Getting younger
I started getting thinner just as I entered my fifties. Since then I have been getting younger… fitter, healthier. More attractive, I think. It’s weird… I spend my twenties and thirties feeling miserably ugly, crippled by my own certainty that I would never deserve or earn the real love of anybody. I thought, and I…
Feeling hot
We got a dog a couple of years ago and, despite a pretty radical haircut, he really feels the heat. He slinks from shadow to shadow and can only play for a short while before flaking out. I know how he feels. While I was fat I was completely unable to cope with sunshine. Heat…
Fitting in
My wife is tiny. Will fit in any overhead storage, as she likes to say. I got in the car the other day after she had been driving it and, as usual, the seat was pushed forward, the steering wheel lowered. So I got in, and adjusted them to suit me. I got in. Quite…
A bit of a downer.
It’s meant to be all up and positive and telling you all the great things about this transformative journey I’ve been on. This blog, I mean. And it is. The message above all others is that even for someone like me – seemingly in an unbreakable pattern for decades – can adopt some new habits,…
The forgotten bonuses…
I felt unwell yesterday. I think I was a bit hung-over – another thing to give up, there – and these days drinking too much has a dramatic effect on my mood the next day. I don’t get classic hangover symptoms, I just feel awful. Just before bed, I was reflecting on how long it…
Becoming invisible
One of the pernicious things, for me, about being overweight was the label. The indelible announcement about yourself. When people first encountered me, the first thing they knew and saw about me was my size. Whether I, or they, liked it or not, that meant they had already made a judgement about me. Most of…
The art of measurement
I can’t tell you the amount of money I have wasted buying gadgets which, in my mind, were going to transform my life but in reality just gathered dust. I even considered launching a reviews website called “Two Week Test”, the premise of which would be that if I was still using a gadget after…
What I did – part 2. More stuff.
I had managed to be quite active for quite a long time because of cycling. Once I started measuring everything, including my calories and my weight and all my activity, I started getting more interested in getting fitter. Some of this was just selfishness… earning more calories (because deep in my soul I remain greedy).…
What I did – part 1. Measure things.
How did I begin my journey to lose weight and get fit? After thirty years of totally failing to stick to anything, what got me going? The very first thing was cycling. Persevering with that made a massive difference, to my self-belief as well as my fitness, and despite occasional setbacks – including various bits…
The pits
Unexpected nice things about losing weight, part 1: armpits. I didn’t really notice losing my armpits. But looking back, when I was younger they were concave when I lifted my arms up. Gradually, as I filled up with fat, they filled up with fat. Turns out that when I started shrinking again, they did too.…
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