Long time, no see.
Howdy all,
It’s been a heck of a while since I last wrote in this space. University work was the main priority in recent weeks. The great news is that its all finished for another year until September. The focus now is financial and bodily well-being.
Health
My last post talked about getting myself into better shape. With the workload I’ve had, I’ve admittedly let that slide in the past month. There are no reasons for not achieving my goals now. After tomorrows epic road trip and birthday celebration for a close friend, we get serious.
The bi-weekly weigh-ins, as suggested in my previous post, will be my way of tracking my results to the world. It’s going to be a lot more detailed than I first proposed however, using tape measurements as well as weight measurements. Those will be put up on Tuesday when it all starts.
The “Slow Carb Diet” will be followed for my sustenance throughout the week. It hardly seems taxing bar cutting out bread, and has in the vast amount of cases documented worked well as a way to lose fat tissue without killing your body’s muscle tissue at the same time. It seems many have made this diet more of a lifestyle change than a diet cycle per se. I will of course keep the world updated as to how this works out for me along with the exercise programme I’ll be following.
Diet and Exercise
As many university undergraduates that live away from home, my weight has seen a great change from when I started in September 2009 to where I am right now. As I recall when I measured and weighed myself before university (knowing that things would change for better or worse) I was just barely over 6 feet tall and weighed in at around 12 and a half stone (probably just under). Summer 2010 saw the low of my life in this regard weighing in at just over a whopping 14 stone.
The fact is copious amounts of alcohol my body just wasn’t used to and my lack of ability and energy to learn to cook (thus eating a lot of fast food) saw the inevitable happen. There were no excuses, it took a toll on me before I even knew it was a problem.
Since then I have lost a stone and a half (back to my original weight) and put on 3 or 4 more pounds in the recent weeks (due to workload and a recent bout of nights out).
I’ve never felt more happier with myself knowing that I can lose the weight when I felt it right to. It wasn’t as if I completely changed my life, stopped drinking and stopped with the fast food - I still do and adore those things. But when I dont, I make sure to exercise at the gym at least two days a week for an hour or so and to eat healthy afterwards. Sometimes I would do more than this, sometimes less. I never took it seriously or in any sort of regimented way until this point.
But I’ve decided as of tomorrow a true diet and exercise plan will be now put into action. It starts with substituting any lunchtime meal with a protein shake as well as taking one after any exercise I do. The theory behind this is to shed whatever fat I can in the easiest way possible and keep my consumption of it down to minimum and to help repair muscles after any weights at the gym. Any fast food or nights out MUST be followed by a gym session the day after to make sure I do not absorb any more fat than I already have to. Four gym sessions are now the target for each week with at least 25 minutes of cardio.
I just want to see how well I can do it, and how far the results can go. The gym has definitely produced more definition and size in my muscles (especially arms and chest).
So the current size and weight is:
- Height: 6 foot, 2 Inches (I don’t know when I’ll stop growing. Hopefully before I can’t fit in any car)
- Weight: 12 stone, 10 pounds
I will let you know of the results on a bi-weekly basis. Weight-loss is not a particular necessity (bar maybe the couple of pounds I’ve put on in the recent months) as I want to add to my muscle mass. But, I do expect to see my weight drop for the first couple of weigh ins.
