Weighty Matters
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI don’t make New Year’s resolutions as such. I only ever made one that I kept and that was to make no more.
That said, it now being past 1 January, it is reasonable to attempt a target or two and we in the Gin Palace1 have decided to have another go at weight reduction. My first thought was to try the Atkins Diet. I am sure, in theory at least, that I could keep to that for a while, except that I would end up having no breakfast as the chances of me getting up and cooking bacon and/or eggs every morning is quite remote and cereals and bread products would be off the menu. So that leaves me with counting points, which works if you can be arsed to stick to it.
It started to work 18 months ago, the last time I really gave it a go, but then I fell off the wagon and pulled it over on top of me. Since moving, the daily walk to the station and back (and more recently, from Westminster to Victoria in a morning) took an inch off my waist, but indolence and Christmas has put it back.
So. Counting points is where we’re at. I was very good this morning: I weighed my breakfast cereal. The amount was so puny that I allocated more points and poured more in. I shall compensate by eating a couple fewer peas with my evening meal.
I guess it will be good for me in the long run.
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That said, it now being past 1 January, it is reasonable to attempt a target or two and we in the Gin Palace1 have decided to have another go at weight reduction. My first thought was to try the Atkins Diet. I am sure, in theory at least, that I could keep to that for a while, except that I would end up having no breakfast as the chances of me getting up and cooking bacon and/or eggs every morning is quite remote and cereals and bread products would be off the menu. So that leaves me with counting points, which works if you can be arsed to stick to it.
It started to work 18 months ago, the last time I really gave it a go, but then I fell off the wagon and pulled it over on top of me. Since moving, the daily walk to the station and back (and more recently, from Westminster to Victoria in a morning) took an inch off my waist, but indolence and Christmas has put it back.
So. Counting points is where we’re at. I was very good this morning: I weighed my breakfast cereal. The amount was so puny that I allocated more points and poured more in. I shall compensate by eating a couple fewer peas with my evening meal.
I guess it will be good for me in the long run.
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pax_draconis: I fear the name has stuck, damn you!