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Not much sleep again, but energy levels remain good and I did a Personal training session at 9am. I had weighed myself this morning and had shed over half a kilo in Norwich and was now, for the first time this diet, under 30 on my BMI, meaning that before breakfast at least I was overweight and no longer obese. It doesn't get much better than that. I'm only overweight! I'm only overweight!
It's over 12 more kilos until I can say that I am at the upper end of my supposedly ideal weight. I got under 80 kilos (currently 84.4) in 2014 when I did the Men's Health challenge and was 82 at my fittest two years ago, after my cancer prompted me to (temporarily) sort myself out. I have no idea how low I can go this time, but although I tweeted my transition to simply being overweight as a little joke, I am not going to obsess about weight. I am concentrating on maintaining a healthy diet, enjoying the extra energy and not worrying about anything else. I've done some walking and a bit of PT and a couple of runs, but what's remarkable this time is that the change is pretty much all down to diet, not exercise, and not counting calories feels like a mad way to do this, but it's working so far. I am exactly 10kg lighter than when I started this thing, so that's a pretty big change already.
The real test is whether I am not obese in a year's time, but it does feel like a switch has flicked this time. If you've been here with me for the last 21 years then you'll remember me saying that before once or twice though.
I don't think I can get to my ideal weight (and I know the problems with BMI, but it is broadly speaking useful for most people) but it would be something if I never strayed over 30 again - will need to lose another kilo to ensure that's the case though, due to weight vacillations throughout the day!
I celebrated tonight with a Solero and a non-alcoholic beer, two things that I am only having occasionally now as they both give the daily score a bit of a hit. But occasionally is still allowed and occasionally means that you properly enjoy them. My best recent discovery is that salt and vinegar peanuts score up in the 90s, so I can eat loads of those! They're way better than crisps and somehow they are good for me! What a crazy mixed up world I am living in.
The Cardiff RHLSTP cancelled by the temporary closure of St David's Hall is now on 5th March 2024 at the Sherman Theatre. If you have bought a ticket you should be sent a link to rebook - and your ticket money from SDH will be refunded. Tickets will go on sale for everyone else on 13th November. Apologies for the inconvenience and hope you can all make the new date.
And the excellent You're Dead To Me that I recorded a couple of weeks ago is now out.
Listen here 
