Day 18 - Absence

Absence makes the heart grow fatter

Well it has been a few days since a post hasn't it? There is a reason for this lack of updates, besides occasionally wanting to retain a small amount of privacy, and that reason is quite simple

I'm doing just fine in my overall goal.

I haven't touched chocolate since Day 5 almost 2 weeks ago and, Other than a minor "Glitch" a few days ago when I ate an entire tub of Ben and Jerry's "Vermonster" ice cream (It's content has no chocolate and it's name makes no sense) I've eaten basically no desert either...everything is going swimmingly.

As for the calorie counting...that has not gone to plan. I am currently smacking my lips and reliving the flavour of the curry I just inhaled, and I know that I've already eaten more than my fair share of calories for today; but I don't care, because there is a good reason why my plan may have to be delayed a few weeks.

I have a new job, and I will soon be moving across the country - This is not a good time to be starving myself. Once I'm there it'll be back on the agenda but right now I'm looking forward to going away drinks, going away carvery s and stress-related midnight calls to dominos. 

It's all very exciting

But I thought you should know; Things are on track for my initial plan, i'm just not exceeding myself.

Yet.

 ~A

Day 15 - Yesterday

Better late than never

So yesterday I said I would update you guys on how I did with keeping to a set number of calories and then I just straight up didn't update anyone.

Oops

Anyway, the good news it that I kept below my goal of 1500 calories and had an efficient sum of 1448. Today I will probably see my number go slightly higher than 1500 as I'm having a family meal of fish and chips (with my family, not just to myself) and they can be greasy balls of goodness and fat.

That being said  - I have gone 8 days without chocolate and each day is getting easier and easier.

~A

Day 14 - Calorie counter

Numb3rs

So today is the first day of the rest of my life, and i'm going to be spending it studying the "information" on food packets. Yes, that's right, as promised yesterday today is the first day I'll be counting calories, regulating what heavily processed food alternative passes my lips and getting used to eating urine-sample-sized amounts of it.

The goal is to eat a net total of ~1500 calories a day, with the over-optimistic aim of losing 0.5kg (1.1 pounds) a week, so I am safe in the knowledge that I can eat 2500 calories a day if I want as long as I burn off 1000 calories at the gym

So far, I haven't eaten anything yet, so I can't really report on difficulty

Tonight, however, I'll have an update

See you then

~A