lose 5 kilos

a diet of gin and pringles seems to have worked wonders here.

300g above my goal today! (should have got that haircut!) it’s probably just as well not to tick this one off before the holiday, but to finish it off well and proper afterwards.

three unrelated people have told me i’ve lost weight this week, and my jack wolfskin walking trousers that used to be tight now have inches to spare around the waist. so i’m certainly pleased with my progress and expect it to continue. (hooray for mr robert ullrey and his c25k podcast.)

every gram i lose between now and the 5k on saturday 17th is one less gram i’ll have to schlepp around the tiergarten

little is actually happening on the scales, but this past week two separate people have told me that i’ve lost weight and am looking splendiferous for it. pleasing, very pleasing.

all that well, am fluctuating around -1.5 to -2.5 k. am getting lots of exercise and eating reasonably healthfully, but there have also been some good reasons for celebratory healthinessfulllllness (and prosecco) this week. plus a late delivery of mini-eggs. the plan for the week to come (starting tomorrow) is to lay off the alcohol and chocolate completely, to eat loads of veggie soups and stews, and to keep up/step up the exercise. that should get things moving again.

a few houses down from us. he does those pots of fruit for people like me who are too lazy to prepare it themselves. so i’ve been buying myself a pot in the morning to bring to work, thinking i’m being a healthy hero. but it’s an environmental catastrophe: high-mile mango and pineapple and strawberries in a disposable plastic pot with a disposable plastic fork. i really must practise my mango-dissection skills. i only ever end up with a heap of orange goo smelling like soap (plus bits in my hair, on the floor, all the way up the cupboards, etc.). or i’ll have to buy proper, whole fruits, like people did in the old days. maybe he stocks pears that are not from the usa or argentina (are there no pear trees left in germany? do the german pears get sent to china or something?)

i (still) only have about 3.5 to go. i’m going to make it a personal goal to do by the end of april, but not one of those shiny yellow personal goals that elevate to the top of the list. i’m going to pull my thumb out and my socks up. it will be quite a milestone, not to mention somewhere i haven’t been for quite some time, and it will make running easier ;-)

reward: ace weekend away, maybe do part of the berlin-copenhagen cycle route?
strategy: hmmmmm.

of making this a personal challenge, to be completed by easter. hmmmm.