Back on the wwwagon

Weighed myself today after quite a gap.

16st 9.5lb. blimey.

Fast approaching the heaviest I've ever been. Also, if I'm being honest I'm not feeling as chipper as I usually do - and I'm sure that's related.

So it's time to get back into good habits. Eating better, more exercise - usual no-brainer stuff :) Last time I did this seriously, I did pretty well. What went wrong was doing my knee in, which stopped me running - and I stopped other stuff as well.

But that was months ago - so no excuses, really.

But I think I need an extra push - hence this blog post. Weekly updates will follow - not because I think anyone is really interested (though I know a couple of folk are and will help keep me on the straight and narrow), but more an act of nailing my colours to the mast.

:)

Quiddity Sunday

Had a bit of a day (on and off) sorting out various websites and accounts for quiddity - the electronic music thing me & Dan do. We've got a few plans for this year, so we'll see how they pan out - and getting these ducks in order is one of the first steps.

It's a bit of a fuddle, figuring out how all the various feeds, blogs, postings and twittering relate to each other. Ideally, one post from the blog would ping around various other elements - and it's getting there, but life's never that simple.

Anyway, for those that are interested, there's a basic page up at http://www.quiddity.org.uk with links to the main sites we'll use. Plus a page where you can actually play our music. Which I think was the point in the first place :)

Done for the night now though. So I've got a beer, and am going to do some ironing (Rock 'n' Roll) while ripping loads of CDs into iTunes as I have never had everything I own on CD in the digital domain...

Slow but sure...

Weigh in day today - and I've lost 1.5 pounds. Think it may have been a bit more if I hadn't succumbed to some of the pizza the kids ordered in last night! But I've been good for the rest of the week - resisted the lures of a Chinese takeaway, and when I made a strategic error having something to eat in Starbucks (15 points for two items!!), I made up for it and finished the day within my points.

Also, not done very much exercise this week - so a pound and a half seems OK. Happy with that.

Talking of exercise, I stumbled across this yesterday - http://www.directlife.philips.com/. This really appeals to me - depending on the cost. I remember coming across something very similar a couple of years ago when I was looking into kits for a sports specialism school in a BSF bid. Obviously, it appeals to the geek in me - but it looks like a good way of getting exercise levels up on a daily basis. I've registered to get some info when they release in this country anyway...

So that should help as well.

Better than nothing

I lost just under 1lb this week.

Pleased I actually lost - though I do feel a bit cheated given the amount of exercise I've done.

For the record, I now weigh 16st 9.25lb. According to WW, my goal weight is 11st 11lb. To be honest, not too fussed about hitting the target (seems low to me!), but it's good to have that line on the graph. Something I can aim for.

So, onwards and upwards :)

How'd that happen??

So, I cycled over 15 miles this week and have religiously been counting my WW points. As of now I have 26.5 points saved on the back of 11.5 activity points. Not too shabby.

So how in the world have I put on 1.5lb?

I had a sneaky pre-Sunday weigh-in this morning as I was certain I'd have lost weight And we're going out tonight with Jim & Sal, so it was also really to see what I'd allow myself to eat tonight - after all I've got 26.5 point saved!!

It's looking like an undressed salad.

Hi hum. Don't feel as down about it as I thought I would seeing as I've really made a proper effort this week. I'll go for a bike ride at some point today, and another early doors tomorrow before my 'official' weigh in.

Still. Bloody diets.

In other news, I felt more proud that perhaps I should have for making up a filthy joke based on a song title this week. I follow a few celebrities on twitter. Not that many, really, just the ones I find interesting or entertaining. One of them is David Quantick. I've a lot of time for him - from his days writing for the NME, through to him writing for Harry Hill's TV burp, he's a comeidian/writer that's popped up quite a lot and I've always enjoyed what he does. Every so often he'll pop up a hashtag on his twitter account and invite people to make up puns based on it. This week he posted #toiletpop. So you got things like 'The Poo Fighters', or 'Portaloo Sunset'. I chucked a couple up. One of which resulted in the following:

I managed to gross out David Quantick. *grin*

Not only am I worringly proud of that - but also isn't technology brilliant! The fact that, with no hassle at all, I could join in in a silly game arranged by a comedian I rate - and then for him to 'talk' to me, is pretty cool.

On a more serious side, this was demonstrated by the #welovetheNHS hashtag that Graham Linehan (glinner on twitter) instigated to try to counteract the downright untruths being told about the NHS through the right wing American media.

This social networking thing is pretty good, all in all.

Detention was never like that at my school...

...but then that was really the point. :)

Just heard that John Hughes died yesterday. This makes me sadder that I thought it would, really. But looking back, this chap created some things that were a big part of my teenage (80s) years. Pretty in Pink, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Uncle Buck - and the glorious Breakfast Club. I adore the Breakfast Club.

So it's nice to find out it sounds like he was a pretty nice guy as well as this story implies.

I've decided that my new facebook picture is a fitting tribute from a geeky teenage kid from Lincolnshire, to the king of American teenage angst.

Cheers, John.

You don't miss it 'til it's gone...

First day of our holiday. Yay :)

Had a good run up to the lakes. No bad traffic at all, and of course all the snow has gone - well, from the roads at least...

Hopping cross country on the A66 was spectacular, though. Snow covered mountains looking majestic. There's still something about bloody big hills that impresses me. Guess that's what coming from pretty much flat Lincolnshire does for you...

First impressions of Whitbarrow are good. The lodge is really nice and the welcome warm with a personal visit from Anna from Guest Services. Had a good wander round Keswick before we got some shopping in - and picked up some cracking curry paste from the market. We tried it out tonight and it was good. When we came back to the lodge from popping to the pub, it smelt just like a proper indian :)

Anyway, sat down to get some Frog work out of the way so I can forget about it all until a week on Monday, and I'm only getting a 56k connection through the Vodafone dongle. Shouldn't be surprised really - but it makes working on the remote servers pretty painful. In fact it just packed in altogether - hence me deciding to kill a few minutes with this blog before I try again.

Plans for tomorrow - gentle ease in with a walk to a nearby Stone Circle...