WEEK 1 -2 Kilos gone, 38 to go!

So last week I started my crusade against obesity and my quest to lose 40 kilos. After I wrote and published the first post on this blog I felt totally determined. In fact I felt slimmer already!

So I started the week full of resolve. I did a lot of online research and besides a lot of miracle pills and miracle diets I actually concluded that the only way to loose weigh is non other than eating properly and exercising dah!!!. I also found out that based on my weight and life style if I want to loose 40 kg I can only consume 1567 calories per day. I used this fantastic calculator online , in it you also have to state how much exercise you are willing to do. I am sure I will increase this, but not wanting to set myself up for failure, for now I committed to doing lightly exercise at least once or twice per week! 

I decided however that the first thing to do was make some drastic changes to my diet. 

Elvis used the sleeping diet

I started the week with a VERY restricted diet. For breakfast little porridge with semi skimmed milk for breakfast, Protein and salad for lunch and salad or fruit for dinner. This lasted about 3 days. by Wednesday I was feeling starved, grumpy and without energy. I went back to the net to research diets and perhaps get a diet plan. You will be shocked at the diets I came across, From a chewing diet, where you chew and then spit out the food (not a handsome site at a restaurant); the vision diet where you wear blue tinted glasses which supposedly will make your food look disgusting and trigger loss of appetite, to the sleeping diet where you sedate your self and sleep instead of eating. This last one was apparently used by Elvis Presley. Judging by his last photos I guess he needed a lot more sleep!

the colour of my plate matters

I also came across an article telling me the colour of my plate matters! See?! I knew it wasn't totally my fault I'm fat, I am seeing my lawyers and suing IKEA for not putting health warning on their dishes!

Jokes aside it was obvious that I was not going to be able to cope with such a rigid diet, so I sat down and after some though came up with this:

Breakfast - semi skimmed porridge with a little honey/semi skimmed latte

Mid Morning - A low fat yogurt 
Lunch - piri piri chicken/grilled fish/steak and salad + fruit
Dinner - salad or soup + fruit

The other thing I learned was if I exercise I am allowed more food! In other words the more active you are the more calories you burn. With this in mind I realised how important exercise was going to be on this quest so I went on line and ordered a pair of trainers! (oh came on! give me a chance, it is a fresh start and I will use them! Promise!).

On Wednesday, my back decided to remind me why I NEED to do this! It went into spasm and I ended up in bed for 2 days, on strong pain killers and anti inflammatory tablets. As I lay literally crying in pain my instinct was to get a few cakes and just stuff myself to make me feel better. But I have a little angel/policewoman at home.... my daughter! And she would have none of that! She is helping me get into a good routine, and I could not do this without her help and encouragement. Im going to do this first for my health of course, but also because I want to show her that with determination everything is possible! I have always told her that... time to put my money where my mouth is!

By Thursday I could feel my resolve starting to weaken, but I managed to stick to a healthy diet for the rest of the week, and allowed myself a couple of treats during the weekend. Now all it is missing was some exercise. But I am waiting for my back to feel ok again as I can't afford to miss work, or better said get behind with my work!

Looking at the scales this morning I was over the moon! 2 kilos gone! BOOM!

I'm off to celebrate with my favourite type of exercise... latin dance in the kitchen!

Have a great week people!!!!