Homemade 300kcal Pizza

So I'm not a great cook by any stretch of the imagination and I tend to stick to the same food, most of which is bland which leads to me getting bored and going off plan.  I've decided that  I need to become better at cooking and one of my first attempts was this homemade pizza.  Approx it's 300kcal, 25g of carbohydrate and about 6g of fat.  Here's how I made it.....

Ingredients

• Tin of chopped tomato - 200g
• Tomato puree - 4 tablespoons
• Crushed chillies
• Garlic powder
• Small wholewheat tortilla (40g)
• Half fat mozzarella 
• Oregano

1. Heat the oven to 200c or 180c for fan assisted.
2. Add the tin of tomatoes and tomato puree to a pot and heat.  Stir in some crushed chillies and garlic to suit your taste.  Careful with the chillies, they make it HOT (or maybe that's just me lol)
3. Place the tortilla on an oven tray
4. Cover the tortilla with the tomato sauce from the pot, leave some space at the edge for a pizza crust.
5. Cover with the mozzerlla
6. Season with oregano
7. Place into the middle of the oven for 6-8 mins until the cheese has melted and slightly crisp.

These scales must be wrong?

Has anyone ever said that? "These scales must be wrong! I must have lost more than that!" I have, more times than I care to remember! I know that my body fat could have changed or I may be carrying a little more water or it's that time of the month or 1000 other reasons why the scale doesn't show the number I want, but still it ruins my day! I'll admit it, I'm obsessed with standing on the scales. I advise people all the time not be be hung up on what the scale says but here I am morning, noon and night 7 days a week standing on them, you know "just to see". I've decided this year that I'm going to work on being ultra fit and a super healthy eater rather than focussing all my efforts on getting that number on the scale down. I figure if I'm getting fitter and fitter my the day and eating clean nutritious food then the weight will just fall off naturally without me putting myself down for being a quarter of a pound heavier than yesterday. I know my obsession with the scale isn't a healthy one, and I'm not promising not to weigh myself. However I am going to limit it to once a week and if it's not the exact figure I wanted then hey that's life! I am promising though to make great food choices and workout like it's my job!! Here's to my fittest year ever #fittestyearever12 p.s. in this whole blog every time I tried to write 'and' I mis-typed and wrote 'abs' by mistake!! Hhhhhmm a sign maybe??

What's in a name??

Hello all

You may have noticed I've changed my name from Fat2FitIn90Days to Fat2Fit4Life..... and I've got a good reason! I've been re-evaluating my attitude to weight loss, healthy eating, exercise etc etc and realised I've got such a "quick fix" attitude.  I'll be honest, in general I am a very impatient person (something I'm trying to work on), so when I started this I thought "lets make it 90days and that'll force me to get it done, I'll work mega crazy hard for 90 days then it'll be done".  I've since realised health and fitness isn't something to work at like a maniac for 3 months then I'll be where I want to be, it's a life long change to a better and ever evolving body.  

I'm now aiming not to 'just get it done', I'm aiming for consistency and working day in and day out to always improve and making this not something to do for 90 days but as a way to live for life.  

Therefore I'm now Fat 2 Fit 4 Life!!

Day 1 - Progress pics and a lesson learned!

Day 1 done and got to say all good so far, only 89 days to go.  I know this is going to be tough but after seeing the Day 1 progress pics I took today I'm more than prepared to put the work in!!  Seeing these pics was a huge wake up call, I knew things had gotten bad, but this has just made me realise just how bad it is!!

I also took some pics with a shorter top, but I'm just not brave enough to share them yet.  I've saved them and once I take other pics in 30 and 60 days time (when I'm in much better shape) I'll share all of them.

The only real problem I've encountered today is that last night I thought "I'll get my gym clothes ready in the morning" but I should know myself well enough to know I'm not a morning person and that I'm always running late.  So from here on out I'm going to prepare everything the night before; gym clothes, gym bag, lunches and snacks etc!

Tomorrow is Day 1

So who am I and what is this all about?

OK, so basically I've struggled with my weight for as long as I can remember and 3 years ago I decided enough was enough and made the decision to get the weight off for good.  At the time I was 200 pounds / 14 stone 4 pounds.  I worked for 2 years learning to eat the right foods and train properly in the gym. By September 2010 I was down to 147 pounds / 10stone  7 pounds.  So you're thinking "that's great"?? Yeah it was, so what I don't know is why I gave up at that point and reverted back to my old habits gaining all the weight back!!

Today I'm 192 pounds / 13stone 10 pounds.  I know what you're thinking "are you mad?? You did all that work then put it all back on??" Yup I'm thinking that too!

What is even worse is while I was losing weight I trained to be a personal trainer!! I train people all day in the gym about how to lose weight but don't practice what I preach, as they say!  I should know better, but just can't say no to junk food.

I've set myself 90 days to change it all around..... again!! I have the knowledge just need to teach myself the self disciple and motivation to stick with it and get results.

I struggle like everyone else, but I'm hoping with this blog people can see the struggles I go through and hopefully we can overcome the obstacles together!!