There’s elements of forgivness in my day

Right now…I’m almost 9 months into the startup of my consulting company. Anyone in the game knows that this sort of work attracts long hours. Looooong hours. Add to that the element of directing a company and all the stuff that goes with it and there are days when I find myself pretty strung out for time.

Today was one of those days.

Yesterday, I worked 15hours and crawled into bed at 12:30am. Today, up at 4:30am to make a 7am meeting in the city. and I sit here at 10pm feeling pretty munted at the end of two long days.

So, it may be no surprise that my organisation around food today was a little relaxed.

7am I had a cooked breakfast at the hotel for a software vendor seminar this morning. Flashy stuff.

Back to another client at 10am to prepare for back to back meetings. Didn’t manage to locate food or water until 2:30pm, when I grabbed a beef, capsicum and avocado wrap + a Coke Zero.

Off to another clients at 5pm, south of the city and munched some almonds on the way there.

Back home for dinner…8pm.

But…at 8:30pm, after feeling completely knackered, I still WANTED to go out and do my 2nd C25K session. I was excited about it. And the workout (although mild in some respects) felt good.

Today’s measurements and activities look like this.

What did you eat today?	Eggs Hollandaise, chorizo, mushys, tomato & a hash brown, 3 coffees; beef capsicum avocado wrap + coke zero (only 2 calories); 20-30 almonds; spaghetti +meatballs. Need way more water today.
Exercises?	Week 1 session 2 of “Couch to 5k” program today. Felt great! 25mins walk(90sec)/run(60sec) intervals.
How’s the weight looking?	106.6kg (down overall by 2.4kg)
…and what’s your BMI?	31.49
How do you feel today?	I felt great!

You can see that things are gradually on the decline. I may not have had the greatest day in terms of eating habits…but…I don’t think I was that bad either. I could have made food choices that were far worse than what I did, but instead sought out healthier, leaner options.

Wanna know something cool!

I found out this morning that I will be able to take one of Gwen’s kickboxing classes…in Phillidelphia U.S.A…via Skype. Way cool!

You rock Gwen 🙂

FatDadSlim

The days when things just don’t make sense…

Everyone has these days…right?

Yesterday (actually the day before) I put my new Polar heart rate monitor on at 11:40pm before going to bed. The plan? Wear it for 24 hours (aside from showering) to see how many calories I would burn in an ordinary loooongday at work with no time to exercise.

Last night, I looked at the results in amazement. I burned something like 5,300 calories across the day doing not that much! Sure…I spent some time doing some fairly low impact stuff on WiiFit when I got home at around 8pm, but nothing really more than that.

Here’s what is hard to understand. I did a calculation of a days worth of “old” eating habits. Coffees, bacon & egg sangas, pad thai lunches, big steak for dinner…and the results were around 3,500 calories. I had a conversation with SlimMumSlim about this last night too. How does one get fat when eating fewer calories that what you output in 24 hours?

Her answer came in the form on extra sauces that I put on food…or nibbling on left overs…or nibbling on ingredients whilst cooking…or a packet of chips here and there. But surely this would not account for an additional “almost” 2,000 calories???

I was doing a bit of research last night and found a site that says 60-70% of your calorie intake is absorbed by your Base Metabolic Rate (BMR…thanks for that one Ian 😉 )which according to what I read, means the basic functions of keeping your organs going, being awake, sitting/standing etc. So what does that mean exactly? Does it mean that 60-70% of what I eat is fuel and 30-40% needs to be spent on exercise, irrespective of calorie output being higher or lower that the actual intake?

I’m a wee bit confused.

I also ate a bacon & egg sanga this morning in protest, and I knew I shouldn’t have. At least I can say I have the presence of mind now to “know” I need to work that off over and above my planned C25K session tonight.

FatDadSlim

Week 2 – Off to a good start!

Now into week 2 of Fat Dad Slim and feeling great!

What did you eat today?	Poached egg on toast, chicken salad roll for lunch, some almonds, cous cous, a coffee and for dinner, sweet potato & chicken fettuccini. Yum!
Exercises?	I did Week 1 Workout 1 of hundredpushups.com Also went for a 1,7km (1mile) run. Took me 10min:40sec
How’s the weight looking?	Not too bad for 1 week! 106.9 (down 2.7kg)(5.95 pounds)
…and what’s your BMI?	31.57 (down by 0.8)
How do you feel today?	Great!
Calories in	1,850
Calories out	2,300

So I’m seeing some great results and I’m feeling good too. Although, my muscles are a little sore and stiff…damn back is hurting a bit too. I’m sure that will all come good. Just muscles that haven’t done this sort of stuff in a while.

I formally started the 100 Pushups program today which consisted of 2 reps of 6, 2 reps of 4 and 1 last rep of 5 plus as many more as I could do. I did 5½ and promptly died!

And after counting my calorie intake for the day, I decided to go for a bit of a jog just to be sure I was in deficit by enough.

Feels like it’s going at a good pace. 2nd session of C25K week 1 tomorrow + a long day at work.

Later…

FatDadSlim