I haven’t lost any weight this week but I’m very pleased with myself. 12st 12pounds.
I got back on to my weight-loss regime after wavering for a month or so. And I’m very proud of myself for being able to do this in a week where I travelled to Dubai and stayed for 4 nights, being wined and dined by my client and guests of the Middle East Council of Shopping Centres.
As I have oft repeated, I don’t have a drink problem (!) but I enjoy nice wine and the occasional beer – its just that the sugar in alcohol triggers sugar cravings – if I have a drink I invariably ‘have’ to have a dessert!! I stayed off the booze entirely – which meant I didn’t crave desserts either. An exclent result for me.
Business class on Emirates always has top wines and excellent food – but I didn’t partake of that hospitality (I just watched!)
One night whilst in Dubai we all went to the Dubai Creek Golf Club for a sit down dinner outside on a terrace overlooking the night time Dubai city skyline. The food was superb – a choice of various ethnic menus from Arabic Mezze to Asian curries. And I just looked at the desserts (honest!)
I met a former BBC reporter who has only been in Dubai for a month and fears for her waistline with all the top class food on offer by everyone who invite her to press launches!
What developers are doing in Dubai is breathtaking – and what is being planned will be even more impressive. Billions are being pumped into the infrastructure (except the roads – traffic in Dubai is still horrendous) but Sheik Mohammed, the ruler of Dubai is a true visionary – it’s quite amazing what is happening there.
So this coming week, I need to continue as I have and add in a bit of exercise – with some luck the weather this weekend will allow me to get stuck in to a load of gardening and burn off a few thousand excess calories!
Friday, 25 April 2008
Saturday, 19 April 2008
19th April 2008
Changing my posting date to a Friday has given me a bit more time to get my head around what has gone wrong with my weight-loss programme. Although writing this at 03.42am on a Saturday seems to say a lot about keeping my own word!
Having been in London all week and leaving for Dubai in the next hour I have come to realise that it is almost impossible to eat sensible food ‘on the road’. Firstly it is very difficult to find anywhere that sells ‘ready-to-eat’/cold healthy food. A shop on the concourse at the Excel Exhibition Centre must have had over half its shelf space devoted to every kind of make or flavour of potato crisps. The rest was chocolate sandwiches and carbonated drinks.
When you are away from home for a few days at a time, ‘comfort food’ takes on a huge appeal. One one night, the hotel restaurant had a problem with the ‘fryer’ so most of its menu was ‘off’ – this in itself was so incredibly telling of how much food gets fried. Appalling. There was a time (not too long ago) when a pizza and a beer had distinct appeal – well, that night there was little choice! It was horrible. I didn’t even eat it all. But it was wheat and fat (cheese). And neither wheat or fat is part of my diet.
For the past month I have lost motivation and success on my diet. In fact, it fell apart completely. It’s almost as though if you break your resolve once, it is SO much easier to do it again and again. That’s what has happened. And I feel bad about a) not losing weight – or worse, putting it back on and b) for demonstrating to myself that I have been unable to stick with what works. Avoiding wheat, fat, salt and sugar WORKS for goodness sake – so why haven’t I kept to it?
Going away again today and staying at yet another convention centre will be a trial. But I will do my very best to avoid any foods (and more importantly, drinks that may appeal to me in the short term but contribute to my excess weight staying on!
Having said all that, I have lost 20 pounds – and have only 10 more to go before reaching my target weight – it can’t be that difficult – can it?
Having been in London all week and leaving for Dubai in the next hour I have come to realise that it is almost impossible to eat sensible food ‘on the road’. Firstly it is very difficult to find anywhere that sells ‘ready-to-eat’/cold healthy food. A shop on the concourse at the Excel Exhibition Centre must have had over half its shelf space devoted to every kind of make or flavour of potato crisps. The rest was chocolate sandwiches and carbonated drinks.
When you are away from home for a few days at a time, ‘comfort food’ takes on a huge appeal. One one night, the hotel restaurant had a problem with the ‘fryer’ so most of its menu was ‘off’ – this in itself was so incredibly telling of how much food gets fried. Appalling. There was a time (not too long ago) when a pizza and a beer had distinct appeal – well, that night there was little choice! It was horrible. I didn’t even eat it all. But it was wheat and fat (cheese). And neither wheat or fat is part of my diet.
For the past month I have lost motivation and success on my diet. In fact, it fell apart completely. It’s almost as though if you break your resolve once, it is SO much easier to do it again and again. That’s what has happened. And I feel bad about a) not losing weight – or worse, putting it back on and b) for demonstrating to myself that I have been unable to stick with what works. Avoiding wheat, fat, salt and sugar WORKS for goodness sake – so why haven’t I kept to it?
Going away again today and staying at yet another convention centre will be a trial. But I will do my very best to avoid any foods (and more importantly, drinks that may appeal to me in the short term but contribute to my excess weight staying on!
Having said all that, I have lost 20 pounds – and have only 10 more to go before reaching my target weight – it can’t be that difficult – can it?
Monday, 7 April 2008
Day 98 – week 15
Its official – I’m an old git. Yesterday it was my 50th birthday.
I spent the day with a mate of mine and labouring hard in the garden between April snow showers.
Today I weighed in at 12st 11pounds. A one pound loss in the last 2 weeks.
I didn’t post anything last week – and plan to change my posting day to Friday’s from now on.
I have another 11 pounds to go to reach my target weight. I am really pleased with what I’ve achieved so far. Although I’ve lost a bit of focus lately. If I’m going to achieve my goal I need to pay a bit more attention!
Over the past few weeks – one beer or a glass of wine has become 2 or sometimes even three. Perhaps I needed a respite to enjoy myself a bit – like having a diet holiday I suppose before I get back to more physical exercise and my no wheat, fat, salt and sugar regime. I know it works so all I have to do is re-learn and intensify the desire to lose the remaining weight. Easy to say…..
I spent the day with a mate of mine and labouring hard in the garden between April snow showers.
Today I weighed in at 12st 11pounds. A one pound loss in the last 2 weeks.
I didn’t post anything last week – and plan to change my posting day to Friday’s from now on.
I have another 11 pounds to go to reach my target weight. I am really pleased with what I’ve achieved so far. Although I’ve lost a bit of focus lately. If I’m going to achieve my goal I need to pay a bit more attention!
Over the past few weeks – one beer or a glass of wine has become 2 or sometimes even three. Perhaps I needed a respite to enjoy myself a bit – like having a diet holiday I suppose before I get back to more physical exercise and my no wheat, fat, salt and sugar regime. I know it works so all I have to do is re-learn and intensify the desire to lose the remaining weight. Easy to say…..
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