Archive for January, 2010

Progress Report – Week 53

It was a quiet week, mainly spent indoors to avoid the freezing, icy conditions. I managed to get a couple of good walks in though. The scales have continued to be erratic so it’s hard to know what is happening with my weight. Let me put it this way – some readings were 15 stone [...]

Walk – “And when they were up, they were up…”

Apart from nipping out to the shops a few times, I’d been hiding from the cold weather since the walk to Todmorden on Monday, but it was a lovely crisp winter morning and time to get outdoors again. I rang Lisa and arranged a walk with her…

Walk – Rochdale Canal Towpath to Todmorden

Lisa needed to go to Todmorden and I needed to stock up with shopping after being away for Christmas so I decided to accompany her. It was really cold again today, with hard-packed ice everywhere after a deep frost last night, but we thought we’d see if conditions were safe enough to walk. We got [...]

Progress Report – Week 52

It’s a whole year that I’ve been wittering away on this blog now so it is time to reflect on how things went…

The scales must go!

Those damn bathroom scales must go! I’ve discovered that they are not only inaccurate, more importantly – they are also inconsistent! I weighed myself this morning and they indicated 14 st 12 lbs. I went and peed out about a pint or so and then reweighed myself. Apparently losing a pint of urine had increased [...]

2 Strolls – Mytholmroyd; Dodd Naze

This is the first post of 2010, one year after I started this blog. I’ll have more to say about that on Monday when I write the Week 52 ‘progress report’, but for now I’ll just mention a couple of strolls that I did today with Lisa…