I have tried to avoid this but my conscience won’t let me. Weigh in Sunday!
Last week I was 86kg. This week I am 87.1kg! There are a couple of possible causes:
The scales need new batteries
I need to eat & exercise better
I’d love to take #1 but I think #2 is more realistic.
My goal of 75kg is getting further away!
But wait (or should that be “butt weight”) FebFast begins on Wednesday where I consume no alcohol for all of February. I am SO looking forward to it.
I am actually wondering though if I have crossed some metabolic line. That, no matter what I eat, I have to work a LOT harder to lose weight. I guess we’ll see during February.
I’ve also tried to look back at 2008 to see what I did exercise wise that helped me lose 6kgs so well. Part of that journey was Jenny Craig and the weekly weigh ins. I’d like not to be that dependent on a commercial 3rd party.
I thought I pretty much logged everything on either NikePlus or Slowgeek but NikePlus show next to nothing and I seem to have lost me login to Slowgeek.
So I’m still hunting for that while later on today I resume my 10km run on a Sunday, which is something I did do back in 2008.
So, next week’s weigh in should be better than today’s.
Well, the weight was neither positive or negative. Still a steady 86kg. But this really is poor! I started this blog almost 4 years ago and am at my starting weight. My only saving grace is that I know I am like many others who try and try again.
So, the changes are in.
I have signed up for Febfast, following the example of Andrew. I have already targeted this in my contact list for a donation. And here’s to losing some weight in February.
Last night I got 2 hours sleep in total so today was a bit of a write off and any plans for a workout were shelved.
However, a walk tomorrow morning will get me on track.
No beer during the week.
A couple (3) workouts at Jetts fitness before Sunday.
I have to get back to my 10km Sunday run that I sued to do fairly consistently as well.
As to the diet, it is meat and veggies or salad.
Last night it was scotch fillet and veggies in butter.
Tonight it was lamb chops, sausages and a BAS (Big A$$ Salad!)
A really balmy night in Perth tonight so the FBH and I went to the outdoor movies at the the Somerville in the grounds of the University of Western Australia (UWA). These outdoor movies are great. You have to get there early to get a good seat and then have a picnic with fresh produce, a nice white wine and some chocolate to finish.
The movie, Late Bloomers, was a bit of a let down. It certainly drew you in but the outcome was less convincing. Or perhaps I was expecting more. It’s released in Australia on February 23, 2012.
And then tomorrow, Saturday, we are off to see Australia pound India in the cricket! (How good was Dave Warner today?)
I was in my home town of Albany last week and couldn’t do a weigh in. So the next update will be this Sunday.
Albany was an unexpected trip as my mother unexpectedly passed away. All a bit of a blur really.
Had a chance to see the HMS Endeavour replica sail into Albany. And discovered a couple of nice wines while we were down there. One was from Bunn wines. I went to school with a Richard Bunn so will have to see of it is the same one.
The other wine was a nice 2003 Galafrey from the Mount Barker region.
Having a browse around my favourite health sites the other day came across this at the Weston A Price Foundation.
Very interesting. I think this all comes down to economics to be honest. If the governments of the day who support the current food pyramid ever moved away from it, they would have a few legal cases to defend plus the obvious disaster of putting a lot of people out of work. That just isn’t going to happen!
http://youtu.be/P2iDUFQsHHE
One slide that blew me away was the vitamin content of liver. Check that one out! (Video 1, I think). I immediately Googled “The best way to cook liver.”
Wow! First day back at work yesterday was a struggle. A slow-ish start but I just wasn’t “present”. Plus some system issues that are really annoying. And to top it off I nodded off on the bus on the way home!
I’m putting it down to the body not being used to the workouts at Jetts over the past 3 days and I just have to get through the hump period.
Yesterday was a rest day exercise wise and today may be as well. Though a walk/run would be good after work.
Trying to get into a routine as well so that I default have breakfast each morning. Yesterday was a 3 egg omelette, no milk, just the 3 eggs. Pretty tasty, I have to say.
Lunch was curry from Maya Masala, though it did include rice which I should have left. And then their was the nectarine, banana and nuts for snacks. So I think the diet was okay yesterday.
Saw a report on this website that mentioned Coopers beers. I was slightly surprised so headed out and bought a couple of each from the range to try.
Happy 2012 everyone. I hope you are able to make sense of today if you had a big night last night. I’m off to my daughter’s for breakfast and allowing the son to sleep off whatever he did last night.
But today is the first day of the new year and the rest of my life. One of my goals this year is to get to 75kg by 31 March 2012. That is a drop of around 11kg from today. Around 24 pounds. Not a lot for some but the only time I have been 75kg before was as I passed it on the way to mid to high 80 kgs!
So, today is Sunday, 9:24am. I have has 2 x short macchiatos so far so I doubt they will make a big difference to my morning weight.
Drum roll please ….
January 1, 2012 and my weight is: 86.0
Eleven kilograms to go.
A walk later today to kick off the new year on a good note and the next weigh in next Sunday.
I was editing my other blog (www.painlessmangement.com – it’s just in its formative stages) and through browsing for a reference from Leo Babauta’s site on time management, I came across the site Fitocracy (www.fitocracy.com). Leo had an invite code so I used that to join and had a browse around. As you can sometimes do on the Net you find yourself on a page that you never intended to go to or look for (no, people, not porn!) but held your interest anyway.
The page in question was the group on healthy eating and how to really tone up. The overwhelming advice from the group members was HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). Being the Christmas break I have time on my hands so I thought of “not thinking too hard” and racing out and getting a treadmill for this sole purpose. I know me, you see, and if I just try and do this while running, well, I won’t do it. I need a machine to force me! Yes, I am weak!
But a good machine is over $1,000 and the Christmas break has already seen the credit card smashed to smithereens. Then I remembered we have a 24 hour Jetts gym (www.jetts.com.au) down the road. So,to get me into this regime of HIIT, I decide to join them. At least the payments are relatively small and I can stop them any time I want to.
Just wondering if anyone else has joined them and how they have found the service, equipment and convenience?
A funny thing happened when I cleaned the Mac yesterday.
I was using one of those magic wipes to clean the PC and somehow changed my home page. Normally it’s just Google (www.google.com.au) but the “magic” in the wipe turned my home page into …
http://www.%22;%5Bpoiuytrewqqwe5678123%5C/.com)
Stick that in your search engine!
(Don’t, it’s rubbish and goes nowhere! )
NYE
Hope you are all getting ready for a great new year celebration! We plan to go to Hillarys, the FBH’s favourite spot and hopefully wait it out till the clock strikes 12. More realistically, we’ll have dinner, walk around and head home to be in bed by 9:30! But I’m sure our unwakefulness won’t stop the inevitable.
