This is my personal website that I am able to
view and update wherever I may be.
Anyone can also check up on what I’m up to.
24/05/09
Losing weight.
So it has been what,
a week now since I started “dieting”, brought on by three main factors: I have
a load of fat on my belly, I couldnt bench-press a cheerleader above my head
(others half my size were doing it!) and after weighing myself at a dodgy train
station as 115kg. My plan was simple, eat more healthy foods, consume less
calories, do more exercise. Words until you actually do them. For the first few
days at work I would get HUNGER PAINS, I fought through these by basically drugging
myself up (lol?) on caffiene and even paracetamol. I cannot believe how little
I was eating and still able to walk around, think, exercise etc.
Then the weirdest
thing happened, at about day 4/5. I stopped getting hungry. I swear, I just don’t
think about it anymore, and my stomach has stopped giving me jip. Either it is
a physical factor of I am getting used to having less food, so the body expects
less. Also perhaps, what was more interesting to me, there has been an
emotional shift. I used to eat everything on the plate, without exception, if I
wasn’t full I would go and eat more. I wasn’t eating because I needed the
energy, I was eating because I liked the feeling of being totally full. In the
past 3 months, with my drop in physical activity and increase in food avaliable
at work, I was losing the calorific battle.
So now, it is almost
a fun challenge to see how long I can go without eating. Then when I do, I see
what I can miss out that wld make it more healthy. What I have been eating
recently:
Chicken Breast, Tuna,
Cod Fillet, Eggs
Mixed Veg, Roasted
Veg, Pesto
Bananas, Satsumas
Not only healthier
than my take-away/fatty/eatasmuchfattyfoodsasican attitude before, but eating less
of what is good aswell. The most suprising thing about this “diet” is that I am
trying to do it by simply reducing my intake of calories. The world is full of
fat people who say things like “I just can’t exercise” or who actually have
problems stopping them from moving their joints. My usual response is “DO YOU
THINK STEPHAN HAWKINS RUNS TEN MILES EVERY DAY?”. There is also the more
logical response of “Ok, so let’s make you eat ONLY healthy foods, and reduce
your calorific intake until it is just slightly lower than what you expend just
by living”.
But everyone knows
what they SHOULD do, dieting is easy in principal, but battling our urges to
eat more and eat nice foods is the real hard part. Some of it is having a
routine, another is only having healthy foods avalible to yourself. But the
biggest factor (as it always seems) is if you WANT it enough. Imagine what you
will feel and look like in 1-2 months of eating better, keep reminding yourself
why you are doing it, make it a fun game rather than a hassle.
23/05/09
Had hosting for a
while, but only decided today to put something up. I wonder how many hits I will
get, might advertise on AdWords for fun.
This website will
eventually hold:
·
Blog/Diary,
I am writing a personal one at the moment and I find that it does keep me in
check and keep doing stuff that I know I should.
·
Essays
and documents that were useful to me and I hope will be useful to other people.
I will use it as an archive for myself.
·
A list of
books read with short reviews – maybe you would love the books too.
·
My
Present situation, interests, what I am looking for in the Future.
·
My Past.
I want to log memories and adventures I have had. Hardest part of this will be
how to organise them!
·
Anything
else that I may randomly decide to share. Be warned. :]
Ben.