Steady Weight Loss
Oct 10Since my post last week things have been going well. Although it took until Wednesday to overcome the effects of the weekend things have been good with Thursday showing a loss of 2lb and another 1lb on Friday. Then of course it all goes wrong again, it was a big weekend socially although I did my best to get through it with minimal damage.
It all kicked off with the Rugby World Cup, an early start with breakfast in the local pub to watch the game. Of course i was good, just a couple of poached eggs on one slice of toast with 2 rashers of fat removed bacon and another few gallons of tea. There were visitors coming in the fternoon for an overnight stay and Mrs Hippi had prepared a buffet type dinner for us all with lots of lovely stuff on it and a lot of it healthy. What was not healthy was the Scotch Eggs of which 2 full ones 
(4 half’s) were consumed with gusto, the 6 slices of granary French stick with real butter that seemed to slip down wonderfully, who can resist granary French stick?, not me it seems, and the three full slices of corned beef that got devoured and that was on top of all the nice bits of salmon, chicken and salad that was consumed.
Then the evening consisted on probably around 8 pints of lager and around 6 Rum & Coke (diet coke of course) and i have a memory of eating a fresh cream doughnut around 4am!
Breakfast on Sunday was 2 croissants with real butter (oops) and a beautiful Sunday roast joint of pork for dinner, none of which was too devastating until the puddings came out, we only ever have dessert when we have visitors! There was a choice of 3 one of which was bakewell tart and custard – oh oh it was irresistable and i proceeded to demolish a serving of that, but it was only a normal serving and just one at that!
Luckily the scales today (Monday) say I have not gained any weight but those of you with a memory will recognise this pattern after a weekend, scales say maintain on the Monday, you stay good on the Monday only to find that it bites you on the Tuesday with a considerable gain you were not expecting! I don’t know why it is and hopefully it can be avoided this week. does this happen to you, recognise any of these weekend patterns, did you manage to control your weekends better, why not let me know, please comment below if you have anything to add.
Hippi
Easy Dieting?
May 14No!!!
Well that is my answer so far. I have not exactly covered myself in glory since I started midweek as the following will show..
Day 1 – managed to stay under calorie allowance (just).
Day 2 – managed to stay under calories but still had too big a chinese meal in the evening .
Day 3 – Terrible, overate by approximately 1000 calories.
How could this happen?
Easily, and i fully understand why it happened and there are 3 reasons for it.
Reason 1 – Lack of Planning
What is that saying? Failing to plan is actually planning to fail! I could not agree more with that sentiment right now, you see i didnt really plan ahead for the week and that is what made it easy to fail and fall into the usual patterns I have had in the past, the very ones that will kill me if they are not mastered. You see Day 1 was not a falure other than not making time for exercise but that would have still been positive but i had planned for that, eating sensibly at work, drinking plenty of fluid and ensuring I ate up to my calories. Unfortunately work commitments in the evening meant that i just did not get time to exercise.
Reason 2 – Family were not on board.
A recurring theme in this household is starting a diet and immediately going off the rails, perhaps we have come to expect it and perhaps even enjoy it! Anyway what i did wrong was to enforce the idea that it is for real this time, that if i do not deal with this weght loss issue it will kill me. So we were invited to friends after work, not for a meal or anything just for socialising and actually doing something for them. We had a couple of drinks, 1 bottle of beer for me, however as is often the case we were there much longer than intended, not returning home til around 10pm. Lack of planning meant that we had nothing that didn’t seem like a timeconsuming pain in the butt to get ready at that time of night, not even sandwich ingrediaents which would have been better than the Chinese meal we ended up having. Add to that the fact that although after approximately half of my dinner i was full, i continued to eat until it was all gone and i felt full and bloated, another habit that should be broken.
Reason 3 – Greed/Old Habits
Additionally after the chinese incident with greed on day 2 day three was always a planned party, i knew i would be drinking more than i should and knew (as is the case after such sessions) that we would likely eat takeaway. I’am an intelligent man, and my wife is an uber intelligent lady and we know that we can make sensible choices even in such situations. Why is it then that i bought a turkish chicken doner kebab and chips (fries) which on its own is a 2000 calorie meal never mind the quite large amount of beers I had before hand.
It’s not too difficult to see where i need to take control, that is the aim over this weekend is to gain control over my decisions – wish me luck!
For those overseas or other readers that have no idea what a chicken doner kebab is like let me explain – it is (i suspect very poor quality) chicken, probably stripped from legs and necks and all the non premium areas and made into a compressed fatty block and then heated and sliced off and put in a large fat round bread which completely gets soaked by the fat that comes out of it. It is known to me and my friends as death on a plate! it has to be the most unhealthiest thing you can buy in terms of weight loss.
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