Weigh In

Hello everyone well still the same this fortnight still near the 88-89 mark on our scales so not moved, it's a case of more exercise me thinks so need to ramp it up bit more and see what transpires.

To say where I was and where I am now is a great achievement, to my mind and I'm really pleased with how far I have come on my weight loss journey it's not over just yet just need to keep on fighting a bit more, after all I have a title of a warrior now so I need to uphold that.

And a big thank you to everyone whom has left comments I do read them all and take note of what is being said to me. On a side note I recently went for a fasting blood test and other checks have been incorporated as well, namely cholesterol and blood sugar, both were quite high that was why I needed to lose the weight, not just that though I didn't enjoy being overweight really I felt very tired and sluggish at times and there has been noticeable improvements. But having high blood sugar was a big motivating factor and at the time my diet wasn't that great. When I get the results back I'll post here and let you know how they turned out.

Keep fighting :-)

What I Ate Today

Here is what I ate today.







So for breakfast had some.

Followed by for Lunch some










For tea or late lunch
















Beverages drunk were beer namely


Snacks included were a bar


as well as some crisps

Is Your Microwave Making You Fat ?

Is this one of those news stories that makes you think it's the radiation that would do this ?. Well in this case it's a no it isn't it's more of a case of what you put in it that matters, mind you everyone probably guessed that anyway. So what's the deal here then well it's down to some research that has done been done in the UK revolving around the causes of obesity.

Jane Wardle who is a professor has noted that obesity in this country shot up about the same time as the microwave oven boom around about 1984, around that time also more ready meals started appearing on our supermarket shelves, the facts speak for themselves about 1980 eight per cent of women were obese and six percent of men were. Now fast forward a lot of years to 20o4 and that figure jumps to twenty four percent for both men and women, that's a huge increase.

The scientists say they blame foods high in calories and less physical exercise, they also say our previous generations had higher calorie intake than we do know but there jobs where more physically demanding and hence they stayed slimmer.

The study came about because it became of interest of when the obesity epidemic started tracing back and it seemed to begin in and around 1984 to 1987

Prof Wardle said

"So then we looked at what changes were going on in the food and activity world at that time and one of the striking changes was there were differences in the speed with which we could prepare a meal as a consequence of the introduction of microwaves."

Also she noted that about this time food became cheaper and ready meals started to appear on our supermarket shelves.

It's not to say that using a microwave is a bad thing but a lot of the food that you buy of the shelves can have a lot of fat and sugar in it, ready meals that is although as in everything there are also healthy alternatives thing is a lot of people don't read the labels when buying these microwave meals there just so convient for busy people.
One of the scientists said supermarkets are to blame people use cars more now than ever before food is everywhere you go it's cheaper, people exercise less now than they used to.

Another scientist comments where that obesity can be tracked after the war 1945to be exact, just before this time there was less food about and in fact people overall where healthier. When new technolgies started to arrive they took the place of doing hard work in both work and pleasure.

We as a nation now have never had so much food in our lives no shortage that's for sure, I suppose in summing up it's all a matter of choice really.

I use our microwave for porridge (oatmeal) in the morning and various other things
source http://news.bbc.co.uk

Posts

Hello just a quick note about the gaps in posts I have been suffering from depression on and off and lost my steam for posting at present, my mind has gone numb it's probably a delayed reaction from what happened over the holiday period.

I want to get to my target weight and hopefully I will, it might take a bit longer but Im not that far off really, I thought it would be a good idea to post this I am human and things can and do happen and thought it was best to say something rather than nothing.

After all there is real life and there's the virtual world. I read somewhere that it's not a good idea to write posts like this but that's not me. Im more here is what's wrong rather than keep on posting for the sake of it.

Weigh In

Hi it's two weeks now since I weighed in here not much to tell really still about the same there may be a slight loss but its hard to see call it 88.5 so not a deal to tell really.

Here is how it looks