A few weeks ago I was prompted to try out the 'health machine' in the Boots store with the loving encouragement of "...and don't break it you fat git!" ringing in my ears. It basically weighs you, works out from your height how fit you are and then gives you a printout that all the family can laugh at.
My first go resulted in an 'Oh My God!" moment and an instant decision to lose a few pounds.
The photo tracks my progress, although the machine in the Burnley store seems to have been calibrated for hobbits (which is about right for that town).
A check on the bathroom scales verifies that the weights are somewhere near (usually a couple of pounds lighter as I can strip off in the bathroom but they seem to get upset when I try that in in the store....), whilst nobody understands the Body Fat% figure, which is a shame as I seem to be good at that.
The diet I followed was fairly simple and easy and lost me 2 stones (and 4 inches from the waist) in around a month.
Highly recommended for fatties who want to see their toes again!
It was basically one piece of meat or fish per day (8 ounces if you want to be exact, but I wasn't that specific), two eggs and as many fruit and vegetables as you can stand, but not potatoes.
Also on the 'not' list were sugar and milk in tea and coffee (not a problem for me anyway), no chocolate biscuits or sweets (or anything else nice, really).
Bread, pasta and other carbs were also out.
Plenty of cranberry juice and water and also caffeine free Peppermint Tea to replace coffee. I don't think the tea bit was really necessary, but it seemed to add to the 'something different and healthy' feel of the diet!
Nothing at all to eat after 8pm.
This started out as two meals a day, but I have managed to work it down to just one midday meal.
For the first three weeks I seemed to be dropping a steady half stone per week, the final 'push' below 13st took a little longer for some reason but I now seem to have settled around the 12st 8lb level for the last couple of weeks whilst returning to more normal eating, but maintaining the one meal a day rule.
Of course weekends are now 'free' and we indulge a bit with the English breakfasts and chips at the seaside, but the weekly regime seems to nullify the effect of this and I am not losing as much now and am within the guidelines printed on the tickets so I am officially not a fat git!
Bald...maybe.
