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).
