Battling the Blubber

Woohoo! 1.9kgs down in 3 weeks, I’m motoring away here and feeling very happy about it. At this rate I’ll be at wedding weight before our Wedding anniversary, that would be nice.

I’ve been a bit quiet this week because I fell off the wagon on Tuesday. I did not manage my fast at all. I had a bad day, I was doing fine until I got to my Greek lesson and realised I had forgotten my photograph. I had to come home, turn the house upside down because I couldn’t find my spares, and then walk back up. I got back there just as the lesson was ending.  By the time I got home I was shaking and dizzy. If I had been more on the ball I would have realised that a cup of tea would have been ample and I would have slept very well that night. Unfortunately in order to have tea I need to go to the shop for milk. This was my downfall, food was looking at me from every direction, even the shelf above the milk in the fridge held fat homemade sandwiches on triara (local village speciality) bread. I was officially done for. Anyone who knows me well will tell you that I LOVE bread, especially freshly baked speciality bread, so I have been purposefully avoiding the bak

Today began the transition into an active life. I’m starting slowly but I want to ensure that my TDEE is going to stay above 1900 because if I allow my metabolism to drop below that I know I will find it very difficult to keep the weight off once I have lost it. So far I have been working on the premise that I live a sedentary existence. At the start of this diet my lazy-arse TDEE was 2072 calories, easy enough to stick to on non-fast days and just over 500 calories on a fast day, but as the weight has slowly receded so has my TDEE I’m now at 1939 calories. That’s 133 calories I’ve shaved off my daily ‘normal’ intake in the space of 8 weeks. Admittedly it has been a gradual process and I haven’t noticed overly much but I think I might struggle to maintain a daily intake of 15-1600 which is what it would be if I don’t get a little bit active. I’m starting out slowly with some morning yoga and meditation, 40 minutes of Hatha yoga (that’s the slow and steady one) will u

There is however a downside... I only have a very limited cold/cool weather wardrobe, by Xmas time this year I will need an ENTIRE new winter wardrobe. The bad news goes even further. IF on this wonderful Way of Eating I manage to lose all of the extra weight I'm carrying around I will have to completely renew my wardrobe. I haven't done this in years, I'm still wearing flares (considering they have come back into fashion AGAIN you can tell how old they are). I have a pair of cargo pants I wore to my first Leeds Festival when I was 21 (Oh my, is it really almost 12 years ago?) and a size 14 cream lace dress from River Island that I'm desperately trying to get back into (I know the hubby wants me to get back into it ;-) ) I hate trying to replenish my wardrobe at the best of times because the styles I've adopted for myself over the past 15 years are so infrequently 'in fashion'. I hate, loathe and despise skinny jeans but for many shops (both online and h

Today I’ve had a really good day, the sun has been out, we’ve been for coffee and whiled away an hour in a coffee shop, did a little shopping and did some ad hoc working on our respective laptops before dinner, with a spot of Billy Connolly or Bill Bailey playing in the background. It has been a relaxed and very enjoyable day and another upside has been that I haven’t felt hungry. Other than my coffee (174 cals) I ate nothing until dinner. At which point I was very hungry and I over-faced myself with a plate full. Yesterday I had a “bad” day that is I went over my calorie allowance by 224 cals. I don’t consider this to be all that bad, I had under-eaten by a similar amount the day before and the reason I went over my calories was the consumption of a whole bottle of delicious red wine. I refuse to apologise for this because it happens very rarely and sometimes it’s fun to get slightly tipsy with my hubby.  I say I over-faced myself today but I have discovered a new an

My husband introduced me to homemade curry shortly after we met and the recipe I will include below is one of our favourites, it’s also the healthiest chicken curry it is possible to make. This is a very juicy curry and it will infuse your rice with the flavour without having to mix it all together. You won’t feel the slightest bit guilty for adding a naan to the mix if you really fancy it. Chicken & Tomato Balti – Serves 4 @ 254 calories per serving 1tbs        Olive oil                                                               6              Curry Leaves 1/4tsp    Mustard seeds                                                   1/4tsp    Onion seeds 8-10        Medium vine tomatoes, sliced                        1tsp        Ground Cumin 1 tsp       Chilli powder                                                      1 tsp      Ground Coriander 650g        Chicken breast,diced 100ml    Water – not usually necessary, it depends how juicy your to