Day 35 – Week 6

185 pounds. (13st. 3lbs) 1 pound lost

Last Friday I was 13st 2lbs which would have meant I’d lost a stone since I began my FatRoySlim regime a month ago. Damn it (!) A bit disappointing- but at least any weight-loss is something to celebrate. I have a theory that my body knew I was going to ‘reward’ myself with a bottle of wine when I’d lost 14 pounds – I have a suspicion that my entire body voted against me losing enough weight to do that – my organs had started to enjoy a cleaner environment and voted against me consuming such alcoholic ‘poison’ :-)

My brain has enjoyed a lack of hangover headaches in the morning and the attendant fuzzy thinking and dehydration.

I just don’t know what happened over the weekend for me to put weight back on. I was well-behaved – and didn’t indulge in eating or drinking anything that I have decided not to have.

OK, it was cold and wet and I didn’t go out much – but made up for it by giving myself serious ‘beasting’ on the rowing machine. I’m up to 20 minutes in one session – although I did learn to do 20 minutes rowing BEFORE I took to the cross-trainer. If I tried it the other way around – I collapsed after 4 minutes! I am becoming more and more aware that I have a six-pack emerging – although it’s still somewhat ‘submerged’!

Quite seriously, the rowing machine has been a revelation once my body got over the shock to its system. Its only on the ‘3’ setting but I did click it up to ‘4’ at one point for 3 minutes to see how I got on. Once I feel I can handle ‘3’ easily for extended periods – I’ll knock it up to ‘4’ and take the duration back down to 10 minutes – working it back up to 20 minutes again.

Thank you Trish for reminding me to stick to the ‘good fats’ because our bodies need fat. I’ve been pretty good on that score – I am keeping with the mackerel pate every week – oily fish is excellent.

I was also forwarded a piece in TescoDiet.com that outlined how to increase your metabolism- I’m already doing a lot of what it said. Our metabolism slows down as we grow older – and our body is programmed to hold on to our existing weight. In a nutshell; eat breakfast as it kick-starts your metabolism for the day– it’s the most important meal of the day, eat more protein as the body has to work harder to break it down’, nibble on healthy snacks, avoid booze and pump iron – with 2 smaller workout sessions at different times of the day – because it provides a way of boosting metabolism twice. It also said drink milk and low-fat cheese – but that’s a ‘no' for me. It’s not part of my ‘no wheat, fat, salt or sugar’.

Finally, this is not meant to sound egotistical – but I had a very brief experience at the Post office last week. I passed a mirror and saw a ‘slim Roy’ emerging! It was quite a nice feeling.