Thoughtful Tuesday - 8

This week, I have mostly been thinking about..........food! I've had a less than perfect few weeks, what with birthdays and what seemed to be endless weddings.

My hardship is nearly over now but jumping on the scales I had a slight shock to say the least. Now I don't usually weigh more than certain amount, give or take a kilo but I shot up by a fair old amount. I also don't usually care what the scale reads but seeing as my training isn't really geared towards putting on weight I thought that immediate action had to be taken. Now I will be the first to admit that with the incesent amount of birthdays and weddings the food has been less than perfect and the booze has been much higher than normal. So in my mind this is a very short term thing but there was still some stuff I could do.

So I started by cutting my carbs right down. A few sandwiches had snuck their way in to my diet and along with the amount of drink at the weekends I had been having it was all getting a bit too much for my poor body to take. So out went the carbs and up went the protein and I actually started to get my good fats back in there. Within the space of 2 days I had lost 2kgs. Now I will again be the first to admit that of those 2 kilos a fair amount will probably be glycogen stores and with it some water weight. Speaking of water that went back up again too. You need to get water in if you want to lose body fat, helps to flush it out.

Now obviously I still have a little go to get back to semi-normality for me but I've still got a birthday here and there coming up. So what I've decided to do is this, I've decided to be super squeeky clean during the week. Eat well, eat often and not over eat. I'm also going to start carb cycling again, just to keep my body guessing. So, I'm going to do well during the week (so they'll be my low-medium carb days) and then have a high carb day at the weekend (to try to negate some of the drink) If I can still lose some body fat then that would be ideal, if I can at least maintain where I am I will take that though. I will see how it goes over the next few weeks and report back to you. I have no idea if it'll work but if it does then I might just be a genius! I wouldn't hold your breathe though!