Category: Weight Loss

• Weight @ WW: 139 kg (ate just before weigh in, shoes, keys, wallet, coins, first day of large water intake etc)
• Weight @ Home: 137.5 kg (so personal scales are 1.5 kg out from WW scales)
• Next WW goal weight: 125.1 (-13.9 kg)
• Next personal WW goal weight: 134 kg (-5 kg)
• Exercise goal: 3 gardening sessions of at least an hour each, and housework of around 8 hours (it really takes that long) (0 hours of exercise so far this week)

Well, it’s done. I’m a member of Weight Watchers … again. If only losing weight was as easy as going to McDonalds.

I was a good boy today; I ate:

• a tomato and ham on brown bread without marg (4 points) 2 cereal
• tuna salad for lunch (no dressing) (1 point)
• apple (1 point)
• plain hamburger with egg and pineapple (10 points) = at least 2 cereal, plus lots of saturated fats (bad)
• 2 steamed dim sims (4 points)

~ 20 points or thereabouts. I have 23-27 to burn each day, but as 10 of those were oily / greasy, I’m not fussed about the missing 3 points.

I’ve drunk about 2 litres of various fluids today, and it’s hard doing it properly. So almost the quintessential WW day.

Sat through the leader talking up carbs. Interesting. Once I’ve lost a bit of weight, I might experiment with differing levels of carbs and see if there’s any differences for me. I know I have a glacial metabolism, so anything that slows down weight loss is out as far as I’m concerned. At least we got the talk about low GI foods. Still – they want us to have five cereals a day or at least five points from cereals. I have at least 60 weeks on this program ahead of me, plenty of time to conduct experiments.

Might start with porridge. I love porridge and it’s low GI … as long as I don’t toss sugar on it.

Things I’m going to miss:

• Big breakfasts at La Dolce Vita
• Pancakes with maple syrup on a regular basis
• Belgian Beer Cafe’s beer, bangers and mash

There will be a starting photo soon. I’m also going to modify MT to cope with a WW journal style of entry, but don’t hold your breath as I’m very bad at finishing things I start.

PS. Catherine – saw your search … in general, I tend not to mention people I meet in my daily travels unless I’ve talked about my blog with them on the day I’m likely to blog them into posterity. I don’t know who reads this, and I think many like their privacy.

My sebacious cyst finally got the better of me.

I had it “dealt” with this morning by three doctors with roughly a year’s experience between them. I showed up at the hospital bright and definitely far too early. I was shown in pretty promptly, which is cool – I took along a book expecting to be all day.

Then the needle came. Strangely enough, although I am a complete wuss when it comes to needles, I couldn’t feel it. Either the pain from the neck was so intense that the needle was lost in the noise, or the skin is dead.

After a bit of slicing and dicing, they started squeezing. Imagine a huge whitehead and six sets of fingers all going for the same thing. About an hour, some nitrous oxide gas, and many bloody gauze swabs later, it was significantly smaller. The pain was extraordinary.

At one stage after an extra incision, all hell broke loose – the pus / blood started coursing down my neck and torso and they pressed real hard on my neck. I could almost hear them thinking “whoops!”.

I now have a 2cm slice (no stitches) in my neck, and it hurts to look left or right or up or down. Although I feel like someone has torn me a new hole in the side of my neck, it’s so much less painful than before.

I hope I never have to do this again.