What you are eating now has hopefully changed quite a bit in the last 60 days, and as cyril said yesterday, he doesn’t feel well now unless he eats good, natural food and feels better avoiding food overloaded with sugar and fat. I’m sure many of you feel exactly the same!
Another big thing for you to overcome may be the expectations people now have of you. A lady i train was talking about such an instance this morning. She told me that she was having dinner with friends last week, and was asked what did she want for dessert and she politely declined.
The other eight ladies on the table had a go at her for not eating dessert! If you change your habits in life towards more successful ones, many people don’t like it and this is called peer pressure of course. Some of the comments even became quite distasteful!
We encourage each other on here to eat little and often, which can result in six feeding times every day. This in unacceptable to some people! They are not happy that your stomach has shrunk, you can no longer handle the same quantities of food that you used to! Reasons for this may include they do not like to see change, they are jealous of your success, they are not happy that they cannot imitate your new found strategies, etc.
This is quite common when anyone tries to change their lifestyle, and who would have thought that turning down a dessert would cause such a stir!!
You may find it the same when you buy your supermarket food, if you have a partner or members of the family not willing to change, it can hurt your overall and long term chances of success. Let’s face it, it never helps if there are treats in every cupboard! Temptation needs to be taken out of the house to reduce the challenging nature of this programme to get into great shape, if someone is still buying junk into the house, temptation never really goes away!
That’s why it is always a good idea to make your ambition of a healthy lifestyle public as soon as possible. Your family will be more understanding and will perhaps be inspired themselves to join in and give it a go!
I know people who have up alcohol or at least cut down severely. They always get serious flack about this, and worried that their “social life” will go down the pan. The reality is always that they feel so much better, their social life was pretty boring after all, and they have plenty more cash in their pockets!! Also, they seem to have so much more time in their life, and wonder how they found so much time just to drink in an empty pub!
All of these examples show that if you want to get to that special place of being in amazing physical condition and great mental strength, the path is full of obstacles but ones you can CLEARLY overcome every day!
When you’re aiming for the top and get there, you will find that fewer people than you thought had the guts and determination to stick it all the way through, and you will be even more proud of yourself of your remarkable achievements. This is how your self-esteem and self-confidence goes to a whole new level and eventually goes through the roof, and you won’t be scared to take on any challenge in the future after you’ve been through this!
Day 60, now doesn’t that sound as if we have been at this for a long time!!!!!!!!!
They are not happy that your stomach has shrunk, you can no longer handle the same quantities of food that you used.I’ve noticed this big time when i’ve tried to eat like i have been before this program started and noticed how tight an uncomfortable my belly is!!!!!!!!!
has for the drinking still ain’t touch bogall since last summer….thing was i didn’t mind hang overs in the winter times cos we never went out that much and summer’s were rubbish if i did go on the beer cos if we wanted to go to the beach we couldn’t either cos of the hangover or the fact i wont go near the car after beer anyway.I can totally relate to the hostility to not drinking.Thing i hate most is”its not doing anything for you not drinking anyway look at the belly on you” thing is has you’ve said tons of times here beer on the weekend and training Monday morning dont go at all !!!!!!!!!!!!!.
had a chance to go on the bike this morning no add on though didn’t want to risk my back.Thing is i’m aching like “a son of a gun” laegs have been killing all day and BLOODY BOILING too 🙂 did it in 35 mins thats around 10 mins quicker.Dont know if they’re any good but Lidels is selling a bike computer for only a couple of quid so i may have a look at how much i’m really doing for a change 🙂
breakfast RB and banana with water
snack pear water
lunch turkey pita with lettuce and OJ diluted
snack few grapes
dinner fish and wedges with peas water 2 pints????
may have some fruit for supper if i feel like it???
fruit is okay, but protein sources at most meals can be even better
the lack of booze will have done you good cyril, inches off your waist prove that and not missing those hangovers i bet!
amazing how quick you have recovered on the bike with your back problem going, well done and a much better performance too. The bike monitor will be good for you, not always super accurate but a guide and that is valuable!
Scarlets out in munster tonight? Score prediction!
aint seen it yet Liverpool were on so watch it in the morning.thats why i’m going to bed 🙂
fruit is okay, but protein sources at most meals can be even better.Just looked on a site about how much a person like me needs a 250-pound person, 92 grams.is that about it?if i do will this speed things up then?thing is i’ve had so much tuna,chicken and fish its getting boring,well the chicken is.
Has i dont eat that much meat the chicken turns me when i’ve had to much and its coming to the limit where i will stop eating it for a while,like normal.:-(
find a nice good wholemeal bread, toast it and put some cottage cheese on it with some cheese, or pineapple or whatever u want
thats about right cyril, and protein at most meals will be highly successful for you!
so just keep doing what i’m doing at the moment then?
eating every 3-4 hours, constant supplu of energy and nutrients, what your body needs yes!
Hi Cyril, Bike computers are really useful, they tell you how far you have gone and in what time, some of them tell you how many calories you have used, and give you your Heart rate. You can then save that trip and try to do better next time. I have them on my bikes, only I had to have them fitted cos I could’nt do it, Halfords or any Bike shop will fit it for a few quid. Jeanx
good post and know you have used them for years
cheers Jeany 😉 their in lidels on monday with a few other things i want to… 🙂