Day Something-or-other

Well we're still not even at the end of the second week and its already starting to feel vaguely normal. As I set out to begin with I think the most important thing about dieting is for me to ignore the time and current weight or its very easy to fall into despair and jack it all in. Keep the eyes closed, do the exercise, eat the stuff and only open them again when its all finished...

So anyway, I couldn't help a little peak and stepped on some scales - off 3kg, which is actually less than I would have guessed and exactly the reason why I should avoid the scales. I'll save that until week six for now. Food's going fine - ramped up the onions and chilli and aside from increasingly bad breath, the food has got a lot more interesting. Feel like I'm doing way too much bread at the moment and am going to try switching to pasta, simply to reduce the volume. I've learned one very important lesson about this: that what I though of as carb before was not really carb. My bread always came with butter, my pasta with oily meat sauce, my rice with curry etc...carb in the real world is just a grease transportation device. Carbs are actually dry and really very boring by themselves....if at some point we have to give lots of it up, I won't be missing it...

Everyone seems to complain about loss of sleep - for me its all about dehydration - I'm doing a lot more sweating than normal and even though i normally get through a couple of litres of water during the day at work, if i exercise late, i can still end up quite dehydrated and not sleep well. How can i tell? well I've noticed a pretty high correlation between bad sleep and very yellow pee in the morning (just thought I'd share that with you) so am trying to drink quite a bit before going to bed.

Exercise is going fine - tried using the gym today and its a lot better with more toys, resistance levels and most importantly a sprung floor for skipping. My right knee's developing a fine bulge of fluid, mainly from pounding on concrete as far as I can tell. Hoping the gym will be the solution.

Noticing some of the earlier group of PCPers are making BIG changes over the last couple of weeks - seems like their program is starting to really accelerate their progress. James Y's barely recognisable!