Cthulu on a bike
 

It's time for a rededication to the remodelling job. I've had a couple of shakeup moments. Got weighed at a clinic and I was 18st 9lbs (261lbs). I've never been anywhere near this weight and never expected to get so high.

Some events in my private life mean I've discovered a whole new motivation to lose weight.

So I'll use this log to keep me on the straight and narrow. No comments, just a simple food and exercise record.

Food yesterday:
B A slice of cheese
L Chicken salad (good) and Onion Rings (bad)
D Grilled lamb chops with stir fried broccolli in ginger.
Carbs - 16
Calories - 1675
Protein - 116g (28%)

Activity levels: 2 hours of walking/shopping.
Weight: 261lbs

Today:
Exercise - 6 minutes on bike, 20 mins light weight training, 5 mins Chi Gung.
Food:
B: About 11 almonds
L: A small steak with a cupful of fried cabbage and half a cup of steamed vegetables.
D: Beef mince with onion, mushroom, a small carrot and a small bread roll.
Alcohol: 6 low carb marstons and 2 glasses of wine in the evening.

Carbs - 51
Calories - 1142

Welcome to the exercise forums :) . It is always good to see new faces.

I love creative gym log titles, even when I do not understand them :D .
I must admit, I have never heard about Cthulu before. So I google-d it. I found many references, pictures, tales etc. but not the ORIGIN of him/her/it.
How this "cult" started?

Edited later: I found something/somebody. H.P.Lovecraft - it seems he is the author/creator. (?) Or was there anybody before him?

Ok, I am going to check this "Chi Gung" too.

Cheers:
Eva

P.S.: I LOVE that Barry quote :) .

Should mention goals. Weight training twice a week plus a 20 min session of cardio. Keep carbs at about 60g and within the limits of 20-100g. Aim for a calorie deficit on each day i.e. less than about 3700 per day.

Yesterday started well:
Bought some mixed grill and split it between a late breakfast and lunch.
Late B: A small pork chop and two lamb sausages with green beans.
L: A 3oz steak and a lamb chop with grilled aubergine and sauted leek.

Activities: 1 hour of heavy shop (including totting it uphill) and a 20 minute walk.

However, it went wrong in the evening. I met with a friend I've not seen for ages. Alcohol led me astray.

D: Crispy lamb and dry spare ribs.
Alcohol: *cough* 2 pints of LC Marstons and 2 pints of Xmas Ale (that's about 40 crsb right there).
Carbs - 81 (still under my 100g upper limit)
Calories - 2444

I've had to use equivalant foods in fitday, they don't have much chinese food on the dtabase. (fried chinese cabbage and barbecue ribs.

EDIT: link failed....

yesterday
B: None
L: Small steak with stir fry of aubergine, leek and broccolli.
Early Dinner: Small steak salad.

Evening (I'm detecting a patern here!).
Alcohol: 3 pints of Xmas Ale after choir (not a good move).
Late meal: Ham and Cheese roll-ups and 70g of Almonds.

Carbs - 102 (bloody beer)
Cals - 2553

Activities: About 2 hours stuck under a kitchen sink fixing the plumbing with no tools.

yesterday:
Was hugely hungry all day, ate masses. Had little food in the house and felt tired so ordered in dinner again.

Late B: Grilled hot dogs with green beans
L: 3 small lamb chops with fried spinach
D: Kung Po Fish (left the fruity bits. Just ate cod, cashews and a bit of pepper and onion), mixed vegetable soup (threw out the sweetcorn chunks - yuck) and some deep fried sweet potato.
Alcohol: 1 shot of rum and diet coke after dinner.

Calories: 1813
Carbs: 90 (just realised that Fitday goes by US standards and I have to subtract the fibre, so my carb count this week has ben lower than I thought)

Activities: Painted the kitchen ceiling, 6 mins on exercise bike and 20 mins of light weight training.

Today
B: None
Early lunch: Double Hamburger (oops - I was at a market. Street food!)
Dinner: Crispy seaweed and Crispy lamb.
Snack: handful of Almonds
Alcohol: Way too much. Fantastic beer on - had *cough* 5 pints.

Calories: 2442
Carbs: 174 (Frig!)

Activity: 2 hours of market shopping.

Yesterday.
B: None
L: Steak and broccolli
D: Mixed grill with salad
Alcohol: Oh yes. About 6 pints . Gulp
Calories - 3219 (!)
Carbs - 142

Not very good (I'm starting to sound like Bridgit Jones)

Today, however:
B: None
L: 4 small pork strips fried with cauliflour and a small piece of cheddar melted over.
D: A small kipper with small serving of fresh green beans.
Alcohol: None
Tea: Inordinate amounts of 'Aloe' or 'Chysanthemum' tea.
Calories - 1387
Carbs - 6 (!)

Activities: Dragging at least 10 kilos of shopping around including up the damn hill.

Today
B: None
L: Mince Beef, onion, aubergine and shitaki mushrooms.
D: Chicken Soup, Jerk Chiken and salad
Alcohol: 4 pints

Calories and carbs to follow.
ED: Like now -
Cals - 3857 (What!)
Carbs - 122

The first week of monitoring is over. Interesting result. Not what I expected. Comments ot come in journal.

Very hard workout on the cycle and weight (upped them by 10lbs). Good, but knackered.

Hmph! weeks averages:
Average Calories
source grams cals %total
Total: 2527
Fat: 115 1039 42%
Sat: 37 336 14%
Poly: 21 192 8%
Mono: 43 388 16%
Carbs: 114 402 16%
Fiber: 14 0 0%
Protein:142 568 23%
Alcohol: 66 464 19%

Summary: Too much fat, too much alcohol, not enough fibre. Protein about right. Carbs about 20% too high (all due to beer).

In theory I have averaged a calorie deficit of nearly 1400 cals per day. That ought to mean a weight loss of 4 to 5 lbs! I bet :(


We shall see what next week brings. I have been heavy on the decent beer this week. See what happens back on LC beer.

Can't remember what I ate on Wednesday. It was an alcohol free day though.

Thursday
B: Small mackerel, grilled
L: A small tin of tuna with added grated cheese.
D: 10oz steak with Huge green salad.
Alcohol - seems to be one of those weeks. 5 pints.
Cals - 3417
Carbs - 184

Yesterday - out all day with limited food choices, lots of walking in freezing weather and a gigantic pub crawl with the lads.
B: Bacon Sandwich
L: Half a cheese, egg and bacon pannini (sp?)
D: A Doner Kebab (Gyro)
Alcohol: indeed there was...6 pints.
Calories - 2427
Carbs - 204 (Bread and beer)
Exercise - about five hours of walking. Circumnavigated a 105 acre enclosure then 2 miles to pub then 2 miles to station.

o my
a gym log :thup: :thup: :thup:

Yes I know. Depressing isn't it?

Yesterday:
B: Nope
L: Bacon and scrambled egg with a bit of cheese in (which was disgusting)
D: Medium fried cod with a green salad.
Snack: Handful of hazelnuts (they make me feel druidic)
Alcohol - 4 pints of LC beer and a glass of wine with din-dins.
Cals - 1684
Carbs - 32