I know the weights aren't great, but let's use it as a starting point. I don't know about you guys, but I feel I have been on a diet all sodding year and I'm still fat. I think healthy eating is the way to go. Shall we post interesting recipes and stuff to try and spur each other on?
Exante was brilliant for the quick loss and I definitely felt that not thinking about food made me stick to it better. However, I learned nothing from it. Instead of re-training my eating habits, I fell in to worse ones when I wasn't on it. And what pisses me off even more is that I studied Nutrition, I know all this shit - the best way to change behaviours, how to create a working food model etc. etc. I'm just unable/unwilling to put it into practise myself.
Meal planning is a great idea. I need to start doing that. The exercise thing I can't see happening on a regular regime, but we have started going to the pool (it's hardly swimming, but I try to march my legs up and down the entire time I'm in the water) every week so hopefully that will help.
I went out for dinner last night and had rocket, feta and beetroot salad in orange dressing. It was delicious. I had to mentally reprimand myself to ensure I didn't get a pizza, cannelloni or the amazing macaroni and cheese balls that they do (seriously, they are phenomenal). But the salad was really filling and it was something I could never make at home, my salads are terribly dull. I came away from the meal without a case of the guilts and was pleased I could do it.
Ok, I'm off to hunt out my Spandex and find my 80's style ghetto blaster to get the rousing theme tune playing and kick start our Autumn Slimdown!