So anyway, how are you?
Insight into my life. Writing this watching Guardians of the Galaxy.
Here’s this weeks revelation. Sugar was taking over my life.
I have started cycling to work, and I just love it. I am also following a 6 week programme on the Chris Hemsworth app Centr. I am doing all this hard work, and up until last week, was seeing a a big ZERO in terms of what difference it was making to my body, and my wellbeing. Why? Because sugar was taking over my life.
I thought I was being healthy and eating all the right food, yes I was, but I was eating huge portions. The big wake up call for me, was weighing myself and I thought I was 11 stone. Nope, I was 11 stone 8 Ilbs. Ooft!
I have a fancy pants set of scales also that told me everything else that i didn’t want to know including body fat percentage.
Also, and I know this is going to sound strange but I can’t remember the last time I felt ‘empty’. It was a really weird feeling of feeling hungry, but at the same time feeling so bloated that eating was doing me no good at all. I short, I was putting the wrong fuel in, and feeling really sluggish too. Lethargic.
So what next?
I got inspired when I watched a programme called 'How to Lose a Stone in 3 Weeks’ with Michael Mosely. I have friends who have long advocated the 5:2 method and also fasting, so, whilst tackling a pile of ironing I watched the programme and made a plan, and to cut a long story short got stuck right in, and I seriously can’t believe the difference that getting grip on my eating habits has made.
The plan is to cut my daily calories to around 800 a day, now that sounds quite alarming but here is a sample of what that looks like:
Breakfast is greek yoghurt (2 spoons as opposed to the whole tub like I used to do), handful of almonds, half a punnet of blueberries
Lunch - 2 egg omelette with heaps of green veg
Dinner - Portobello mushrooms with chopped tomato, garlic, wee bit of mozzarella on top, stick it under the grill.
I feel full, I don’t have cravings, I no longer what to eat the whole packet of biscuits. Quite happy with 1.
The website has really great recipes, and they are not complicated which I love.
If you feel like you need a food reset I can’t recommend it enough. I don’t and have never had an eating disorder, if, in the past, you have, please follow advice from your GP before proceeding with any lifestyle changes. Also, speaking to family and friends is a good idea.
I’m going for it following the 800 plan for 3 weeks, then the plan is to go to 4:3 and reduce my calories 3 days out of 7. I’ll keep you posted with how it goes, but so far, I feel less bloated and my food cravings have greatly reduced.
The only problem I have with food is that I have a MORE than healthy appetite, and with menopause that gets accelerated by the fact that the munchy ghrelin hormone gets amplified even more.
So anyway!
It’s going good, and I feel great.
How are you?
Onward.
Elizabeth