10k A Day- Week 3

Week 3 - 10 K a day.

Well this is certainly habit forming and while I can maintain the weight on this regime I find to harder to lose weight well. I find that because I have room left in the day after eating well I tend to snack more at night and skimp on meals to create "breathing room" which I then fill.

The lessons learned prior to this about sugar, carbs and timing all have a part to play as well if I want to make it to my BMI weight which is still about 10 ks away. So I need to break the habits that this diary effect has on filling the gaps left by watching and maintaining a calorie balance.

Less than two weeks to go and then I'll be on Raw Food only. So while this can be a good way to control your dietary intake and output (exercise) and the logging is a good habit to have, it's really only effective if you do it conjunction with the other rules of effective dieting around type of food and time of day.

10k A Day - Week 2

10k A Day - Week 2.

This whole app/calorie counter thing is quite cool as it is analyzing my intake and results and then making suggestions beyond my stated weight goals. So Fat, Trans Fats, Sodium, Carbs etc all get logged if I fill in my food correctly and then I get advice accordingly, like add more fibre to breakfast (or even eat some breakfast) etc...

Steadily losing weight on a daily basis but gradually over the week. As Max is still on the intermittent fasting regime then two days a week I am joining her and so that helps with the weight loss too. The good thing is that when coupled with calorie watching the tendency to overeat after a fast is gone as you monitor and measure your intake effectively by paying attention to it.

Current weight and lowest recorded so far 89.6 kilos.

Breakfast still does not get much of a look in and lunch can often be heavy and then I am free to eat whatever I want for dinner but most of the time I eat lightly and go nowhere near my limit as I am in the zone of not needing as much.

I would like to see how much of a stretch it is to reach the upper end of my BMI at 79 kilos, and thats a mere 10 kilos away.

10k A Day - Week One

10K A Day - Week One

Even though I thought when I started this I was going to avoid this diet it seems like a natural progression to try it this late in the year (diet 10 I think?) since this is the real secret to losing weight, controlling your caloric or kilojoule intake on a regular basis.

With help from some apps in the I Store I have determined that my "maintain" kilojoule intake is around 13,000 a day with moderate exercise (minimum 30 minutes a day - I do 43 minutes) and if I want to reach my goal BMI weight it should be around 10,900 per day.

So calorie counting at each meal and snack does a double duty in that you have a goal but you think twice about everything you put in when you count each meal and snack with a ceiling in mind. The first day of calorie counting was also my last fasting day so I was well under the 10,900 limit clocking in around 650 kilojoules. The second day (yesterday) I came in at 6800 kilojoules and that was without exercise. I was not hungry or feeling like I was denying myself but I was very conscious of everything that goes in my body for the day, even tea and coffee.

The 5:2 Diet - Week Four

The 5:2 Diet Week Four

The intermittent fasting works well to keep my weight at the 91 mark after the second day each week despite eating pretty much whatever I want during the other days. It means I have been eating more crap food but not gaining weight.

However the side effect of this is feeling like I am cheating rather than eating well. The effect of high fat, high sugar foods is distasteful and I'm beginning to actively dislike them despite being in the habit of going for them when looking for a snack - knowing full well I can get away with it.

However as my attitude and predilection for them is changing I need to work on not failing prey to that habit knowing that 2 days of 600 calories or less will fix that.

Calorie/Kilojoule controlled diet will be next - thinking it will be likely 10,000 kilojoules limit. According to some sources it should be 13,000 kilojoules if you have an active lifestyle (30 minutes a day or more exercise - which I do) or 10,000 if you have a sedentary one (for people my age and gender). I like the idea of the challenge and gain part so I'll aim for 10,000 a day limit - I have an app for my Phone already to help track it for the coming month.

Interestingly Max has taken to the 5:2 diet this month and will continue it next month on her own. She has lost 2-3 kgs this month.