I have had a relatively good day today. I have found a programme on BBC iPlayer called Lose Weight and Get Fit, with some celebrity chef who cooks the meals and his personal trainer mate who does all the exercises with them. It made me realise that you will do much better with a weight loss programme if you have loads of people in a group doing the same thing, weighing in at the same time (probably why weight watchers et al works so well), that you have a celebrity chef creating great meals that are calorie counted for you, a personal trainer on tap to make a person routine to help you exercise and a camera crew following you round 24/7 and if you fail, then you fail in front of millions of people.
Unfortunately I don't have that.
However, I did find something else that also inspired me as the programme was going on, that the chef, who is rich and has lots of restaurants and a nice house etc, also has hardly any time to do the exercise and does everything 100%, anything less is not on his radar...probably why he is rich. Nevertheless, this lifestyle of getting up really early and doing exercise and then working all day, he finds doing things hard in terms of time. He also makes sure that he does everything and talked about digging deep and keeping at it no matter what the obstacles. This is something I have to do.
I know that some days are going to be bad, I've been doing this for a year now and have yoyo'd enough to know that it is really easy to stop. Last week and this week I gave in to having alcohol and takeaways as an option and this spiralled out of control, to the point where I had 3 takeaways in one week. Add to that the alcohol, which makes you retain water and I find myself gaining weight and retaining water...again. Everything goes in a circle and I will end up back where I started. The chef was right, I do have to dig deep.
I have no idea why those words hit me the way they did, and why they sank in more than others, but just knowing that he has built up his businesses and become a better chef and made a lot of money by doing that shows me that I haven't been 'digging deep', I have been skirting the shallows and leaping out on to dry sand every time I see a wave coming, no matter what the size. It was really interesting.
The good thing is, is that his recipes are all on the BBC website, which I think is www.BBC.co.uk/loseweightgetfit or something like that. If that link doesn't work, then I will post it on tomorrow's blog.
I have also finished another workout programme, realstart evolve, which was a killer last session and it is hurting my arms just typing. So with that in mind, and also with the fact that my wife is upstairs in bed, probably wondering where I am, I will finish for today. I hope that you have all had good days, or if not, that you are striving to make the next one better than this. I know I am.
Until tomorrow, stay strong and stay healthy.
Thanks for reading.
Sean.
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