Chris is Still Too Fat

Summary of yesterday (Thursday, 05 November, 2009) :

Calories : 2220. Yup, there are bad days and very bad days ..

Exercise : Nil. See what I mean ?

Actually, I got collared to help in the garden again, thereby minimising the opportunity to slope off out on my bike. Based on this one would think that our back garden must surely be rivalling Kew by now. Not so. The Operation Jungle Clearance is still not finished but I admit it does look better now.

Off out today visiting elderly house-bound relative. Not much chance of exercise there, I suspect. Unless we get the wheel-chair out ? Hmm ...

ChrisITF

Brief summary of yesterday (Wednesday, 04 November) :

Calories : 1955.

Exercise : 50 mins on bike.

Odd how exercise seems to help with reduced food intake ?

Got signed off from hospital physiotherapy too. Really on my own now ...

ChrisITF

First a summary of yesterday (Tuesday 03 November) :

Calories : 2335. Deja vu : Spotted Dick now finished (with custard).

Exercise : Nil. Poured with rain in morning and I was just getting ready to dig the bike out after lunch when I was leaned on by Mrs CITF to help some more in the garden. And of course it gets dark quite early now.

The month so far : probably the worst start to a month for a couple of years. Not sure that my resting my troubled knee is actually working. So I am in a quandary about it. The intentional lack of exercise has to work or I might as well go back to wrecking my knee on an approximately daily basis. I have more or less given up with the well-meant physiotherapy at the hospital. Not actually told them I am back from the USA yet : Sssh !

What I really have to avoid is an unexplained collapse of morale like that which started approximately a year ago resulting in the gain of some 20+ lbs in weight in a dismayingly short time, just when I was in the finishing straight of my project and things were going really well. I have still got that gain, you see. I must not do it again !

Decision : off out on my bike. Now.

Back tomorrow.

ChrisITF

Summary of yesterday (Monday) :

Calories : 2300. Awful. However, I was doing OK until Mrs CITF surprised me by suddenly announcing the addition of a Spotted Dick pud with custard for evening meal when we usually have only the one course. (I thought she had been steaming a Christmas pud for later celebratory consumption). So with heavy heart I munched away contentedly in the nagging knowledge I would have to write this in the morning. She does make exceedingly good puds.

Exercise : Nil. Well, you see, I got collared to help in the garden before I could slink away on my bike. So at least I got a measure of Brownie points for that. But progress on weight loss overall yesterday was negative I suspect.

ChrisITF

Summary of yesterday (Sunday, 01 November 2009) :

Calories : 2280. Not a good start to the month at all.

Exercise : Absolutely nil.

Right. That's it. I am off out on my bike before my legs drop off; bad knee or not.

ChrisITF

Quick summary of yesterday (Saturday) :

Calories : 1900. Feeling I have forgotten something unfortunately ...

Exercise : Nil. Not putting up with this much longer; worse than dieting !

Nearly forgot : weight back to 190 lbs. Boo !

ChrisITF

Oops ! Forgot to weigh myself this morning and am now up and dressed, so it will have to wait. Otherwise, yesterday's data (Friday, 30 October) was :

Calories : 1889. A yogurt too far I suppose ..

Exercise : Absolutely nil (as per new regime).

So the week started with me thousands of miles away and somewhat out of control with what I consumed and ended the week much the same way, but for different reasons, and actually at home once more ! Clearly, I am not completely back on the rails of austerity yet.

Not exercising is frustrating I am finding and there is an indefinable malaise in my legs which nags that I should be out doing something, anything, rather than sat here tapping away at this, for example ! However, within the next 90 minutes I shall be off to watch a football match and will probably walk the mile or so each way; a gentle concession to exercise withdrawal symptoms therefore.

Just got back to the UK earlier this week, but already a new foreign jaunt has reached the gentleman's agreement (ie nothing in writing) stage. Feeling most unhappy about travelling to the USA as late as the requested 16 December, I negotiated a more acceptable (depending on to whom you talk) 27 December for winging it westwards to the midStates. Disappearing off does not get me any Brownie points you understand. Disappearing off and possibly missing Christmas here would take years to redress. I ain't risking it !

USA/Canada in December : deep snow, cold and dismal; I can see it now.

Meanwhile got to get my knee fixed which I think should even be a priority over weight loss, don't you think ? Not really thought of it like that before.

Anyway, sun is shining, we should win the football and a not-too-heavy lunch is doing its business inside me.

I will try to remember the scales tomorrow but don't expect miracles. I always brace myself for disappointment.

ChrisITF

Summary of yesterday (Thursday, 29 October) :

Calories : 1761. Not too bad, eh ?

Exercise : Nil. Not good but in accordance more or less with new tactics on knee recovery.

I persevere.

Scales again tomorrow.

ChrisITF

Still catching up but here is yesterday's summary anyway :

Calories : did not keep a count (but not good).

Exercise : Nil.

Having had a week away from the daily exercise routine, my knee has given me less and less grief. This has inevitably led me to wonder if this 'resting' is exactly what it needs ? It won't help weight loss but I am sick of compensating for a weakness there, especially on stairs. So I am thinking of giving it a rest for a while. It means I shall have to be especially vigilant with eating of course.

So be it. A decision made : I shall drop the running for a bit. Perhaps stick with the bike though which is less like an impact activity on joints. Let's see how that works out.

Supermarket run today but I am relegated now to trolley-pushing by Mrs CITF. She just loves going round at peak customer hour whereas, left to me alone, I sneak round at 0730hrs or so when it is like a private personal facility.

ChrisITF

Back folks !

Sorry that I have been silent for a while. Never gave this blog a single thought whilst 4,000 miles away or so. Also to my surprise I did not eat more than normal despite the obvious culinary temptations of USA/Canada. In fact, to be specific, I am still at 189 lbs according to the bathroom scales this morning. I think that is some kind of record over this past two years or so, ie to come back not heavier than when I left. Helps to miss out meals you see.

Got into one hotel late at night where the menu was definitely haute cuisine - where 'haute' referred to the prices mostly. Added to which the menu was in French; always a bad sign for a Yorkshireman (with a smidgeon of Scots) like me. Room service, quite often simpler fare, on this occasion was exactly the same offerings but with a 'service charge'. Verging on desperation, I opened the mini-bar and spied a can of Coca-Cola. Evening meal sorted ! I guess I was more dehydrated than truly hungry. Perhaps that is often the case ?

At another hotel I tasked Room Service with providing me with just a bowl of goulash soup. I had stayed there before and it was delicious. This time however it came with what looked like chocolate muffins cut up. However, these muffins turned out to be bread of a very unusual colour - chocolate muffin colour, no less. The bill ? £12 ! I was too tired to care.

So, yes, I missed a few meals and the gravitational result was a relief this morning. However, I am now back to all the temptations of a kitchen not 5m away and all the food is already paid for. And Mrs CITF is out in the garden .. !

However, as I know you are all watching I shall behave impeccably .. for as long as possible.

Back tomorrow, hoping to resume the weary road to my target of 161 lbs (or better).

ChrisITF