Im the CEO of my body

Hi Everyone,

How are your goals progressing?

The last 3 weeks have been manic for me, first the successes;

• my company landed a very prestigious contract, our best and biggest to date
• I have maintained my 99 kg, through a lot of healthy eating and portion control

And now my disappointments;

• Too much celebrating of the new contract, I still have not kicked the alcohol into touch!
• Very limited exercise

I guess with all successes you need some disappointments, they have to balance out.

Winning this contract has been huge for my little RFID company, it will change our business and marketing plans for 2010 & 2011, I have not done the 2012 plans yet. I will let you have more details next month when we start deployment. As soon as we found out we won the contract I had to change my plans for the next 3 months, I am back to working very long hours just to make sure we deliver beyond our customers’ expectations, this has stopped all my 3 day plans and I have had to live on “good health instinct”, the knowledge I have built up over the last 3 months on good food and portion control. I cannot stress enough it is not only important to lose weight but to learn how to maintain that weight lose. I am so glad I have not only lost weight but learnt the basics of maintaining weight lose and living healthily.

On the exercise front, due to unforeseen reasons I now have my kids 24/7, as a single, full time working parent, there is very little time to yourself and if there is any, personally I sleep. I thought I was fit, blow that, doing what I am now doing is far more exhausting than running 20 km every day. I have 2 more weeks of being both parents but I am enjoying spending the extra time with my kids. They have really kicked in with me on the healthy eating front and we are cooking a lot together, my 3 year old loves making salads with me.

With the start of a new month (it is already March in Australia) I am putting in more effort to get back into weight lose mode, back to my 3 day plans and regular exercise. Wish me luck.

Well, I have to go, I have a flight in a few hours, school lunches to make, bags to pack….

Keep well & I would love to hear how you are doing. Are 3 day Plans working for you?

Jon

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all still on track for getting healthy. Who has slacked off on a New Year’s resolution?

I am loving the Mediterranean (Med) style food (diet), I am finding it so easy to keep too, the food is great. In Australia we have an abundance of seafood and fresh fruit and vegies (Australian slang for vegetables) , since I have lived or worked in 55 countries  so far, I am sure you can all find good quality food albeit at different prices. Fish is now my main meal of the day, most days and I am cooking a roast beef or lamb for the 1 meat day per week, it is nice to have  a big family meal altogether. For the vegies (there is that word again) I have turned off from the normal root vegetables that go with a roast and am concentrating on more Med style vegies; grilled peppers, mushroom in olive oil & garlic and my latest find, Grilled Cherry Tomatoes With Garlic.

Grilled Cherry Tomatoes With Garlic

Ingredients

• 24 cherry tomatoes  (3 to 4 cm diameter)
• 1 large garlic cloves , cut into slivers
• 1 tablespoon olive oil 
• 1 cup snipped fresh coriander (cilantro) chopped
• 4 fresh basil leaves , chopped
• 1 teaspoon sugar 
• 1/4 teaspoon salt 

Directions

1. Remove stems from tomatoes. Cut top off each tomato, with the tip of a sharp knife, pierce tomatoes. Carefully insert a sliver of garlic into each tomato.
2. Place tomatoes in the centre of a sheet of foil. Drizzle tomatoes with the olive oil; sprinkle with coriander, basil, sugar and salt. Bring the two long sides of the foil together and seal with a double fold. Fold remaining edges together to completely enclose tomatoes.
3. Grill tomatoes on the rack of a grill directly over coals or gas burners for 4 to 5 minutes or until heated through. Or bake in a preheated 175 deg C. oven for 4 to 5 minute or until heated through.
4. To serve, carefully open foil packet(watch out for hot steam!). Move tomatoes to a serving platter. Sprinkle with salt and serve immediately.

All this is done on my trusty BBQ, I will get some pics next week of our Aussie BBQ Roast, my Aunty Margaret is coming over for a Birthday  roast.

Maik & Scott have killed me on alcohol (red wine) in their blog last week. I am not losing the KGs, so I am going to have to kick my red wine addiction into touch. There are studies that show that if you do something with a certain stimulant in your body, your body craves that stimulant when it requires you to do the same activity. This is true for alcohol, caffeine and other prescription & non-prescription drugs. I have hit 99 KG, let’s see if kicking out red wine in my next two 3 day plans works, I am planning on doing 20 mins of floor exercises if my body craves red wine. Wish me luck.

Week 6 was my relax on the exercise week, my first 3 day plan was no exercise and the second 3 day plan was only 50% of my previous weeks massive amount. I think it was a good stage for me to take a week off the exercise and just concentrate on my food and allow my body to settle. This week (7) I am back into full exercise, I have found that no matter how much exercise I do, approx 2 hour per day, I need to consume at least 1600 Kcal of good food to maintain my mental stamina to keep on going on my weight lose journey, Biggest Looser talk there. Biggest Loser Australia has started again and I love the show, especially Master Class on Friday nights, www.thebiggestloser.com.au/home.htm , check it out, Dr Norman Swan is a great health advocate.

Well that is it for this week. I wish you all a good week, until next week,

Jon

Hi Everybody,

How was your week? Did you all manage to attain some of your goals.

My 3 day plans are still working out well, I have now moved them into my business life, I used to work on Annual, Quarterly Weekly goals, I have now added a 3 day plan for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and then another for Thursday and Friday, believe it or not I am getting more work done. By stacking the majority of my weekly work load into the 1st 3 days, it allows me Thursday and Friday for the ”heavier” tasks.

Weight, well I did not achieve my 98 kg goal, I did hit 99 kg a few times in the week but it was not enough, I am still 100 kg. I kept to my Mediteranian diet / ISO Diet which from Maria’s Blog sounds the best one. I have to say I feel a lot better having cut down on red meat to once a week, I have more energy and I think I am sleeping better. The next thing I really have to do something about is alcohol, I tried to cut it out in January but I couldn’t no matter how hard I tried, I think alcohol or more specifically wine is my emotional food for when things do not go the way I want them too, emotional eating.

http://stress.about.com/od/unhealthybehaviors/a/eating.htm is a very good article on Emotional Eating

This week I am going to cut out wine on my 1st 3 day plan, so far on day 2 I have not had a drop in 2 days, and see if I can cut it out also in my next 3 day plan.

My Fabulous January of Exercise, take a look at these numbers in comparison to my previous months!! I challenge you all (except Maik) to put in a better month.

January was my Skyscaper month, February I hope to do more of the same, I am taking a few days off to rest my body but I am back into it tomorrow.

My new hobby of Stand Up Paddling, SUP is going well, I went for 2 paddles over the weekend, both at 6am. On the first one I was joined by some other SUPers and I made everyone breaky aftyerwards, instead of doing the normal bacon & egg rolls I did a fresh fruit breaky, everybody loved it. Why don’t you try something new this week in your exercise regime? Let me know what you get up to, it does not have to be a new activity it could be just doing a regular one differently, variety is the spice of Life.

Well I had better go, I still have a mountain for work to do and put the kids to bed. 98 kg is still my goal for the week!

Jon