This Weather Is Playing Havoc With My Fat Loss
I’m off work all this week and over the weekend I was really bad diet wise I went out on Friday night for quite a few calorie laden drinks and I finished the night off with a 12 inch meaty pizza with chips. Saturday and Sunday were not much better neither, Saturday night we went round to a friends house were I drank two bottles of wine and an Indian takeaway meal which consisted of a keema naan bread, poppadoms, tandoori mixed starter and a chicken tikka massala with keema rice. As we all know Indian food is absolutely laden in calories. On Sunday morning I woke up with a slight hangover, so to make myself feel better I made myself a full fry up which consisted of bacon, sausages, eggs and lots of toast.
The weather here in the UK isn’t helping neither, its been snowing on and off for the last 4 days, which is not doing my motivational to go in the gym any good at all. I’m really happy to tell you I’ve been getting well wrapped up and hitting the gym. I really need to at the moment, though because the amount of calories that I’m consuming at the minute is ridiculous.
I really want to drop some more body fat before the end of 2009, so that I can finish the year off with a bang, but my social life and the weather is really eating into my fat loss progress. My home gym is located in my wooden shed in the back garden. Which is like a cold room, once you get in there it just seems to never warm up. Even when I put on the small heaters in there. Here’s a picture of outside my home gym today, answer me this would you like to go in there and complete a workout session. Or would you rather stay inside the house drinking a cup of hot coffee watching Christmas TV with the fire on.
I’m pleased to tell you that I’ve chosen the gym every time so far, but it does seem to be getting harder and harder for me to stay motivated with the weather being so cold. I would seriously consider joining a gym, but all the best gyms were I live make you join for 12 months. Which is something I don’t need. I just need a membership for 3 to 4 months until the cold weather go’s. then I’m OK to go back into my home gym. My gym is brilliant because it has got everything I need to get a fantastic workout, it’s just the place its located at which is the problem at the moment.
My Social Life Is Slowing Down My Fat Loss
I have not stepped onto my body fat scales for over two weeks now, the main reason is because I’m scared at what I will see staring back at me. Over the past two weeks I have really had a blowout on food and booze. I was in Vegas for one week and almost every meal was an eat as much as you like buffet. I definately got my moneys worth from each buffet. Eating lots of foods and cakes at each sitting. Whilst in Vegas though I did manage to get in 3 one hour gym sessions at the hotels gym. Which I’m glad I did otherwise my weight gain would be even more.
Over the weekend one of my friends was getting married, so we went out on Friday night to celebrate is last night of freedom. Again I drank lots of calorie laden booze and finished the night off with even more calories by going for an Indian meal. On the night of the wedding I again drank loads of booze and ate way more food than I should of done at the buffet. It didn’t end there on Sunday I went out for a chinese and went for a macdonalds. All in all my social life is definately getting in the way of me reaching my goal of 10% body fat before the end of 2009.
I must learn how to still have a good social life and still move forward with my fat loss. It’s only a few days away from my next weekly weigh in and I will be very surprised if I’m weighing under 205 pounds. I must of put on at least 7 pounds over the last two weeks. Apart of me is saying why not do the 3 day tuna and water diet to quickly lose those excess pounds. But it’s just too soon since I did the last one. That diet plan is only going to be used in extreme circumstances. I’m proud of myself exercise wise because I haven’t missed a workout yet. It just the eating side of things which is slowing my progress down.
Before I went to Vegas I had a massive body fat percentage drop, probably my biggest of 2009. But the bright lights of vegas and all that delicious food and booze was just too hard to SAY NO to. Another reason why I’ve also been bad is me being lazy again, I should of gone to the supermarket for foods that are in my diet plan. But no I’ve got no food in the house so guess what I been eating out at the works canteen and living on takeaway food for the past week. How stupid am I, I know what I need to do I just need to implement what I know into place. I’m going to florida in 15 weeks, so I’m going to use that trip as motivation to lose fat and get into the best shape that I can before I go.
Last Day Before I Get Back On Track With My Weight Loss
Today is going to be my last day before I get back on track with my weight loss and fat loss. Over the last 6 weeks my weight and body fat percentage has been going up and down. But if I’m to start moving forward again on my fat loss journey I MUST START EATING RIGHT AGAIN. My workouts are not a problem at the moment I’m sticking to them and generally enjoying working out. I’m like anyone though I do get bored of the same old workout program. That’s one of the reasons I purchased my Russian kettle bells to switch things up a bit and keep my workouts fun. I am really enjoying the kettle bells workout. Because it is hitting my core hard which is what I’m looking to do at the moment.
I went out for a meal last night with my dad, brother and girlfriend and yet again I stuffed my face with delicious tasting junk food. It’s Sunday morning now and as I’m sat here typing this I’m ready to give it my all again and lose as much fat as I can in the next 4 weeks ready for my trip to Las Vegas in July to watch UFC 100. I plan on having a big breakfast of sausages and bacon smoothed in my favorite brown sauce. I’m looking at it as my last big meal before I get strict and serious with my diet plan again.
At the moment I’m feeling a little down because of my fat loss progress I feel like at this point I should be at around 18% body fat. I’m just a few weeks short of the half way point on my journey. I started this journey at around 30% body fat, so at the half way point I should be at least 20% body fat. Looking at the results on my body fat chart this is looking highly unlikely. I’ve only got myself to blame for my bad results over the last few weeks. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. I’m still over 30 pounds lighter than I was at the beginning of 2009 and I’m only 5.2 pound heavier than my lightest weight so far this year. So if I put my mind to it I will quickly be down to this weight again in the next few weeks.
With so many temptations in Vegas I need to program my mind now to say no to them, otherwise when I return from Vegas all the hard work that I have put in over these next few weeks will be for nothing and that is definitely something that I do not want to happen. I’m going to write something down on a piece of paper by doing stuff like this it keeps me motivated. The only thing that is stopping me from achieving the body I’ve always wanted IS ME AND MY WILL POWER. If I can build up my will power and finally say no to my cravings I know I will succeed on what is becoming a very long and slow journey. Which I will keep recording on this weight loss blog, hopefully the blog posts over the next few weeks will be more positive.
