Shedding the pounds

Ok so one of my goals for 2010 is to loose weight. I’m not that overweight, I estimate that I am probably 10 pounds too many which may be a small amount for others to loose but I have struggled to shed these pounds over the years. Anytime I try to loose weight I can loose three or four pounds with a few weeks effort but then I seem to loose momentum and it goes back on in a number of days. I wouldn’t say I am a binge eater but I do have some bad habits: I love cheese, chocolate, biscuits and all of those things that give doctors wrickles on their browlines. All of my excess weight is around my mid section.

So this year as a promise to myself and thinking about all of the climbs that I will be struggling up in the coming year, the weight is going! Sounds pretty decisive? Well I hope to make it so. As well as an exercise regime which I always try to maintain i have got to make changes to my diet as i don’t eat too much but the quality of the foods I eat has to change. Since the beginning on the new year I have begun implementing the following changes:

• Porridge for breakfast:Like it or lump it, no one doubts that porridge is the best breakfast you can have, provides slow release energy that will keep you going for a good part of the morning.
• Half a grapefruit every morning: Has fat burning properties and good for lowering cholesterol.
• At least 5 fruit and veg per day: This one is a no brainer and provide all the vitamins and minerals that the body needs to cope throughout each day.
• Eat more oily fish and less red meat: Red meat has typically high fat content. Fish provide the body with omega 3 which also helps you keep a healthy heart.
• Drinking Green Tea: Less coffee (down to two cups in the morning) and drinking green tea boosts immunity and also burns fatty enznyes in the body.
• Evening Cut off: No food after 7:30 pm. This gives the body a chance to have all the food that you have consumed throughout the day digested before you go to bed allowing you to get a more restful nihts sleep as the body can focus on what it neeeds to while sleeping.

This morning on the scales I weighed in at 11 st 3 lbs. I think that 10.5 st would be a great weight for me. I haven’t seen it in a number of years and i’m looking forward to again. And for all of those who left me for dust up various hills in the country in 2009: watch this space!!