A strange pattern has developed recently with weight loss, lose a bit gain a bit.
It resembles a bouncing ball, where each bounce goes up a bit less each time, as you can see from the graph above. The positive is that the overall trend is going in the right direction.
Weight loss is important, but the speed of weight loss is more important. To this day the overall thing that stands out to me, is how few people comment on how much I have lost. This is from those that see me daily, to others who, having met the other day in the pub for a drink, that I had not seen since January this year.
Pub? How can I be going to the pub and lose weight, truth is that these days it is a rare event. Also I have no fear in being too rigid, as the line in the Passenger song goes "Life is for living"
Going back to the trend, it is very much tied in with walking our dog Blue. Each week my wife Sue or I take turns in taking Blue out for his dawn walk, normally around 5:30 am and the weeks when it is my turn is the week that the weight goes down, and then the week when I am not walking him, it bounces up. Talking this through with Sue, it must be what kick starts me in the mornings, so a good tip is, if you want to lose weight, get yourself a dog and take them out for those early morning walks. They will enjoy it as much as you would.
Since we have come back from holiday, I have got a 13 week pass at the local climbing centre. My aim is to go 2-3 times a week. This is excellent cardio exercise, whether you are working out on the auto-belay or improving your technique in the bouldering area, wearing a heart monitor to check calorie burn, it only takes around 30 minutes climbing and there goes 300kcal.
That is how much I burn off but when you see others down there, they probably couldn't eat enough calories to match their exercise workouts.
For me personally, it is more rewarding than going to the gym or running the streets. Though a word of caution if you climb, climb safely because pain and injury will severely restrict future activity. But join your local indoor wall climbing centre and have fun, no matter what age you are.
Over the last few weeks my wife has referred to me as her "skinny action man" and it is quite an endearing thought, but one that I seem to live up to. Down over 11 kg since the start of the year, continuing to climb, kayaking across Upper Loch Torridon on holiday and now there is one more string that I am looking to add to my bow.
When I say string, actually it is a rope, and this rope will be used to abseil down the iconic landmark that soars above Reading town centre, The Blade.
This abseiling event is for charity, a worthy cause in support of Naomi House Hospice. Where their residents face life's daily challenges with far greater need than most of us could imagine.
The event will take place on 28th June 2015 to find out more follow the link below............
Finally a shot of me in the Kayak
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| Liatach looms large over Upper Loch Torridon under cloudless clear blue skies |
An early birthday present from Sue & Blue
Thank you for such a stunning special treat.
