Weigh In - Week 8

Not great actually - I've put weight on - 8lbs to be precise taking me back over the 20st mark. I'd like to say it's because I went on holiday (and it was partly) but when I got back from holiday I weighed myself and I was 19st12lb, which would have meant I'd put on 3.5lbs - not too bad to say I'd been eating in restaurants and boozing for a week and a half. But then I decided I'd treat the rest of the week (I got back on Monday) as holiday as well and also ate take-aways and crisps - lots of them - which put on another 4lbs in 4 days. It's amazing how much difference a couple of day's relaxing can make.

Weigh In - Week 6

3lb Loss this week. Not amazing but I'm happy enough with it. Still not been back to the gym and I'm going to be honest now - I probably won't go again now until I get back from holiday.

Weigh In - Week 5

Right - confession time.

Weigh In - Week 4

Both a good and bad week this week. I've done slightly better than target for weight loss again, but exercise has taken a back seat.

First proper failure...

Didn't finish my run last night. I almost did, but my knees weren't right all day long and I had decided that I wasn't going to even go to the gym to try to give them a rest. They felt a little bit better in the evening though so I decided to go to the gym anyway...

Not good...

Starting to struggle with the knees now. I made the mistake of 'having a lie down' before I went to the gym tonight so I really wasn't in the mood by the time I got there as I was still half asleep. My knees gave me serious issues tonight as well...

Weigh in - Week 3

Good week this week. 5lb off. That means if I can hit my adjusted target (2.8lb) next week I'll be under 20st again. I just hope either my knees hold out long enough or I can find other exercise to do without damaging them any more if not. I'm sure I can though.

Rubbing shoulders with the stars

Well not really stars, but I'm quite proud of myself. I went to a big networking event at work today and the new head of the UK AMS Group (the part of IBM I work for) was there. I actually had the balls to go up, introduce myself, and offer a couple of my suggestions for improving the professions process. Now a lot of people reading will think 'so what?'. Well even a year ago I probably wouldn't have even gone to an event that was purely about networking - it's my idea of hell - so this was a big step for me and my confidence. I was shaking inside the whole time but as usual I covered it perfectly - I do always come across as unflappable even when I'm bricking it like I was today.