182 pounds (13st) 0 pounds lost.
By rights, I should have put weight on this week. Saturday night we had some friends over for a curry and movie night (a DELIGHTFUL film called ‘Once’ about a busker and a Big Issue seller on Dublin’s Grafton Street. The story behind this movie is also delightful. With a budget of just £80,000, shot in 17 days - Glen Hansard, the lead actor played 'Outspan' in The Commitments. he and his leading lady Marketa Irglova are now an item. In an interview a week ago he said how the director said 'cut' at the end of the recording of 'Falling Slowly' - and added in jest "And the winner of the Oscar goes to...." Everyone laughed but - guess what- last night it won the Oscar!
Before the film started I over-indulged on the food front. I didn’t have any Naan bread, FBCs (Flippin’ Big Crisps) or mango chutney but I did have a few drops of wine (a small glass) and a some samples from a cheese plate afterwards.
But worse than that I hardly did any exercise all week and feel quite lethargic because of it. I can definitely see the link between being active and how you feel inside yourself.
I wasn’t totally slothful though. Yesterday I did a few hours of light gardening – planting about 30 raspberry canes that I was given by a neighbour and did quite a bit of weeding on the vegetable patch. I felt it in the afternoon though. Aching rib-cage and back.
Then last night I hit the wine jug – but this really was a special occasion. For the past 5 months, a gallon of home-made blackberry wine was plop-plop, plopping on the kitchen window sill (alongside the damson, apple and elderberry. The blackberry wine had ‘stopped’ – meaning it was fully fermented and ready for bottling – but before that we ‘needed’ to siphon off two glasses for sampling purposes only.
WOW! It was gorgeous. Clear, bright with a beautiful hint of blackberrys. And strong!
I was velcroed to the mattress this morning – a real challenged to get out of bed.
Another week I start with the mantra – must do better.
Oh, no – I’m staying at a 5 star hotel in Montreux, Switzerland. The evening meal will be a sample menu for the gala dinner at a global event I am moderating there later this year. When I get back I have 2 nights at another 5 star hotel on the South coast. I MUST do some exercise this week. My target is a 2 pound weight-loss this week.
Monday, 25 February 2008
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Day 49 – Week 8
182 pounds (13st) 2 pounds lost. 16 pounds total weight loss so far.
A day late! Really busy yesterday.
This last week I was afraid that living in a hotel for 3 days was going to put too much temptation in my way. I was moderating a global conference for the 200 or so corporate communications professionals who work for the electronics giant Philips. The conference took place in Amsterdam – although I hardly saw any of the city!
I was genuinely taken aback at how nice everyone was at Philips. They were such lovely people to work with.
Anyway, typical of all business hotels at every break there were piles of cakes and cookies. But thankfully there were also large baskets of fruit too. I was quite the ‘fruit bat’ practically all the time I was there. Aside from a meal at a fancy restaurant for the conference contributors overlooking an illuminated Amsterdam canal, I ate very little while I was away. In fact I also slept very little too. I simply didn’t seem to have any time.
When I got back late on Thursday night I was exhausted. In the morning I weighed myself – I was amazed to see that I’d lost nearly 5 pounds while I’d been away – or was that more to do with an empty stomach? It was.
Shared another bottle of champagne on Sunday to celebrate Peggy’s birthday.
A day late, I see this morning that my weight is another pound less than it was yesterday – but I’m not letting that count – the weigh in was yesterday. That stands.
As far as exercise is concerned – last week was hopeless – hardly anything to report. And it took me two days to recover when I got back – no energy at all. Plan to start again today on the cross-trainer.
All in all, I really believe I’m changing my relationship to food and drink and becoming a new person. I’m not on a ‘diet’ any more as such – I’m just sticking to the no wheat, fat, salt or sugar.
A day late! Really busy yesterday.
This last week I was afraid that living in a hotel for 3 days was going to put too much temptation in my way. I was moderating a global conference for the 200 or so corporate communications professionals who work for the electronics giant Philips. The conference took place in Amsterdam – although I hardly saw any of the city!
I was genuinely taken aback at how nice everyone was at Philips. They were such lovely people to work with.
Anyway, typical of all business hotels at every break there were piles of cakes and cookies. But thankfully there were also large baskets of fruit too. I was quite the ‘fruit bat’ practically all the time I was there. Aside from a meal at a fancy restaurant for the conference contributors overlooking an illuminated Amsterdam canal, I ate very little while I was away. In fact I also slept very little too. I simply didn’t seem to have any time.
When I got back late on Thursday night I was exhausted. In the morning I weighed myself – I was amazed to see that I’d lost nearly 5 pounds while I’d been away – or was that more to do with an empty stomach? It was.
Shared another bottle of champagne on Sunday to celebrate Peggy’s birthday.
A day late, I see this morning that my weight is another pound less than it was yesterday – but I’m not letting that count – the weigh in was yesterday. That stands.
As far as exercise is concerned – last week was hopeless – hardly anything to report. And it took me two days to recover when I got back – no energy at all. Plan to start again today on the cross-trainer.
All in all, I really believe I’m changing my relationship to food and drink and becoming a new person. I’m not on a ‘diet’ any more as such – I’m just sticking to the no wheat, fat, salt or sugar.
Monday, 11 February 2008
Day 42 – Week 7
184 pounds (13st 2lbs) 1 pound lost
Over the weekend my weight was up, down – all over the place! How could I weigh THAT much?
This morning was therefore scary as I stepped nervously on to the scales. The relief was obvious as I weighed in at 13st 2pounds. A total loss of 14 pounds (1 stone) since I began. Saturday night we celebrated our anniversary by sharing a bottle of champagne – my first booze since New Year’s Eve. I’m now a cheap date! A joint celebration really – for losing all that weight too.
Another 16 pounds to go though.
And this week will be a challenge I suspect. I shall be staying at an hotel in Amsterdam – no doubt I’ll be surrounded by biscuits where ever I am, chocolates on my pillow and all that malarkey. Gala dinners invariably have all the stuff that’s not good for me.
One thing I have realized recently is that my weight loss has begun to slow down – time to crank up the exercise to the next level I suppose. The rowing machine is proving a valuable addition to the cross-trainer. I would not have thought it possible to do as much on the rowing machine as I have been.
Yesterday we headed out for a walk, but in the end merely strolled around Bibury, East of Cirencester in the beautiful sunshine – didn’t break out into a sweat so it can’t really qualify as a ‘walk’. But it was a stunning day.
Over the weekend my weight was up, down – all over the place! How could I weigh THAT much?
This morning was therefore scary as I stepped nervously on to the scales. The relief was obvious as I weighed in at 13st 2pounds. A total loss of 14 pounds (1 stone) since I began. Saturday night we celebrated our anniversary by sharing a bottle of champagne – my first booze since New Year’s Eve. I’m now a cheap date! A joint celebration really – for losing all that weight too.
Another 16 pounds to go though.
And this week will be a challenge I suspect. I shall be staying at an hotel in Amsterdam – no doubt I’ll be surrounded by biscuits where ever I am, chocolates on my pillow and all that malarkey. Gala dinners invariably have all the stuff that’s not good for me.
One thing I have realized recently is that my weight loss has begun to slow down – time to crank up the exercise to the next level I suppose. The rowing machine is proving a valuable addition to the cross-trainer. I would not have thought it possible to do as much on the rowing machine as I have been.
Yesterday we headed out for a walk, but in the end merely strolled around Bibury, East of Cirencester in the beautiful sunshine – didn’t break out into a sweat so it can’t really qualify as a ‘walk’. But it was a stunning day.
Monday, 4 February 2008
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.
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.
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