Week 2, Day 2

Well, I’m trying for slow carb sainthood but am more likely to be martyred at this rate!

 

Doing well 2 meals out of three at the moment, so yesterday it was a good breakfast and lunch but then mexican with a friend, which involved corn chips.

Today I’ve done my best, but did end up eating a brownie and a Lindor… whoops.

 

Nevertheless, here is dinner: Roasted vegetables with saugage, tomato, cucumber and balsamic salad and homemade beanburgers

 

To make the bean burger, I sauteed garlic and spring onions,mashed 2 cans of brown beans, added some roast aubergine and zucchini fined chopped, mixed up and thickened with a little organic flour. I flavoured with branston pickle and seasoning, then formed into patties and fried in olive oil.

nom nom nom, and there about 8 left

Cheat day and first weigh in…

Huzzah! It’s fuckin’ cheat day – life is worth living!!!

Actually, I really haven’t gone properly overboard, because I was a bit of a failure yesterday. However, the day is yet young and I have plans for chocolate cake and a burger…

So, here are this week’s results:

Start weight -        74.3       Today’s weight     72.8= 1.5 lost!

Further, 2cms off my chest, 1 off each arm, 2.6 cms off my hips/belly.

Sadly, I don’t know my original waist measurement, because I wrote it down wrong. What a tit. But I’m confident it’s less.

Success!

Slip UPS

Whoops a daisy… first error was eating smoked salmon for breakfast which I wasn’t sure about but is apparently not allowed.

Secondly I ate 2 squares of galaxy caramel, which I can’t say wasn’t amazing, because it was!

Thirdly, some kids made me a fruit salad with vanilla joghurt, which I just couldn’t refuse a) because they were so nice and b) because love fruit.

Now, I couldn’t say “fuck it” and make this my cheat day and pig out for the next few hours, which won’t really give me the opportunity to really let go as wished, or say this was just a bad diet day and still have a cheat tomorrow.

Hmmm… what to do….?

Day 4…

and all is well.

I’m defintiely eating loads on the Slow Carb diet, although the difficult bits are sweet things (of which I can’t have any), and snacks, which basically for me come down to boiled eggs.

Yesterday I had so much energy I was deeply irritating to be around, (which is usually true for different reasons) and was a hper-mentalist at boxing training.

During the night, however, I woke up several times feeling sort of drugged and confused, which was very strange and can’t be accounted for by anything special I ate or drank.

Today, I feel EXHAUSTED. Whether this is the diet or the upsurge in exercise, I can’t be sure, but I wont let it put me off. Already I can see some difference in some of my clothes and somebody commented I looked slimmer.

Whoop!

2 days till cheat day…..

Lookee!

I did some cooking!

Anybody who knows me will say that this is rare. And what’s even rarer is that I added ingredients which weren’t necessary so it wouldn’t be as boring!

Yay!

I finally dragged myself to Lidl tonight and forked out…. FIFTY EUROS on proper food. Steak, chicken, turkey, veggies, eggs etc etc (and a couple of bottle of organic red wine, as this is allowed) and made the above dinner.

It is:

• Mixed vegetables (courgette, red pepper, yellow tomatoes, mushrooms) lightly fried in olive oil
• Rump teak with coarse pepper cooked in the same pan as the veg to share the flavours around
• Brown beans mashed with balsamic vinegar, lemon juice and a wee bit of branston pickle to taste

And it tasted…… great. Only slow carbs, high protein, good fats.

Huzzah! What a yummy diet

Day two…

So, I did not bad yesterday on the first day of the Four Hour Body diet: I did start off badly by eating a white roll with my scrambled eggs, and am a bit dubious about the nutritional merit of the sausages I ate, so wont be getting those again. Apart from that, I had cooked chicken for lunch, a salad with mroe chicken and turkey for dinner, the allowable two glasses of red wine in the evening with a friend and didn’t feel hungry.

Today I’ve done perfectly so far: scrambled eggs with muchrooms, spinach and chicken for breakfast and am planning cooked chicken for lunch.

Cycled 4.5km to work and have a good few more kilometers to go today as I have to head into Mitte after work and then back again, at which point it’ll be time to try and actually go to a supermarket and buy food for the rest of the week.

Controversial, I know.

So, 74.2kg this morning, further weigh ins and measurements to follow.

The 4 hour body…

Have you read this book by Tim Ferriss? I think most of America seems to have at least watched him on a talk show, judging by his Google popularity.

I first heard of his book in December, but it took me till last week to finally fork out for it, and it have to say its pretty interesting.

The premise is that with relatively little effort but careful attention to some little physiological quirks you can change your body, your sleep pattern and your sex life beyond recognition.

Now, I love sleep, and I don’t currently have a sex life (tiny violins?) but my weight is an unending source of irritation and worry to me, so I thought I’d give it a bash.

I won’t bother outlining the whole thing, because just about every Blogger writing about it has done just that and the details are but a quick Google away. But, essentially, its a low Carb, high nutrient cyclical diet.

No processed carbs but as much lean protein, veg and legumes as you fancy, with a weekly cheat day where you eat whatever you want. The science backing it and the anecdotal success stories seem sound, so I’m up for a shot at it.

Today is day 1. I weigh pretty much bang on 74kilos, and I’d like to lose 7, so let’s see how we go…