Saturday, October 23, 2010

Day 22/weigh in

I've had a smaller loss, this week, of 800g, bringing my total weight loss to 5.2k in three weeks. It's a little disappointing this early and with so far to go, as I was hoping to maintain the previous rate for a few more weeks, but I haven't started to exercise yet, so I suppose it's to be expected. And I am still heading in the right direction.
My dieting friend is a day ahead of Lite'n'Easy's menu thanks to delivery areas, so I'd already had a heads up about today's lunch of warm salad with dim sims dressed with Canton sauce - half a dozen delicious little mouth-sized morsels that are now sadly another four weeks away. The rest of the day's meals were fine but not as exciting - pumpkin soup with a multigrain roll, pears in a faintly orange syrup, the first unpleasant yoghurt I've had thus far (vanilla, that tasted a little not quite right, even after I added some stewed berries), and the scrummy date and banana muffin I ravenously devoured in yesterday's waning.
For dinner I had chicken enchiladas, which had a little too much heat for my wussy super-taster tongue but were certainly filling and a bit of a change from the more usual meat and steamed veg.
Although I've been fairly diligent about not eating anything outside the provided meals (except for breakfast), there are two areas I really need to work on in the next couple of weeks - drinking enough water (particuarly at work, partly because it's busy and partly because I've fallen out of the habit) and exercise (still entirely too sedentary). I am feeling better and less breathless, but I think that's the result of three weeks of iron supplements, taken in conjuntion with vitamin C (which increases absorption). The brand I've chosen is particularly good because it's not constipating and it doesn't turn stools black. I've not lost enough weight and, more importantly, not done enough exercise to change my cardiorespiratory function, so I think my diagnosis of anemia was sound. Which now means there's one fewer excuse for avoiding the workout - my current excuse, however, is that I have to go to sleep. - Alex

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