Start your engines please…

Outlook – Let’s get it done!

I’m looking forward to the week ahead. I’ve been very bad with food over the weekend but the kids going to stay with their Grandparents has provided me with a break to get back on track. I woke this morning feeling quite ill but I’m guessing that had a great deal to do with the Chinese food we purchased to say thank you to my wife’s parents for being very kind and giving us this timeout.

I’m a little annoyed as I appear to have developed a cough and aching shoulders, which is often the start of a cold for me. This is going to stop the gym workouts, but not cause a problem with food. I’ll be back writing everything down for a while, but only until it sinks into my memory and I just function eating things correctly (about 2-3 weeks normally).

Lazy BOY!

Well what a load of lazy bones I turned out to be. It has been a number of days since I updated this blog and if you are following me then I’m very sorry. I have not been following the programme and I have slacked off the exercise. What is wrong … motivation is the problem. However that is going to change now!

Starting Monday (9am) there will be ‘Biggest Loser’ programming on Sky 1 (it really helps me). Also there is a lady that blogged her way thin, pI will review it and then provide details. More to follows …

Gym Update

OK so I still find it difficult to get my behind out and into the Gym. It is not the working out I have a problem with … once I’m there I love it. It is the action of getting my mind to accept that it would be a really good idea to go outside, stand in the garage and workout.

I know, it an easy fix but I wouldn’t be the size I am if I could have said … you don’t need that bag of sweets on the way home. It is a question of will power, and it is will power that stops the cubby people sliming and keeps the thin people thin. As an over weight individual I find it very annoying when a friend can just stop eating and say that’s enough, or refuse to eat dessert. My brain is screaming at me clean the plate and make space for chocolate cake (yum!).

Still part of the process is to change the way you think, it is starting to happen. Only yesterday I told somebody I was going to the gym!! The little voice that controls the healthy things I do is getting stronger, and I’m noticing that in the food I consume.

Snacking

The old phase ‘little pickers wear big knickers’ is true, however in my case it’s big pants. I was doing really well until at 2am this morning when I found myself in the kitchen hunting through the cupboards looking for a secret snack. So why tell you dear reader, well it is so it doesn’t happen again. I’m annoyed at myself for such a weak level of self control.

My goal at the moment it to remove the hook I have for refined sugar products. I believe that my mood and general outlook is affected by the level of blood sugar in my body. After eating chocolate I feel great for about 10 minutes then crash and become really grumpy (or as my wife points out – fall asleep). I think that would be my body reacting to the high level of sugar pumping about my system.

Therefore I’m avoiding such things as sweets and chocolate. Why? Well you end up on a roller coaster ride of high’s and low’s and the only fix is to eat a little more. I believe that is the reason the Aktins diet worked for so many people, there is no sugar and therefore no bad reaction. Please note that I’m not saying Atkins is good for you, but it does have that going for it.

Therefore the answer is simple:

• Turn on your brain
• Look at what you are eating
• Think about the content and remove the product or yourself from the situation

I’m no doctor but it seems really quite simple to me.