Stage 3 is going to be your typical calorie counting approach. Due to weird sleeping patterns, I’ll be doing a ‘weekly calorie count’ – my TDEE is apparently 1,620 calories, meaning I should cut down to around 1,300 calories a day to lose weight.
1,300 x 7 = 9,100 calories a week (but let’s aim for 9,000 calories a week).
Disclaimer: I hate counting calories, and find it tedious. Figure if I break it up by week, I can have 2 x 2000 calorie days, and 5 x 1000 calorie days. Not sure how I’ll break it up yet, but here goes nothing….
WEEK ONE:
Actually writing about daily weight loss when you’re on a normal calorie counted diet isn’t going to be too thrilling – either to write or for anyone to read! But, after 7 days, I’m down to 10st6.1 and 31.1% fat. That’s slightly under 1lb down, not necessarily as fast as I’d like, but I’m not going to complain about it.
WEEK ONE WEIGH IN: 10st6.1
WEEK TWO:
Again, I stuck to 5 days of 1K calories, and 2 days of 2K calories. Had maybe one slip along the way, but got back on track quick enough.
FINAL WEIGH IN: 10st5
I’m taking a diet break for a week or so now. Day one of period was 16th Feb, and I weighed in back up at 10st6 (as to be expected). As I’m measuring from ‘Day One of Period’ to cut out the monthly cycle factor, I’m only 3lbs down since December! (although if you take it from highest weight, after Christmas eating, I’m 8lbs down – amazing how many ways you can look at it).
Yet to decide on next diet phase, but will be before my trip to Oslo.
