20th January 2014 - Two weeks in

Why oh why does January take so long to sort itself out and bugger off?

I mean seriously, this month is bloody long.

It feels longer because I'm dieting too. Every day, watching my calories and (especially at work) watching other people eat what they want when they want is getting annoying.

However, it's not all bad. I'm no longer so tired on the walk to and from the office every morning. It's an inconvenience I'd rather not have, but it's largely a positive one because it's forcing me to walk a couple of miles every day. The inconvenience I still can't stomach is the distance from my desk to the tea room at the office I'm working from now, but I'm sure I'll learn to live with it (or crack up and melt down in a caffeine deficient moment).

The diet itself is going alright. I've cheated a couple of times but I'm still making more sensible choices. For instance, where if I was really being lazy and wanted a takeaway, I'd order a whacking great big pizza, now I'm ordering chicken kebabs, which are better for you. They're still not great for you, but it's better than all that bread and cheese. On the one occasion in the last fortnight where I did get a pizza, it made me so ill (from the grease, I'm assuming), that I have no desire to have another one any time soon.

The food I'm making on a nighttime is getting better too. A particular favourite that I'm enjoying is Gammon steaks, sweetcorn, new potatoes, pineapple and dry fried eggs. It's so very simple, but so delicious and filling. The main one I'm enjoying is my home made bhuna curry. Adapted from the recipe I used to make a fish curry for a party before new years, I've made it a couple of times now and with chicken it's just amazing. Very filling, very tasty and great for these cold nights.

This morning, I weighed myself for the second time. I didn't weigh myself on the first week of the diet for reasons that I can't quite remember, so last week was the starting weight for this bout of dieting.

This week has me dropping 5lbs which I'm over the moon at as I wasn't confident I'd lost any weight at all this week. More impressively as well, my wife, who has always struggled with diets, has lost too. So we're in it together and losing together. This has made me very happy indeed.

For this coming week, I'm going to be starting my exercise regime up again, starting with a run tonight. It's been about 6 weeks since i was running properly so if I'm honest, I'll be amazed if I can manage more than a mile and a half, but we all have to start somewhere. Hopefully I can be back up to 3 mile runs in a few weeks.

July 1st 2013

Hello... is there anyone still there?

Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated, though rumours that I've fallen off the wagon are pretty much spot on.

I haven't posted in a couple of weeks due to a tumultuous time in my personal life (before you start, don't ask, I wont tell). Because of these issues, I haven't been exercising like I have before and I have been eating more out of necessity than of desire, so I've been eating crap.

Not literally of course, but I haven't been eating with a diet in mind. I've just been eating what I can find when I can find it.

I've also had a bout of what can be described as either food poisoning or stomach flu. Either way, I spent most of last week off work, within sprinting distance of a toilet. Bad times.

I'm posting again today because, of course, today is the final day of this first month. Yes, this is the last weigh day before my work event so I can see how much I've (hopefully) lost in total.

As of the last time weigh day came around (two weeks ago), I had lost almost a stone in weight. I don't think I will have lost much more than that if I'm honest, but I'm hopeful that I haven't put any back on.

I will be heading to the gym tonight for the first time in a fortnight to weigh myself and get back into some form of exercising ahead of the work event on thursday which will be a chance for me to really blow out and have a good eat and drink with some colleagues.

I'll post my latest statistics up tonight, fingers crossed everything is still reducing.