Eating out when you’re on a diet can be a challenge. It’s one of the reasons why I find the low carb diet to be easier to follow than others that I’d tried in the past. I’m not going to pretend that I can control what I’m eating perfectly when I eat out, but when […]
For the past few weeks I’ve been having issues with clothes. Not all clothes I guess, but with my trousers mostly. Trousers that used to fit me reasonably well no longer do. It’s not simply a matter of them being a little loose around the waste but more a case of them being held on […]
A couple of days ago I wrote about the challenges, both real and imagined, of sticking to a low carb diet over Christmas. It wasn’t easy, but I behaved myself most of the time. Yes I probably had a few glasses of wine too many and I might have consumed more carbs than normal, but […]
I’ve been a smoker for years. Many years. Over the past year I’ve cut down quite a bit. Since I moved into my new house I haven’t been smoking inside at all. It’s a smoke free zone. I still smoke of course, but I tend to smoke more when I’m “out and about” than I […]
This Christmas I’ve been with family. It’s been nice. Mostly. What’s been hard at times is the food. Trying to “behave” and stick to any kind of diet over the Christmas period is far from easy. It’s as if the entire Christmas season is designed to tempt you. Everywhere you turn there are calorie rich […]
I haven’t posted an update on my progress for a while. So here it is. Total weight lost to date: 13.1 kg. That’s 28.88 lb or 2.06 stone. I’ve still got a long way to go. The graph I pulled from MyFitnessPal shows how much my weight oscillates over time: The first section of the […]
I’ve been on this diet for over 2 months now. So far I’ve lost over 10kg, which isn’t bad going, but I know I need to lose quite a bit more. Actually a LOT more. But how much weight I need to lose and how quickly I need to lose it isn’t really an issue. […]
