Dreadfully.

Honestly, it’s been a struggle. I’m definitely massively overweight. It kind of started before lockdown, but got a lot worse during and I haven’t been able to shift it with exercise. I looked particularly large during my Christmas stream. So I decided this year was going to be the year for my diet and it hasn’t worked out at all.

Firstly, January does not seem to be the right month for me. We ended up going out on multiple post Christmas do’s and birthdays, and that meant eating and eating and eating. And I’ve found that once my body is in the mood for eating, I just continue to eat like a horse. Is that a phrase. I’m not sure. Horses do eat though, and they are bigger than me. Maybe a pig.

Anyway, to add injury to insult, we did parkrun on the 30th December and I slipped over in a puddle. I got straight back up and kept running and after a couple of minutes I didn’t feels so bad. However, when I was half way around one of the volunteers asked if I was ok. When I got home I had to do a lot of cleaning of my injust and I’ve got a big wound on my knee. Perhaps moreso was the foot pain too – that went off after a couple of days, but I’ve needed to protect it. So the upshot is that I haven’t been able to do my normal exercise for a couple of weeks.

I’ve gone out on the bike a few times, and we did a slow parkrun each weekend but it’s not the same amount of calorie burn as it would be if I was actually training normally.

So that’s the bad news, but also the good news. Because I was struggling with this it motivated me to try and sort things out. At least from Monday morning this week, so I’ve hopefully come up with a sustainable plan to improve my diet. I’m having fruit in the morning, home-made soup of various kinds at lunchtime and then a proper meal in the evenings. It seems to be going quite well so far, but it’s obviously not been long enough to lose any actual weight, so we’ll see if I can keep it up for a decent length of time.

I also gave up coffee and tea at the end of last year. Which has made the world seem really sad. However that does seem to have sorted my body out a bit too.

So, all is not lost we can be healthy by next Christmas, we are just at the very start and need motivation!