Back on track!

Can't really say I'm Sugarfree or even trying to anymore.
May and last half of April has seen a lot of sugar passing through my lips.
And I'm fine with that as long as I keep up my schedule of cycling to work 4 days a week, 1.5 session of thaiboxing and 2 quick sessions in the gym.

Blog closed until further notice.
I'll give a shout out for it with my Bat Signal when I need it again.

Tätt som Tusan

Vi närmar oss slutet april och sockerstoppet funkar sisådär. Det är tätt mellan karaktärsmissarna.
Bullar och våfflor (utan OCH med sylt) dyker upp flera gånger i veckan.
"Sameiemøte" igår blev det choklad, brownie på söndagen + en Lion

Ingen thai, mer gott, mindre abs. ICKE GODKÄNT!

Det som funkar är cyklingen - 11.3 km en väg plus om vägar ger minst 12 mil i veckan + två morgongym á 20 minuter. Behövs en upptrappning nu.

Går utför ...

Lördag, 30års-fest i Karlstad
Söndag, 18- och 36årskalas i Oslo

Skräpsumma: två tårtbitar, ett par nävar jordnötter, 7-8 öl/vin/drinkar, kebabrulle, halv bit äppelkaka.

Bakfull, grinig å fet, bra start på en ny vecka :)

Sockerpåsk = Glad Påsk?

Bara för Jesus' skull så tog vi en paus i sockerstoppet under påskhelgen. Ingen frossa men allt väl en del godsaker. Mors sockerkaka och en del choklad.

Kom mig hem efter att ha ätit som en häst i dagarna fem men trots det en tisdagsvikt under 80kg (79.8) - 78.7 på väg ut i påskledigheten. Godkänt det - för idag börjar cykla-till-jobb-satsningen.

Ät fett och socker tills du SPYR

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Kent-spelning i Oslo Spektrum i onsdags, att jag idag fredag går och nynnar på text från "Dom Andra" - ... ät fett och socker tills du spyr har dock en helt annan orsak. Orsaken är som följer i kronologisk ordning.

08:00 Kaffekopp #1
09:45 Kaffekopp #2 + scone
11:00 Normal lunch (utan Napoleonkake)
14:00 Jobbfika (utan fika)
16:45 Öl #1
17:55 1 Haystack ChickenSalad*
18:05 1 Pepsi**
18:45 250g M&M's
21:25 Snus
21:45 Se bild

*** Picture of disgusting vomit removed ***

* Beställer man en sallad på Hard Rock Cafe och tror att det inte ska vara skräpmat är man kanske naiv :)
** För att inte ta en andra öl beställde jag innan hjärnan svarat en Pepsi ... bröt inte avtalen om max en öl om dagen men naturligt nog sockeravtalen

Talked in to it ...

K. came over bringining homebaked cinnanom sweet bread and B. talked me in to sinning. Owing 10€ to the account now after paying Friday's sushi to get it back to 0€.

Mid-March-Failure

March started up really good. Especially given the added ban on junkfood initiated by Hugo. Mid March and heading back to Oslo from Hemsedal slightly dehydrated after a day in the skislopes and a glass or three of wine the day before I couldn't resist an offered bottle of Coke. So first contribution to the fund of 10€ is a fact.

Calories consumed: 210

Calories spent walking to Oslo S from home (60min): 473
Calories spent running home from the office (75min): 1009
Calories spent doing light snowboarding (8h): 3328

I am confident the rest of March will be a breeze to get through sugarfree. Except for that still existing crave to grab 2 times 200 grams of chocolate in the store and gluttonize.

February, looking in to March

Summing up February, the second month out of twelve (doh!).
The month has been way easier than January was and the pits I fell in this time was compressed in to one day eating five buns.


According to the "Mat på Data"-registration five buns with raisins equals 699 kcal. Saturday's XC-skiing was somewhere beteen 1200 and 1920 depending on source of information.

New thing for March is to add non-junkfood in to the game.

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Non Junkfood Contest March 2010

Participants - me and Hugo

Junkfood:
- anything fried
- pizza, when eating out
- burgers
- kebab

Green Light
Fruits, pure juice, unsalted nuts, yoghurts, vaffles, pancakes, protein bars, energy drinks after sports, sugarfree soda
Beer #1

Red Light
Jam, sweets, cakes, cookies, candy, chocolate, salted snacks, pizzas, burgers, kebabs, fried food, buns, soda
Beer #2

Nice Buns!

I am not sure whether this is allowed or not, but seeing how waffles are allowed (in our deal), I can't see why raisin buns shouldn't be. If they are or not - two is consumed nonetheless. Not that I missed the doughy feel they bring to your stomach nor that it sticks to your teeth, but I needed the pre-lunch snack.

May the force be with you!

:: EDIT :: Meeting with the neighbours after the post was written, 3 more buns ...

Habit, Habits, Habits

It do seem like the sugarcrave is slowly getting out of the system. It takes less and less effort to steer clear of the shelves with chocolate in the grocery stores. The saying no to desserts and cakes in the office and home is even easier.
The situations that still makes me want that chocolate bar is the days when I get in to the office way to early and spend long days there. I guess the solution to not work long days is as good one as any :-)

Until next time - stay healthy, stay sugarfree in Twenty-Ten!

Happy Birthdays

Friday - birthday @ Dad's place
Result - no sugar

Saturday - visiting a café downtown Oslo
Result - hardly any sugar (eh... one scone)

Sunday - birthday for baby sister
Result - no sugar

I wasn't too happy saying no to milk chocolate, chili-nuts, blueberry cream cake, carrot cake nor orange cake but the Saturday scone was perhaps not really needed. Then again, falling through there and not on two birthday parties was at least "cheaper" - caloriwise:

1 Scone << 3 Slices of Cake

Math made me do it

Milestones

There's a few milestones you have to pass in order to be sugarfree throughout a whole year. Notable ones beeing

-Attending a birthday party for someone under 10 without eating cake
-Going home to mum's place and not eating sweets
-Setting off on a business trip without having desserts and pastries in meetings
-Surviving a hungover-Sunday without neither chocolate nor chips

Beeing quite close to finishing off my first business trip this year and having kept off sugar I'll say that #3 is ticked off on this list too now. But with both dad and my sister having their birthdays in the week to come I shouldn't be too cocky on the outcome for February just yet.

Mmm... Marabou

What I miss most, having stayed off sugar (well almost) for a month now, is not the cakes and ice-cream at parties. It's not that I can't have a bowl of chips on Fridays. It's more the convenience, the convenience of just getting a Snickers while at the store craving for some fast energy. Instead I resort to bananas and smoothies for instance, which of course is healthier but not quite as rewarding in a direct way as a bar of chocolate is.

Well well, let's hope that fades soon so I can walk past the aisles of temptations without feeling an urge to get a couple of hundred grams of milk chocolate :)

I have paid my debts

The 1500kcal-debt of January is now with good margin paid back. 27km of crosscountryskiing over 4.5h yesterday - going from Frognerseteren to Kikut and back.

According to the activity calculator over @ caloriesperhour I did use somewhere between 2600 and 2900kcal at my weight.

Skiing - cross-country, 4 km/h (light)
2,583 calories in 4 hr 30 min
Skiing - cross-country, 6-8 km/h (moderate)
2,952 calories in 4 hr 30 min

Now let's welcome February and the move in to the new apartment!

Note to self:

Boxing - kick boxing
1,230 calories in 1 hr 30 min

Below 80 again

First time weighing in this year after thaiboxing the day before. Perhaps slightly dehydrated. Nonetheless, the weight showed 79.4kg - lowest since 2009.12.14.

Need to get below 78.0kg by February 20th and a game in Stavanger.

List of failures, January

Complete list of failures to comply with the no-sugar-deal in January:

2010.01.10: A glass of Coke - no coffee availible
2010.01.16: 100g of Chips - salty snacks were banned
2010.01.17: 0.5l Burn while driving - just lazy
2010.01.18: 0.5l Powerade - after 3h of thaiboxing
2010.01.22: 50g Chocolate Bar - Markus tempted me
2010.01.24: A glass of syrup - nothing else availible in the woods

Summing up January as a good try, but not perfect.
(150+520+225+225+250+125) 1500kcal to kill.
So I owe myself 3.5h of powerwalking.

(Not accounted for here are yoghurts, mustards, ketchups, cereals, protein bars. But that was never the intention to ban either.)

Got batteries back in my weight now, showing 80.8kg this morning (down from 83.0 New Year)

First Three Weeks

Starting out New Year's Day it was an fairly easy time staying out of the sweets for the first days of the year when spending good time at Haugastøl in the great outdoors and being active. I knew the challenge would come when back at work, hung over or stressed out.

My first "fall through" came after a week and a half resorting to Coca-Cola when feeling dowsy after having a pizza and couldn't get a coffee.

Fair enough, the week after wen't through alright but not having gotten the rules by Petter detailed thoroughly enough I had a bag of crisps Saturday.

The only other time was going for a sugary sports drink after 2x90 minutes of thaiboxing. But I do consider that a good fast way to restitute.

The hard parts are days when the afternoons seem like days and without fruit or nuts availible. That's when the sweet-crave sets in. Not to mention the rare cases of hungoverness. Chocolate has been a "cure" there for years but not now.

Results so far - weight down by 2-4 kg (battery is flat in my weight)

Stay Tuned - Stay Sugarfree

First Entry

Long story short - the end of 2009 saw a quite steep increase in the weightcurve so 2010 calls for something different.
Solution: Go Sugarfree!

Outline:
- stay out of snacks and sweets
- steer clear of cakes and cookies
- icecream and cream in any other form for that matter

Other means to reach the end:
Two 90 minutes of thaiboxing per week + at least one 60 minute long cardio-workout (ski, cycle, run depending on season)

Goal:
Have weighed in at75 kg by Midsummer's Eve and turn 30 with a visible "six-pack"