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Welcome to todays diary entry! After wildly over indulging whilst in Devon and Newquay once i got back i promised myself that i was going to lose some weight and for someone with a lack of self confidence the weight thing was becoming a bit of problem for. It is mainly my inability to control my portion size and to eat decent enough food. Lisa has been a diets and stuff but what makes it extremely difficult is if one person is on it and the other person isn’t on it. I have always been of the eat what you want but run 5k a day but time at the moment doesn’t allow for the 5k a day.
Although that never impacted my ability to eat whatever i want so i have really made a conscious effort to start eating better and eating less or at least eating eating less over more meals. I have always been a grazer but i have started eating 4 smaller meals a day one at 7am which tends to be something like porridge, then an early dinner about 11, 3pm and final meal about 7pm. We have also started doing meal plans and working out what we are going to eat and when. There have been times when we have spent £200 a week on shopping followed by £100 a week on take aways as well despite having food in.
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So the benefit of this little exercise is 2 fold which is it has allowed us to eat healthier and bring our shopping budget down to under £150 a week and also cut out the take aways which has definitely helped as well. I have an active job so it doesn’t need to be 5k a day as i probably do 10k steps anyway just pottering around. But so far i have lost 11lbs which i am well chuffed with. I did mention to the Dodge that whilst he was away i was going to try and lose 1/2 stone and i have already smashed that.
My end result is to get down to 15 and 1/2 stone if i had to put a number on it but if it was number dependent my target is 1 chin as when i cut my beard short there is definitely a 2nd one that has been sneaking in. I am in no rush to lose it all though but if i could get to Morocco and be less than 16stone i would be absolutely over the moon. I just have to be in the frame of mind for it, once i am focused on something then i cannot be stopped i just have to realize i need to do something about it.
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