Jun
15
I’ve got a bet with my wife – she doesn’t think I’ll be able to lose two stone by our anniversary at the end of August and I’m adamant I can.
When I was at school I was always a bit chubby, then when I left school and started working I lost weight bery quickly, possibly too much at one point – but then when I moved to Jersey and got married it piled on. Read More
Jan
26
You might have noticed that I haven’t exactly kept up with this regular diet diary idea – it isn’t that I haven’t kept up with my diet (although to a certain extent I haven’t) – it’s just that I got a bit bored.
I love food, I love cooking, I love combining flavours and most of all I love eating – so why would I write about the absence of food – or at least something that makes me considers the absence of food?
Well I’ve decided to start again; I do like the idea of writing a diary of my eating habits – but approach in a less dogged way.
Instead of saying – time to get rid of the junk and write about what I have and haven’t eaten – I’m going visual.
I’ve been trying to think of a way to bring back my much ignored video podcast for a while but its one of those ideas that is constantly put to the back of my mind every time something shiny enters my line of site.
Well I’ve decided to combine the two problems of being bored with a diet diary and too easily distracted for a video blog and create a diet vlog.
Yup I’m going to show you what happens when I make food, I’m going to talk to you about my diet and I’m going to rant when I can’t have a bar of chocolate.
But I’m also going to look into alternatives to the bars of chocolate, try and avoid eating at my desk and generally use it to take my mind off not having all the junk that normally fills the gap in my day.
Some posts will be with a proper video camera, others with a mobile phone and some will be recorded with my webcam – but all, hopefully, won’t be too awful.
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Jan
7
Okay so the first day of my diet is over and as with the end of the first day of every diet I’ve ever done in my life – so far so good. Basically I’ve managed to get through a day.
The day started with a cup of black Darjeeling tea (two sugars in a very big cup) and was rapidly followed by a half mile walk up a very steep hill to take my two children to school and then another half mile walk to work along a straight.
Work and out come the raisins, another cup of tea this time good old Tetley (black two sugars) a walk up three flights of stairs and a few hours in front of the computer.
Water and hte raisins I brought in from home to see me through at my desk until lunch when a trip downstairs to the kitchen was needed to make some soup.
Then spent a bit of time outside walking my baby up and down the road in his pushchair while my wife did a bit of light lunchtime shopping.
Back to my desk, more water and a ginger nut biscuit (god how did I manage to have just one) to dip in my tea (black two sugars and tetley).
Then a mile long walk home in the freezing cold.
I couldn’t be bothered to cook once I’d got the kids fed, kids to bed, had a shower and washed up from the kids dinner.
So my dinner consisted of two Linda McCartney vegetarian burgers in a bowl with a bit of malt vinegar and daddies sauce for taste.
Oh and another big cup of Darjeeling tea (black two sugars) and a can of Ben Shaws Cloudy Lemonade.
Since then I’ve been on the computer. Night!
Jan
7
This is going to be something of a confession post. I’ve been dieting, watching my weight, exercising more and every other excuse for not actually sorting my health out for years.
I’m about 5’ 7” and currently weight (however much I try to blame it on the scales) about 16 stone with a stomach that reaches the door about a week before I do.
The problem is that I like food, actually no I’ll go one step further than that – I love food.
Actually I can’t say ‘love’ food in the context I’m talking about – yes I do LOVE food in the taste, texture and artistic concept but in this context a better word would be obsessed with food.
I’m a geek and work in an industry that involves long periods of time sitting in front of a computer screen at my desk.
Working at a desk all day means I regularly pick at food all day and in most cases this is utterly crap food – not the sort of food anyone could love – more food that you just kind of eat.
Crisps, fizzy drinks, cakes, pot noodles etc….
There has only been two times in my life I’ve successfully lost wait and kept it off for more than a day or two.
The first was when I was sixteen and was working every evening/night while going to school during the day – this meant I had something like 30 minutes a day to grab something to eat while constantly on my feet the rest of the time.
The second time was about five years ago when I decided, for fun, to keep a diary of everything I eat and did over the course of a month on bbc.co.uk/jersey.
The shame of spending the first week or so writing about all the crap I was eating shamed me into making my diet healthier. This proved successful and I got myself down to a reasonable weight.
But I stopped writing the diary before any real habit was able to form – so the weight went back on pretty quickly.
As I don’t want to change my job I’ve decided to give the diary thing another go – after all I have a blog that demands huge amounts of content to stay active.
This is the introduction post.
Hello, my name is Ryan and I’m an over eater! I’m currently just under 16 stone and need to get down to at most 11 stone.
Apr
24
I love watch Oz Clarke and James May when they’re on screen together – the two shows they’ve done so far have been both heartwarming and funny as well as charming and disturbing – all at the same time.
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