Fat To Fit Blog II: Biking

Well today I went on a 40 min bike ride as I was feeling a little lazy just sitting and watching man vs food while eating my lunch, lemon sole with baked potato and veg. Lemon and pepper sole from Lidl is absolutely beautiful and its only about 187 calories for a piece and it has the golden crunchy factor without the fat as its only flour dusted not battered :) so definite recommendation there.

I thought I'd list the pros and cons to biking outdoors!

Pros

• Fit biker guy smiling at me
• Its exercise
• Going weeeeeeeeeeeeee! when going the downhill parts of the route.
• Beautiful scenery

Cons

• Every car going past and staring at you like you're mad
• Random guy I went past who was peeing in a bush, this maybe acceptable past midnight but its was 4pm in the afternoon! -shudders-

So biking is definitely a hit with me except for a few downsides which mainly involve the people that were around. There were a few parts of the route when I wanted to turn back around because it felt too difficult but I soldiered on! and it was worth it exercise definitely gives you a sense of accomplishment that lazing round the house can't! To finish this blog I thought I'd add a few health tips that I've found out or picked up in the last few weeks.

Laura's health tips

1. If you feel hungry but shouldn't (e.g you've only had your lunch/dinner an hour ago) try drinking a pint of water, if the hunger pangs go away its a sign you're body was just feeling dehydrated. Hunger and thirst can feel very similar. However if you still feel hungry and water won't satisfy it trying having a healthy snack like fruit, vegetable crudites (posh word for sticks) or a ryvita crispbread with a bit of philadelphia and cucumber, delicious :)
2. Buy some new exercise gear, tracksuit bottoms, trainers, tops, etc. If you look good and feel comfortable while exercising it makes the world of difference but don't mistake for looking for slapping on makeup there is no point, sweat people sweat!
3. Buy a good sports bra, my shock absorber bra is the best thing I've ever bought! I always thought having a 34G chest stopped me from doing exercise as it was too painful but this bra is genius they don't move, its not the most comfortable thing in the world but it takes away the self conscious feeling of your tits are bouncing around everywhere.
4. Watch EpicMealTime its awesome for one thing but all that junk food makes me feel sick and reminds me why I shouldn't put that stuff in my body constantly, its just plain cruel. They love using Big Macs in recipes like fast food lasagne but in a single Big Mac there are 490 calories to burn that off would take 90 minutes biking for leisure! so it puts junk into perspective, if you want to eat it you've got to burn it off!
5. Also ice cold water is your friend it burns calories simply by having your body restore it to your body's natural temperature!

Happy exercising everyone :)