So, 1st of June. Not only important as it's my husband's birthday, but its the day the Strickers clan have embarked on Tim Ferris's '4 Hour Body'. In fact the 4 hours in our case is not relevant, the title refers to how you can build a body you want in only 4 hours of exercise in a month. Yep, you read it right readers, a month!
Given that I'm teaching 9 classes a week, I can't experiment on that like he says so I thought I would try the 'recomp your body' challenge instead. All of us in the house have a reason to shift some poundage and so we started today!
I like to see how these things work. So with 4 people of different body types, metabolisms and lifestyles in this house we have all agreed to follow it for at least 4 weeks. One fairly sedentary adult male, one adult female fitness instructor, one almost 18 year old female newly out of college and working in retail, one 16 year old female student with a prom dress to wear on 30th June!
So I did everyone's body fat measurement, circumferential measurements, took pics in undies front on, side on, rear on. As we have visible, measurable evidence now, we'd better start!
The rules are: (quite similar to Fit Camp rules really)
1) no white carbohydrate foods (or foods that could be white with refining) . Foods like sugar, flour, pasta, spuds...usual suspects really and not a problem for me, the rest of my gang may well miss spuds.
2) eat 4 times a day. COOL!! This does mean no snacking though (a possible problem for 16 year old) but when he lists it as breakfast, lunch, 2nd lunch and dinner. We reckon that's decadent and feel like we're being spoiled!
3) don't drink calories (problem for 18 year old who likes fruit juice)
4) don't eat fruit
5) take one day off per week (and eat what you want! :-) ) -- kind of liking this idea!
So, today I had:
Breakfast: courgette, onion, spinach and garlic 2 egg omelette, with lettuce, guacamole and cannellini beans.
Lunch 1: Salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, carrots) cold roast chicken thigh, refried beans, guacamole.
Lunch 2: Salad, tuna, white beans
Dinner: Vietnamese River Cobbler dusted in almond flour and shallow fried, stir fried onion, carrot, broccoli, peas, mashed cannellini beans (almost like mashed spuds!)
Feel neither stuffed, nor hungry. Day one done!
My weight this morning - 12 st 7lbs, BodyFat 22.9%
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Oh good -- another course!
Yesterday afternoon I found myself in Harley Street attending yet another course. I guess I am quite addicted to courses, but it was a fascinating romp through 'Bio-Typing' and how to use it as a practitioner.
Bio-Typing is the method of categorising people into groups with similar traits. Each group has similar physical attributes and personality characteristics that mark them out as a certain type of person. This type is then used to work out the best way to eat, lose fat, gain muscle, play sport etc.
Given that we all know that we're not the same (how can it be that one person can live on crap food and loads of it and yet never gain a pound and the rest of us... well you know how the story goes!). It makes sense to me that there may be a different way to achieve good health.
Alessandro Ferretti took us through a brief history of Bio Typing before taking us through to the bit we all wanted to hear, the different types. There are 5 types and the first thing you need to do to identify someone is consider their height. You then consider their torso, limb length, hand size maybe even gait. By this time he reckons you should have 80% of people down to a certain type. The remaining 20% may need further assessing or tweaking.
By the time all 8 of us had entered the room and sat down, Alessandro had already worked out what we all were. By the end of the description of different types some of us still didn't know what category we fell into, but he knew! With a few simple questions like 'do you like kids?', or 'would you be seen driving a Skoda?' he had us all convinced as to which category we should be in.
The dietary guidelines for each group vary so that all groups can have optimum good health. I am a 'P' type, I am going to try my new way for 4 weeks and see how I get on. I'll keep you posted!
The afternoon was a fascinating introduction into a method of health management that Alessandro has been using in his practice for many years with outstanding results.
For more information on how you can optimise your health with a combination of Bio-Typing and nutritional and health advice drop me a line at heidi@strickers.org.uk.
Bio-Typing is the method of categorising people into groups with similar traits. Each group has similar physical attributes and personality characteristics that mark them out as a certain type of person. This type is then used to work out the best way to eat, lose fat, gain muscle, play sport etc.
Given that we all know that we're not the same (how can it be that one person can live on crap food and loads of it and yet never gain a pound and the rest of us... well you know how the story goes!). It makes sense to me that there may be a different way to achieve good health.
Alessandro Ferretti took us through a brief history of Bio Typing before taking us through to the bit we all wanted to hear, the different types. There are 5 types and the first thing you need to do to identify someone is consider their height. You then consider their torso, limb length, hand size maybe even gait. By this time he reckons you should have 80% of people down to a certain type. The remaining 20% may need further assessing or tweaking.
By the time all 8 of us had entered the room and sat down, Alessandro had already worked out what we all were. By the end of the description of different types some of us still didn't know what category we fell into, but he knew! With a few simple questions like 'do you like kids?', or 'would you be seen driving a Skoda?' he had us all convinced as to which category we should be in.
The dietary guidelines for each group vary so that all groups can have optimum good health. I am a 'P' type, I am going to try my new way for 4 weeks and see how I get on. I'll keep you posted!
The afternoon was a fascinating introduction into a method of health management that Alessandro has been using in his practice for many years with outstanding results.
For more information on how you can optimise your health with a combination of Bio-Typing and nutritional and health advice drop me a line at heidi@strickers.org.uk.
Monday, February 7, 2011
100 days until my birthday...
So, on 18th May I shall no longer be 40. I really dreaded turning 40 last year, but now I've done it I quite like the new view over here so thought I would really focus myself on the last third of me being 40 and set some goals in order to GSD (get stuff done). I know I could have done this on 1 January, but I have not been too dynamic this year so far and needed something to give me a kick in the right direction.
I won't bore you with it too much, some of the goals are personal and you'll get an overview at best! The others I can be more specific with. 100 days is a good amount of time to GSD. There are several self-development programmes available which you can buy to help you keep your motivation up and success rate high. I have decided to see what I can achieve on my own, maybe with the support of my family where necessary. I am sure it will do them good too.
So...what does this mean exactly? Well if I make it public what my intentions are each week then I am more inclined to succeed. I have a few categories.
1. Health 2. Wealth 3. Personal / Family 4. Business / Development
Here's to the next 100 days...
P.S. Here is what I looked like on my 40th birthday...courtesy of the 'Sensible Pencil', a caricaturist I had at my party. He was good entertainment!
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