Early Feb update

Just had a weekend in the mountains, and rather than risk feeling faint from hunger miles from humanity, I let myself go. Nothing massive just a bit of junk here and there.
Sadly I’m nowhere near any scales so I can’t assess the impact. On the plus side I’ve done plenty of tiring exercise, on the [...]

Update Jan 09

Sorry for not posting for so long – hardly the 2-3 posts per week I initially had in mind..
Anyway my normal reason for not posting is not wanting to remind myself how poorly things are going. But this time that is not the case.
I havent weighed myself for a few days but I reckon I [...]

Climate factors

In much of the health debate the focus is on food. References to exercise are vacuous at best.
What they conveniently ignore is the weather and the seasons. In the UK we get a lot of rain. Thats great for some sports but for many its a major turn off. In our winter its dark by [...]

Buzzing

Not sure quite what has changed, but for weeks (/months) my exercising has been a bit of a slog. Quite pleasant, but easy to avoid.
Yesterday and today I have done longer sessions and have come back buzzing each time. I’m up to about 15 minutes running and about 40 minutes biking. One possible difference is [...]

Pattern forming

Sorry I’ve not posted for a while.
I did my obsessive approach, and it worked well for a week, then I thought I ‘d have a day or two off. That was a month ago!
This is pretty much what happened last time too. And that seems to be the pattern, obsess for a week or two, [...]

99% success and still fat

Interesting discussion with someone the other day.
She would like to reduce her body fat. She suggested that her food intake matched her needs pretty well most of the time, and her weight was stable, just too high.
I though about this, and if you eat just right for your needs 99% of the time then over [...]

Weekend update

Friday I had a bit of a day off, I ate some junk, drank some beer, and didn’t do much exercise.
Saturday I ate well, but didn’t do much activity.
Sunday I ate well, and did loads of activity, bike ride, run, footy with the kids. And I feel good.
One thing from my day off on Friday, [...]

Operation obsessive – day 4 and 5 report

Today (fri)
Late last night I sneaked a couple of biscuits, and things have sort of gone downhill. No exercise today due to snow and generally crappy weather. Diet has been poor, but not a complete disaster. Don’t feel anywhere near as good as yesterday. Lost about 40 quid in rewards I’m not getting. I need [...]

Op ob day 3

Its working.
The kids had a treat after tea today, I cruised around, there were some interesting options. But in the end I didn’t want to put ‘fail’ on my spreadsheet so I didn’t have any. ace.
Exercise-wise I had a steady day, I have been pushing it and was knackered, thankfully I managed to survive without [...]

Operation obsessive – day 2 report

Tinkering around the edges didn’t work so well, so this week I am trying being obsessive.
Its working well so far – I haven’t ‘forgot’ I’m on a diet. I have pushed myself to get out and get active.
I have set myself up a spreadsheet with the following columns:

date
Target weight
actual weight
difference
diet good
diet bad
activity 1
activity 2
activity 3
activity [...]