The Journey

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(You know the one!)

Well my weight loss journey took a detour due to the half term. It was ok... I did manage to shed a minuscule amount but nowhere near the previous weeks'. I think I was getting cocky.

It has been a ridiculously busy holiday though. I managed to write the main corpus of the report and then three reports. I should have finished them all by this weekend.

The class is mostly untroubled and the children who have joined it have completely benefited from the n tests and exams of the Steiner model. On the whole it is working. I am pleased.

What about my beloved wardrobe. I am still about three weeks off I think of my wardrobe goal. So I said two months and I was right. Two months it is. I just have to grit my teeth and get on with it. Two months of 21:3 Intermittent Fasting. Once again the algorithms torture me, but I am able to ignore them. It is not so bad. It is galling to know though that they are mining my blog for information about me to sell me back to myself. I am persistent in refusing all the Accept All data...

But nevermind. 

I am GLAD that I did photograph myself. I have always resisted the photographing. But it has been good to allow me to stay encouraged. I guess the good news is that I put on the Harapan trousers last week, two weeks before I should have, and it just about buttoned on me. It now just about does not button. But I still need to lose a dress size, if not two to continue to be where I need to be. Hence the journey all the way to June 24th.

But let's be real about this. I started this on April 24th. I was delighted with the results by May 24th. And now, a week after May 24th, which is week 5 going on week 6 today, I know I still have two weeks, at LEAST. I just need to know that.

And really I am trying to get ready for Singapore. So I technically have till July 11th. Let's hope it doesn't come to that. I am a bit sick and tired of not eating in the mornings. 

But here we are. The last two weeks - hopefully if I am able to maintain my 21:3. Whatever happens after this, I will start running again. So running from mid June.

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