New week, new diet
Remember the line diet I started at the beginning of the month? It is not going so well. The idea that each day I could eat anything I wanted except if my weight was above a certain digit (in which case I would only eat broccoli) did not work out. I would either eat too much and then too little and I do not enjoy the extremes. So it's back to eating slightly less and exercising slightly more, because it might be boring and slow but I know it works. I'm allowing myself 2000 calories per day, divided into six equal meals of low glycemic load eaten at three-hour intervals. It sounds clinical, but I have been doing it for a few days and I can assure you that it's yummy. It's based on musclehack.com GLAD diet, but I've reduced the number of calories to turn it from a muscle-building to a fat-busting regime. It is 1000 calories per day less than what I need to maintain my current weight, and it is expected to produce a weight loss of two pounds per week (each pound of fat corresponding to 3500 calories). My long-term objective is to be a healthy, steady weigh constantlyt, and to help me achieve that I am trying to eat normally, but less. I know I can diet and lose weight fast, but it comes back faster and faster as I grow old. This is why on Sunday I had some fizzy wine at a friend - but turned down cake. Then I had Stuart's mammoth roast dinner - but only half, and ate the other half the following evening, followed by a Wispa Gold limited edition that I had instead of my late night planned meal, so that the daily total would still be under 2000 calories. Yesterday's dinner wasn't exactly clean eating, but I'm back on track today. It's got to work.
