Amazing Weight Loss
This week was to be the first serious week of training, but as with all best laid plans it went belly up. My wife and daughter have been ill all week (flu and conjunctivitis respectively) which means I have been totally unable to train as I have not been at work I have been 'on-call' for both of them. I have heard professional sports people say that being competitive at the highest level means you have to be selfish, and I concede that if I had gone on with my training as planned, that would have been a selfish act in the circumstances. Perhaps it's just as well that I am not a professional sportsman then.
But, like all true heroes (ahem) I like to turn a negative into a positive and this week I was able to maintain the dietary changes I had planned to make and this has reaped rewards in the form of some excellent weight loss. Last week, you may remember, I weighed in at 97kg. This week I now weigh 94.8kg, which is a total loss of 2.2kg. Not bad for some easy changes.
The Secret To Amazing Weight Loss
'What changes are you making?' I hear you ask. Well, I have been following the principles laid out in Timothy Ferriss's book The Four-Hour Body, which is not only about weight-loss but also covers aspects of fitness and performance. I have used these methods before, so I know they work. It's just a case of sticking to it, which I have found overall, quite easy as the nutritional guide includes a weekly 'cheat' day, which is today for me. I was doing what Tim calls the Slow Carb Diet before Christmas but slowly dropped each and every principle on the lead up to and during and after the festive period. The Slow Carb Diet , as you might expect, does have some similarities to the Atkins Low Carb Diet, which also worked very well for me a few years ago. I still had some good weight loss but towards the end this petered out, and this weeks result is superior to anything I achieved last time around. I think this is down to the fact that I have not compromised. The principle is simple, but in practice finding replacements for bread, rice and pasta can be a challenge. Beans and lentils are the answer. With a few eggs thrown in too. Eggs are actually very important, for breakfast Tim recommends eating two eggs within 30 minutes of waking. I have done that this week and can confirm that it works.
So I hope to build on this good start and get some good training runs in before next week.
PS. I did book my place on the Bradford 10k this week.
