Fresh Slate

Time to start again. Starting new goals, i'd say they'll be very reachable, so long as i can stick it out again. Before i get to that, lets have a quick over view of how i feel coming out of my long aussie day weekend off the diet/exercise.....
Firstly, that first beer Thursday - BRILLIANT. Although i did feel guilty. Soon enough, the guilt left :) and i had another beer. So to keep the guilt at bay, i had another beer after that. And so on and so forth so i felt confident the guilt wouldn't be back until the following morning. And it was.....only short lived though. I was off camping for the weekend and i couldn't wait. So after getting off to a slow start, i was all unpacked with campsite set up by mid afternoon. Time for another beer, and why not, it was a mini holiday. I was also camped a good metre from the beach, so i knew at anytime i could go do some running or swimming to keep fit. Saturday was great. More mucking around on the beach, a few more beers, plenty of camp food, and sun burn across the back (where i'm not flexible enough to reach.) Sunday morning i was up and out of camp and home by 830. Had a pretty relaxed sunday, some last minute 'cheat' meals, and some inspiring TV watching.

Which brings us up to date. Over the weekend, the diet was out the window, and other than a little bit of splashing around in the surf, and walking up and down the sand, really wasn't much exercise either. I've weighed myself this morning, and i'm up in the teens again. I completely expected this, but wasn't quite thinking it would be as bad as it was. Weigh in this morn was 115.7kg, thats +6.5kg. After thinking about it for a little while, i decided i would see how it goes over the next few days before getting upset about it. I'm hoping most of it drops back over a very short period of time. I've decided, anyway, to seek professional help. And despite what many may think/wish for, i'm getting nutritional advice from a nutrionist, not psychiatric help from a shrink. Until my appointment, i will stick to my current diet. The one that helped me lose 19kg, not the one that saw me gain 6.5kg in four days.

My new goals......Let me just say, i may add to this. I want a strength goal, but for now, i'll just try hit the 20 straight push ups which i failed last monh.
This month, my (almost) four week goals, are as follows.

- Get to level 10 in the beep test
- Get under 20% body fat.

That is it. I really don't know how fast i can drop my fat percentage. I truly hope its even half as quick as my weight declines. So this will be where my nutrionist comes in and helps. I have, i feel, good base knowledge of diets and dieting. Obviously, plenty of people have strong opinions on diets, which is great, but i like to do things a particular way and hope she can steer me in the right path using similar methods i've been using. I can see the warrior diet getting wiped :) A real shame, but something i believe i'll have to fully read up on and commit to 100% if i want to get the best results out of it. I don't think it is a diet that should be written off for the not too distant future though. I personally felt i had more energy in the evenings on the days i fasted, and definitely felt no less energetic than usual the day after. I also found i had decent results. I know, though, this will be something i'll have to do on my own, not under the guidance of a nutrionist. My fear though, is that i'll be encouraged to eat 5-6 small meals a day. I suppose this is fine, if i quit my job and decide not to do anything else, i can dedicate myself to a diet like that. Unfortunately, i haven't won the lotto or found any secret to retiring at age 29. I am looking for the secret, looking hard too, one day. I have time at work to eat one meal, most days. Some days, i could probably sneak in a bite of something as a second meal, but unlikely i can count on this. It's really only stop one, if that. There is no time before or after work for more than a meal each. So we'll see.

Otherwise, beep test, i'll continue running, experimenting with different training. I'm researching sprint training at the moment. Basically looking at doing interval training for fitness, at the same time developing power (strength) all over. Will keep you all posted over the next few weeks of my trainings findings and my dieting ways.

Today being a monday was a fasting day, until dinner, in which i ate approx 10-12 shish kebabs. Just chook on a skewer with flavouring. Not an ideal way to get back on my dieting band wagon, but it was tastey.

Night