Week 4

It’s been a mixed week – great on the exercise front, but not so great on calorie consumption.

Monday – I decided to use Runkeeper to monitor my activity instead of relying on the Apple Health app on my phone. First big news is that the long walk to work, that I reported last week as being 3 miles is in fact 3½ miles – that explains why I was struggling to do it in an hour!

Tuesday I managed an extra walk in today as I had a meeting at Queens Cross, that let me sneak in an extra 1.6 miles without really noticing

Wednesday – I thought I was going to miss my lunchtime walk as I had a meeting that ran on past 12:30, but decided to go anyway and make up the time by staying later in the day.

Thursday was a bit of a disaster on calorie consumption. We had friends round for supper and indulged in three courses, and a bit of cheese and oatcakes to follow. Also let go of the no alcohol on school days regime for the first time since I started this weight loss challenge and had a bottle of beer and a decent sized glass of wine. Used up all the daily WW points and half the weekly allowance too.

On Friday I did the long walk to work today, making that five times this week – full house! Also got three miles in at lunchtime, but slipped into two bottles of beer and a glass of wine to celebrate the end of the week (I was going to abstain since I had indulged the previous night, but didn’t!)

Weekend fantastic weather over the weekend (well if you forget about the rain Sunday AM). Did a circuit of the promenade on Aberdeen beach on Saturday, that’s a sneaky 3.2 miles, and on Sunday we visited the rebuilt railway station at Ballatar. Now a very nice café/restaurant which I’d highly recommend (and the wee scone (no jam) was great too)

So my walking stats for the week were 42.4 miles burning up 5,026 calories.

I have lost only 2½ lbs this week, which with all the walking is a bit of a disappointment, but it shows that we need to be vigilant on the diet as well as the walking if we want to get ahead. I reckon a I lost 1½ lbs worth of calories walking, leaving the other pound from the eating. We can’t not entertain, or be entertained or we will be very sad boys, and there are going to be weeks where the exercise isn’t going to be possible due to work commitments or weather – so we need to keep the twin pronged attack of diet and exercise going if we want to keep the weight loss on track. As one of the young lads said to me this morning, “you cannot exercise your way out of a bad diet”

Finishing on a positive note. 17½ lbs lost of a target of 50lbs – that’s me more than a 1/3^rd of the way through!!