The Beginning
Day One – ok, let
us try to make a start on the whole dark art of “losing weight”. First things first, your body is made up on
many things, and the weight that you weigh on the scales is the total sum of
that – so we need to be smarter in our desire to change body shape, by listing
it all. Guys, please use chest measurements in the same position as the "Bust 1 and 2" :)
Date
|
Total
Weight
|
Bust
1 Fullest part
|
Bust
2 Under bust
|
Waist
1 narrowest part
|
Waist
2 across belly button
|
Hips
1 on hip bones
|
Hips
2 widest part of bottom
|
Thigh
1 top
|
Thigh
2 middle part
|
So, fill in the details – you can measure and weigh either
all metric or all imperial. Repeat this every week.
Secondly, we need to remove temptation.....interestingly, a
study showed that if there was a box of biscuits on your desk, you would keep
eating each time you saw them, you ate less if they were on the desk across the
room, and even less if they were in the cupboard out of sight.
So, step one, is
to remove from your view all of the calorie-laden-no-nutritional-value stuff
that we like to pick on when feeling fed up/bored/L’Oreal advert (cos I deserve
it moment)........ Even more interesting is the
psychological study done on “wanting” something...so, if there were 2 jars of
biscuits, one with only 2 “special” biscuits in that you were not allowed to
eat, the other full to the top with biscuits, us humans, would crave to have
the “special” biscuits...and would sometimes even reject the normal biscuits!
So, be aware. So don’t be surprised if you crave the thing “you can’t have”. It is like being dumped by your beau ...you will be pining for them.
Be kind to yourself – distraction techniques work to a certain extent so phone a friend, take a bath go for a walk
etc etc.
Please,
allow yourself a treat at least once a week, but make sure that you exercise
the total quantity of the item (s) you wish to consume on that day (and in
addition to your other exercise).
However, if we do eat things that are close to hand, please make sure
that you have a bowl of fruit somewhere obvious where you will walk past and
pick one up, that you have a bowl of chopped veg in the fridge right in front
of you as you open the door (put in as many colourful veg that you can – peas
in their pods, green beans, red or yellow peppers, radish, cherry tomatoes,
carrot sticks etc). Nuts and seeds are
also good for trace minerals, so a tub of them (with a lid on so that you don’t
eat too many...) out on your kitchen top.
The third and final bit of day one will be to do some
exercise. We know that even a single bout of exercise can immediately change
the level of fat swimming around your body, and that repeated bouts of exercise
will let you access your fat stores quicker and for a longer. So, wake up your
body’s fat burning potential by doing some exercise – the good bit is that it
can be anything, as long as you enjoy it – and try for at least 30 mins.
Day One Summary
- Weigh and measure
- Remove all temptation that will encourage hips from hell and replace with heavenly hips temptations...
- Kit-kat workout – work out how much exercise for a treat and burn it off before you get it.
- Exercise for at least 30 minutes
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