Week 26. Grrrrrr Backward Compatible

Am a bit disappointed in myself this week, Current Weight: 82 kg | 12.9 Stone | 180.8 lbs. I kind of slipped on my food choices a couple of times. I put in a lot of hard work as far as exercise was concerned, but I just let myself down on the nutrition front, doh! Which inevitably led to an 0.3kg weight increase (and not a 1 kg loss BTW I don’t like weight gains :o/ ), and roughly .5 of an inch on my hips + adding an additional week to reaching my goal. So my prediction to my ideal weight is still another 5 weeks from now.

Results are shown below:


On the flip side, I started a 6 weeks sit up challenge on Sunday and since then I have kept up with the 8 minute ab workout on a daily basis. All going good there at least… For those of you not familiar with my Personal 6 Week Sit Up Challenge, you can check out my YouTube video, below where I talk about it.



Anyways I think I will keep this short and sweet. Am going to be real strict on myself this week, on both low carb nutrition (No more carb deviations) and exercise. Starting with Volleyball tonight, and of course carrying on with my 8 minute ab workout later. Wish me luck!

Week 25. Back On Track

Ching ching, check out this weeks weightloss. The fat just seemed to melt off, no thanks to the British Weather though. Just going to keep this short for the minute. Will add more banter later. But for now... below you can see my recent picture and this weeks stats. Njoy.

Week 24. Where Did I Go?

Ops, first of all, I just want to apologise to you all, for neglecting you all and not adding any content to my blog for a such a long while. I think it works out 7 weeks in total since my last post.... eck! I wonder if any of my existing readers are still around?!?!

So what has been keeping me from all these weekly updates? Hum...Where to start???

Well in a nutshell a few things have been keeping me busy these last days/weeks/months, like;

• I failed a module in my degree, which meant re-sits, I was then given a huge assignment, that took up a bit of time,

• I then went on a brief holiday to my dad’s house to see family and friends (Which is quite far away, but was fun),

• Whilst on this holiday, I then found a flat, which I now intend to purchase. Which meant, travelling 600 miles 2 more times, 1. to view the apartment and then 2. to fill out all the paper work and sort out the mortgage, solicitor, survey etc.

• Also after the confirmation that I passed my second semester at uni. Then, I have mostly been focusing my attention towards my new job/my clients project. Which has been keeping me mega busy. 1. because there is a lot of work involved in a small amount of time, and 2. This also means I need to learn/read/practice and test a lot to get the job done.

On top of this I have been wondering in and out of the low carb lifestyle. Yes, I have a huge confession to make, I have been cheating on my low carb lifestyle….This has happened for many reasons, mainly due to me being lazy, not preparing my dishes, and not being around low carb foods or not being home to cook. Oh and I have been out socialising quite a bit too.

I have been keeping an eye on my weight though. If you look to the very bottom of this page, you can see my previous weeks entries, all plotted on the graph. Unfortunately though, during these weight in’s I haven’t taken any pictures. I hope to resume this, this week.

I have learnt a lot though about my body during these past couple of months. For a long time I had worries and concerns that, if I was to stop Atkins / Low Carb living that I would balloon and return to my previous obese self. But what I can see is, even though during this time not following Atkins so strictly. i.e by eating tones of junk foods, like pizza, BBQs, McDonalds, KFC’s, curries, chocolate, ice cream, cream buns etc yes the list goes on. I didn’t return to my former fat self. In fact, you can see from the graph, I never went above my lowest recorded weight more than 3kg which is awesome.

What then do I have to say for my rebellious behaviour to Low Carb Living??? Well, am SORRY to all you readers out there. However, if I kept up my low carb living, now I probably would be at my ideal weight, and not only that maybe my 6 pack abs would be showing… Ouch! So I guess just knowing this is like punishment enough. But you will all be glad to hear, am back to my low carb ways once again and I feel better for it too.

If any of my previous readers are still around, feel free to leave me a few comments to give me a good telling off. Hehehe!

Below is this weeks results, nearly identical to Week 17s, so its like I have time warped into the future a couple of months :o) Regardless of my poor eating choices…

Week 17 Weigh In.

Yippee, check me out... 1.5 kg loss in comparison to last week ;o) Am now 83.5kg (184.1 lbs or 13.2 Stone). Currently am averaging 1.02kg loss per week that is over the past 17 weeks. Am literally shrinking and it feels great, plus it's up lifting and even more motivating because I'm actually getting closer to achieving my goal. 7.5kg left to lose, which at this rate could predict a further 7.5 weeks to go, but don't let me get ahead of myself here. A lot can happen in this time...

I've also started to implement an 8 minute abs workout on a daily basis to work on shaping a 6 pack ;o) Now that all university sporting activities have stopped (Except for Volleyball on Wednesdays), I've also taken up more walking exercise too. When the weather is good, I tend to walk 2 hours or so, I have this really nice scenic route I enjoy pacing around whilst listening to the radio.

Oh that’s another thing.... I need to start thinking about moving to stage 3 of the Atkins plan, the "Pre-Maintenance Phase". So I might have to make a small trade off soon; change my diet by adding more carbs for a slower weight loss rate.

For those of you who want to know more about this stage go here: Pre-Maintenance Stage.

Ok that’s it for now, but before I go some last minute info how uni life is going, I passed all my modules except one (So only one resit to do, but luckily this is in the form of an assignment so phew). Have also found and started a valid project/dissertation (which is keeping me very busy at the moment) but the bonus here is, I will be getting paid £230 per week to do it, yeeha!

K take care all you low carbers, and good luck with your weight loss results this week, I am keeping my eye on you… especially you Roy and Scotty ;o)

Something For You To Think About!

How the Food Industry is Deceiving You Part 01



How the Food Industry is Deceiving You Part 02



How the Food Industry is Deceiving You Part 03



How the Food Industry is Deceiving You Part 04



How the Food Industry is Deceiving You Part 05

Day 113. New Changes and Results Week 16.

Hey folks, sorry for such a delayed post. Am becoming a very lazy lame blogger at the moment. Lots of things are happening or happened since the previous post.

Week 16 Results are nearly identical to last week, but there is a twist. The reasons is: if you can remember me posting about me going to a Volleyball Tournament in Nottingham, well during this period, I kind of slipped off the low carb bandwagon. The tournament took place over the weekend, and whilst at the venue I tended to eat/drink loads of high carb crap. To be honest, I didn't have much choice for two reasons, one they didn't supply low carb foods, and two I didn't really prepare for this by taking my own food. But what was the actual outcome of such Atkins treachery?

Well see below:

That’s correct, no weight loss or weight gain, I stayed exactly the same. In my measurements I had a slightly smaller difference in my arm girth. Outstanding, nearly half a week of eating high carb junk foods and no weight gain. I might add, after the weekend, I was so close to my weekly weigh in (as in Wednesday) I decided to carry on with my bad habits (Sort of take a break from low carb) eating high carb till the end of the weigh day week.

Seriously I was surprised with my results, I thought I would be at least 2kg heavier than at the start of the week. To list a few of the high carb junk foods I ate was: Pepperoni Pizza x 2, Hot Dog & Chips, Fried Egg Rolls, Big Mac Meal (Large), Cantonese Style Black Bean Sauce with Peppers and Egg Fried Rice, Oreo McFlurries, German Homemade Chocolate cake with Nutella spread on top etc... and yes... no weight gain from all this.

You will be pleased to hear though, am back on track with low carbing now. But madness the way I didn't gain any weight (Probably increased my LDL cholesterol though). I guess I exercised a lot or maybe the food hasn't caught up with me yet to actually make any negative impact. Who knows, lets see what next weeks results reveal.

Because of all the work I have set at the minute, plus that summer has finally arrived in the UK and I have started to exercise more at the minute, I've decided to change my blog format a little due to lack of time.

From now on, and I hope you readers don't mind, I am going to do just weekly updates of my progress (with the exception of some posts when I find interesting things which I feel need to be shared with you guys). I am also going to stop uploading my daily food diaries, because this is very time consuming to fill out each day and produce online.

I hope you guys and gals don’t mind and I would be glad to hear some of your views and thoughts. I hope you peeps are equally or better succeeding with your weight loss journeys. Till next Wednesday, be cool, lose weight and have fun :oD

Day 106. Missing in Action and Results Week 15.

Hello all, sorry I have been away and unable to update my blog. This is just to let you all know a mixture of sunshine, playing sports, working on my PGCE application, University Project/Dissertation etc has been keeping me far too busy and away from my blogging.

I will be away from Friday too, because I'm going to Nottingham for a Volleyball tournament yeeha! and coming back Sunday. So wish me luck... :oD Nevertheless, I will try to back post when I have time.

BTW its results day today...! and boy what a bad week I had sticking to the Atkins program. But regardless of indulging in sugary treats and eating plenty of nuts, has my weight loss stalled? Or worse have I put on weight... well look below to find out!

That’s right another 1 kg loss. Amazing huh... I put it down to all the exercise I was doing, and of course sticking mostly to low carb foods (near enough all week). You see you can have the odd treat now and then and still lose... but be aware! WORD OF CAUTION: you need to do plenty of exercise to counteract!!! If your metabolic resistant, it’s probably not a good idea to indulge either.

Anyhow here is my Week 15 Picture; can you tell any difference???

Oh and look at the dirty lense on my friends camera... I Think I need to clean it for next week. Ciao :oP