The incredible shrinking man...

Since following Michael Winner's advice I have lost 5kg!!!!!!!!!! This is super-great, and I have already got back into my bike leathers :-)

I just put 5kg of Diet Coke and vegetable oil (2 x 2 litres Coke and 1 litre of oil which is close enough) into a carrier bag (in the bottles, not poured in...) and the weight of it is amazing! Have I lost this much already?? Yes I have.

I haven't stopped eating anything or exercised (although I know I should anyway...). I eat a lot less and, most importantly I think, eat little in the evenings and nothing after 6:30 if possible.

According to the Body Mass Index chart* I should be about 10 and 1/2 stone which is 66.7kg. HA HA VERY FUNNY!!

My wife reckons 80kg should be about right for me - in this case I am already half way there - excellent :-)

So here's to next year and a thinner me - I shall continue to blog as long as I don't disappear altogether.


* The Body Mass Index chart is an officially sanctioned instrument of despair which will, if you are a wider person, rob you of what little hope you had of reaching an "acceptable" weight. Do not take much notice of it unless you are the one person in the world for whom it was designed. And even he/she should try not to get too down about it.

Brainlock.

Walking back from the shop the other day I had a moment of deep wonder. It was dusk and the moon was up - I thought, "So that's a planet. And we're on another planet. So how does that all work then?"

I remember as a kid lying in my bed and imagining moving outwards (if even that makes any sense) through space and wondering where the edge was. But if you got there and then went a bit further...............

Re the picture:
"Representing a narrow "keyhole" view stretching to the visible horizon of the universe, the Hubble Deep Field image covers a speck of the sky only about the width of a dime 75 feet away. Though the field is a very small sample of the heavens, it is considered representative of the typical distribution of galaxies in space, because the universe, statistically, looks largely the same in all directions. Gazing into this small field, Hubble uncovered a bewildering assortment of at least 1,500 galaxies at various stages of evolution."

Do you know how big even one galaxy is? The average Galaxy has, wait for it, 100-200 billion Stars most similar to our Sun. Erm, nope, sorry, cannot fathom this.

So, 1500 Galaxies in a part of the sky covered by a dime at 75 feet away and each of the 1500 Galaxies contain 100-200 billion Stars like the Sun?

WWWHHHHHHAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT??????

Look at what HE made!

I do make myself chuckle...

Went to Sainsbury's today and when I paid the checkout lady asked me, "Have you got Nectar?", "No", I replied, "It's just a bit of a cold..."

Lovely logic...

Just heard a comedienne on Radio 4. Her Mum writes her about a Council Tax leaflet that's come through the door. It says that if you're in prison you don't have to pay the Council Tax. If, however, you are in prison for non-payment of Council Tax, you do have to pay the Council Tax.

I love things like this!

More on Mr Winner...

My beautiful wife, Ali, went to London for the weekend with her sister to do the Christmas shopping (bah, humbug...) and brought me back a present: Michael Winner's book: "Fat Pig Diet", and I am genuinely pleased she did. While she was in London he was doing a signing, so my wonderful wife queued up and got one signed for me. He said (as verbatim as I can make it), "You don't look like you need one of these?", she said, "It's for my husband...", he said, "Is he fat?", she said, "Well, he does struggle with it a bit..."

It's been about a week and it is indeed working. His two main rules are: EAT LESS and don't eat after 7:30pm. I am losing weight and it's not painful so far. One of the keys is to weigh yourself last thing at night and first thing in the morning. This is crucial for motivation as you don't see the visible evidence of progress but the numbers don't lie.

Being a bit gadgety I am logging my weight on a spreadsheet on my phone to chart my progress and it looks GOOD!

Another motivation is to get back into my bike leathers. I was recounting this to Billy earlier today and he said that lard is the answer. I said lard was the problem :-)