Example; Weightloss Programme

Good Morning! (or afternoon/evening depending on when you’re reading this!)

So this is  an example of my weightloss regime; week 1 of my 8 week healthy eating plan…

This isn’t a “diet” where you just have shakes and smoothies for 8 weeks then go back to how you were eating, its a transformation from an unhealthy fat filled diet to a healthy sensible food plan for the rest of your life. You can’t just delve in to the unknown and go for whatever makes you lose weight the quickest – trust me i’ve been there and it doesn’t work. Sure you lose a tonne of weight in a short amount of time, but you’ll just end up back at square one still dumb on what it is you actually NEED to do to change your life around and be the person you want to be. Educate your self!

Here is week 1:

Monday

It’s a Monday which means it’s even harder to wake up, let alone actually getting out of bed! However if i’m honest this is probably THE day where you need to be up lively and ready to be organised to start your day in order to have a good week. Psychologically Monday is always considered; a new start, the  first day of work (for some/most people) and if you don’t start this day right then it’s harder to get your week off to the right start!

Breakfast:

We need to rid you of your weekend toxins! That’s right i said it! I know that you’ve either been out on the town, indulging in our good friends Ben and Jerry, super busy that you’ve been picking unhealthy food and thinking, it’s alright i haven’t really eaten anything today so having these crisps or biscuit etc will definitely NOT matter – WRONG it totally does! So we now need to top our bodies off with the “right stuff”. This will give you an awesome boost!

35 grams of porridge oats – mixed with water NOT milk (even if it’s skimmed) – topped with strawberries, raspberries, flax seeds (look them up they really are super healthy!) and blueberries! This is filling and will give you energy throughout the morning and help just give your body a boost – one that i can imagine it definitely needs!

Snack:

ORANGE! More fruit! No way?!

I’m sorry but yes, it’s more fruit. Fruit is amazing for you, it gives you the nutrients you need to help boost your immune system and on top of that it is a “speedy” food. It helps build up your metabolism – pretty much, there’s more scientific reasoning behind it, but to be honest i just want to get everything down! If you have questions feel free to write them down!

Lunch:

Chicken breast x2 and cherry tomatoes (as many as you want!)  with ALOT of garlic and pepper seasoning! I love my seasoning and it is absolutely FAT FREE! You may think that this is boring as anything, but this is going to give you a great dose of protein (that isn’t powder!) and that means more clean slow releasing energy. (Clean meaning untainted with crappy additives!)

Tea/Dinner:

For tea tonight we have a grilled steak (it can be fried, but if it is, cook it in fry light!), x2 new potatoes with 1 boiled egg and as much salad as you want! I know salads are boring and bland but if you need some flavour, use which every herbs or spices you have gathering dust in your cupboard and mix it with 0% fat yogurt then pour generously over your salad 🙂

Tuesday:

Breakfast:

Tomatoes on toast – random and weird i know but just go with it!

Lunch:

FRUIT! It is a lovely fruit salad for lunch today and to make you feel better you may have as much as you want and whatever fruit you like. If you have banana not have too many – like 4 or 5, you don’t want to over do it on fibre. Although banana is obviously healthy because it’s a fruit it’s not a speedy food because of its sugar content as well, so too much of it will do the opposite of what you want it to do!

Tea/Dinner:

Fresh fish and a lovely salad! I know you’re probably thinking that you’ve had a lot of salad in just 2 days but we are trying to get some of that goodness in your body that you’ve been missing for a while!

Wednesday and Thursday:

So for these two next days you’ll be repeating Monday and Tuesday, lets give your body the ultimate top up! I hope you don’t find it too boring but the first week is about learning what you like and getting over that initial; “for fuck sake all i want to do it eat pizza and cake!”

Friday:

Smoked salmon (up to 5 slices) drizzled with lemon, boiled egg x2 and a grapefruit. Grape fruit is a hard one to get yourself to eat. It’s extremely sour, but if you know how to eat it etc. it can be a lot nicer! Sweetner will be your best friend (just sprinkle it all over it after cutting it in half) then place it in the oven for 2 minutes, take it out and put 0% fat yogurt mixed with more sweetner and put a massive dollop of it on the open half! LUSH!

Saturday:

No it does not mean that it’s a treaty cheat day because it’s the weekend! You need to have a full clean week before you can start having your cheat meal! So for breakfast today it is strawberries (chopped), raspberries (chopped/mashed) with 0%fat yogurt, a table spoon of honey and mix it all together then spread on 2 slices of wholemeal toast! As bizarre as it might sound, it’s soooooo nice! A brilliant alternative to jam!

Lunch:

2 poached eggs on a bed of spinach and any other salad you fancy! Have as much as you want! Apologies if you still find this boring, but it gets better, remember its the first week. We’re training your body to thrive off of beautiful, do good, healthy nutrients and vitamins 🙂

Tea/Dinner:

Lamb chops with runner beans, carrots and tomatoes – with this, i tend to pan fry the lamb chops (with fry light), boil the runner beans and carrots but then put them in the oven along with the tomatoes, season well and bobs your uncle!!

Sunday:

Oh my word it’s sunday already, fuck me! Congratulations if you managed to get through the week without indulging in any other shitty foods! And if you did have a slip up, it’s fine, but what i tend to do is repeat the week if i had a bit of fail – well not a fail, lets not call it a fail, a bit of a hiccup!

Now that it’s Sunday you may choose what you have for each meal and snackage! HOWEVER, choose from the following foods, what it is that you will have. It’s all about taking control but there can always be too much too soon, so Sundays will be a “lets see how it goes and what i fancy when i fancy it kind of day” – but obviously still sticking with these foods!

  • Fruit – any!
  • Chicken – no fat though
  • Salad
  • Tomatoes
  • Peppers
  • Onions
  • Turkey mince – 2% fat or less (Tesco do it!)
  • Tinned tomatoes
  • x2 eggs (boiled or fried!)
  • x2 wholemeal bits of bread/toast
  • Grilled steak
  • Carrots
  • Runner beans
  • Broccoli
  • SEASONING!

I HOPE YOU’VE HAD AN AWESOME WEEK!! Remember if you had a MASSIVE hiccup, and by hiccup i mean have a takeaway, loads of chocolate etc. then put it to the side and start again with your healthy eating!

New Year, New Me… Erm No Actually!

It is that time of year again ladies and gentlemen! Get ready to buy into fad diets through our empty “promises” to ourselves! Well no actually. I’m here to tell you that you are not going to wipe away the 2015 you that you built and just magically create a new you! You are going to build on that fabulous person you always have been!

How can we just disregard the journey that we’ve been through for an entire year… For the past 2 years?! I’ve been on my journey since September 2013 and I am no where near who I want to be in terms of physicality, but just because it’s a new year doesn’t mean I am going to say “right fuck off old me!”, it means I am going to build upon the foundations I have already put in place.

So when the 1st January comes to us this Friday don’t think about the new resolutions you are all going to make, think of how you can build upon what’s already there. Don’t tear down the awesome person you’ve been creating your entire life, get MORE motivated, get MORE organised with working out, plan MORE about what you’re going to eat over the next week.

Say to yourself:

‘I am me, I am irreplaceable and I am worth building upon! Not getting rid of…’

 

Merry christmas and a Happy New Year guys!

“I’m curvy… AND I LIKE IT!”

I’ve come to realise that throughout this process of living a healthy lifestyle, trying to lose weight and just look and feel as best as i can… that i don’t love myself. I don’t think i’m sexy, i hate my rolls, i hate my bingo wings and i hate that every time i have sex theres the potential for the sound of my stomach fat to make slapping noises! Sorry but it had to be said. It’s a common obstacle that we “fattys” have to go through. It can happen with when we work out; running, cycling (but the sit back ones mostly), jumping etc so with sex it is even more likely to occur with the amount of cardio you have to do there! And if I’m honest i absolutely hate it, its embarrassing! I’ve been with my boyfriend for a year now and still i have to wear a t-shirt if i’m going on top… but not just any t-shirt, something that can muffle the sounds of my stomach and cover me up but still make me look semi decent… i mean it is sex, you want to look at least a little bit sexy! But in spite of all of that i need to learn to love my body. At the moment i don’t and i’m sure many of you out there have the same feelings as i do… but i hope in time that i will learn to love it. I’m starting to appreciate that through being a big girl, i’ve always had big boobs, which of course is a bonus! However you can’t help but find something stupidly wrong with them can you! For instance, yes i have big boobs and of course the attention they get is obviously the kind of attention i like, BUT after having a child and being fat to losing weight they are not pretty and perky and firm! They hang a bit lower than one might want them to and they’re really good to squeeze if you’ve had a stressful day and therefore in a bra they look amazing BUT not so much without a bra if you know what i mean!

All of these insecurities that i have, you have, that everyone has about themselves, is something that needs to be loved. Yes i hate being fat and i wish my boobs could be a bit perkier (and less saggy) but we have to look at how we got to that point, my boobs are the way they are because i was big and got small and because being pregnant changed my body… now i’m starting to learn to love the journey my body’s been on and how proud i am of that. I don’t LOVE my body yet by any means, i have insecurities, many things i wish i could change, but if theres one thing that makes my body unique from anyone else’s, its the journey that its been on. It shows pregnancy, courage, change, hard work, determination and most importantly it shows my life. My outer shell represents me and my stretch marks represent the journey i’ve been on with my pregnancy and losing weight and what they both bring and mean to my life.

I may not love my body yet (and promise i am working on that!) but i love the journey that my life has been on and is currently on! Now i have a task for you… stand naked in the mirror (thats the first step and YES it is hard and if you manage to do it well done, it takes balls!), look at every single part of your body 2 minutes (time yourself – turn around to get a look from every angle), now feel yourself, touch every single part of your body and get to know it, look at every scar, stretch mark etc and feel it, now with a pen (of your choosing) circle the bits you don’t like, the scars the stretch marks, whatever they are circle them, now imagine how you would look if they weren’t there. I bet you’re thinking that you’d look pretty damn good and “if that just wasn’t there it would be fine”. Now ask yourself… why are they there? How did they get to be there? Would you trade any of those experiences to get rid of the bits you hate? I absolutely loathe my stretch marks, but i would never get rid of the experience of being pregnant and having my son just to get rid of my stretch marks. They show what i’ve been through. Even if i wasn’t pregnant and got my stretch marks through just being fat, i still wouldn’t get rid of that experience because it wouldn’t have put me on the journey i’m on today and i wouldn’t have met the people i have through going on this journey.

My body is my trophy, my story and i will learn to love it.

Weigh in time…

So i got weighed last night and i’ve been thinking that i wouldn’t lose any weight or i would stay the same as the week before BUT… I LOST A POUND AND A HALF! It’s not exactly the amount i wanted lose, but it’s something and it’s in the right direction.

It’s always hard after a weekly weigh in to get back on the horse again no matter whether you lose or gain. If you gain weight you get disheartened and think well i might as well just give up, or just have a cheat night tonight cos I’ve just been weighed so what’s the harm and if you lose you think cos i deserve that bit of cake and pizza and left over chinese the boyfriend left and maybe that white breaded cheese and pickle sandwich. I lost weight and therefore thought it gave me the right to have massive blow out and just eat anything and everything. Oh how wrong was i! It’s completely ruined me today, my stomach just isn’t used to that kind of food anymore! I’m sorry to tell you this and i promise i won’t be graphic, but i have been back and forth to the toilet all day and when i’ve been there its not exactly been a quick visit, if you know what i mean… However i try and look at it on the bright side… what went in DEFINITELY came back out again!

But although my stomach was in ruins i am obviously gonna have a blow out like that again and i know I’m shooting myself in the foot, but its food and at the end of the day i’d rather have a bit of what i fancy on one day/night of the week (i need to learn to not over do it though) than have a lot of what i fancy (and then some), every day of the week!

Chocolate

This is literally my life!

DONT GIVE IN DONT GIVE IN DONT GIVE IN DONT GIVE IN (except on cheat day, then you can give in as much as you want!)

Make it fun ;)

Bike ride pic

If you were like me and you don’t like exercising or you just can’t be arsed then make it fun!

I now love exercise (don’t get me wrong, not all types), I’m not a brilliant runner, to be honest it’ll usually take me longer to run a race than anybody else but i do love exercising and that feeling of:

“Oh my God i done it!”

That sense of accomplishment is sooooo good to feel!

BUT the reason i love exercising now is because of my partner in crime. The man in the picture is (you’ve guessed correctly) my man, my wonderful boyfriend. If it wasn’t for him i don’t think i would be as this in to fitness as i am now, in fact i think i’m more into it than he is now! But without his support and him coming with me to exercise and help get me through the pain physically and emotionally i wouldn’t have lost the extra stone and a bit that i have lost since being with him. The picture above is a late night 9 mile bike ride Jamie and i took in to the city randomly, just because. He knew i wanted to lose weight and so he said he would help me and for that i bought him a bike so we could enjoy more than just exercising at the gym and in the bedroom.

Get a partner, it doesn’t have to be your husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, it can be whoever, just let someone in on the struggle with you because once you do that, the struggle becomes less and less.

Make exercise fun!