Week 7

Saturday 9 February, 2008

Week 7 weight – 95.6 kg

Initial weight – 96.2 kg

Back to my week 4 and lightest weight. Well, technically not my lightest ever weight, cos that would be 8kg or something, and I don’t think that birth weight actually counts…

I’m trying to keep up with the healthy eating, but I think my biggest problem right now is the meal timing. Not whether I eat at 6:30 or at 12, but whether I eat carbs in the morning and not at night. Part of Liz’s work with me involves helping me get my eating organised – and that means eating the right things at the right time. No carbohydrates after lunch for example.

I understand the reasoning for that – you eat carbs for dinner and then if the energy doesn’t get used up it turns to fat. The problem is that I like my carbs – be it brown rice, cereal, fruit, jacket potatoes and so on. Two days ago I ate an entire pineapple by myself. Good for me – except I ate it in the evening. I hadn’t planned on eating the whole thing, but it was just so delicious that over a three hour period I kept going back to the kitchen and slicing up more. Also, I’ll generally have a piece of fruit sometime in the afternoon or evening.

Then there’s the starchy carbs – like a jacket potato with low fat cottage cheese, or brown rice to go with my chili con carne (made with kangaroo mince for extra low fat). I can’t see myself having either of those for breakfast, and I’d only eat that at lunch if it was a weekend.

Maybe I shouldn’t worry about it. Maybe I should just continue eating healthily and exercising regularly and things will all work out. Maybe with a boosted metabolism that’s sure to come with increased muscle mass, the timing of my carb eating won’t matter. I’d like to think so.