8 Week Challenge - Day 16
Today I had my second appointment with my dietitian. I was really looking forward to it because I wanted to ask what had caused my weight gain. According to the dietitian I had done well with my meal plan in week 1 (when I lost a kilo), but not so well in week 2. The [...]
Dietary Seminar 1
So last night I went to the dietary seminar in the gym. We got told straight away that the lecture would only be for maximum half an hour because of a time mix up. We were told it started at 7 pm while in fact it should have started at 6 pm. The dietitian had [...]
Dietitian Consult
Yesterday I had my first consultation with a dietitian. He gave me the nutritional manual that comes with the 8 week challenge. We went through it and he explained a little bit about the type of meal plan I’m supposed to eat. After that we talked about what I was eating on a daily basis.
He [...]
Fat Burning Foods
Recently I was reading an article in a fitness magazine about fat burning foods. Fat burning foods are foods that require more calories to digest than the content of the food itself. The example they gave in the article was an apple. The apple was 80 calories, but your body burns about 125 calories to [...]
Eat Diary
The last couple of weeks I’ve been keeping an eat diary. Everything I was eating and drinking I’ve been writing down. Keeping an eat diary is a good way to get an insight at where the problems are. Not only can you write down what you are eating, but also why you are eating.
After a [...]
