Last night, after dinner (a rather nice and tasty home-made vegetable curry - sadly with no rice or naan as I'm doing low GI) I even allowed myself a small treat by way of a Gu Chocolate pudding. Yes, I know it was naughty. Yes, I know I probably shouldn't have. Yes, I thought I was going to regret it this morning when I stepped on the scales. But no, it was all fine. No harm done and a lot of joy in a small glass bowl!
So after such a good first week what should I do to maintain the momentum?
This week's weight loss has been almost entirely down to a change in diet: less, healthier and low carbs. I've really not been doing any exercise beyond the activity levels I need to exist and work (and a fair amount of that is sedentary).
So what sort of exercise shall I choose?
Cycling would be great but, living in the Peak District, I feel I need to be considerably fitter before I attempt cycling anywhere - I imagine some of the local hills are too much for the fit 18 year old Rob, let alone the 43 year old fat bastard!
I do love swimming and that would by my choice if it wasn't fir the local Lido being closed at the moment because of problems with the roof. It's been going on for months now - total nonsense and mismanagement by the district council.
I can obviously walk some more, including up and down the hill to town once in a while, but I really don't like jogging or running (when I was at 6th form college I ran a marathon, which nearly killed me, I could hardly walk for a week and it took 5 hours, 23 minutes and 49 seconds - I was overtaken towards the end by a blind man being lead around by someone connected by a rope).
I'm not sure I could face the fitness video market - some of the ones advertised over Christmas looked more like soft porn!
So it seems there is only one real choice left: the gym!
I've been a member of a few gyms in my time: when I lived in Nottingham I was a member of David Lloyd's (absolutely fantastic, though admittedly a bit pricey, with pool, tennis and squash courts, great gym facilities, etc.); more recently I've been a member of Cannons in Chesterfield (again quite nice but it was always too tempting to spend large amounts of time in the pool, jacuzzi and sauna and considerably less on the machines); and then there was a little local gym based at County Hall in Matlock (which was ok, but required more commitment than I was prepared to give at that point).
On Tuesday I'm going fro an induction at the gym based at the local Lido - it's linked to the one in Bakewell too (which will be handy for work if I can use both).
Let's see if Gym really can fix it!!
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