Week 5

I’m still on a roll, although I had to miss lunchtime walks on Monday and Wednesday as I had work commitments – Monday was a double whammy as I was meeting a client for lunch – Wednesday I was travelling to a meeting that started at 13:00. Friday’s lunchtime walk was on the short side as the weather was showery and the showers were coming down like stair rods – so I didn’t want to be caught up in one of them or I’d get soaked. On the upside I managed the long walk to work every day, the weather being rather warm autumnal, but it had turned cold by Friday. I managed a long lunchtime walk on Tuesday to compensate for the lack of lunchtime walk on Monday, almost clocking up 3.7 miles in just over an hour. I travelled to Yorkshire on Saturday with an overnight stop in Edinburgh Friday night. Knowing that I would be spending the best part of the day driving, I clocked up almost 4 1/2 miles in Edinburgh before breakfast and heading south.

Overall for the week I clocked up 39.4 miles during the week – a tad short of 40, but there you go.

I had a good week on the eating front, keeping below my daily target (which has been reduced to 27 WW points) Monday – Thursday, and really only the wine and beer at the weekend taking me up to and beyond the 27. I started the week with 42 bonus weekly points and ended the week with 27 remaining – not too bad I’d say. I am finding keeping to the diet as far as food consumption is concerned not a huge effort – I do get hungry occasionally but not overly. The big strain is when watching TV off an evening. There is a habit to drink and snack. Drinking isn’t too big a deal – I just consume copious quantities of sugar free orange squash diluted with sparkling mineral water, but there is always an urge for a handful of peanuts or a bag of crisps. I manage that Monday – Thursday (sort off) but weekends it breaks down. I usually have a beer or two on Fridays & Saturdays, that takes me beyond the daily allowable, and eats into the weekly bonus and can you have a roast beef dinner without a glass of wine?? – I have managed to switch roast potatoes for boiled carrots, but not red wine for orange squash! – the challenge is to maintain the Monday – Thursday routine into the weekend, which I may have to do to get down to my target weight.

This morning I weighed in at 15st 2lb. A 3lb loss on the week – so still on track. 20lbs down, 30lbs to go. I should reach the half way point in a fortnight. I think the second half will be more challenging than this 1st half, especially if we take the fact we have Christmas in amongst that!