Right, stop talking about it and now do it!

nahrobson

I'm just a normal guy... Well a slightly heavy normal guy! 47 years of relatively frequent and varied sports and exercise to a reassuringly low level of success has brought with it the standard enduring sports injuries we all carry around with us (new knee ACL, injured ankle, degrade other knee, snapped knee cap, DVT and a couple of PE's, and a couple of broken ribs and fingers and toes etc over the years) but nothing particularly bad, and nothing that really stops me exercising too much.

I have a very busy career that has me starting a new role which is office based with some travel around to see different sites and meetings etc. This may mean a standard routine may be difficult to maintain, or rather it is a reason to tell myself that this is a convenient barrier to a routine of healthy eating and exercise.

So why this forum? I have used this food tracker before last year and had a degree of success. I did not consciously change anything other than log my food intake. But the mere fact I had to see daily what I was consuming, it was a motivation to manage food better. Also by having a calorie measurement from my exercise was itself a motivation to go to the gym and smash the spinning classes more frequently and, to a degree was the driver to build a routine to make sure I did go to the gym or even walk or cycle rather than use the car. There is always though a valid reason to take the easier option isn't there?

New job, new start and a need to build a new routine.

So......I am 46 and bounce around at approx 116-120 kg. my main exercise is through spinning classes (I'll easily smash 1100 calories) and occasionally do weights. The aim is to get to 100-105 kg in, let's say, 6 months, or at least flatten the bulk and turn the flab into muscle. Techniques will have to be blended into a normal life so I can't be eating just mung beans and soak my feet in rain water or any other such fad-ideas! Normal food, in a balanced manner and, my main weakness, with portion control! The discipline of logging should help too. I also suspect that by committing to writing my progress in this 'blog' should add to both my motivation and self discipline, although I suspect that it will only be me reading it! Feel free to comment, support, cajole etc if you feel you can add value!

So the journey begins and energy in/out is the start!

jennifer_417

Welcome. You've got this!

nahrobson

Day 3 in the New Year House....! As I am still on holiday, temptation appears around most parts of the house and around town. So I have decided that my desire to eat the left over Xmas chocolates and biscuits etc can be counter minded by coffee and water, plus the recuperative powers of endless tea! Admittedly, my wife has given me chores to keep me busy as well as a good new year spin class to kick start the calorie burn. As a spin instructor myself, it was not a hard session (only 660 cal) but good to get back in the Lycra after the Xmas break. I have been to harder, better classes, but then again, I have been to significantly worse and I did not have a burning desire to walk out or punch the instructor nor throw up, so it must have been ok!

Logging the daily food intake is not as easy as the bumph suggests unless you are deeply OCD weighing your food so it is very easy and probably most likely to under estimate the food intake; I do however think that by the very fact you are trying to be disciplined in logging what you eat, you almost subliminally eat either less or more sensibly. If this is to be an 'honest blog-esque ' of my journey, I will try to log everything even if it is a McD cheeseburger or bottle of fine red; it may upset the clean eating gurus but my intent is to demonstrate that a normal bloke with a normal life can achieve a better weight and fitness regime without bathing in mung beans or drinking the tears of a unicorn.

Let's see how this goes!