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Hi Greg,
I don't have oatmeal on my diet but I'm sure that the 55g is without water, part of the process of cooking it is that is becomes saturated with the water and therefore becomes heavier. May be best to check with Pema as I'm no nutritionist - as my previous eating habits will show.
Salads are indeed like eating grass. Luckily I can have peppers and some beansprouts in the mix to liven things up. Hopefully after a couple of weeks you can add a little olive oil or something like that - not sure whats on your plan.
I cycle approx. 30ks-50ks per week, swim for 1/2 an hour about twice or three times a week and have two dogs that eat my house if not walked a couple of Ks each day. I think the best thing is not to incorporate a new fitness regime when starting out because your body needs time to adjust to it's new diet and get used to the balance. Also you're calorific intake may be reduced and certain exercise could knock your balance out of sync. When I hit my target weight I will up my fitness plan and already not hauling 27KGs around makes everything easier, looking forward to losing more so life will be easier again. The excellent thing about the MB diet is you will be losing weight even whilst sleeping - and only weight you don't want - your muscles stay as they are, they just become more defined because they are not covered in layers of fat tissue.
( I sailed out to Macau and some of the other islands in HK harbour when I was over there a couple of years ago - fascinating place)
I agree that 5 hours is a pain in the neck, especially with work etc. I've missed it a couple of times and I think thats just life getting in the way. For me it was having the discipline and organising myself to ensure I had the right types of food available and made the effort to get the timing right. But work, family, trafffic, friends, pets and life don't care for our routines, so no magic answers on this one.
Continued good luck, the best bits for me so far have been,
- My wife being able to actually join her hands around my waist as she hugs me
- Getting past halfway towards my target weight
- Getting compliments from almost everyone about how much better and younger I look
- Buying clothing "off the peg" and not from the fat bloke shop - gone from 3XL to XXL, waist back down from 44 to less than 40
- Getting back into the trousers I wore on my wedding day ( 8 years ago)
- Coming back from being "morbidly obese" to just overweight
- Being able to work a full 14 hour day without an afternoon nap when busy - financially important because I'm commission based as a salesman.
- Not being the fattest person in the gym
Whenever I feel like eating junk ( which I still do), I think about some or all of the above - then McDonalds profits take another hit!
Regards,
Rich
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