Chris is Still Too Fat

Sad summary of yesterday (Thursday) :

Calories : 2400. Having just added it up, it shocked me too.

Exercise : 60 mins on bike; the only crumb of comfort I can offer.

Best get out there and do some more exercise right now and leave the ginger biscuits strictly alone.

ChrisITF

Summary of yesterday (Wednesday) :

Calories : 1956. At least I am consistently over the top.

Exercise : 60 mins bike ride.

Hampshire Wildlife Trust has introduced a herd of black cattle (8) to part of the woods through which my exercise sorties pass. It is part of a heathland improvement grazing project apparently. I had wondered why the fences were being repaired and cattle grids introduced. And now I know. I came across my new neighbours munching contentedly away on Tuesday, in fact.

Not too sure about great lumbering animals trampling around the nightjars' nests come next summer but I hope they have thought of that one. Anyway, it adds a new dimension of interest to my excursions and it will be interesting to see how they and their designated area of woodland and heathland fare over the coming months.

I do hope their presence will mean that dog owners will be more considerate about control of their unruly mutts. I might thus get a spin-off benefit of fewer carnivorous confrontations with these latter.

Oh, and to add a little spice here, one of the eight beasts is definitely a bull of the species !

ChrisITF

First, a summary of yesterday (Tuesday) :

Calories : 1989. I know; I should not have had a Mars Bar at the evening football match.

Exercise : 60 mins out on bike at last. So that was a bit better.

Still Jekyll and Hyde syndrome rampant with regard to food. It is like I have two resident personalities; honest ! Take last night's Mars Bar, for instance. Number one son went off to get sustenance at half-time, chips or whatever, and I could not bring myself to go without.

Having had the delicious Mars Bar and for a time sharing a small part with a very brazen but cute wild mouse (it was a rather lack-lustre match and the mouse was more interesting) I had to ask myself why on earth I went for a Mars Bar when I could easily have brought some fruit with me, for example.

Conclusions :

1) same brain, two attitudes;

2) mice like chocolate.

Sigh.

ChrisITF

Summary of yesterday (Monday) :

Calories : 1933. It might look a lot but it is an improvement on recent days.

Exercise : 40 mins running. Actually I walked some of it. Just felt really lethargic. Then helped Mrs CITF clear the remainder of the back garden jungle and repaired another bit of damaged fence from Saturday's gale. Looking much better. Still not got bike out.

ChrisITF

Summary of yesterday (Sunday) :

Calories : Again, dunno. Never kept a count. Slipping.

Exercise : Nothing specific.

Got dragged in to repair fence blown down by Saturday's storm which affected us and two neighbouring families. It soon became a case of too many cooks, etc. So, I left the younger ones to play with the sledge-hammer and I made the tea and biscuits ! Promised myself that I would get out and about on bike Monday.

And now it's raining ...

ChrisITF

Oops .. another day missed and still no venture onto the scales. So let's catch up with a faux report on yesterday (Saturday) :

Calories : Dunno. Lots. Was up in t' North and later in t' West Country and not a morsel prepared by myself or Mrs CITF. Don't you just love motorway service station catering (Hilton Park) ?

Exercise : 30+ mins running.

This latter was the sole concession to a weekend of exhaustion, culinary disaster and motorway driving (472 miles). The result of this is that the world as we know it has probably 0.05 secs less to exist and myself a deservedly 30 days less. But at least the latter I can redress in the days (if any) to come.

So let's make a start.

ChrisITF

Summary of yesterday (Thursday, 12 November 2009) :

Calories : 2147 which reflects partially the meal out in London.

Exercise : Nil except a long wander round the South Bank, then North Bank, of the Thames in the gloom of dusk and increasing intensity rain. Limp mostly gone.

ChrisITF

Summary of yesterday (Wednesday, 11 November 2009) :

Calories : 1888 ameliorated by ...

Exercise : 30+ mins running.

Why, oh why, will owners not control their dogs, eh ? Gent with a two-year-old toddler, a muzzled whippet-type hound on lead and a loose (contrary Military bye-laws) mongrel in woods. Mutt believes I am there for its amusement and runs across my path on collision course. I dodge out of the way sideways and feel my knee give. Ten bleedin' months in repair that's been. And I now have a calf strain (t' other leg) as well.

Limped round M&S last night with Mrs CITF; limping round London today in a short while.

So thankyou to the owner of 'Butchy'; thanks a bunch.

ChrisITF

Summary of yesterday (Tuesday) :

Calories : 1914.

Exercise : Nil. Don't have a go at me. Did you see the weather ?

Another uninspiring week of calorific failure and familiar guilt so far, compounded by a low exercise level. It can only get better. Or worse.

And I have just remembered it is our old work-place reunion meal out for a select handful of us in London tomorrow. Venue uncertain; we decide by squabbling on arrival. It will not be healthy, I predict. Or cheap.

But it's only once a year.

ChrisITF

Brief summary of yesterday (Monday, 09 November 2009) :

Calories : 1802. Mini Twix bar did not help (98 cals).

Exercise : 30+ mins running.

Been slacking a bit with my reporting. Not touched the scales recently but it won't be good news. Finally cracked with the exercise and went out for a run yesterday; the first for 3 weeks. Felt quite lethargic - hardly surprising - and just plodded round. Bit nippy too at an autumnal +6C so I replaced shorts with track-suit bottoms. Still a bit underdressed though.

Back tomorrow if I remember. Enthusiasm a bit low-ebb.

ChrisITF