Part II

ps - Have now walked Sun - 3.5, Mon - 1.5, Tue - 1.5, Wed - 1.5, and with any luck will be off for another 1.5 in 5 minutes.

Day 304: Diet

I'm going to try and move more towards an Asian diet rather than a Mediterranean one. Logically Mediterranean makes sense. They eat a lot of veges and live longer and have fewer health problems. But I've just noticed that when i shifted from Asian to Mediterranean I actually put on a lot of weight, which now is coming off very slowly. When I ate Asian I was thinner, and when I worked as hard as I'm working now, it just fell off.

So what does this mean? More stir frys and soups basically. Sounds boring but Asian cooking is anything but. It means flavour from chili and spice and herbs rather than fat and salt. It means a lot of rice, flavoured with various spells and slight of hand, rather than bulk food. It means more noodles.

And please, no low carb comments. Asians aren't fat. What do you think they eat.

Monday part 2

Ok, so that's depressing. Do I run off and buy a box of light and easy?

No, things were working. What fucked it up was going on that fucking work retreat, being stressed at work, and missing my daily exercise, and eating crap at the retreat.

I also ate out 3 times last week at fancy restaurants! And once at at ok one.

So, my approach is:

1. Exercise every day.

2. Don't eat crap.

3. No piss.

That works. When I'm heading in the wrong direction if I look back at my behaviour I haven't been doing 1 and 2.

For some reason I've been like a champ with 3. Someone at work complemented me on 3 last week, with the absolutely shithouse week I had. I think she wondered how I did it.

I don't know to be honest. Something in my brain just switched and said, that's it, a year off the piss, and I've been able to do it.

Normally I'm not that strong mentally.

If I could work that one out I'd be a rich man.

Day 301: 14.5kg loss (1.7 GAIN)

Well that is a cunt.

Day 301: 43 weeks

Well, into the 300s.

9 weeks to go.

Trying to get back into it after a stressful week at work, which lead to some bad behaviour.

Walked 3.5 hours this morning around Mt Cootha.

Day 296: Back on the saddle

Well, after my half week of shocking behaviour and no exercise I walked home last night. Going to spend the rest of the week in catchup mode, with the goal of being back into the swing of things by next week. Lots of walking on the weekend.

Was a bit down in the dumps for a few days there - stressed, due to work mainly. I think that I am a stress eater, in that if stressed, and placed in a foreign environment (eg a hotel) I will eat poorly.

I have even been having some pro-alcohol thoughts, and reasoning why it was a good idea to have a drink, and even a bad idea not to. Why shouldn't I have a drink with a beautiful woman over lunch, for example?

Another pretty girl at work said I looked a lot smaller than in my picture, which was taken when I started this mad adventure. That pretty well answers why not.

Would a pretty girl prefer the sober, lean, fit guy or the fat drunk guy?

Pretty obvious, which is why I'm walking in this morning and not having a drink at lunch today. I've got 3 flash lunches lined up in a row: Kingsleys, Aria and Alchemy. Sounds flash, but really a fat and booze fest, if you are not careful.

Day???? Health benefits of booze

Interesting reading a couple more articles on how moderate alcohol consumption is a really good idea health wise.

Binge drinking (ie most aussie drinking) is not.