finally it's time for me to explain my nutrition logic for this transformation. i am not eating six meals a day, i keep things balanced and include periodic short term fasting.
Years ago after giving up on a quest to lose weight i was drowning my sorrows at McDonald's. it was just about the time that Super Size Me was being watched by everyone so you can see how low i was.
McD's had introduced nutritional information on their place mats to counter the idea that people didn't know what they were eating. while stuffing my face i realised that the Big Mac i was eating contained 500 calorie. this gave me the idea that if i had one big mac for breakfast, lunch and dinner i would only consume 1,500 calories per day. I truly believe that this would result in massive weight loss (but is probably not easy to do).
years later i was living overseas on my own with the family due to join in a few months. i was living in a hotel with the standard breakfast buffet - my worst enemy. so i decided to put the principle of the Big Mac diet into practise. Each morning i would make sure i had a breakfast of 500 calorie with a little of everything - toast for carbs, bacon and egg for protein and fat, oj to wash it down (but only 500 calories). Some days it was even hard to eat 500 but i stuck to it.
For lunch it didn't matter who i was with or where i was i just made sure i had 500 calorie only, sometimes leaving half a plate of food behind. Then at night same thing, if i was late home with limited options then I'd have.......... a Big Mac.
Now if i slipped up and ate too much, or often if i had a client meeting that required drinking or just a big night on the town it was a problem. i countered this by skipping meals the following day, small slip up no breakfast, big slip up no lunch also (always felt that this worked but it went against what we are told)
AND IT WORKED!
I lost a lot of weight and actually felt great. when the family joined me they were amazed by the change (although very small by current standards). of course i didn't keep it up and put it all on and more. later i lost some again with Atkins etc.
So now I'm back to the Big Mac concept - although i haven't been to McD's in all this time the 500 rule it what i stick to. i keep it as whole and healthy as possible. I've now added Eat Stop Eat to the programme which i like and i think will really help once i return to more normal eating habits and alcohol next month.
given the amount of exercise i do i haven't lost as much weight as I'd like but i have lost steadily for 8 weeks:
16-Mar 110.5 KGS 243.1 lbs
23-Mar 109.5 KGS 240.9 lbs
30-Mar 108 KGS 237.6 lbs
06-Apr 106.5 KGS 234.3 lbs
13-Apr 104.5 KGS 229.9 lbs
20-Apr 103.2 KGS 227.04 lbs
27-Apr 102.2 KGS 224.84 lbs
04-May 101.8 KGS 223.96 lbs
11-May 101.2 KGS 222.64 lbs
in reality my consumption is higher than 1,500 calories but the ESE brings it back in check. some say 1,500 is too low, i disagree.
What do you think?
No comments:
Post a Comment