Howdy dudy,

Its now week 5 RTM and officially all people on this apart from me have given up. Proving that this diet is quite hard I suppose. As for me I recorded another 2.5lb weight loss taking my official weight to 13s 4lb, from 18s 1lb. I am now a size 32" waist from a slightly tight 40". Therefore things are quite rosy.

I have had a serious revelation this week that fruit is a food that triggers me to eat excessively. On the first three days of this week I ate well over 10 pears on each day, and after I had done that I started reaching for other things like chocolate, chicken legs, nuts, dried fruit (loads of that) etc. It was almost an uncontrolled frenzy that lasted all day, reacdhing for something every 30 minutes. On virtually all occasions I was telling myself that I didn't need the food so shouldn't have it but carried on anyway. The consequences were that I had cronic wind and stomach aches (but was still eating!), I had sugar highs and then crashes, becoming very short tempered and agressive when I crashed. I recognised it fully yesterday morning and the result was to have only one piece of fruit in the day, it worked! No loss of control.

Week 5 lets you have booze, I know that I have had it anyway but to recognise the fact I had a 1994 Rioja with the wife last night, it was nectar. As a token jesture I got up extra early and added 0.5 miles to my morning walk.

I also get two protein based meals a day now, I am only having one today as I am going to be very busy and will not have time. Having more meals from now on is a good thing and will stop me feeling so hungry all the time, the weight loss should now stop but I would still love to see those scales go under 13s in the morning (just once!). Tonight I head off to the round the island race and I am going to test my new diet skills in the real world. Its all very well sitting at the top of our hill smugly losing weight but this weekends I do it in anger at restaurants and during serious physical excersions. The weather forecast is rain!

One negative thing, and I am not sure if I recorded this on my last post, is that the dog has got the onset of severe arthritus, exaserbated by all the walking we have been doing. I have literally walked the legs of my dog! He is on medication and now a spritely as a pup.

Anyway, got to go and do some work.