Monday 28 January 2008

The Monday Post

Weight: 69.5 kg // 10.94 stones.

Let's not get too excited. It's just that the scale in the gym weights lighter than mine. Though technically their scale is more accurate. Well, one feel better seen a weight under 70.

I went back to the gym today for the first time after a long time. After a 2 hour and a half workout I burnt 1400 kcal. Keep in mind that 1 kilo is more or less 8000 kcal. The obvious thing: it's far easier to eat 8000 kcal than to burn them.

Today is fruit day, at least so far. My friend Eva is coming for dinner tonight and we are ordering chinnese so I am refraining myself to do any proper meal till then. Loads of fruit and water though. I am not starving... yet...

Thursday 17 January 2008

The Exception Post

It is important to make and exception now and then. If not, you will end up giving up and stuffing your face with all you find.

This way if you can set up the one day you will do exceptions. If possible the same day you check your weight so you have all the week to recover, hehe.

So my "Exceptions" day is Sunday, because I check my weight on Sunday morning before breakfast.

However, this week has not been very good. Too much stress and my will power is still weak. We will see how the results come out on Sunday. Cross fingers.

Sunday 13 January 2008

The Motivational Post

Does the word motivational actually exist?

Anyway...

If you are looking for reasons to go on diet, well, here are a few:

- Health: the obvious one. Being overweight increases risks of diabetes, high colesterol, which increases risks of any kind of heart problems. It also afects your bones as they carry your weight and this is the very light version. I think I will write a more detailed post about the effects of overweight in a near future.

- Self-esteem: nothing like feeling good with what you have.

- Fashion: well, yes. Not for everything, but if you have a taste for daring fashion, usually being out of shape is not flattering at all. Not that you need to be a size 0, actually, I want to take this opportunity to express my wish of seeing more normal, full figure women on fashion shows. The actual fashion world gives a dreadful example to young girls and, more recently, young boys as well. It is one thing not to be overweight and a completely different want to achieve invisibility through it.

I try to keep these things in mind when I crave chocolate.

The Sunday Post

Weight: 71.7 Kg // 11.29 stones.

This is really bad. Well, we are doing something to solve it, aren't we?

Saturday 12 January 2008

The Team Leader Night Out Post

So I am a manager for a mobile network's Customer Services. It is common practice that, once in a while, the company gives us money to go out, have some fun and get drunk. So I had to skip the diet for one day, though I cut on the rest of the meals, but dinner was mandatory. A good Fillet once in a while doesn't kill anybody, though.

However, I did try to drink as little alcohol as humanly possible. Two glasses of red wine. If you have ever been in Ireland (Republic or Nothern) you will know how hard it is not to drink alcohol. Specially with somebody asking you every five minutes why and if you are sure you don't want to drink. Answers to give:

- I don't feel like drinking today. Though they will let you be for the next five minutes, they do not understand even the possibility of not feeling like drinking.

- I am not thirsty. This never works.

- It's because of my medication. Now, that works, but be prepared for some questiosn about it.

The night itself was not very good for me as I was the only girls in a group of 6. I had to hear who has the better boobs of the Operational Floor and who they would shag and who they wouldn't. Boys will be boys.

Friday 11 January 2008

The Friday Post

The Friday Post, which I intended to publish my weight on will have to become the Sunday Post because my scale just gave up. Technology is against me, but I will overpower it.

Thursday 10 January 2008

A New Start

It is one of the most frequent New Year's resolutions and it is the target of millions of women on earth to do so. Go on an effective diet. Well, millions of women except the ones who have to worry about actually finding something to eat. These women are looking for the opposite kind of diet. And with this comment I only mean what I mean: that I am aware there are more important things in the world than diets...

In the past 13 or 14 years, I don't remember a day when I haven't thought about my weight. One would think this would make me take my life and eating habits in hand. Unfortunately, I have the will power of a sausage. Starting this blog is pretty much a desperate attempt to force me to go on this diet.

It is, however, not my intention to offer full information of what I have eaten today and what my weight is everyday. I will offer a weight every Friday and that's pretty much it.
What I will offer in this blog though are articles that might be interesting, some thoughts about diets, nutrition, health and all those things that seem to obsess the world in these past decade and, mainly, complaints about why the hell I am doing this and how hard it is. I hope that, if I get some readers, they will find it useful, or comforting or funny or annoying, but that they will feel free to participate with their own complaints, comments or anything they feel like.

So, welcome, if you are there!!!!