Some food from this week

So here is some food from this week.

This is a kind of lamb kofte/kebab thing from a local Turkish restaurant - its minced lamb with garlic and herbs with a salad. It's LOVELY.

I don't know what they put on the bread in this restaurant but if it came out that it was crack cocaine, I'd believe them. After 2 slices I had to ask them to take it away!

Home made gluten free bacon roll with turkey bacon, egg, cucumber and tomatoes. Sunday brunches!

This was at a friend's house, I asked her to make me healthy food and she did. Chicken kebabs and cous cous.

Fruit with fat free yogurt

Spinach, olives, turkey bacon, quinoa, chicken and cottage cheese.

Quinoa salad with turkey bacon, chicken, chick peas, with vegetables.

I love these yogurts.

Whole wheat pasta, grated courgette and ham

Porridge from the graze box.

Take out salad for lunch.

Salad at home, smoked salmon, eggs, crunchy salad leaves and avocado.

Bit of a treat, homemade fruit compote with fat free yogurt

Week 8 photos

So here is week 1 vs. week 8 photo.

So far I'm pretty pleased with the progress and on days when I think "Christ, what am I doing?" and "is there any point?" then I just look at these photos to see how far I've come. It is SO important to measure your progress. Its a mistake I've made many a time on body changing/weight loss programmes before. I take measurements every week but you don't see the cm here and cm there in the mirror - the photos really put it in perspective.

Its not perfect, sure, but it's a lot better than it was. Must keep going!

Week 8 - Friday

I've stopped posting every day because most days look the same. Sleep, gym, eat, work, gym, eat, sleep, repeat. I figured it wouldn't be long before that got boring.

So, how am I doing?
Not bad!
I posted my week 6 results which I was pretty pleased with. Weeks 6-7 I kind of left my foot off the pedal with a few social events and not particularly healthy choices. So I had some wine, a few pub lunches which were still salads but jot the best ones. I also had a blow-out curry with some friends which was great fun but a week of not brilliant (but not totally bad£ food plus curry and I felt pretty rubbish. I started to get totally paranoid for my measurements this week. I was quite sure that I'd made no progress since week 4 and that I would have put on body fat. My measurements also hadn't changed much since week 4. Had I undone all my good work? Was I on a plateau? I started to really doubt myself and I was on email to my friend Taz (who I mentioned and has already done this challenge) having a bit of a wobble. Ok, having a major wobble. Taz did what all good friends do and reassured me. So this week was the test, I'd not had my body fat measured since week 4, what would the callipers say?

They said I was down to 19.4% body fat! A little more than 2.5% body fat off! Yay!

I'm really happy with this. To top it off, I've checked my measurements today and my thigh has gone down to 51cm down from 53 and my hips are at 90cm down from 93.

Week 8 eating and training plan is really clean. I'm off the booze again for a few weeks just for the last push of the challenge. I might have a drink to celebrate my tower run on the 23rd but that's pretty much it. Lots of salads, veg, protein for me!


Will keep you posted