B's life

After over indulging myself in a lot of fried noddle tonight, I realised I lost my portion control.

I should start going back to my old roots, eating small portions and wait it out to see if I get full. Why? because it takes 20min for your body to realise that you are full. So by eating small portions and waiting is the best thing to do so that you can try stop eating more than what you are suppose to.

To help me even more a glass of water after the first portion should make myself full for a while. So this should work and hopefully I shouldn’t indulge myself with 2 portions of a meal.

I can now confirm that Large is my new wardrobe size. The last time I can remember wearing a Large was probably 4-5 years ago. I might be around the same weight as then too. I remember weighing around 86-87kg which is roughly the same as now.

I believe whatever I am doing is working for me. I think this is a definitive progress as a few months ago I dropped from an XXL size to XL. If everything is going well I hope that in a few months I will be wearing a medium size or a tight fit sports shirt. All that is to be done is to carry on what I am doing and not to give up.

This loss of weight has mostly affected my trousers and jeans than my t-shirt. All of my trousers are too loose on me. To give you an idea, if I wear a belt on my jeans and if someone pulled my jeans down it will still go down as its barely hanging on me. Worst is that I cannot afford to pay for new trousers & jogging.

Pizza Hut and KFC among high street firms that have agreed to display calorie information on their products. From Guardian.co.uk

Were they not suppose to in the first place? I am pretty sure there was a new regulation out that any food sold should have its calorie/fat/sugar/carb/protein content on it anyway?

Is this going to discourage/encourage you from eating a BIG Mac or a KFC burger when you know the true calorie content (300-600cal per burger)?

For the past 2-3 weeks I have been going to the gym nearly everyday with 2 days rest, Sundays and Mondays (I know its not good, but somehow I was able to achieve these resting days). And I haven’t been able to shift my 87kg lower but I did notice that my arms are a bit bigger and my chest has a lot more muscle than before. Maybe I was able to put on muscle mass and kept my weight the same and lost fat. Therefore to counteract this and get a healthy BMI I will have to change my routine to include more cardio and an all body workout include more lower-body exercise.

What I use to do:

This was my weekly plan:
I use to do 20min cardio and then weights on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturday. This only included core and upper-body. and on Wednesday, Friday, (sometimes) Sunday I did 30-35min cardio. I also done interval on of the days with weights.

New weekly plan:
Now I am going to be doing at least 30-40min cardio and weights with at least 1 leg exercise + core on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturday. And every other day will be an intense 40-60min workout. If I am not able to continue running for that long I will break it down to 20min for rowing, treadmill and x-trainer. This should allow me to burn approx 500-700 calories through the hour. This will then make me lose weight.

I am plannning on sticking to this routine for 2-3 weeks and if there is no change I will have to change it to the really old plan.

I believe that everyone aiming to lose fat/weight will need to focus on both cardio+weight and will need to know what exercise to do at what time and how much of it (I will cover that in another entry coming soon). The trick is that you have to keep changing your routine and push yourself a bit harder to get yoruself to change. This is how I lost 25kg, I had to keep changing everytime I didn’t see a difference.