Good Times

This week the training has really kicked up a gear. I've run 13.7 miles twice (2:42 on the second one) plus a couple of shorter things. Today I ran another ParkRun PB and got my best position (due, no doubt, to all the bank holiday absentees) and then ran half of the Robin Hood half marathon course as prep for the race.

I also had my weigh in - and I've dropped all my holiday weight plus an extra pound! So I'm back to having lost over 3 stone this year and, with the holiday season over, I'll hopefully keep it off.

So how does a slow carb diet guy celebrate losing three stone? Like this!!!!

CHEAT DAY!!!

Oh, and I've found this documentary so inspiring, I've watched it twice

SCD Week 5

Been working away a few days this week and it's been hard to find SCD friendly food. Twice I've ended up getting kebab meat and salad and once I plumped for a roast chicken for £2.50! I ended up eating most of it over 2 meals. Not ideal but there you go. Better than Maccy D's.

On my cheat day run I did 7 miles (longest yet). I ate some wine gums while running, or rather put them in my mouth and then spat them out - I could actually taste the cherry flavouring in the red ones and found all of them unappetising.

I ate a fish finger and cheese toasted sandwich for dinner and had 2 and a half slices of Asda pizza. That was all it took for the roof of my mouth to get sore.

Drank a can of diet coke - slowly - could just about take the sweetness.

This week I lost

1kg (2 lbs)
1 TI
0.3 BMI

I've given up measuring the comically inaccurate body fat.

In total I've lost

6.5 kg (14.3 lbs)
8 TI
2.4 BMI

and today at Parkrun 191 I ran 1.03 faster than last week even though I felt I was taking it easier. That's 1:06 off my PB.

SCD: CHEAT DAY 1!

I've been keeping a list of things I got a craving for through the week so that I spend my cheat day on the things I REALLY wanted to eat. Surprisingly there was lots of things I eat tons of that I had no desire to eat - passed right by the crisps, chocolate, fizzy pop, beer, noodles etc

There was only cheesecake that didn't make it as a) I didn't have much money on me and b) didn't think I could stomach 3 puddings in one day.

The ice cream and pineapple slices were lovely, everything else was OK except the cake which was so sweet it was horrible - ditto the Fanta Fruit Twist (which I normally love)

Dinner and family film night. Heard Tim say on a podcast that one side effect of the diet is you want to eat better quality crap and that's true - I held the onions on my pizza and had garlic and kebab meat instead. On second thoughts that's probably not what he meant...

I accidentally bought the creme egg and had to save it for a week. 

We watched The Incredibles. Still a classic.