Hi Guys,
Thought I'd share my take on this whole fitness game everyone over the last couple of month's have probably gotten themselves into due to COVID19,
Bit about myself I'm a full time Uber Driver and have been doing it for over 3 Years, now driving isn't exactly active nor does it make anyone choose good lunch meals ;)
I started to take my health serious exactly after NYE, I did one of those what do you want to change different this year types of things.. I know a lot of people make those decisions and they last for a couple of weeks then it's forgotten about.. I was determined not to give up and I'm still 150 Days on continuing my routine!
The first step was to stop eating bad, so I stopped having Soft Drinks entirely.. Just look up all the ingredients for sugar, replaced that with water so my daily intake is now at least 3 Litres daily I'll get back to how I consume that later. Next it was onto what am I eating? I'm on the road so my options of take away are easily accessible just like others who maybe work an office job etc.. I have not touched McDonalds or any fast food over the past 150 Days. I made it a habit I would pack my own lunch put an ice-brick to keep it cold and bring it with me! Anyone can do this.. Fridge or no fridge
I'm eating Salad with diced avocado [Coles sell the avocado already diced and frozen] I eat fruit at least two pieces [Apple, Pear] I find these easy to snack on during the day. Sometimes I'll take left over dinners which might be spaghetti but I make sure the portion size is reasonable. With lunch I'll make sure to drink water usually before I consume my food it will make you feel fuller for longer as well.
Moving onto exercising! I never joined a Gym nor do I believe you have to! I live on hill on my street so I simply do a circuit around my estate which anyone can also do normally around 50mins when I was starting out and that would be 3km, the best approach I found was start smaller and get bigger I'm now doing 5km in 49mins just walking, I made the change to the 5km roughly a month into my routine start, I would also repeat this same walk in the afternoon after work.
When do I drink the water? I've always since the start made myself drink the entire 1Litre during and after my walks, with the increase in water consumption yes you'll be pee'ing more! and a good sign that you are hydrated is it will be clear not yellow :) I also drink ALOT of smoothies every morning and every afternoon Nice and easy Mango / Bananas chuck in some almonds and a vitabrix then some greek yougurt add water and blend! my breakfast is normally All Bran with some fruit and yougurt [Greek]
Over the past month I've started doing 50 Push-ups [On Knees] and 10 [On Toes] followed by 50 Sit-ups just on a yoga mat in my garage or any flat surface will do, to make things interesting I've also started playing on the Nintendo Switch [Ring Fit] which gets me moving usually put at least 15mins daily into that it can actually be a challenge too!
Do I Consume any vitamins? Yes I started taking B12 as originally I was going to stay away from meat products but that didn't last long I'm still taking B12 just before going to bed and I've found my body has more energy from it plus things like finger nails grow rather rapidly! I was also taking Q10 for a while only because I found it cheap at coles $0.40 for 60pk I'm off that now.. I just take the Centrium Multivitamin for Men in the morning and 2 Vitamin C tablets, then at night just two Vitamin C Tablets and the B12 Tablet it really does wonders for the body
Wrapping up… I tracked weight lost daily, I have graphs on my phone some weeks I gained weight even doing all my normal things and others it was tiny like 0.2kg difference just keep at it I say you'll get there in the end!
First weigh 79.1kg
Today 63.6kg
Thats a total 15.5kg loss ! I forgot to mention I'm 163cm tall so that makes me in the perfect range at the moment, If you made it this far thanks for reading and I hope this inspired you ^_^
Do you worry about eating the diced avocado from coles because it's from Peru