I should have posted this last night actually ON Day 2 but got stuck into watching Downton Abbey and "For the love of Dog!" which we'd recorded on planner and then, exhausted (maybe the emotional tribulations of Downton were too much for me??) staggered up to bed before 10 - unheard of for me. So, only a few hours late:
I'm settling into
the Fulton Plan and, I must say, I'm happy to be back on a waggon whatever
waggon it might happen to be.
[Grammar/Spelling
aside - as I wrote that last sentence I was struck by the spelling of waggon -
"is it waggon or wagon?" I wondered. So, being a conscientious blogger, I
looked it up and discovered that both are correct but that waggon is becoming
archaic and has fallen out of usage in American English. Of course, I
immediately plumped for my original choice, waggon!! "Stick with the old ways!"
I croak. Nah, not really, I just think waggon looks better. Of course they
both look ridiculous now that I have written them several
times.....]
Yesterday, I managed
to stick to the structure of the plan and did 3 loads of POMs. The structure
is, as I've mentioned, somewhat fiddley as it affects the timings of meals and
exercise (sorry "movement") but I think I can work within his recommendations.
The main idea is to do some movement before you eat; in the morning, 3 hours
before you eat but for your other 2 meals a gap of only 15 or 30 minutes is
fine. When I'm working from home this is easy as I'm in control of my time but
in the office it may be slightly harder.
Yesterday I didn't
really manage to follow the low-carb element of the plan as I was eating up
stuff from the fridge and hadn't got the right stuff in. But I'm not going to
sweat it, I didn't eat badly, just too much carbohydrate. It will be gradually
reduced to an acceptable level.
One good thing I did
manage to achieve though was to dig some ancient green tea out of my cupboard
and get back into drinking that. The plan advocates a black coffee first thing
to stimulate ones metabolism and fat-burning but does not recommend drinking too
much caffeine for obvious reasons. I can only really manage one black coffee
anyway or I get the shakes. And normal tea with milk no good as milk stops you
fat-burning. Sweeteners are not good either as the sweetness (calorie free or
not) make the body anticipate food and stop fat-burning (he did explain the
chemical stuff but I haven't got it down pat yet). So, green tea is what he
recommends and I understand that, chemically speaking, it actively encourages
fat-burning too so a double benefit. Once I started it was very palatable
although I haven't completely kicked the sweetened tea and will proabbly still
have the odd with with meals.
I managed the 3 lots
of exercise (sorry, again, "movement") via a dog walk first thing, personal
training at lunchtime and dancing in the evening. Other days it might be only 3
walks but I intend to fit in at least 2 sessions of aerobic or weight-based
movement every week.
As another aside,
dancing is coming along really well. After 2 solid years with only a few
Mondays missed, we are finally beginning to look like dancers. We've had a
summer of practising our dances rather than learning new steps as people are
away for longer periods so it wouldn't be fair to forge ahead and leave them
behind. This was initially a bit dull but, now that we've really got the tricky
numbers sorted, we are beginning to enjoy them properly. The waltz, tango, cha
cha, jive, rumba and samba are all pretty good but we're lagging behind on the
quickstep and foxtrot. I'm loving the waltz and tango! Last night the waltz in
particular really clicked. We are managing not only to go round the room
(including those pesky corners) but also to negotiate Other People on the floor
(they are soooo inconvenient at times what with the dancing really slowly and
the randomly stopping front of us etc etc). And, having managed that, we are
also beginning to think what we look like too. Lifting our chins and elbows up,
rising and falling (a bit), not looking at our feet in the tricky bits and even
smiling at one another occasionally. It's almost as though we can dance.....
I love the look on
Rich's face when he sucessfully leads me through a spin turn sequence in the
waltz and we end up dancing off in the right direction or when we've managed the
twist turn in the tango (which we both hate) leaving us doing the flick section
faultlessly (it's weird, everyone else has no problem with the twist turn but
struggles with the flicks whereas we have always been the other way round).
It's lovely and just goes to show that good things DO come to those who
wait.
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