Introduction

I feel slightly hypocritical writing a health and fitness blog as I polish off a chocolate muffin, smothered in Ben and Jerry's baked Alaska! I have decided to attempt to diet down sub 10% body fat and am indulging this morning before I start this afternoon. The awesome Leigh Peele, in one of her recent podcast advised against waiting for the perfect diet. She advised to get into a deficit ASAP and fine tune as you go! Lets hope she's right, as I'm feeling slightly guilty now!!

Why am i wasting time writing a blog that no one will read?

This is a good question and one I don't know the answer too!
I Think its because I get questions from friends, family etc on my diet, training & how I keep my diet interesting while on a diet. The plan is to share all this info here. Besides that, Ollie keeps spamming my training journal on McT's site, making it unreadable, More about Ollie later!

About me, I'm coming off an injury and would estimate that I'm about 14% body fat. This is quite high for me. I am however, unconcerned about this increase in fatness. In May 2009 I was pushing 14stone and was almost a 40" waist. At age 27 I had all the markers of poor health. Fast forward 12 months and I was 68kg's at about 10% body fat.

How did I do it?

The term lifestyle change is thrown about too often. It conjures up images of celery sticks and water for most people. This has not been my experience. I love what I eat and eat what I love. I will try and share recipes as this goes on.
I think it would be good to give a shout out to where I have taken my inspiration from and to who has helped & inspired me over the course of the last year or so.

First Up, Neil McT.
At this point in time if Neil told me to jump off a mountain, I probably would.
Neils Diet Plan is where my journey started. I still live by it principles.

Ollie- the spamming maniac mentioned above. If ever i need inspiration I read Ollie's
Blog or training journal. I will ask him to update with his latest pics. Ollie has lost more than 8 stone in 30 weeks, he has gone from a self confessed hog, to a lean mean spamming machine.

Stratty - Stratty is a legend, always on hand to offer advice on training and diet to everyone. Check out his new venture here. My blog intends to be far more self centered than his


The Fitcast - I love the fitcast. It is awesome, download it, listen to it. Enjoy the Knowledge bombs

Dom - Dom's blog usually has some good nuggets of info on it. Take a look here

So now to the purpose of my blog.

What have stuffed in between my chins today??

Well the day started off terrible, the chocolate muffin and Ben and jerry's no doubt played havoc with my blood insulin levels.

since then, I have had the following

1* banana
1* Chocolate shake - one of the best tasting out there, in my opinion

As you can see the day started off a mess!
however, I am in the process of fixing it.

Chicken fajita & spinach salad.
Peppers, Onions, Chicken, chili, garlic - covered in Smoked Paprika & Ground Cumin.
This is served up on a bed of spinach covered in Olive oil & home made salsa.

Chicken Madras - Peppers, onions, chick peas, coriander, chillies, garlic, canned tomatoes, pataks madras paste (not ideal but the carb content isn't too high and is quicker and easier)

Eggs and bacon.

Training

I'm not training today, i am sore and have an evening of foam rolling ahead of me. Not something i really enjoy, it hurts like hell and i look a bit of a fool dry humping a piece of foam, but needs must!

I'd like to thank my girlfriend for reading this, its likely she'll be the only reader.