesday, when I'll weigh myself and see if my first week of dieting has had any success or not.
But in terms of 'diet' the caffeine pill routine isn't all that pleasent. I've had nausea pretty much throughout my routine, especially in the mornings. I've also found sleeping a lot more difficult (surviving on about four or five hours a night at the moment) and I get headaches and, strangely enough, tooth-ache. Not like a specfic toothache. More like my teeth are too big for my mouth or something.
So I'm pretty miserable - and since I have definitely been eating a bit less, we'll have to see on Wednesday whether this 'get thin quick' scheme is really worth it.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Buzzed...
Day one of my caffeine diet and I have to admit, I'm a bit more buzzed than I expected. I came into work with my hands trembling and my stomach gurgling...
It's a bit unfortunate that I start my metabolism-hike on the same day I try and shed half my ingested calories...
So I'm not quite sure how safe or wise my caffeine-pill diet is, but I'll tell you one thing... I can certainly FEEL it working!
It's a bit unfortunate that I start my metabolism-hike on the same day I try and shed half my ingested calories...
So I'm not quite sure how safe or wise my caffeine-pill diet is, but I'll tell you one thing... I can certainly FEEL it working!
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Death to the Mountain Dew
Every lunch time, I enjoy a can of delicious Mountain Dew with my sandwich.That's 175 calories right there, gobbled down.
Operation Sexy Rule 001 is - Ban the Mountain Dew! And the full-fat Coke, the lemonade, the Sprite, the Red Bull. All of that high calorie mouthwash. It's the DEVIL'S FIZZ!
If I'm going to reap the rewards of drinking high sugar, high calorie crap (i.e. another few inches on my waistline) I'm going to make damn sure that drink comes as God intended it...
Brimming with alcohol.
Wine, beer and gin & tonics.... They are delicious and heavenly. They hoik me up and boost my charm and confidence. As Dean Martin once said: "I pity the man who doesn't drink. When he wakes up in the morning, that's the best he's going to feel all day..."
If you're having trouble keeping up with my rambling, I have just dictated that fizzy drinks, soda and pop are right out in the world of Operation Sexy 2008. Unless they're full of whiskey, gin or fermented hops and barley.
Because soda is insidious. You can drink it for breakfast, lunch or dinner. That's three times as many opportunities to guzzledown the calories than with alcohol...
Alcohol, tradition dictates, should only ever be consumed after 12pm or 6pm - in company and whilst wearing trousers.
Operation Sexy 2008 has spoken...
Operation Sexy 2008 IS GO!
Happy New Year!
As the new year arrives, it's time to put Operation Sexy 2008 into effect.
The goal from now on is a detirmined, focused effort to get sexy in 2008. I have 365 days starting... NOW!
I've dicussed some of the issues that I'm aiming to resolve in Operation Sexy. Most pressing of these has to be weight and fitness - and that's something I've got to sort out now. The fact that I'm writing this with a cheeseburger in my tummy and an ice-cold Fosters beside me probably doesn't bode well...
But as I've said before - diet doesn't work.
DIETS DON'T WORK.
Because diets force you to act differently to how you would normally act and that takes an enormous amount of willpower and self control. And if we all had that willpower and self control, we wouldn't be overweight anyway.
No, it's a much simplar proposition. I have to look at my life and work out why I consume more calories than I expend - and figure out what I can do to correct that.
I get up in the morning and I rarely have breakfast. Lunch tends to be a chicken sandwich and can of Mountain Dew. Supper, when I get home from work, is where I cram the calories in because I tend to have one-two... maybe three or four beers or glasses of wine with it. Plus grazing on chocolate chips, squares of cheese. Whatever's going, really.
I need to FOCUS my attention during the evenings so I have something else to concentrate on other than eating food and sitting like a lump in front of the TV.
Now I'm considering the gym. I seriously am. But gyms always seem boring and running on a treadmill gives me images of a hamster in a ball. So that's not where I see my success.
In fact, I think I'll achieve my target through taking a COURSE in karate or tai kwon do or something. The martial arts aspect will give me exercise and give me the chance to learn self defence and disculipne, which will in itself help boost my confidence (one of the other aspects I feel needs work.)
Plus, it'll get me out of the house for a few hours and get me sweating instead of shovelling nuts and cheese into my mouth (washed down with beer.)
So watch this space to see how Operation 2008 kicks off in earnest!
As the new year arrives, it's time to put Operation Sexy 2008 into effect.
The goal from now on is a detirmined, focused effort to get sexy in 2008. I have 365 days starting... NOW!
I've dicussed some of the issues that I'm aiming to resolve in Operation Sexy. Most pressing of these has to be weight and fitness - and that's something I've got to sort out now. The fact that I'm writing this with a cheeseburger in my tummy and an ice-cold Fosters beside me probably doesn't bode well...
But as I've said before - diet doesn't work.
DIETS DON'T WORK.
Because diets force you to act differently to how you would normally act and that takes an enormous amount of willpower and self control. And if we all had that willpower and self control, we wouldn't be overweight anyway.
No, it's a much simplar proposition. I have to look at my life and work out why I consume more calories than I expend - and figure out what I can do to correct that.
I get up in the morning and I rarely have breakfast. Lunch tends to be a chicken sandwich and can of Mountain Dew. Supper, when I get home from work, is where I cram the calories in because I tend to have one-two... maybe three or four beers or glasses of wine with it. Plus grazing on chocolate chips, squares of cheese. Whatever's going, really.
I need to FOCUS my attention during the evenings so I have something else to concentrate on other than eating food and sitting like a lump in front of the TV.
Now I'm considering the gym. I seriously am. But gyms always seem boring and running on a treadmill gives me images of a hamster in a ball. So that's not where I see my success.
In fact, I think I'll achieve my target through taking a COURSE in karate or tai kwon do or something. The martial arts aspect will give me exercise and give me the chance to learn self defence and disculipne, which will in itself help boost my confidence (one of the other aspects I feel needs work.)
Plus, it'll get me out of the house for a few hours and get me sweating instead of shovelling nuts and cheese into my mouth (washed down with beer.)
So watch this space to see how Operation 2008 kicks off in earnest!
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