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Good beginnings

The first week back at work is over and finally the jet lag seems to have receded. Along with the return to work came a return to the low carb diet that had been so successful 18 months ago.

In the intervening time I’ve put on about 8lb, and am determined to shift these and a stone more. So out go the pies and chips and chocolate and in comes the protein and salad. So far, so good and I don’t feel too hungry. The plan is to do this for 2 weeks as strictly as possible,  then to start some light exercise. I already feel much better for eating healthily. Cutting the majority of sugar out of my diet definitely suits my body and helps with my Polycystic Ovaries. Taking up some exercise is also going to improve this.

I’m planning to keep the exercise and a weight-losing carb maintenance plan going until mid-March. I should then be able to get a view on how much I’ve lost and how far there is to go. And then have a few days being a bit more relaxed while I swan around in New York celebrating my belated 10-year wedding anniversary.

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My clothes don’t fit!

Clearly I’ve not been very good at keeping my blog updated, but in my defence I can’t believe how quickly the last 11 weeks have gone by!

The biggest news is that I’ve lost 17lb.  17lb fecking pound! Amazing! I’ve been following a no/lo carb food plan (with special allowance for a dash of cranberry in my Cosmoplitan!).  It has actually been really easy and I don’t think of it as being on a diet at all.  It’s now just the way I eat. Cutting out sugar and heavy carbs has had a great effect, and I’ve definitely dropped about 1.5 dress sizes all over, most noticeably on my legs and bum. So much so that I’m finding that lots of my clothes are looking too big, which is a nice problem to have but could get expensive!

I thought it would be harder to limit the foods that I love – especially potatoes – but the key is to make sure you make everything you eat super-tasty. Roast dinner used to include loads of roast tatties and yorkshire puds, but now I make sure we have extra-tasty veg and a ‘special’ gravy.

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Being quite overweight to start with, I still have some way to go to where I want to be, but I’m happy for it to be a slow process. I think I’m losing around a 1lb a week on average and that’s fine if I can keep that up – it means I’ll have another stone off at least by the time I go on holiday at Christmas. The weight took a long time to go on so it figures it will take a while to come off, and due to a medical condition it might be a bit slower than on someone else anyway. Of course, the thing that will accelerate it is stepping up my sporadic trips to the gym into something more resembling an actual exercise regime…and maybe not having quite so many cocktails 😉

 

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Time for change

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So, after much prevaricating, the time has come to try to do something about losing weight.

This is the first week of the low carb eating plan and it’s been interesting so far! I think I’m doing OK with the food and the hunger pangs, though my craving for something sweet is driving me a bit mad. And I haven’t quite given up the alcohol fully – a work-do-thing midweek made that difficult, so I’m easing into that one next week 🙂

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