Too Much Drinking, Now I Need To Diet

I was going to start this with a joke about having a hole in my pocket but what’s the point, I really have lost 5 pounds in 1 week!

I forgot to weight myself yesterday, too much work to do so I made a point of doing it this morning. I now weigh 11 stone and 11 pounds, last Monday I weighed 12 stone 2 pounds. All in that’s 5 pounds of weight gone in only 1 week! How the heck have I managed that?

First of all I’d say a very large part of this has been down to my exercise routine, I really have kicked the crap out of it this week. I’ve been to the gym every day and my total calorie burn for the week (according to my Polar Heart Monitor) is 7489 calories. I’m no scientist but I think for just the “extra” calories from exercise in 1 week I’d say that was a lot. In that time I’ve ran over 30km on a cross trainer and rowed more than 15km. On one of my 5km rows (yesterday actually) I broke my own personal best with a time of 20:41.8 It’s funny because now I’ve finished the weight loss part of my diet one of my fitness goals for the first month was going to be to row 5km in under 21 minutes, looks like I’ve passed that already!

Besides the extra exercise I was also careful with what I ate. I guess feeling guilty about having put on a pound helped with that. I did stick to eating 3 solid meals a day but was good enough only to eat that. Other than 2 cups of tea a day and plenty of water that was me done. In keeping with my diet so far I ate the food that I like and not some low calorie nonsense. Fish and chips one night, lasagne another etc etc Not once during the week did a feel anything more than normal hunger (usually before each meal).

So that was it really, no secret weapons, no shakes, no wonder pills, just a whole lot of exercise and eating nothing more than 3 solid meals a day was how I lost 5 pounds in 1 week.