Week 12

Got off to a great start on Monday. Took a new walk into work along the old Deeside railway track. Bit of a bummer that it doesn’t have any street lighting and the sun doesn’t rise early enough in Aberdeen to give you daylight to walk to work in during December and January, but it was fine enough – if a bit slippy due to the cold weather. Total distance to work 5.75 miles. I will make this the new standard on days when I can get out of bed early enough. I had a working lunch – which meant sandwiches (which I guess I could have avoided, but didn’t), which gave me a WW score for the day at or about the daily allowance.

Tuesday I needed to take my car to work as I was visiting a football team we sponsor in Alford after work – no steps on the way to work then. Was out for lunch – very nice it was too at Chester’s in Queens Road – bill wasn’t as tasty though! took smoked salmon to start and a cheese soufflé for main course – pretty low WW score for that, but the walk there and back was only a mile and a half – and that was my entire steps for the day.. Finished the day with a bowl of mushroom soup I had made in the morning (using the time I would have spent walking to work) – very tasty. came in under my ww allowance for the day – so a bit of a carry over for later in the week. We were meant to be going for a curry, but friends had a flu type virus, so that has been postponed until next week.

On Wednesday morning everything seemed to take twice as long as normal before I could leave the house, and when I did get to the gate I remembered it was bin day – with bins in the house that needed emptied before I could put them out for the binmen – so that’s my excuse for reverting back to the shorter 4 mile route to work, but I did manage to clock up 3 miles at lunch time and a mile home.

Thursday I decided to add a wee twist to the start of my walk going back to the start of the Deeside railway at Duthie park – perhaps if I did that I could get the Deeside railway route up to 6 mies – failed. I thought I had done just about enough and came off the railway line a ‘stop’ before the exit I took on Monday and came in at 5.7 miles, same as Monday, so on Friday I corrected that by starting at Duthie park and coming off just opposite the International School on North Deeside Road – cracked in 6.05 miles!!

This week is the 2nd last before Christmas, and my dieting is getting sloppy so I did exceed my weekly total (which has been reduced by another point per day, so when I weighed in this morning ,despite clocking up almost 35 miles over the week, I have only lost 1.75 lbs, weighing in at 14st 2.25 lbs – not bad considering I am on the Christmas wind down I guess.

Hopefully when I weigh in on the 7th January, after all these festivities are over, I am still here or here abouts, but what if I was sub-14stone………….dream on!