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A Whole New Start



I’m back on the wagon. After a horrendous summer, in which I’ve managed to yoyo my way between 85 and 90 kilos, I have eaten my way through more in a week with my parents than I did in the entire preceding month. Consequently, I am back up to 89.4kg and hating every moment of it. I feel fatter now than I did back in January (at 101kg).
The benefit to restarting now is that I can restart the exercise regime without dribbling into a pool of my own perspiration. 

I am back into daily calorie counting and a very strict Fluid Fast Strategy.
I have found a very good website for tracking, setting and recording the routes of walks and runs, in addition to any other exercise. It will also give you a burned calories count, which is very helpful. The website is Map My Run, and I love it. It’s simple to use and navigate, and you can save your routes.

Unfortunately, my inactivity over the summer has caused my troublesome joints to become a little tight and stiff. My left knee is swelling after 2km and my right ankle is just about making it to 3km. I’m keeping up, but suffering a little when I get back to the house.
So, with this whole knew start I’m implementing a new set of rules and guidelines. 


  1.   There is no leeway for cheating, if I want to eat more than my daily allowance then I need to save the calories or add an extra Fast Day.
  2.  There is no excuse for not exercising, if I have an injured joint then I do something different (the only possible exception is if my back has gone), for example if my knees are giving me grief I’ll do some core work and arm weights.
  3. I will stick to recipes, in order to maintain calorie counts.
  4. I will make more effort to make healthy, interesting and appropriate meals (I promise)

As I’m (re)starting at the beginning of the cooler weather, I have over 7 months of exercise appropriate temperatures to make an impact on my waistline (and all the other lumpy areas). 

There are a couple of other changes, too. Now that I have joined the rest of the female population, in managing a monthly hormonal cycle, I shall only weigh once every two weeks. This is so that I skip the two weeks of the month when I am guaranteed to gain at least one kilo (if not two). In avaoiding the potentially depressing weight gain that I know will happen I'm more likely to keep my motivation going.

Well, wish me luck and laugh at my inability to keep up the weight-loss programme I was so enthusiastic about. I shall conquer my blubber, eventually.

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