Week 9

A pretty slow week if I am being honest.

kept to the WW points most days, but used up all the weekly points over the weekend, out for dinner at friends on Friday evening and indulging in the odd alcoholic beverage on Saturday and Sunday wiped out the remaining weekly points, although the scone in John Lewis café on Sunday probably didn’t do much for the weight loss.

I took the 4.5 mile walk into work three mornings in the week, would have been four, but I was visiting Inverness office on Friday, so that was just a wee walk to the station and back, not much scope for further walks that day. At the weekend I experimented with potential longer walks to work, going along the old Deeside railway line. I could perhaps get a five and a half miler in going that way, but it will have to wait until about February time as there are no street lights along the walk way – although there may be enough light from surroundings to keep me on the path.

I did come up with a potential break through diet plan on the way home from work on Wednesday, it was a bit blowy and there was a drizzle on, so generally feeling cold and it occurred to me that drinking cold water and peeing warm water must use up calories. So applying some schoolboy physics to that problem I came up with the following. heating 1 litre of water up from 4 deg C (fridge temp) to 38 deg C (body temperature) would need 34 kcals. You’d therefore have to drink 3 litres of water to use up as many calories as walking a mile……………….I will stick to walking rather than peeing to keep up my calorie burn .

So uneventful week – result is a  shorter than normal blog. Lost 3 lbs on the week to bring down the weight to 14st 7lbs. that’s me lost a pound over two stones and only 1 1/2 stones still to go. With Christmas coming up and a trip to Manchester and London the week after next, I see the way ahead being a tad tortuous and if I start back in January at fourteen and a half stone I think I will be happier (but even happier if less than that)