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Friday 15 July 2011

Operation Stud Muffin

Basically the plan is to become this

by December 7...the wifes 23rd birthday.
Two weeks in a Buddhist monastery often eating only one meal a day didn't hurt at all. I came home with just that little bit more muscle definition.
The strategy now is to reduce the calorie intake and up the exercise. The biggest problem is actually the wife who is experiencing difficulties understanding the strategy. Patience is needed when explaining that I really do just want to eat about half to a third of what I have previously. I'm taking iron supplements...no point in making myself sick. I am also eating a lot of Ryvita http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-ryvita-crispbread-original-i73208
which as you can see is mostly fibre. I see precious little point in spending the next five or so months any hungrier than I absolutely need to be. You need to drink lots of water when eating this much fibre or the hatch will slam shut..and being constipated just isn't fun.
The exercise will be anything I can manage in addition to a weights programme. Vigorous sex is great exercise, so is the previously mentioned frisbee throwing, walking whilst carrying a bag full of books for Uni and pushing a pram with my son in it. One of the great thing about kids is that they gain weight.
There is another benefit from losing this weight...it's cheap! Your food costs fall immediately. There is the simple fact that the foods that help you lose weight are actually cheaper than the crap that's full of sugar and preservatives. Ryvita is about $2 a packet of 30 slices, the soybeans were about $4 for a can, the tahini $13 a kg and lemons are about 30 cents each. This will make up at least ten meals. So you can do the math...for less than a dollar a meal you will lose weight and still keep your protein and iron levels up.
My planned diet is:
Minimal amount of caffeine and NO added sugar.
Breakfast
Half a cup of Oat Porridge with almonds and dried fruit. Or toast with peanut butter. Boiled egg (s) with the Ryvita
 Fruit.
Lunch
If at all: 4 slices of Ryvita with a hummus derived from chickpea or soybean.  Roast veggies (pumpkin, beetroot,carrot, capscicum) added.
Fruit of some variety.
 About half a litre of water.
Dinner
If at all.   Ryvita with a salad of leafy greens, vegetables. Or a Quinoa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa salad with the veggies.
 Beer will be a rare event.
Lunch and dinner will be interchangeable. There is the plan to actually miss meals. Breakfast is non-negotiable. This is why it gets the vast majority of the iron and protein. Fill up your metabolic tank in the morning and then let your metabolism run all day. You will notice that skipping dinner actually returns breakfast to its original meaning of  break fast.
If a large meal or beer is had, then a meal (lunch or dinner) must be skipped the next day.
This isn't rocket science. Reduce the carbohydrates that run your metabolism, maintain your protein and vitamin intake, increase your fibre intake in order to stay full and then see the fat fall away.

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