Soooo having come off the Cambridge diet mid March I've pretty much maintained (up and down a lb or so depending on carbs / hormones) apart from an initial 4 lb gain coming off the diet. I now would like to lose 7lbs or so.
I did a work related exam on Wednesday which I'm not feeling great about and I've got to wait nervously 10 WEEKS for the results so rather than worry about that I'm going to focus on using the 10 weeks productively to lose those 7lbs. That way, on results day if I haven't done as well as I'd like to, I can avoid the whole usual using any excuse to beat myself up for not losing weight ie. totally irrational 'not only have I not done well enough I've also not lost 7lbs like I wanted to 10 weeks ago, I'm a let down blah blah blah'.
This time I'm seeing it as a positive motivator to be able to tell myself I've used those 10 weeks really well and focused on something productive. And hopefully I'll have two sets of good results!!
Going to do a 5:2 ish plan with two days under 800 cals as that seems to work for me. I gym it 4 times a week for 50 mins intense cardio and then do 6 x 20 mins strength training throughout the week. Also aiming to do 60 squats / a 90 sec plank / 2 mins of an arm strength exercise I don't know the name of 5 times a week as a little extra toning.
So tomorrow is day 1, maintained at 12st 5 since Cambridge but after a very carby calorific 'f*** it' week I expect to weigh at 12 6/7 tomorrow. Goal is to get to 11 stone 13 which puts my BMI at about 23.5 then reassess further goals.
Will update weight tomorrow and then post exercises / cals eaten each day each day following. I seem to be able to eat 2250 cals a day plus exercise cals across the week and STS so aiming for an average net amount of 1750 over the week. Currently choose to have 3000-3500 cals Saturday / Sunday and eat less in the week which isn't ideal health wise but it does seem to work for me so sticking with that for now with the aim of cutting weekends back slowly.
Excited to use the next 10 weeks well
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I did a work related exam on Wednesday which I'm not feeling great about and I've got to wait nervously 10 WEEKS for the results so rather than worry about that I'm going to focus on using the 10 weeks productively to lose those 7lbs. That way, on results day if I haven't done as well as I'd like to, I can avoid the whole usual using any excuse to beat myself up for not losing weight ie. totally irrational 'not only have I not done well enough I've also not lost 7lbs like I wanted to 10 weeks ago, I'm a let down blah blah blah'.
This time I'm seeing it as a positive motivator to be able to tell myself I've used those 10 weeks really well and focused on something productive. And hopefully I'll have two sets of good results!!
Going to do a 5:2 ish plan with two days under 800 cals as that seems to work for me. I gym it 4 times a week for 50 mins intense cardio and then do 6 x 20 mins strength training throughout the week. Also aiming to do 60 squats / a 90 sec plank / 2 mins of an arm strength exercise I don't know the name of 5 times a week as a little extra toning.
So tomorrow is day 1, maintained at 12st 5 since Cambridge but after a very carby calorific 'f*** it' week I expect to weigh at 12 6/7 tomorrow. Goal is to get to 11 stone 13 which puts my BMI at about 23.5 then reassess further goals.
Will update weight tomorrow and then post exercises / cals eaten each day each day following. I seem to be able to eat 2250 cals a day plus exercise cals across the week and STS so aiming for an average net amount of 1750 over the week. Currently choose to have 3000-3500 cals Saturday / Sunday and eat less in the week which isn't ideal health wise but it does seem to work for me so sticking with that for now with the aim of cutting weekends back slowly.
Excited to use the next 10 weeks well
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