30th July 2015
Accept what is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be.
I made my casserole as planned yesterday, actually it was a chicken
hotpot which I'll eat today, as I ended up making a curry too. When I went to Asda they had large chickens
reduced to £2.79! Well I bought two
didn't I and as usual don't have any room in the freezer, so I skinned and
portioned them, made my hot pot from the legs and a curry in the slow cooker
from the breasts. The curry was quite
high in ProPoints so that was my last supper last night because today I'm 100%
on track, on it like a car bonnet and have promised to do it properly and stop
messing about! Yep because the lovely
Julie had a word with me last night and she's going to be keeping my weigh
card, I'd also had a chat with a dietician earlier in the week and we'd both
agreed we didn't give the BMI chart much credit but apparently the magic waist
number is 32 inches for ladies and 36 for men.
Why?
Because your
risk of some health problems is affected by where your body fat is stored, as
well as by your weight. Carrying too much fat around your middle (waist) can
increase your risk of developing conditions such as heart disease, type 2
diabetes and cancer
So I've googled it and
this is how to measure your waist:
· find the bottom of your ribs and the top of your
hips
· breathe out naturally
· wrap a tape measure around your waist midway
between these points to find your measurement
Yes you read that
correctly breathe out naturally, don't suck it all in trying to save yourself
an inch!
One
positive for me is I'm pear shaped, well I used to be, hitting middle age has
changed my shape a bit and I'm storing more fat around my weight. Again according to the experts most people
are apple-shaped or pear-shaped. This means that when you put on weight, the
fat is either stored around your hips (pear-shaped) or around your middle
(apple-shaped). If you're overweight
and apple-shaped, you have a higher risk of health problems than if you're
pear-shaped.
The NHS website says;
You have
a higher risk of health problems if your waist size is:
- more than 94cm (37 inches) if you're a man
- more than 80cm (31.5 inches) if you're a woman
Your risk
of health problems is even higher if your waist size is:
- more than 102cm (40 inches) if you're a man
- more than 88cm (34.5 inches) if you're a woman
With this information in place and after my chat with Julie, I've given
myself a kick up the bum, this lose, lose, gain, maintain cha cha cycle has to
stop, I still weigh the same I did on New Year's eve, it's now the end of
July! I know Julie won't let me get away
with it (she has in fact become my leader of a sort! Scary thought!)
So yeah, I'm on track this morning, thinking not just about what I can
eat but how I can actually make that fit within my ProPoints or I may go with F&H
today because of the Chicken Hotpot, all the ingredients are F&H, skinned chicken
legs, carrots, onions, potatoes, chicken oxo cubes. I only used 400g potato (8pp) on the whole
dish which has 4 legs (7pp each) in, so at most it's 9pp a portion which isn't
bad at all.
Anyway, I need to get a wriggle on, got a meal plan to sort, I've got 5
weeks till my new meeting open on September 5th, it'd be nice to lose half
stone for sure!
Here's to a healthy middle age, rather than heading towards diabetes I
say!
Enjoy your day BeYOUtiful, take care of you because you're important
too!
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