The Scales

Maybe, just maybe it wasn’t the best idea in the world to have bought the cheapest weighing scales possible. Depending on where exactly I stand on them or even which way I lean my weight seems to fluctuate by around 6lbs!! Quite frankly I appear to vary a pound or two just by breathing
Suffice it to say that I think I’m somewhere between 12st 4lbs and 12st 7lbs at the moment.

Went on huge hike yesterday (well 7 miles plus a few extra getting there and back). Was v restrained in the lunchtime pub stop, lime soda, soup plus roll. Scarfed my couscous salad on the train home but that was the only supper I got apart from two G&T’s, one Pisco Sour and a glass of champagne!!

I’m Back

Oh how does it happen.  I was doing so well up to July (which was the challenge after all) and then things just slipped until I stepped on the scales the other day and I was definitely in the wrong half of 12.5 stone.  (Even I don’t dare admit that it might have been nearer 13)

I thought some of it was due to bloating, and to dodgy scales but there’s no getting round it, I can’t make the needle any lower that 12 stone 6lbs.

So I’ve had a week of eating fruit and veg – avoiding food that apparently contributes to bloating – and being  pretty good with the exercise: kayaking twice, aerobics once and lots of walking and cycling.

But it needs to continue.  So I’ve decided that, as she’s pretty much the same weight as me, I’m going to join DietGirl in her Going for Gold challenge.  Iwon’t necessarily make the same commitments she makes, I need to work for my body and lifestyle, but I hope as she loses I’ll lose, and I can use her to keep myself on track.  Now I’d better go tell her!