blokediet

New Year and all that.  Which means but one thing - back on the diet.   Oh shit. So here we go.  Same diet rules (which I've been steadfastly ignoring for the last three/four months) as other stuff has taken priority over weight management (relationship break-up, Mum dying, house move - I've been busy). So here we go in a New Year, new me kinda way.   I'll try to document just what it is I'm stuffing into my face, partly to put myself off the bad/tasty stuff, partly cos it mught be... Read Full Story

15 stones 13.4 pounds. I'll type that again for effect. 15 stones 13.4 pounds. The trick, obviously, is to not only keep consistently under the 16 stone barrier, but to maintain the downward trend mass-wise. I'm very pleased with myself, but there's still a way to go. Oh,and the kebab? Not only flipping delicious, but good for you too (in a grilled chicken with lotsa salad and a chili sauce kinda way). Read Full Story

16 stones 3.0 pounds. Nudging down all the time. I've developed a little weekday thing (not every day, but three days out of five sounds about right) - no breakfast except black coffee, a big lunch of salad and meat (where I work there's a big salad bar of all sorts of stuff), and then - nothing except drinks and relatively healthy nibbles. I'm sure that's an approach recommended by no-one at all. Tho three days a week I'm only eating once. Bad me. Read Full Story

16 stones 4.4 pounds. And that's almost the lightest I've been since starting this at the end of January (another 0.4 pounds and I'll be there). The 16 stone boundary is almost in sight, so we'll just have to see how this week goes... Read Full Story

16 stones 5.6 pounds. Yay, a little bit more shiftage! Actually, a bit of cheating as I didn't have an evening meal last night, as the lunchtime salad saw me through nicely... That's not a good habit to get into, so I won't, but it's pleasing to see a downward twitch in the numbers. Read Full Story

16 stones 7.2 pounds. Mmm chicken oven baked with a chili sauce drizzled over it, served on a bed of sauerkraut. Easy peasy, tasty, and good for you. Top tip: don't do too much chicken. Especially if you occasionally suffer from what my brother eloquently terms "the protein shits": at any point up to 24 hours after scoffing a mammoth amount of meat or fish, said meaty deliciousness makes a beeline for your anus from the inside... Read Full Story

16 stones 7 pounds. That's not too bad at all, what aith my ickle brother's wedding in there, which I was expecting to pump the girth up a belt-notch or so. So far, so back on the diet wagon, with a day of reasoned eating yesterday, a modicum of exercise (well, pooch-walking) and the same to come today, I'll wager. Read Full Story

16 stones 9.6 pounds. A bit of a breakthrough, as that's back under two stones weight loss since the start of this particular Iliad at New Year. And still the blog updates are a tad patchy (a few reasons for this, largely unrelated to either diets or blogging), tho the weigh is showing a renewed downward turn, which is good. However the sporadic nature of these updates should be resolved soonish, which in itself will refocus my attention on the not-pie-eating. Yesterday (Saturday) was my... Read Full Story

16 stones 10.6 pounds. Ooo I love sauerkraut. It's glorious stuff. Not to mention practically calorie-free. And easy to prepare (if you can get away with forking a few mouthfuls onto a plate from the jar, and calling that preparation). So, bed of sauerkraut, with a couple of chicken breasts on top (smeared with a spicy chili sauce, and given 25-30 mins in the oven). Result! Read Full Story

16 stones 9.6 pounds. No, i didn't believe the scales either. So I weighed myself again. And it said the same thing a second time. I've no real reason why the number should have dropped that low, though I'm not complaining. Long may it contunue! Read Full Story