Wooshy Watch Week #5: (Mar 18-24)

Good news is ran 4 times this week including a nice an hour up and down the beach on Hayling Island on Sunday. Bad news is starting to crave meat, particularly chicken as went Nando's, oh dear!

Wooshy Watch Week #4: (Mar 11-17)

Only managed to run once on Monday in the end, mostly due the windy weather all week and it's little surprising that my weight has not moved to much as follows (in Kg): https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8826346691505606744#allposts

Day	Morn	Even
Mo	69.1	69.7
Tu	69.1	69.7
We	69.3	69.8
Th	69.1	70.0
Fr	69.1	69.7
Sa	68.8	69.8
Su	69.0	69.3

Wooshy Watch Week #3: (Mar 4-Mar 10)

My weight appears to have reach a plateau. Been around 69kg. I had a couple of meals out with family visiting and a good mechanic friend but jogged 7 miles three times and exercised as usual, so feel shouldn't have plateaued just yet.

Wooshy Watch Week #2: (Feb 25-Mar 3)

Up and down week last week. Two 6.5 mile runs on Tuesday and Thursday but I had a niggle on the left side of my hip, so have to take it easy. Whilst I am no Andy Murray, I certainly wouldn't want what his hip has suffered the last couple of years.

I managed to get my weight down as low as 67.5kg early last week but have been yo-yo between 68kg and 70kg. Only real bad thing I had last week was KFC.

Wooshy Watch Week #1: (Feb 17-24)

So having just come back from holiday celebrating Chinese New Year and as it is now the Year of the Pig, I ate just like a... Although initially I did get a food poisoning on the flight there (that's another story for another time). I started taking 10k steps per day but I still managed to gain 2kg (72kg).

So during the first week back, I reverted back to the high veg and oat diet that I have been imposing myself to reduce my cholesterol levels. I have to admit that went Wong Kei in Chinatown where I love my won ton soup and the wife cooking experiments ventured into roast duck.

I have also been exercising, which has been mostly running and have run 10k on Wednesday (20th) and Friday (22nd) with another 5 miles on Sunday. The Sunday run was important because I didn't eat much the night before and I didn't eat before the run as wanted to see how far/long I could run effectively on fumes. The answer here is 4 to 5 miles, which something my brain and body will remember if I ever decide to run a marathon again.

Generally I have been running to get at my body fat and it appeared to be working as after the Sunday run, I was down to 67.5Kg. But remember that weight is a little bit of a red herring as I would have lost weight in sweating. In fact apparently, you only lose one pound of body fat running a marathon according to livestrong (burning 1000 calories per hour).

Health Goals

Summary of self goals to improve my health/well-being:

• 10000 steps per day
• 200 sit-ups per day
• Run at least 3 times per week
• 30g of fibre every day
• Limited intake of sugar/bad fat

Milestones from those goals include:

• Weight between 10.5st (66.6kg) to 11st (70kg). BMI: 22-23.
• Lower total cholesterol level to less than 5mmol/L. HDL to less than 3mmol/L