The Start

This is the first day of the thinner me

I know I'm not fat. Let's just get that straight. But I used to weigh 58kg and could eat whatever I liked and my weight remained constant. The DAY I hit 30, this all changed and since then I've put on a kilogram a year and extrapolating this into the future is unbearable. The worst part about it is that I can see where those extra kgs are! I've never been on a diet before, so this weekend is the start of my first (and hopefully only) diet ever. So far, I've spent heaps of time planning what I'm going to eat for the last 2 days and the purpose of this blog is to make that job easier for you (if it works). If I can be below 60kg in 2 months time, then this blog will be a recipe for how to get there. Let's hope it works!

First... this is the starting point. I tried to remember what I'd eaten in the last week:

DAY	BREAKFAST	SNACK	LUNCH	SNACK	SUPPER	DRINKS
SAT	Egg, bacon, toast, tomato, honey, apple juice				Quinoa, avo, salad, ice cream, chocolate sauce	?
SUN	Fruit, yoghurt, raisins		¼ Avo, rice cakes, goat's cheese		250g steak, chips, salad, crème brulee, peppermints	2 wine 4 water
MON	Fruit, yoghurt, raisins	Bag of M&Ms		Nut chocolates	Grilled red pepper, goats cheese, veggie saussage, salad	3 water 1 passion fruit cordial
TUES	ProNutro, coffee latte		Salad, toasted rye, butter	2 granidilla	Veggi Sushi	3 glasses water
WED	Strawberry yoghurt, coffee latte		Butternut tart, salad	2 granidilla	Penne arrabiata,ice cream	2 wine 1 lime& soda 4 water
THURS	Strawberry yoghurt, coffee latte		Thai green curry (veg), rice, salad	Dried mango, dates, 2 granidilla, tiny Lindt choc	Salad, feta, bacon	2 water

And I went to see a nutritionist (not a dietitian) who showed me that I was eating mostly sugar and that that's where the stomach has come from.  She didn't tell me much about how to fix it and I left the consultation after spending R1207 on her time, some Omega 3, Vitamin B, Pro-biotics and something called Herbal Fiberblend.  Here they all are:

She seemed to think that these are sufficient weapons of mass destruction but didn't give me much of a clue about what I should eat.

Besides the tyre around my stomach, these are some other things that she made me realise are diet-related, or, more specifically, due to peaking and dipping blood sugar levels:
- I haven't had much energy for gym or exercise recently
- By the end of the day, I am often bloated
- Sometimes I wake with a headache
- I'm constantly hungry
- I've often got a runny nose

One of the documents she sent me mentioned Glycemic Load, so I've been reading up on Patrick Holford's Low-GL diet and this is what I'm going to follow.  I haven't understood it all yet, but I'll share it with you as I understand it.

Patrick Holford recommends that one also takes a Vitamin C supplement so I've added this to my WMD.

Sundays are going to be my weighing and measuring day.  Today's stats are:
9am, no water yet, after toilet, nude...
64kg (which is actually less already)
Stomach measurement: 88cm (going over moles on back and stomach!)
Let's get some gross pics:

I could be 20 weeks pregnant! (but I'm not!)

I can actually grasp the fat! (YUCK!)

The dreaded scale - weigh in #1.

OK - so that's the starting point!  I'm going keep a blog of everything I eat for the next week and I'm hoping that this picture has changed next Sunday!

Just so that you all know what 6KGs look like...