This blog is to chart my progress trying out some online personal training to attempt to get into some sort of shape. I'm using Matt at Fitter Confident You after some friends recommended him, and this week is the start of it so we shall see how it goes. In case anyone wonders, no I'm not getting paid or bribed in any way to write this, so if it turns out to be a load of rubbish I'll say so. But I hope it won't be!
The first part before starting was answering some questions about my body, lifestyle and diet to get a personalised nutrition and exercise plan. Thankfully my diet's already pretty reasonable and the calorie goal was around what I already used on MyFitnessPal, but the alarming part came when I read the bit about increasing my protein intake - the target was about 3 times my current one! This was going to take some work!
My biggest fear, I think, is the exercises. Not the fear of doing exercise in general, as a rower (for pleasure, rather than competition!) and having done bits and bobs on and off, I can cope with that. But this was going to involve going to the gym and doing things in there I'd never tried before, and if there's one thing that strikes fear into me, it's the weights area of a gym! So that's the bit I'm currently most worried about.
But before all that, I spent today googling recipes for high protein snacks and foods. This proved harder than expected when it turned out they pretty much all wanted me to eat a ton of nuts, which just isn't going to happen.
I spent my childhood being told I was a fussy eater by my dad, which is ironic given how now I'm old enough, I see he's so much worse. All it really comes down to is that we like very different things. He likes spicy food and vegetables but hates most meat, whereas I like most meat and hate spicy food. In fact, when it comes down to it, the things I really dislike aren't that terrible:
The first part before starting was answering some questions about my body, lifestyle and diet to get a personalised nutrition and exercise plan. Thankfully my diet's already pretty reasonable and the calorie goal was around what I already used on MyFitnessPal, but the alarming part came when I read the bit about increasing my protein intake - the target was about 3 times my current one! This was going to take some work!
My biggest fear, I think, is the exercises. Not the fear of doing exercise in general, as a rower (for pleasure, rather than competition!) and having done bits and bobs on and off, I can cope with that. But this was going to involve going to the gym and doing things in there I'd never tried before, and if there's one thing that strikes fear into me, it's the weights area of a gym! So that's the bit I'm currently most worried about.
But before all that, I spent today googling recipes for high protein snacks and foods. This proved harder than expected when it turned out they pretty much all wanted me to eat a ton of nuts, which just isn't going to happen.
I spent my childhood being told I was a fussy eater by my dad, which is ironic given how now I'm old enough, I see he's so much worse. All it really comes down to is that we like very different things. He likes spicy food and vegetables but hates most meat, whereas I like most meat and hate spicy food. In fact, when it comes down to it, the things I really dislike aren't that terrible:
- Carrots
- Mushrooms
- Coconut
- Nuts
- Very spicy food
- Most green vegetables.
Well OK, so the last one might be an issue. But I've previously lost over 10kg in a sustainable way without eating a single salad, so it can't be that bad!
The high protein recipes basically called for lots of eggs and lots of chicken. I also found a lot of them going on about cottage cheese, greek yogurt and something called chia seeds which I'd never seen, let alone heard of. A quick trip to Aldi (surprisingly they stocked everything I wanted) and I have a fridge full of that sort of thing. Now I just need to decide what to cook with it.
I've started off the easy route by setting up a lamb stew in the slow cooker to go overnight. Hopefully it'll taste nice when it's done.
Here's my (thrown together semi-randomly) recipe:
300g diced Lamb
330ml Lamb Stock
90g chopped Leeks
90g chopped Mixed Peppers
100g sliced Courgette
225g chopped Onion
2 cloves Garlic, crushed
1 tin chopped Tomatoes
1 dessert spoon Cornflower
A sprinkle of salt and pepper to season
A sprinkle of oregano
A splash of Lea & Perrins
I browned the meat in a pan, then bunged it in the slow cooker overnight. Hopefully in the morning I'll wake up to something nice for tomorrow's dinner, and not a bizarre mush.
Now to think of a way to make chicken breasts interesting...
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