This is getting serious..............

I've been got at! Paul my PI at the gym has decided to up all my exercises.  I had chosen correctly to go for duration rather than effort, but, he says it would be better to do an extra set of repetitions on the muscle work, as in, 3 sets of 12 rather than the 2 sets of 15, that I'm doing. He also put the weight up 10kgs on the shoulder and chest presses and 20kgs on the leg press, he lengthened the time on the cycles too. I managed to do 2,572 metres in 12 mins non stop on the rower at an average 29 strokes per minute (that's 348 strokes), at the highest resistance, which thank god he can't do anything to! The TGS Key isn't used so I can say I've done what ever I like, but I don't cheat, there's no point!  I'd only be cheating myself, wouldn't I?  I must admit that I am really feeling well and noticing how much easier everyday things are to do.
It's not too long now until we visit Bristol again and I'm really looking forward to it.  We are staying a bit longer than we normally do so we can do a few more things/see a few more people while we are there.  We have some presents for the grandchildren and we also need to take Thom out to buy his birthday present.  Then when we return it'll be time to start for CHRISTMAS! Not sure yet when I'll be able to get to Bristol with those presents, hopefully a long weekend will fall on my duty around the end of November early December (or we might even get a visit around then)
Although I'm enjoying being back 'on the buses' I am finding it tiring doing different shifts every day but I suppose I'll get used to it again, it's also nice having a bit more money coming in.  It would be nice if we had a better fleet of vehicles as we seem to be the dumping ground for all the other depots rubbish.  Then head office moan about how much money Jesmond spends on vehicle repairs/maintenance, what else do they expect.  Our duties change for the third time on 4th September since June, as we have acquired some school runs and are losing some early morning /evening Nexus sponsored services due to cuts in spending by the LPTAs

A nice surprise for me

I was sat here at the computer entering some information into my weight watchers' chart, when I decided to see how much I'd lost in total.  To my surprise I have actually lost 15% of my original weight from when I started this diet/exercise regime back in the middle of March.  Given that I gave myself a year to get to about 20%, I think I'm doing rather well.  If I can keep the pace going I'm on target for around a 35% loss by March next year, which is wonderful and would take me down to about 15 stones of drooping wrinkly flaps of skin!

Good !... but should have been better!

Last night's weigh in was good news but not as good as it should have been. I had a loss of half a pound which earned me another seven pound loss (3 stone so far) I think the problem could be that I'm now going to the gym more and probably building up muscle as well as burning fat, so I've changed my strategy at the gym.  I'm now doing slightly longer duration but dropping the resistance/weight. Which all means the heart rate stays higher longer but less overall effort needed.  Hopefully this will burn more body fat without building up too much muscle.  Time will tell, anyway my next target is 50lbs lost by the end of August which will take me down to just over 19st.  I then have about 4 weeks to get down to my next target of 18.5st by the time I go to Bristol in September.

It's happened!

Well what a great week this has been!  Firstly I've finally joined the gym as an 'unlimited use' member, I've also dropped below 20stone, that's a loss of over 19kgs since the middle of March.  I told Lindsey at WWs that I will be giving it up in 3 weeks time when the vouchers run out, she says we'll talk about that before they run out (she has some digression over payments/weighings) think she wants to keep me going so I can get my certificate for losing 50lbs (don't know what she gets out of it, apart from continuing to see me of course lolol)  Also looks like the 'ole bank account has finally stabilised since I went onto weekly pay and had to go 2 weeks without any and above all I'm feeling great! :-) Paul the Depot Controller is being a bit of a pain, I've got Sat, Sun & Mon rest days this weekend and he puts me down to work Sunday 9 till 7! Shame it's worth so much money otherwise I'd tell him to stick-it!