Okay...time to get serious. I've been messing about since my last post, doing some exercise here or there, but eating a whole lot of rubbish. But I've also just turned 39. If I'm going lose 40 kilos by 40, I really need to get my backside out of confectionary aisle and into the fruit and veg section.
With the support of my wonderful wife, I've started the Men with Guts programme at the YMCA (http://www.canberra.ymca.org.au/healthfitness/weight%20loss/Pages/Men%20with%20Guts.aspx).
Wow it's a tough programme. Twice a week, a whole bunch of us get flogged at the gym - boxing, cross fit, PT...all the things that I usually manage to avoid. It's great having a bunch of blokes in the same room going through the same journey and trying to achieve the same thing.
The most challenging part is the diet. For the first four weeks, protein shakes for breakfast and lunch (and they're not too bad), protein and veggies for dinner, and fruit/veggies as snacks. I've got from 2000 calories a day to around a 1000. Think I sleep walked most of the first day due to a lack of energy.
Now, the hardest part is not the lack of calories, it's hanging out in places where I wouldn't typically eat healthy. Like at the food court where my wife and friends are eating Maccas...just cruel. Or at the football. Occasionally I stray from the path...mmmm, kitchener buns...then realise how many calories I've consumed and workout the walk needed to burn them off!
But I'm loving the exercise, including the gym sessions. Dusted off the Fitbit and doing my best to meet the goal of the programme of 10,000 steps per day, and one extra solid workout a week. Spin classes, running on the treadmill, discovering different walking routes around my town. It's amazing how much fitter I've got in the last three weeks...
Those 40 kilos are going to be history!
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