I've managed to keep the results I achieved on the 30 in 30 since it finished. My weight fluctuates around 2 lbs up and back from my end weight but I have lost anothe 2 and 3/4 inches which is thrilling.
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Friday 18 September 2009
Wednesday 22 July 2009
The end of 30 in 30 and a new beginning
So - that's it the end of the 30 lbs in 30 days Challenge with Dax Moy. In common with many of my fellow 30 in 30 guinea pigs I realise that this may be the end of the 30 days programme but it is not the end of the journey for me. I have achieved an amazing change in the last month. Not 30 lbs but over 13 and a lot of inches too but the biggest change has been a change in lifestyle and commitment. I now know what I can achieve in terms of healthy eating and that I can dedicate more of my time to physical activity.
Although I have a long list of things I'm not ready to give up forever I am amazed that I did not wake up this morning and think woo hoo I can have a coffee. In fact I'm planning to stay off coffee at least until I come back from my holidays and I can have Monmouth again.
Last night I was out with my sister and we stopped at Cuba Libra on the way out to dinner, she had a mohito and I had a delicious glass of water with lime wedges and mint in it - on any other programme I would have had a margerita.
I have learned something about myself and motivation: my commitment to Dax enabled me to stick with this programme in a way that I would not have done if I had started it on my own but having done it and loved the results I know I can now make that commitment to myself.
I have learned is that it is possible to stay ED friendly when away at a conference, stuck in all day meetings with nothing provided apart from biscuits or when you are eating out. It just needs planning, so I have learned to plan.
I have learned that (without coffee and alcohol, I think) I can get to bed and to sleep around 10.30 and wake up feeling refreshed at about 6.30.
I have learned that there is time in my day for 3 workouts so there is definitely time in my day for 2.
So now, I'm going to be honest about the next 4 weeks. I won't stick to the ED but nor am I going to go crazy and undo everything. It is not that I cannot stay ED in France and Italy. It is that I choose not to. So I'm going to work at it but not 100% of the time. I will do at least 2 workouts a day and I will come back no larger than I am now.
When I'm back I'm going to set my inch loss goals. I think the sensible thing then would be to do ED again and add the eliminated foods back in properly so I can evaluate their place in my diet.
I'll keep in touch when I can but I may well be off for the whole four weeks.
and the final results are:
Chest now 35” down 2 1/2”
Waist (at navel) now 31 1/2” down 3 1/2
Hips now 39 1/2” down 2 1/2
Left thigh now 24” down 1 1/2
Right thigh now 24 1/2” down 1 1/2
Left calf now 15 3/4” down 1/2
Right calf now 15 1/2” down 1/2
Left arm now 12 3/8” down 1 5/8
Right arm now 11 7/8” down 2 1/8
That's a final tally of 13 1/2 lbs and 16 inches.
Photos in a separate post
Although I have a long list of things I'm not ready to give up forever I am amazed that I did not wake up this morning and think woo hoo I can have a coffee. In fact I'm planning to stay off coffee at least until I come back from my holidays and I can have Monmouth again.
Last night I was out with my sister and we stopped at Cuba Libra on the way out to dinner, she had a mohito and I had a delicious glass of water with lime wedges and mint in it - on any other programme I would have had a margerita.
I have learned something about myself and motivation: my commitment to Dax enabled me to stick with this programme in a way that I would not have done if I had started it on my own but having done it and loved the results I know I can now make that commitment to myself.
I have learned is that it is possible to stay ED friendly when away at a conference, stuck in all day meetings with nothing provided apart from biscuits or when you are eating out. It just needs planning, so I have learned to plan.
I have learned that (without coffee and alcohol, I think) I can get to bed and to sleep around 10.30 and wake up feeling refreshed at about 6.30.
I have learned that there is time in my day for 3 workouts so there is definitely time in my day for 2.
So now, I'm going to be honest about the next 4 weeks. I won't stick to the ED but nor am I going to go crazy and undo everything. It is not that I cannot stay ED in France and Italy. It is that I choose not to. So I'm going to work at it but not 100% of the time. I will do at least 2 workouts a day and I will come back no larger than I am now.
When I'm back I'm going to set my inch loss goals. I think the sensible thing then would be to do ED again and add the eliminated foods back in properly so I can evaluate their place in my diet.
I'll keep in touch when I can but I may well be off for the whole four weeks.
and the final results are:
Chest now 35” down 2 1/2”
Waist (at navel) now 31 1/2” down 3 1/2
Hips now 39 1/2” down 2 1/2
Left thigh now 24” down 1 1/2
Right thigh now 24 1/2” down 1 1/2
Left calf now 15 3/4” down 1/2
Right calf now 15 1/2” down 1/2
Left arm now 12 3/8” down 1 5/8
Right arm now 11 7/8” down 2 1/8
That's a final tally of 13 1/2 lbs and 16 inches.
Photos in a separate post
Monday 20 July 2009
Monday
Well, I've learned that even if I stick religiously to the ED, our carb cycle and Eat stop Eat, over four days with no exercise I will start to undo the good I have done. They are only tiny gains but cautionary.
Monday (loss/gain (sniff) since Thursday) [loss since start]
weight 168.5 (+1) [-10.5]
chest 35 (same) [-2.5]
waist 32.25 (+0.25) [-2.75]
hips 39.5 (-0.25) [-2.5]
L thigh 24.25 (same) [-1.25]
R thigh 24.5 (same) [-1.5]
L calf 15.625 (+0.25) [-0.375]
R calf 15.5 (same) [-0.5]
L arm 12.375 (same) [-1.625]
R arm 11.875 (same) [-2.125]
TOTAL (+0.25) [15 1/8]
I managed pilates this morning and an adapted power circuit workout this afternoon (down from 86 reps to 50 but it's better than none) and replaced the back arching walkout with a pilates cat (or 10). Got my heart rate up and I feel energised for it. Will see what I can do tomorrow morning before the osteo. I definitely feel less broken.
Have enjoyed my treats today: yoghurt with berries and tomatoes with my nuts at snack time. I even found some brown rice sushi. Since when did a treat not involve chocolate or sugar? One final fast tomorrow and the final weigh in on Wednesday.
Monday (loss/gain (sniff) since Thursday) [loss since start]
weight 168.5 (+1) [-10.5]
chest 35 (same) [-2.5]
waist 32.25 (+0.25) [-2.75]
hips 39.5 (-0.25) [-2.5]
L thigh 24.25 (same) [-1.25]
R thigh 24.5 (same) [-1.5]
L calf 15.625 (+0.25) [-0.375]
R calf 15.5 (same) [-0.5]
L arm 12.375 (same) [-1.625]
R arm 11.875 (same) [-2.125]
TOTAL (+0.25) [15 1/8]
I managed pilates this morning and an adapted power circuit workout this afternoon (down from 86 reps to 50 but it's better than none) and replaced the back arching walkout with a pilates cat (or 10). Got my heart rate up and I feel energised for it. Will see what I can do tomorrow morning before the osteo. I definitely feel less broken.
Have enjoyed my treats today: yoghurt with berries and tomatoes with my nuts at snack time. I even found some brown rice sushi. Since when did a treat not involve chocolate or sugar? One final fast tomorrow and the final weigh in on Wednesday.
Sunday 19 July 2009
Sunday - 2 days to go
Dax Moy's 30 lbs in 30 days challenge
I'm hanging in there. Still no exercise to speak of today - back twinges at random moments and I really want to be totally fit when we go on holiday at the end of the week. I got the foam roller out yesterday and found some tight spots round my mid to lower back. I managed to release them a bit and repeated today so it is looking better but still a way off 100%.
I've got my regular pilates session first thing tomorrow so I'm hoping that between us we can loosen me off enough to do something later in the day. I fear I may be becoming exercise addicted.
Food today was good - smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast. Then had lunch out, green salad and a delicious raw cabbage salad with a salmon and mackerel terrine thing which was as close to ED friendly protein as I could get. Supper was our usual Sunday night roast chicken but with cauliflower for a change - not my favourite vegetable: too bland so I really craved the potatoes that the rest of the family had but I held out. Tomorrow is a carb day which is great, the fridge is full of berries and there are some lovely tomatoes waiting for me too.
I'm hanging in there. Still no exercise to speak of today - back twinges at random moments and I really want to be totally fit when we go on holiday at the end of the week. I got the foam roller out yesterday and found some tight spots round my mid to lower back. I managed to release them a bit and repeated today so it is looking better but still a way off 100%.
I've got my regular pilates session first thing tomorrow so I'm hoping that between us we can loosen me off enough to do something later in the day. I fear I may be becoming exercise addicted.
Food today was good - smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast. Then had lunch out, green salad and a delicious raw cabbage salad with a salmon and mackerel terrine thing which was as close to ED friendly protein as I could get. Supper was our usual Sunday night roast chicken but with cauliflower for a change - not my favourite vegetable: too bland so I really craved the potatoes that the rest of the family had but I held out. Tomorrow is a carb day which is great, the fridge is full of berries and there are some lovely tomatoes waiting for me too.
Saturday 18 July 2009
Saturday - still on the bench
Not much to say for myself. The back is a little better but not much. I have managed some pilates and now I'm off to try the foam roller. My self diagnosis is that I have tight muscles in my back and hamstrings which are pulling me out of alignement and that's was causing the pain, so while I wait to see the bone cracker osteo I'm doing everything I can to loosen up. If tomorow my back improves again I might try the first few moves of the Power Circuit. Probably only the 20 reps we started with at the beginning, not the 84 I had got up to.
I have been concerned since I hurt my back that I would find it hard to get back into the exercise when it is sorted - particularly as we go on holiday on Thursday. I have had great results on this programme and my target is another two incles off waist and hips. If magically I could stop the weight loss off my chest that would be good :-). So I shall be taking some advice from Dax about how to go on from here. I am determined to reach this goal, and to find the way to live (eat and exercise) which means I am never back up where I have been. I feel so in tune with that goal that I know I will get back to the exercises as soon as I am passed fit.
I have been concerned since I hurt my back that I would find it hard to get back into the exercise when it is sorted - particularly as we go on holiday on Thursday. I have had great results on this programme and my target is another two incles off waist and hips. If magically I could stop the weight loss off my chest that would be good :-). So I shall be taking some advice from Dax about how to go on from here. I am determined to reach this goal, and to find the way to live (eat and exercise) which means I am never back up where I have been. I feel so in tune with that goal that I know I will get back to the exercises as soon as I am passed fit.
Friday 17 July 2009
Friday evening
Well I'm feeling much better but it has been really strange doing no workouts at all today. The same thing happened yesterday though - by the evening I felt much better but a night of limited mobility meant that I had seized up again in the morning. I'll have to see how tomorrow goes. I'm hoping that I'll be up to some gentle pilates movements. I'm not getting to an osteopath til Tuesday which is a real bore. If I start to feel much better before then I'll have to trust myself...hmm
I managed to stay on the fast - I took one ibuprofen this morning and then my dad gave me a massage with some ibuprofen gel this afternoon and that saw me through until after dinner.
I was starving by the time we ate - I don't think my dinner of chicken curry and green beans even hit the sides. I know I kept eating long after I had had enough. Think it was just the boredom - not eaten all day and not enough else to distract me. I'll have to chalk that one up to experience but if I do Eat Stop Eat again after the end of 30 in 30 I'll have to make sure I control that impulse. Its the first time I've done that since the programme started. Every other time I've eaten I have stopped myself when I have had enough. In fact that has been one of the joys, realising that I can stop eating.
In my misery this morning I realised that I did not post my results from yesterday morning (here's hoping enforced idleness doesn't undo it all):
(loss since Monday) [total loss]
weight 167.5 (-1) [-11.5]
chest 35 (same) [-2.5]
waist 32 (same) [-3]
hips 39.75 (-0.25) [-2.25]
L thigh 24.25 (-0.25) [-1.25]
R thigh 24.5 (-0.5) [-1.5]
L calf 15.375 (same) [-0.625]
R calf 15.5 (+0.125) [-0.5] - weird that gain!
L arm 12.375 (-0.125) [-1.625]
R arm 11.875 (-0.125) [-2.125]
TOTAL INCH LOSS (-1 1/8) 15 3/8
Well that's it. I'm off for an early night
I managed to stay on the fast - I took one ibuprofen this morning and then my dad gave me a massage with some ibuprofen gel this afternoon and that saw me through until after dinner.
I was starving by the time we ate - I don't think my dinner of chicken curry and green beans even hit the sides. I know I kept eating long after I had had enough. Think it was just the boredom - not eaten all day and not enough else to distract me. I'll have to chalk that one up to experience but if I do Eat Stop Eat again after the end of 30 in 30 I'll have to make sure I control that impulse. Its the first time I've done that since the programme started. Every other time I've eaten I have stopped myself when I have had enough. In fact that has been one of the joys, realising that I can stop eating.
In my misery this morning I realised that I did not post my results from yesterday morning (here's hoping enforced idleness doesn't undo it all):
(loss since Monday) [total loss]
weight 167.5 (-1) [-11.5]
chest 35 (same) [-2.5]
waist 32 (same) [-3]
hips 39.75 (-0.25) [-2.25]
L thigh 24.25 (-0.25) [-1.25]
R thigh 24.5 (-0.5) [-1.5]
L calf 15.375 (same) [-0.625]
R calf 15.5 (+0.125) [-0.5] - weird that gain!
L arm 12.375 (-0.125) [-1.625]
R arm 11.875 (-0.125) [-2.125]
TOTAL INCH LOSS (-1 1/8) 15 3/8
Well that's it. I'm off for an early night
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