Slob Rehab

Choosing a Diet: Rule 1

ExSlob — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:18:37 +0000

If a diet forces you to throw away food from your cupboard or makes you give up food you enjoy then, long term, it won’t work.

Food Diary 24/08/09

ExSlob — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:05:41 +0000

A sensible amount today, but still below my target of 1645 calories. Breakfast Bowl of Shreddies and semi-skimmed milk – 218 Lunch Ham, tomato and onion sandwich (wholemeal) with light mayo – 277 Strawberry yoghurt – 72 Dinner Chicken breast with Chicken Tonight Spanish sauce, instant mash, sweetcorn – 539 Lettuce & tomato with light Italian dressing – 50 Total: 1256 calories I did feel [...]

It’s A Miracle!

ExSlob — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:35:42 +0000

See, this is why you don’t go by an individual day’s weigh in. This morning my scales are reading 205lbs; I’ve lost a whole 5 pounds in one day! Unfortunately, despite my ridiculously low calorie count yesterday it is physically impossible to lose 5 pounds of fat in one day without the aid of a [...]

Exercise Diary 23/08/09

ExSlob — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:09:03 +0000

Rung 1 of the Hacker’s Diet exercise plan consists of: 2 bends (trying to touch your toes) 3 sit ups 4 leg lifts (lying face down on the floor) 2 push ups 105 steps with 7 jumps I wasn’t far out with my defibrillator and oxygen mask comment earlier! The lying down exercises were fairly easy and I could probably move [...]

Meal Planning

ExSlob — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:21:34 +0000

Right, that’s this week’s meals all planned out. Kind of. The funny thing is that once I cut out all of the crisps, sweets, biscuits and all the other junk and started planning proper meals I struggled to get to my 1645 calories a day. The highest is 1540 and the fewest 1050. Part of the [...]

Exercise? What Exercise?

ExSlob — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:51:55 +0000

Unless you count the daily 200 metre walk to the shop and back to buy cigarettes, the sum total of my exercise is zero. Actually, that’s not quite true, I do a 10 mile walk with a friend every 6 weeks or so but, while it’s enjoyable and I feel good after it (albeit knackered), [...]

Food Diary 23/08/09

ExSlob — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:17:35 +0000

According to PhysicsDiet.com my Total Energy Expenditure is 2645 calories per day. To lose 2 pounds a week, which is what I am roughly aiming for, I need to eat 1000 calories fewer than this a day: 2 pounds of fat = 7000 calories 7000/7 days = 1000 calories So 1645 calories a day. This doesn’t seem insanely [...]

Keeping Track

ExSlob — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:54:11 +0000

You’ll see I’ve put a couple of simple graphs up on this site, but to properly follow the Hacker’s Diet it is the trend that is important, not each daily measurement. Your weight can fluctuate each day because of the amount of water you’re retaining so it’s easy to become disheartened if you suddenly have [...]

So Why The Hacker’s Diet?

ExSlob — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:41:32 +0000

I’ve tried a few diets in the past: Atkins – Fast weight loss but I felt like death warmed-up and knew I wouldn’t be able to maintain such a low carb diet. I couldn’t, and the weight soon went back on. Crash – This was as a side-effect of a medical problem I had a few years [...]

Eating Habits

ExSlob — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:10:02 +0000

If you were to sit down and think up the most unhealthy diet you could, there’s a fair chance you’d be pretty close to what I used to eat. Breakfast would consist of whatever cakes or biscuits were left over from the night before or, more usually, nothing at all. For lunch I would pop to [...]