I need a Mr Motivator...

There’s no two ways about it, I’m definitely feeling gently discouraged this morning. The scales have not been kind the last few days and although I’m still showing a solid downward trend on weight my body fat percentage trend is nowhere near as clear cut and I’m starting to wonder if I’m losing fat on fast days only to steadily regain over the following week, and repeat ad nauseum.

Anyway, soldiering on with the aim of looking thin in my bridesmaid’s dress in June and a lesser goal of not being mistaken for a dugong on the beach in Goa (and of course good health etc) this week I’m going to add some exercise to the mix.

The Fast Diet Book says that you can exercise on fast days, and anecdotal evidence even suggests that some people get a better work out whilst fasting. So far I’ve been doing yoga in the evening of my second fast day (Mondays) but it’s a fairly gentle 60 minute Vinyassa class with a teacher who gives classes in someone’s garden in the village and I haven’t been doing anything on either Sunday or exercising on Tuesday before breaking my fast. 

On Sundays I find it’s difficult to motivate myself anyway and where I would normally book a class or plan something specific to force my own hand I find myself quite looking forward to my evening meal on fast days (this is an enormous understatement)and I don’t want to be getting home at 2030 or later to start cooking. So last week I collared one of the instructors in the gym in the village and booked a personal training session for this evening at 1900.

My concerns at this point are:

• He’s going to be enormously disapproving of fasting, or at least of trying to combine exercise and fasting
• I’m going to faint
• I’m going to find it really boring

On the food side I will be having a grapefruit for breakfast both fast mornings this week as I’ve gone for slightly higher calorie dinners. Tonight (after personal training eek!) I’ll be having a sweet potato rosti with a fried egg and herbed Ricotta (150 g sweet potato, 1 ½ tsp olive oil, 1 egg, ¼ cup of ricotta with fresh herbs, 359 calories). Tomorrow night is mango and chicken couscous: http://www.bbcgoodfoodme.com/recipes/3002/sticky-chicken-with-mango-couscous?GEO_REDIRECTED=true#.VqR0iVKVAt8

 

On Monday I’ll go to yoga again, and Tuesday I will force myself out of bed to go for a run before breaking my fast… Updates to follow later in the week :-)