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Valerie’s comment about the interval training has reminded me that I haven’t been blogging about what I have been doing over the last couple of weeks in much detail. So I thought I would answer Valerie’s question and also talk about what I’ve been up to in other areas as well.

So first up from an exercise perspective I have been walking quite regularly except for a few nights early in the week were we had some extremely wild nights, then there were the storms! They were fantastic old school thunder storms like I remember as a kid - great stuff! unless of course your scared of storms like my poor wife who hated every second of it, oh well you cant please every one!

I have been doing the interval training with every other walk, it is usually for only about five minutes, but I feel it makes a significant difference. I find when I do it I feel far more satisfied with my walk and I get a large endorphin rush from it - so I feel really really good afterwards (endorphins are our natural morphine’s and are released during exercise). The only negative is that it does cause me some ankle and foot discomfort and I find it difficult to maintain. This reminds me that spike! made a comment a couple of weeks ago about hiring or purchasing a bike so I can give it a good go, I think this is what I will do as I know it would increase my results and be very handy during those raging storms

I would love to hear more of Valerie’s experiences, how it is different from other times and what results you are getting. I am very excited about the fact that other people who are reading this are giving it a go, so please feel free to write about your experiences. The more detail the better.

From a Dietary perspective this week was a struggle, as we went out a couple of nights. Funnily enough I find it harder to keep the little rules I have set for my self in place when going out than when staying in. When I’m out having a laugh and not really thinking, it is harder to slow down and eat slowly. I still managed to not eat until I was bloated and overfull, but in retrospect I may have sucked a few of the serves down like a giant hover on super suck! That said I fell no real stress in sticking to my plan and because I’m not depriving myself of all indulgences I don’t feel like I’m missing out either - so far so good.

I have added drinking water between meals to my “eating slowly and eating a little less” regime. I drink between 600 mls and a litre between breakfast and lunch, and between 1.2 and 1.8 litres between lunch and dinner. This is having the surprising benefit of cutting down on the 3 o’clock noddies, I’m fairly sure it is the water because when I forget it still get the noddies. For the life of me I can’t think of a good explanation for it but it is a good side effect!

I have decided I am going to make up a few sayings to help me remember my little rules, the first one is “absent mindedness is no excuse for laziness” I really think that a combination of not thinking about what I was doing with my food and not doing anything about it in a positive way has got me to were I was before Christmas (the size if a baby whale!). It is pretty easy to fall into a pattern that is unhealthy and stick to it. I believe by being aware of this (and doing something about it!) we can help ourselves stop the pattern repeating. A good example of this for me was grabbing something to eat - not necessarily something I wanted or would normally eat and sucking it down as I was in a hurry. I wasn’t thinking about the consequences (absent mindedness) of this habit. Even when I did it all seemed to hard to change my habits - I mean who has time for lunch - that’s all to hard (laziness). So no more excuses!

“absent mindedness is no excuse for laziness!”