Fear Does The Unthinkable – Yet Another Fight Back!

First blog for a while and this one is for Muscle Food in thanks for them giving me a free 12 week trial on their Do The Unthinkable meal plan.

It came at a great time for me, I was just coming out of a fairly lengthy brain ache flair up and so hadn’t been able to exercise at all and my eating habits had slipped. It is difficult when you get up, sit down and that is pretty much that for the day, not to start picking at ‘treats’!

I had also got into a habit of having the same old food, I’d bored myself, it is understandable, I eat for training and when not training, I can get a bit lost as I prefer my training grub! What this plan has shown me is portion control, as friends will know I’ve always been able to eat massive amounts, two meals really isn’t a problem for my appetite, and it wasn’t all greed, if it was, I’d have been obese. But when not training, eating too much is going to put on fat obviously.

I was also bloated because I wasn’t really eating my usual healthy type of food.

This plan has got me back rocking and rolling. For those that don’t know, as I’ll post this in the Musclefood Group as well as my own social media, I am 51, have a brain condition, have had 13 operations, and during this 12-week period, I also managed to get the coronavirus. Well, I assume it was, I won’t know for sure until the tests are available. The symptoms matched and I was wiped for 2 weeks training-wise. I stuck with the food plan during the virus though and still lost weight. So just shows, even though being active brings the best results, for this plan, you the plan alone will get you losing weight if you stick with it.

Anyway, training had been on and off for 12 months, now I’ve got up, got out (to my own gym to be fair!) and fought back yet again.

And this is just the start of the fightback!

It can take some doing, when you keep getting these flair ups, to get back up and start all over again. But as anyone who has read the book will know, that is exactly what I do, each and every time. If I can, you can. It is that simple. I’m not special (well, some friends think I’m special needs, but that is another story!). If you don’t like how your life story is being written, write a new script. During this time of self-isolation and social distancing, you can use the hours to reflect on life, and plan for a new future. Or you can keep doing the same things, over and over. Only you can decide. Only YOU can decide.

This current awful virus crisis can beat people, or make people, it all comes from within. Set your mind right, do something positive, instead of using the time as an excuse to eat rubbish and do nothing. Totally in your hands is it not?

I’m loving the training again, I do find it disheartening at the start of any comeback, because it always seems a long road back and I don’t choose to stop, my brain aches make that choice. But I put myself in the positive frame of mind, tell myself I’ve done it before, I’ll no doubt have to do it again, and what is better, starting all over again, or lying on the floor with a flair up? The answer is always obvious to me and my battered body, bless it, also helps, as there is muscle memory and determination not just mentally but physically to be the best version of myself I can be.

That is the key for me, it can be the key for you. Don’t worry what others are doing, or how others look, just focus on yourself and make you the best version of you that you possibly can. That isn’t just physically, that is in life generally.

Preaching over!

Nice results. I wasn’t sure weight loss wise what I’d get to, I thought about 13 1/2 stone to be fair, as I am muscled up and with training, that can put weight on whilst losing fat. But 13 stone is a good result, but even more importantly for me, 10% body fat loss and 3% visceral fat (the dangerous fat) loss.

All whilst eating lovely meals at the right portion sizes.

You have breakfast, a mid-morning snack, a decent lunch, a mid-afternoon snack, tea (does one call it dinner?!) and a snack at night. I usually get hungry when cutting back on calories, but on this, especially as I made sure I stayed hydrated, I didn’t at all.

So thank you MuscleFood. Loved this plan so much, I’m going to continue on it and get myself down to 10% bodyfat. Yup, I’m always driven to do better. If the fecking c-virus and brain aches can’t stop me, then I don’t see anything else stopping me getting there, do you?  Already fighting back, my boxing is now with a 3 stone weighted vest on, that really sorts the men from the boys I can tell you!

Keep fighting folks, keep faith in yourself and life, and don’t forget Get up – stay in (for now!) – Live.  Oh and feel free to buy a book, you never know, you might be inspired!

Peace.