This weight loss thing doesn't always make sense. When I think that I am making progress something bizarre happens. I have been in Cannes for a few days at a conference and like a good dieter stuck to the programme. So no French pastries or French bread for me. Dried meat, the odd vegetable.. Hold the carrots and I am on the straight and narrow. I have to be careful with wine, but thankfully those clear spirits are on the list so life it is not all denial.
Work demands have just been relentless these last two weeks and I haven't seen the inside of the gym, another £15 down the drain. I have managed to carry my skipping rope around but the ceiling lights have not be threatened so all in all I wasn't sure how this week's weigh in would go. The news is that I have gone up 1lb or 0.5kg in absolute weight. Sigh. But that is not the end of the story. I have actually lost 4kg of fat, yes 4kg but have increased the amount of water in my system. So I am not 54% water rather than 52% I was last week.
What does this mean? I am no longer sure, the Nurse was seriously pleased , me, I am just not sure. My goal is to go down by 20kg over all, but if what I am losing is fat that is a good thing as well. Though not as pleasing as an overall drop in weight. From a health perspective I am now 27.7kg of fat which is well under my first goal of 30kg. That much is good. I just hope that it continues down. Blood pressure was well up when I was measured this week, but I attribute that to the last minute of rushing to get everything done before I go off on holiday
Holiday.. Wish me luck I will be in the land of fat so I shall need a will of iron. Good news is that my appetite is diminishing. Today all I had was some cold cuts and brie and then later a chicken omelette with rocket and cheddar. Oh, and a glass of red wine.. Purely medicinal purposes.
I was in two minds on whether to take the laptop or not and since I am on holiday I think it will stay at home. If I manage to get to an internet kiosk I shall be updating this. Otherwise I will probably be blogging from my spaces account using my phone. You can find my travel blog here http://motr.spaces.live.com. Why "motr"? You love sports cars, but it is not a motoring contraction but rather "man on the run".. Go figure, it is generally the last think you will catch me doing.