Biggest Loser

I have a new plan.

Chloe is due to leave at the beginning of August. I have 45 days leave (I carried 17 days over from last year) and the Great North Run is on 20th September. All being well, depending on the exact day Chloe leaves I'm hoping to take all my leave in one go taking me to just after the Great North Run and embark on a biggest loser style month and a half.

I intend to take it very seriously, I will be banning TV, limiting Internet time (just enough to check for messages and update my blog) and will be cutting myself off totally from the outside world. No trips anywhere, no nights out, no visiting people, nothing. Just diet and exercise just like in the biggest loser. Every detail will be planned, everything I eat and drink, all the exercise.

I plan to combine working out at the gym, running, walking, swimming and exercise classes.

Should be interesting to see the outcome but anyway, in the meantime I'm still training hard. I'm finding I'm liking the weights more and more, or rather I like the way it makes my muscles feel later. I like that slight ache and I like it when I can feel my muscles. I like the feeling of being stronger.

Diet sometimes goes well and sometimes it doesn't. Tonight I was very tempted to have macaroni with extra cheese (use up all that left from the dinner party) on a jacket potato. But I gave into my conscience and had chicken and vegetable stir fry and am glad I did.