Hello again

It turns out enough was not enough.

I wrote the last post full of good advice and then never looked at it again nor followed any of it. A lot is happening in my life at the moment, I was working during the day and then trying to sort out a potential business in the evening.

But what happened to the immovable object of diet and exercise? In particular watching your calorie intake does not actually require much effort, just an app. I even got a fancy new phone. It seems I got it into my head that if I couldn't do it all and perfectly I should not bother and also that a bit of work and stress was a good reason to pig out.

As it happens I have only put about 1kg on over the weeks, probably because I had broken my worst habits already.

Today I started using myfitnesspal again to record my calories. That was easy!

I might reset the old week counter, it is a bit pointless as it stands. No three parts but I will keep to the 10 week sets. 10 weeks it turns out goes by just like that!

Reboot, reload ...

OK enough is enough!

I've had a huge project that has taken over my life in recent weeks plus a load of other stress. Exercise has gone out of the window and my diet although better than before is not great. If not for the amount of physical labour I have been doing I would probably of gained a load of weight.

So now I feel like I need to stage my own "intervention" to stop the slide. Positive motivation works best so let's start by looking at the advantages of what I have done up to now:

• Clothes fit better
• Feel more mobile
• Fitter
• Look better
• Nice feeling when completing a day as intended
• Nice feeling building up a large number of work outs on endomondo
• Great feeling when entering positive progress in blog

And now what I need to do:

1. Read my own blog
2. Read the above points
3. Start using Myfitnesspal ASAP
4. Do some exercise of any sort and log it
5. Search for ideas for night time exercise or buy a bigger head torch

Easy, will report back next week adding "nice feeling of reporting back successfully" into my mini goals.

Week 6/10 Part 2/3

Well 0.2kg loss to match the gain of last week. Not good enough ...

Week 5/10 Part 2/3

A small gain of 0.2kg. I'm not too downhearted, at least the loss I recorded last week was real. BUT I need to find exercise to do when the nights are dark. AND I need to get back to recording my calories, got out of the habit and it shows! Must keep going, I'm 5kg behind target but am now 1/3rd of the way to my target!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Week 4/10 Part 2/3

This is a very late post, I did weigh myself on Tuesday but only now entered it into the system. My weight was down by 3kg from the previous week, I have worked my ass off over the week but not sure I believe it however a few weeks ago I could never have seen that weight on the scales no matter what and it is great to break the 10kg loss mark.

Week 3/10 Part 2/3

Well, stag do at the weekend, small weight gain (0.8kg), not surprised, could be worse. Back on the horse! Played tennis today at least.

Week 2/10 Part 2/3

No loss this week but lots of construction work and no less than 4 meals out. Less building to do this week so will try and hit the hills and do a bit of walking etc. For some reason I am still forgetting to use myfitnesspal which I know I key for me, OK let's start with breakfast then ...