The 5-2

Current weight : 15st 1.5lbs
Weight change : - 0.5lbs







I took this photo yesterday, I thought it was pretty cool. Today I think its poignant - the sunlight just filtering through the dark clouds. I have been feeling low for a few weeks, dealing with bad news and boring personal issues, but I can feel a change, I'm feeling brighter, my sunshine breaking through.

So the 5-2? Well I didn't enjoy it much. I was very hungry on my fast days (funny that?!) but the following day when I was eating 'normally' I was still hungry, and I think I probably ate the missing calories and therefore negated the whole thing. I still believe that it has good health implications but for me, as a weightloss tool, I don't think so. 

My plan was to try a different 'diet' each week but I'm getting cold feet. I could spend weeks on plans that don't suit me and my weightloss will be on hold. I only have until June for my first bikini opportunity so I need to knuckle down. There are so many different plans out there, all promising easy weight loss, I could be doing this for years. Considering it's the 21st century and we can make an ear in a lab, and transplant faces, and 3D print virtually anything, I can't believe that no one has come up with the solution! Yeah, yeah I can hear all you skinnys out there screaming 'Just eat less and exercise more!' but if that was the solution we'd all be doing it. And we wouldn't be living in a place where over 50% of people are over weight. It's just a lot more complicated.

I have been feeling completely overwhelmed with the amount of weight I need to lose. So I'm tackling one number at a time. Today it's the number 15. Just 2lbs to get to 14. That sounds ok. 

So back to my pre-Christmas Jo Jo plan. Eat when I'm hungry, stop when I'm satisfied, low carb, high protein, full fat, HIIT and other exercises. There is a little more science to it than that, but I will share the boring details later, when I've actually lost some weight. Until that point its just another 'diet' of all the thousands out there. Gosh I don't even think I'm exaggerating there, must be thousands! No wonder diets don't work!

A goal without a plan is simply a wish.