Ok, time to get serious.
The knee I twisted badly trampolining with the kids is pretty much pain free again. The last of the Xmas goodies have departed so time to crack on. MFP from tomorrow, & I’ve gone & built one of these Fat bikes for a laugh. Singlespeed too. 😕 So that needs riding.
Should be fun.
An Ok but not great weekend.
Cheat meal Friday night which was fine and in my eyes, encouraged.
Good run Saturday then just grazed on food all day. Only 1 small bottle of beer though.
Similar story Sunday, bike ride, turbo smash up but not great on the food front.
Time to work hard for the week and see where it leaves me on Friday.
I am here as the bearer of interesting news following Jamie’s reference to Quavers as diet crisps. According to Mrs Binners weight watchers app, other acceptable ones are French fries, and these beauties, massive multipacks of which are presently on offer in Morrisons….
You can tell things have changed. Tomorrow night the wife is out, 6 months ago this would have been an excuse for a beer and a burger. Now my first thought is that I can do a good long turbo session without being interrupted.
I”a terrible for crisps usually as I don’t eat anything sweet. But in a totally uncharacteristic attack of willpower have only had 2 packs since new year. Of French fries. As a rule that’d normally be lunchtime!
Static here, disappointingly. The wood burner is just too warm for evening bike rides to materialise, tried turbo, hated it. End up stuck indoors watching crap tv bored and eating crap. Riding lots and eating quite well on weekends, goes to shit in the week with work and bought lunches.
@gerti ime the secret to that is to work on the breathing aspects (long and slowish, pushing diaphram up/stomach in on the outbreath and slow extra stretch). I find this empties your mind, you think only of your body and it’s all very refreshing.
Glad that I made it to the 2 month target (-4kg) already and weighed in at 99.9 this morning. As now I’m working in NY this week, surgery next and then probably 2-3 weeks not allowed to ride. So I’m guessing this is where the wheels fall off…
Had a cheeky weigh in this morning and pleased to see the scales showing I was exactly on my 1 month target with a few days to spare. 7lb lost. I have just eaten a star bar though.
Jamie – Mrs Binners has just informed me that you can get the chilli marinated squid rings that are absolutely lovely and are in the 3 packs for 7 quid offer at M&S.
In other midlife crisis/might as well spank some cash if it’ll make me move more news, I just took delivery of these beauties this afternoon. Me and the Binnerettes are off skating tomorrow night, and planning another session on Friday. Should help get the timber off. Its pretty knackering, but about 7,5069,000 times more fun than being in a gym, and a couple of hours of exercise fly by. Like being out on the bike but without the freezing fog, axle deep filth, and darkness….
Sadaf Farooqi on what makes us fat
The Life Scientific
Is it true that some people put on weight more easily than others? And if so why? It’s a question that’s close to many of our hearts. And it’s a question that medical researcher, Professor Sadaf Farooqi is trying to answer. In 1997, Sadaf noticed that two children she was studying lacked the hormone leptin. From there, she went on to discover the first single gene defect that causes obesity. For most us, how much we eat is within our control. But for children with this rare inherited condition and, it turned out, several other rare genetic disorders, the evidence is clear. A voracious appetite is not a lifestyle choice: it’s a biological response to brains signalling starvation. Sadaf tells Jim how she discovered ten rare genetic disorders that cause severe childhood obesity and what this means for the rest of us.