So, I like food... I like all food... some more than others... but generally speaking food is good. My absolute love (/arch nemisis) is cheese, I like cheese in every way, shape and form. I eat it every day. I am more than aware that cheese (amongst other things) is not the best food that I need to be eating if I want to lose a few pounds... but I can't help myself!
I enjoy exercise too, however, in my head I exercise a lot more than I actually do! I have hockey twice a week during the season (which I never miss) and, of course, the gym. In my head I go to the gym 3 or so times a aweek. The reality (at least of late) is that I go more like once or never... and that I am really not as fit as I like to think I am... Honestly, this is not through lack of wanting to go... the biggest blockade to getting the excerise time I would like, is the time consuming nature of both working and socialising in London (currently this is more the former, the socialising part is becoming a desperate attempt to hang on to the friends that I have in the small amount of free time that I find myself with - and I don't even have kids yet!).
So... I have decided that a public record of the food (and quantity of cheese) that I eat, and the amount of excerise that I actually follow through on doing, may be enough to shame me into sticking to the rules that I have set myself, and give myself the goal that the competitive side of me craves in order to lose a few pounds.
I am going to start this experiment with calorie counting. The target being to lose 1lb a week, this means 3500 fewer caloreis a week... 500 calories less a day. At a lofty 5'2' and on an inactive day, my recomended daily calorie intake is 1750... so 1250 from now on in.
Wish me luck!!
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