"I have been but little in," said Ninian hastily...

Get a lecture from the quack about healthy living. So I cut back on sweets and alcohol, eat less, get more exercise.

And my weight and blood glucose both go *up*.

All right, boys, sod this for a lark. Break out the fags and the Party Seven...

I've been shorting myself on sleep lately, and I was planning on catching up on some of it today. But it's a beautiful day! I don't have quite enough energy to *do* anything (take Rupert for a ride somewhere, go down to Rock Creek Park and hike), but I hate wasting the day. I miss the old house--what would be perfect right now would be a hammock to nap in in the sunshine (OK, so I'd need to wear a fleece and some wooly socks, but still...)

I got something quite remarkable the other day--a letter from the DC Department of Motor Vehicles saying that I had overpaid a parking ticket and they would be sending me a refund check for $25! Now, I'll believe it when I see it, and I think they're right (I paid a ticket in full during the recent amnesty, when they were supposed to discount tickets, but their online system didn't know about the discounts). But, still. DC Parking giving money back. Remarkable.

Also, after having helped john_arundel and gr_c17 empty a minikeg of Newcastle yesterday, plus a few other assorted bottles, I checked my BG this morning, and it was lower than it has been in weeks! Confusing. I've put on a pound or two, but I've not been eating as sensibly as I ought in the last week--that I can fix.

I am going to try and clean at least one room today. If I can do that, and then do one more each Monday and Tuesday, that will be half the flat tidied up, any way... And in other good news, I seem to have managed to save enough to erase my standing deficit (the result of doing most of last year's charitable giving right at the end of the year) and begin putting money into savings again. Thinking of doing away with the cable and landline phone so as to increase the weekly Micawber Figure.

Added some more photos to the library, stuff from my birthday and from one or two recent wargames. And I've been doing some reading; but that needs its own entry.

All this and no April Fool's joke yet!

There used to be a challenge at the gym I went to at work: get through the winter holidays without gaining any weight! Everyone who signed up to and succeeded got a free sweatshirt.

So far in November I've lost two pounds. Though that's kind of like being ahead by less than the margin of error in a poll--it may just be the result of random variation--it does suggest I haven't gained any. I'll try to keep it that way through the first week in January, and then go back to actively trying to lose it...

The weather has been great; cool but pleasant yesterday, rain overnight; today it will be warm, nearly 80*F, and sunny. For more than a week now, my fasting blood glucose has been below 126. My weight is down to a range it hasn't been in three years. I got a very positive annual review. ( And other things are going well, too )

I had a lovely visit with my family in Joisey, but I see I put on a couple of pounds since my last check. Don't need a new plan, but I need to implement the current one more effectively.

He probably looks as rubbish as me!

I went out for just a little bit of exercise, since it's been so long since I've gotten any. I ended up walking most of the two miles, plodding really, though I got up to a jog for at least thirty seconds together a couple of times.

Whoosh. I am *so* out of shape. My legs need some tone, but it's mostly what's been an issue all me life--wind. Even when I played soccer in high school I never had decent wind, and 30 years and many stone of excess baggage have just made it worse.

*sigh* Well, it didn't grow there overnight, so there's no hope thinking that it will go away except over time. And with LOTS more exercise....

In other news, I had a trip to the doctor today for a physical. Still waiting for the EKG and bloodwork results, and I'm supposed to go have a chest x-ray, both otherwise nothing out of the ordinary to report. He pointed out that I need to lose weight, and I agreed and said I'm trying to lose ~60 pounds (not very hard I've not been, lately, but that needs to change). He said that would be a good target, as I'd be much healthier and at less risk if I did. I really like this PA I've lucked into; he's nice, straightforward, calm, patient, listens to you, and talks sensibly.

...to find your weight on a scale when a friendly and affectionate cat is insisting on climbing onto the scale with you.

But, then, I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and have such a friendly cat than be lighter and by myself. :-)

Last week or two, scale has reliably said "weight X" plus or minus a pound or two. Yesterday morning it said "weight X-5" and I was very pleased that starting to get some more exercise and eating more sensibly was having some effect. I double-checked, just to be sure.

Then this morning I checked, and it was back to "weight X". Dude, I did not eat five pounds of food yesterday!

...is so amazingly hard to do. ( cur for whingeing )