11/24/2011 05:48
Slow Progress
Been a couple of months and I haven't updated for a while. At my weigh-in in October I had lost another 0.7kg - (it's coming off in trickles) but I had definately felt tthe restriction. The reason I didn't lose more was I still ate crisps sometimes for lunch and I was having dessert every night (mostly low-cal diet mousse but occassionaly a full fat version) and I was drinking alcohol at the weekends. On top of which I didn't get to the gym at all. Umm - not good behaviours are they?? But on the plus side, as they say, I did eat and cheat less, I felt good about what I ate over 70% of the time, and I didn't feel like I was on a diet and being punished. I felt good overall. I decided the following month I would put more effort into exercising and try and curb the snacking a bit. - Unfortunately the first thing I did that first weekend was break my little toe........
Well as I could hardly walk out went the majority of my planned exercise including the golf which i had at least been doing. Ho hum - I did however cut back on the wine at weekends. (We've just moved to a new house and we are getting to know the neighbours which has resulted in additional socialising hence the increased alcohol intake.) I did cut back on the cheating - a bit - I fell off the wagon on a couple of occassions but less than the previous month.
Anyway the upshot of it was at my weigh-in earlier this week I'd lost another 0.5kg (in a month!) Right I thought I've got to take this in hand - it's good that at least it is going down but at this rate I'll be drawing my pension befre I get to a healthy weight. So I got another small top-up just 0.3mls. I was a little nervous about that because I did have restriction which had reduced my portion size so i didn't want to end up in a situaion where I couldn't eat at all, but I was getting hungry quite quickly. Supposedly when you get the retriction right your hunger basically goes away. So i thought I'd chance it - well so far I haven't seen a difference. Portion size has not reduced further and I'm still getting hungry....hmm Have to think about topping up again next month.
Anyway what I have done right is join a gym (currently on a free 7 day pass) and I've been twice this week. Plus the toe is alot better so I can play golf again at the weekend. I've also cut back on desserts. I'm not having them every night now - just a couple a week. So I'm determined to lose more this month - not looking for huge losses, 2kg a month would be fine by me.
For example it's 3.30pm and am currently feeling really hungry - did have a banana and 2 crispbreads for lunch which should be enough for a bandit. Currently it isn't. Just off to have a hot choc to keep me going (low fat of course)