Guideon's diary of change

Hmm change of plan...
Terrible night, was awake alomst all night (thinking/worrying about everything and anything) so decided it would be better to take advantage of the little sleep I could get, instead of working out in the morning, and probaby being exhausted all day @work.
So double-day has been postponed until tomorrow :)
Tonight HIIT, tomorrow morning weighttraining and tomorrow afternoon running.
 
Thoughts keeping you awake at night plagued me for roughly 15 years. If it becomes regular it can just be awful. It was at least somewhat indirectly responsible for a lot of my weight gain.

Looks like the exercise portion of the plan is going well though.
 
Yeah it is going pretty well exercise-wise.
Nutritionally I tend to mess up sometimes (specially in a social setting), but I'm happy with what the exercise is giving me.
Feeling almost as good as I did when I was a youngster, playing defense in a youth soccerteam :)
Since I stopped playing soccer I think I've never been as fit as I am today, even with the excess weight I'm still carrying.

Laying awake for almost all night is something I get once every few months, for some reason...
All of a suddden I can worry about the tiniest of things, that'll keep me awake for hours on end.

Finger crossed I'm that tired tonight that I'm asleep when my head hits the pillow, so I can double-day tomorrow
 
I know how you feel with the sleep. I'm an anxious person but can go all day without feeling it and then as soon as I get into bed it starts! Hope you sleep better tonight xx
 
Thanks Sunny, I did sleep a lot better last night.

So glad I didn't do a HIIT yesterday morning. Did that last night and boy was I sweating. If I had done that in the morning I would be sweating all morning at work :O
This morning I did a P90X resistance workout (chest shoulders & triceps).
Running training after work, and an ab workout after that (didn't do that this morning).
 
Running tonight...
Did intervals again, 6 x 5 mins, with 1,5 min walkingintervals in between.
7.3 km's total in 37,5 mins.
 
Thanks :)

weigh-in this morning: 204,0 lbs.
Creeping towards that 200 mark.

Started a calorie count again on my food intake, didn't do that for a while. The thought behind that was: I know what to eat, and I can't keep counting forever.
But it's time to get a closer look at my diet, there's something to be won there for sure.
 
5 more lbs to goooo til 199! I will catch you up :p


How's the calorie counting going? Are you going to post what you're having on here? I love seeing what everyone else is eating. :piggy: Gives me ideas!
 
On the calorie counting, what I found from doing it pretty rigorously for four months is that after a while you get a very good sense of how many calories are in the various foods you eat all the time just by looking at it.

Probably the best way long term is to get that down initially so that you know pretty close to what you should eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Then have a few "refresher" days of accurate counting every once in a while when you get the sense you might be cheating a bit. This will keep you on track without the sense that you'll be obsessively tracking calories every day forever.
 
You'd better catch up Sun :D

Calorie count today: 2135.
Little bit on the high side, but still very much below my maintenance count. Forget to pack my snacks this morning so I had to use some of my packed lunch as snacks and buy lunch at the restaurant at work, which always means unhealtier found than packed lunch.
So I won't forget to pack my snacks again. It upped the calorie count by 250 - 300 calories at least.

Today I had:
Bowl of cereal at breakfast
Snack: sandwich
Lunch: two pistolet rolls with boiled egg and (very bad) a croquette
Snack: sandwich
Dinner: chickenpasta salad and fruit yoghurt
Late night snack: muesli bar
Drank 3 mugs of coffe, 2,5 litres of water and a bottle of sportsdrink (500 ml, after my insanity workout)

I know what's in my meals I prepare myself, I've been doing this long enough to know that.
But it's like you said MrVee, just doing this again for a while to see if I'm honest with myself :)

Feelgood moment of the week: today at work, two female coworkers (from different departments than mine) did sort of a double-take before going: Are you losing weight again? You're looking good. :biggrinjester:
 
*stalks food*

Good job on all the water--I've been trying to have 3 litres but I end up having like 20 toilet breaks at work and everyone thinks I'm a bit funny :p Awesome about the compliments, you must be looking good!
 
I'm looking a hell of a lot better than some years ago and since I've been working here for a quite a while now, most ppl here knew me allready when I was fat.
Still have the occasional pic of me grosely overweight.
Will post one of those besides a current one when I work up the courage to do that ;)
 
Another double-day done.
This morning weighttraining, this afternoon running.
Did my first full 5k this afternoon :)
So I guess I ran a personal best today:
5k in 23 min 13 sec
avg speed of 12,9 km/h

Pretty pleased with that, since I'm only running for 3 weeks now.
 
Thanks Don

so now for the food part.
not very much variation in comparison with yesterday:

Breakfast: bowl of cereal and a slice of wholewheatbread with bologna (well not exactly bologna, but it's not always easy to translate specific kinds of local foods into english, but you sort of get the idea)
Snack: Mueslibar
Lunch: 3 slices of wholewheatbread with again some sort of bologna and cheese and a bowl of soup
Snack: mueslibar
Dinner: Pasta salad (leftovers from yesterday) but this time with tuna. Sidedish: small cucumbersalad
Dessert: soft curd cheese
Evening Snack: dried fruit bar and one beer.

Ttoal calories: 2020
 
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