Private Thoughts Made Public

It’s all gone a bit pear-shaped this week. Just a litte bit. I’ve not gone pear-shaped, I was that shape to start off with! I weighed myself and discovered I’d put on 2lbs since last week. So I got off the scales, got a pair of scissors and trimmed my goatee. But no, still 16 stone 4lbs (228lbs).
Since my last weigh-in I’ve been to the gym four times. I had my hour with the Personal Trainer on Saturday, I did some more weights Monday evening, and a cardio workout Tuesday morning and Thursday morning. So the weight gain is down to one of two things: either I’ve lost fat and gained muscle (possible but unlikely since I haven’t been pushing myself hard enough in the weight training to ache all over afterwards) or I’m still eating too much of the wrong foods. Perhaps that Kentucky Fried Chicken last Saturday afternoon wasn’t a good idea, and all those potato-salad-and-cheese-filled pitta breads I like to snack on when I get home from work could have been a mistake, and I really should start having my breakfast cereal first thing in the morning instead of last thing at night, and probably 100 other food disasters as well.
I minor blip, I think, and I’ll try to learn my lesson from this. I’m still feeling pretty good, though, nowhere near as bloated as I was a few weeks ago, and I can do my belt up another notch without feeling like all my insides are being squashed together.
The plan of action was to go to the gym again to lift some weights this evening, but I’ll have to check if my jogging pants are dry first. I’ve got some others, but they were cheap rubbish I bought at the start of the summer and they’ve shrunk in the wash. I had no idea how much they’d shrunk until I was on the treadmill and caught sight of myself in the mirror – I nearly ran out in embarrassment at my hideous fashion faux pas. I know the point of the exercise is to lose weight but I’m unlikely to lose height as well. But what the heck – it was 7:30 in the morning and there were only about a dozen other people in the place. But I definately need to get more gym apparel, if only so that I’m not running the washing machine an extra three times a week
I intend to go to the gym three times between now and coming back to work on Monday, once today, once over the weekend and once on Monday morning. If I don’t go tonight, I’ll go twice over the weekend. Got to keep the momentum going!
I’ve said before that I’m not going to the gym purely to lose weight, I’m going in order to get myself fitter. I may switch from posting a weekly weight update to posting a monthly measurement update, so I can see how my waist/chest/biceps etc are changing from the exercise.
But first, some new gym clothes are in order I think.