OK so I put on a few pounds/kgs over Christmas & New Year period - kind of normal if you know me - I tend to make the most of the good food and good company that comes with the holiday season :-)
Xmas 2020 brought a bit of drizzle and cloud in Christchurch - now that would be ok if you only had your immediate family of four to celebrate with. Fortunately for me (or unfortunately depending on your point of view) 4 is the number of kids I have. Add my parents, brother's family, aunties, their kids and the grandkiddies well.. you can see the numbers start to add up and well lets just say, I didn't fancy the idea of hosting 50 odd people in my humble 3 bedroom, 1 toilet house :-) The plan for Xmas was to have a family BBQ and games at The Groynes - a beautiful local park in Belfast, Christchurch that has free gas BBQs that you can use to cook food on and nice green scenery, river walks, dog park and space for the family to run around. The rain that day meant we had to cancel the BBQ at the park, however, we were lucky enough to have BBQ at a local college and the kids enjoyed themselves playing games in the school gym.
Anyways....add on a few weeks of leisurely eating, sleeping and watching TV later...it seems I've put on some weight (wow, no kidding I hear you say). Hence New Year resolution (one of them anyways): Lose weight to get under 100kg. I went to the gym yesterday to weigh myself, because working out seemed to stress my brain out - I am currently at 110.5kg. Now the method of losing the weight I've chosen to use, which many people will be aware of, is intermittent fasting. What is intermittent fasting?
Well, put basically, its intentionally not eating food for a certain period of time. For me, I've chosen to intentionally not eat (ie. fasting) for 16 hours (not eating food from 8pm at night, until 12pm the next day). That means I can eat food during an 8 hour period, in my case, between 12pm-8pm. During my fasting period, I can still drink black coffee and water (aim to drink at least 2 litres of water per day). I'm also aiming to exercise first thing in the mornings (lets see how long that lasts) for at least 30 mins, even if its just a walk around the block. When it comes to eating - just eating smaller portions of healthier foods - I'm a terrible junk food eater normally so this will be the hardest part of the plan as it is not unusual for me to go out and buy takeaways or a packet of large chips every day...so yeah, looking forward to not only losing weight but feeling healthier inside and out :-) Looking forward to posting updates here about how the journey goes this year
Thats enough from me for now - but a pic of me and my ratbags to finish with..
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