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 [...]

Summer Time

Summer time just started for us – now its light enough to go out and do something active right up till gone 8pm.
There goes that excuse!
I should be able to get out for a ride after the kids have gone to bed from now until autumn. Assuming I can clear up a couple of niggling [...]

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 [...]

Progress to 11 March

The week of obsessive effort followed by 3 weeks recovery didn’t prove too effective. (net result no weight loss for the month)
I’ve changed things quite a bit now, I’m mainly focussing on getting out and doing some exercise. I’m not beating myself up over what I eat but I’m not going mad either. I’m not [...]

Council facilities

The mainstays of my (intermittent) fitness campaigns are riding my bike and running. I used to do a lot of gym work, but now we live a bit more remotely it doesn’t make so much sense.
Today though I decided for a change I would go to town and do a circuits session and go for [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]