Just weighed and I’m at 77.5kg (170lbs) so that’s a total loss so far of 22.5kg / 50lbs / 3.5st which isn’t too bad. As Winston was last weighed at 77kg and has since put some on that means my dog really does weigh more than me. Not so many owners can say that.
I’ve been spontaneously jogging when out with the dog. Not for him but because I can, because it doesn’t wear me out, because it feels good. This is quite worrying.
At school the PE teacher always set us out to “run” on a winter’s day. Never a bright sunny day with the breeze in your face so you could jog and experience a wonderful day. Hell no. This was a cold journey from the school up the old railway tracks to the farmhouse, turn right then around the field and back to the school. It was fortunate the PE teacher could see us from his warm and cozy office should we have slipped and fell. Which we did but he never seemed to notice. That is what I was lead to believe was “running” or “jogging”. Almost a punishment to be endured in flimsy PE kit every winter. Is it surprising I don’t like it? And yet I jogged half of the dog’s walk this evening. Spooked him. He learnt fast though that if he can get in front of me and stand still I stop.
At the gym when I was 100kg I could get on the elliptical trainer and do an hour of 140bpm Podrunner on level 18 or whatever and loved every step. (I don’t need to know how easy that may have been. The point was relaxation for me. I miss it.) And my heart rate would drop to normal pretty quickly. So I know I’m not that bad – or wasn’t – so I’ll have to see if this continues. Nice if it did.
So.. 77.5kg. A BMI of 22 with the range being 18.5-25. Plenty of room there then. Next goal is 75kg which I will hit with ease. 3 weeks tops I reckon. As for when I will stop, I don’t know. I thought I’d be happy by now or several kg ago. It’s not that I’m unhappy, just that I haven’t got there yet. How will I know? No idea. I just will. Hopefully :)
that’s a cute headline. congrats!
PE manages to extract all of the fun out of any exercise. I suppose it’d be difficult to write a curriculum to teach people to enjoy themselves, though. Sex ed certainly fails similarly.
Finding a way of teaching Sex ed that was fun would have been something my school could never have contemplated. All white, middle class school, no sense of humour in the teachers, no holding hands in school, kissing was forbidden in the extreme so any sort of genital discussion …. good grief no.
You are right about extracting the fun. I liked the gym but that was at my time, my choice of exercise. In PE I never could climb a robe. The ONLY time the PE teacher paid any attention was when my 200m time was written up on a board as 25.8s. He found this immediately impressive, wanted my name – but was then told it was actually 28.5, a mistake. I sank back into obscurity :)