Onwards & Downwards September 2016

[AB Editor]

Morning everyone!

I've given up on losing weight, and have just got back in to running or riding the bike every day - for as long as that lasts! No, really, I've given up on worrying about my weight, and focusing instead on staying fit throughout autumn and winter!

Am I being foolish?

Here's last month's thread: http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Weight-Loss-and-Dieting/Question1508281.html

I read a couple of books which helped me get excited for running again, which I will post as answers below.

[wendilla]

Well done xstitcher and cloverjo . Yes I have always said diets don't work .

[wendilla]

Well,done xstitcher and cloverjo .i have always said diets don't work . It's the healthy eating that works .

[xstitcher]

Good morning all, Ed has promised not to forget us this month.

I'm the same this week.

[Old_Geezer]

There's the Halloween thread until the November one appears.
Looks like someone was up early this morning.

[xstitcher]

Yes OG someone was up early. I like to get my walk down to the beach in before 8 am now that we have more light by then, but it was cold today.

[wendilla]

Morning xstitcher and OG. Cold this morning . Stayed the same . Ok with that .off to have porridge today .

[xstitcher]

What a good idea with porridge. I'll try that too.

[Old_Geezer]

Hi both.

Down 1 lb this week, so that's no bad thing.

Didn't go up over the weekend quite as much as I expected.

[xstitcher]

That's good news OG. Good for you.

[wendilla]

Well done OG

[Old_Geezer]

Thanks for the encouragement, but it is the case that when i have a bad week it's possible I don't see why, and again when I have a good week. I've just checked my intake for yesterday; it was more over the daily goal than I thought, so I was lucky to have dropped over the last 24 hours.

[xstitcher]

Whoops, maybe it will catch up with you tomorrow!

[Old_Geezer]

It caught up fractionally yesterday, and the rest, plus, today :-(

In fairness it's been two days of inadvertently being over goal, almost like they were weekend days. I thought I'd been being basically good, but late afternoon pangs sorted by a few biscuits did not help: and it is amazing how much energy there is in a single rainbow trout !

[xstitcher]

Good morning all.

Down again but don't seem to be able to get past that number. Hope you do well. Don't dare turn on the telly because of the election news. The last I looked on my iPad at 4 am things were not sounding good for my choice.

[wendilla]

Morning.

Despite being good I have stayed the same but another good week willl show a result.

[xstitcher]

You're right on that Wendilla. It takes a lot of good weeks to get results.

[Old_Geezer]

So we are all doing ok this week then. Great.

To my astonishment I had another weekend that did less damage than expected, plus no movement over the last 24 hours, to end up a further 1.2 lbs down over the week. I'm unsure it is deserved, but I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth.

[xstitcher]

Deserved or not OG you must be feeling gooood!

[Old_Geezer]

Smug maybe ;-)

[xstitcher]

Smug is good!