Tuesday 02/10/07
Although not brilliant weather at least it was dry for the long walk – set out later than normal because I have a
yoga class (which starts even later than the Monday class) and I wanted to incorporate it into my walk.
I am not sure how these late starts are going to pan out – I feel better if I am out of the house walking as soon as my husband has left for work. I always feel better once I am en route – I always think “My goodness – I am doing it all again!!!!)
I had another really positive experience in today’s walk. A chap (probably about my age) stopped me and asked about my walking. He had noticed me out walking and wondered what I was doing. He had then noticed that I kept getting thinner. Then his doctor had told him to lose weight (he isn’t as broad as I was or my husband is) and he had joined the local Virgin
gym. Someone there had been trying to motivate him and told him about my walking and all the weight that I have lost so far so he had decided to speak next time he saw me. I told him about what I am doing and how to search for the Charlie Walduck story.
The
yoga class was ok – but not too brilliant. This was the third class of term. Like the keep fit - I initially tried to sign up for another class which they didn’t run it because they didn’t get enough people. I asked what similar was being run there (within walking distance from home) and there were only the two options that I chose. In all honesty I wish that I hadn’t bothered with it. It isn’t nearly as fun as the keep fit – and I am not sure how much it will help my project. The teacher is not thin and she has been an expert for over 30 years. She said that it will not help lose
fat at all but should help with the toning. In addition my back hurt after the first week (which luckily eased after 4 or 5 days) so I didn’t do any back
exercises in the second week. Today she insisted that I did the back
exercises – saying that my back would never strengthen if I didn’t do them. Now I did quite often get a dodgy back when I was big (what with my weight and the fact that I hurt my back when I fell down the stairs when I was in my twenties) – but the fact is that I had no problems with my back from when I got going with my project until I took her first class. I do not envisage that I will sign up for
yoga after Christmas.
At weigh in I got ever so slightly through the 200
pounds barrier. I fully expect it to go back to the other side soon – but it is nice when you cross all these milestones. There are a lot of milestones coming up soon – 14
stones (which is also the loss of a third of my start weight), type 1 obesity etc.
General Data:
Morning walk = 6.3 miles.
Round the block = 4 times (on one lap my husband came too)
Extra
exercises = a
yoga class
Weight = 14st 3.8lbs (i.e. 199.8
pounds)
Steps = 30570
Distance = 11.33 miles
Remembered to take normal vitamin / supplements
Continued my creaming regime
Food / Drink:
1 banana
3 weetabix, 1 heaped teaspoon of sweetener (a level teaspoon is apparently 1.9
calories) and the (large) bowl topped up with skimmed milk.
40 seedless red grapes
1 glass (200ml) grapefruit juice – 82
calories
1 glass (200ml) orange juice – 92
calories
Cooked ham 120g – 150
calories
Main meal: my portion ingredients - 3 handfulls dry pasta, 33 cals sauce, sprinkle chopped garlic, 1/3 onion, 2/3 courgette, 1/3 red pepper, 1/3 green pepper, cooked in fry light
1 handful of sultanas
2 litres of cold water
some
diet cola
