Weigh in (2)

No weight loss, crap! Still 18 stone 7 pounds

I've heard all the platitudes. "At least you haven't put any on", "it takes your body a couple of weeks to adjust to a healthier regime" and my personal favourite "those scales aren't very accurate, they always register too high". They are meant well, but the bottom line is that I have tried hard this week, and it hasn't worked.

So what happens now? The urge is to do the one thing which a man on a regime change like this should never ever do; comfort eat. It is a great irony that an effort to lose weight can result in an actual weight gain through over-eating.

The urge is there, but I refuse to give in to it. Have no illusion, I am pretty upset; tonight is certainly not one of my best, but I am here to do a job and I will see it through. Even if next week there is no change, and the week after, I will get there I promise you; I promise me.

So it's time to be even more vigilant, time to make sure I DEFINITELY go to the badminton social night this Friday and work up a sweat (missed the last three), and time to chuck out the humus and pesto (just had a look at the containers, do you know how much fat there is in those things??). Possibly I have not been eating quite as healthily as I thought.

In short, I'm not giving up.

Right, I'm off to water my geraniums.....

The night before.....

Bit nervous about the weigh-in tomorrow; tried hard this week and am going to feel pretty crap if it hasn't paid off.

Purging....

No, don't worry, it is not my intention to succeed in losing weight through the unhealthy practice of gorge and vomit; the type of purging will be done on here, verbally.
There are many triggers to me eating badly; two particular sneaky ones are as the result of a particularly good day (ooooooh, I really think I deserve a treat!), or as the result of a particularly bad day (comfort eating = feeling better). The problem is, that my days tend to be one or the other, so basically I'm screwed!
So I will be using Fat Man To Fit Man - occasionally, not always - to vent these emotions, good or bad; the theory being that doing just that will pull me back onto an even keel, before I order something I shouldn't from the local chip shop.
The good news is that it's already worked! Driving home from work on Friday, I was going through a battle of wills to stop myself having my usual large chips. large fish, meat and potato pie and large gravy (oh, and two diet cokes!). The fear of having to come on here and confess what I had eaten proved to be a powerful incentive in making me drive past the den of indulgence also known as The Bizzy Plaice, and instead I had a victorious and virtuous scrambled egg on toast!
Sorry about the photos, I'm still having trouble with my slideshows......(I believe they have a cream for that......)

Sorry!

I know I said I'd be writing Thursday; but I ad a bit of trubble (ooh betty!) with me slideshows. Both me and photos should be on tonight.

Three viewers so far.......woo hoooo!

Weigh in (1)

Well there it is, eighteen and a half stone where my ideal weight is nearer to twelve stone; yikes! Hopefully, that is the heaviest I will ever be.

Weigh-ins are being brought to you courtesy of Wii Fit, whose board doubles up as a set of scales. For those of you who have not joined the Wii community (run! flee! it's too late for us, save yourselves!) you create for yourself what I can only describe as an avatar; an ickle version of yourself. This avatar accompanies you through most of the Wii games. The unfortunate thing is when I weigh myself on Wii Fit, my little man (referring to my avatar........don't be crude) expands its belly accompanied by a look of horrified shock on his poor face. Not good.

Anyway, a couple more of the rules. Weigh-in night will continue to be on a Tuesday night. I will also be adding a couple of slide shows of photographs below. One face-on, and one in profile; once a month. I apologise profusely for the June ones, but count yourself lucky; they could have been topless! I will be in the same room, and I will be wearing the same clothes, and hopefully it won't be too long before the differences will be evident,

Badminton training tomorrow night, so will catch you Thursday.

PS (2 days without fast food!)

First post......!

Why is it I feel like a guy who has invited all his friends round for his birthday party? I'm sat in the blogging living room, with lots of nibbles on the table, enough booze in the fridge to start my own off licence, and Duran Duran playing on the stereo; waiting - and hoping! - for people to arrive. There is a distinct possibility I could spend the entire time talking to myself.

BUT....I think the idea I have is a good one (see above), so we will see how it goes.

The initial weigh-in is tomorrow, stay tuned!!