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Jan 5 / 3:36am

Christmas Blowout Debrief

I appear to have survived the holiday feedfest relatively intact. Here's the FatWatch graph showing the numbers that shape my world, tummy:

You can definitely see the flat part with gaps in the measurements, corresponding to the start of the festivities. But although I've been heading for a collision with my goal line (the green dashed line) I think I've managed to veer away at the last minute. The next few days will tell, as I resume my daily running.
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Dec 24 / 3:11am

Christmas Eve Run

After a few days entombed with a mysterious illness that sapped my strength and consumed my will, I took one look at my latest FatWatch graph (which I will not reproduce here, as it is a bit embarrassing; suffice to say I'll show all once the festivities have died down in the New Year), and decided that I needed to get back on the road.

Today's walk/run was a little shorter than usual at 3.28 miles, but my time was much the same, just less than an hour. This may sound terrible for a run, but actually I did rather well in my own efforts. The main trouble was the ice. It took much longer to get up the hill out of Christow than normal - next time I'll bring an ice pick. The downhill stretch was similarly slower, for fear of going much, much faster...

Anyway, it's put me in a good frame of mind for the rest of the day, and I did manage to get some nice photos along the way.

Here's a view from the top of the hill just over Christow looking toward the Teign Valley:

The puddle I normally splash through had been changed:

Everything has taken on a nicely eerie wintry air:

And the most leisurely part of the run, the flat bit at the top, is now The Road:

Hopefully I'll manage to do a few more runs over the festive season, it really has been invigorating!
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Dec 21 / 12:40pm

Christmas Blowout

I'm now fully prepared for the Christmas Blowout.

Here is my weekly FatWatch graph:

Here's the quarterly graph - you can easily see the effect of adopting a rigorous "walk 4 miles every day" policy:

Now it's just a case of eating all the pies.
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Nov 30 / 10:12am

mmm.... graphs

Unfortunately not mmm.... cookies.

Here's my latest FatWatch graph:

As you can see the slope is leveling off a bit. But this is to be expected as I get more efficient at walking and running. And most importantly the slope is still downhill.

Note also my goal (the green dashed line) is woefully optimistic...
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Nov 24 / 2:11am

mass plateau approaching... remain calm!

Unfortunately it seems that my rate of descent has slowed:

I think this is primarily because I didn't do much walking over the weekend or yesterday. I think it hasn't risen only because I kept my food intake down yesterday deliberately. 

This will need to be remedied today!

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Nov 16 / 3:22am

plummeting masses

My mass (and volume) continues to decline in the face of continual walking. Here's this week's FatWatch graph:

I've reset the goal on FatWatch - previously it was diving down unrealistically off the bottom left of the chart.
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Nov 9 / 3:16am

Declining Mass

My mass continues to decline, thanks almost entirely to walking several miles a day up hill and down dale. Here is a picture thereof, courtesy of the excellent iPhone FatWatch:

I've started running small bits of my 3.5 mile standard route, admittedly mainly on the downhill parts! My plan is to gradually ramp up the running percentage and swap in longer and longer routes.
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Nov 2 / 9:25am

detubbification via perambulation

I must say this walking nearly 4 (steep) miles a day is paying off when it comes to reducing my mass. In just over a week of doing this every day, I've managed to lose roughly 3 lbs. I've not altered my diet much, which I still need to do (I eat plenty of good things but need to cut down on cake...), so this is primarily down to exercise.

I'm keeping an eye on things with the inestimable FatWatch - a modern day equivalent of the equally inestimable EatWatch:

The noticeable trend downwards in the last few days seems like good feedback to me that I'm doing the right thing!

You can also see the goal (slashed green line) plunging down somewhat faster at the bottom left of the graph...
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