Week 11

It's my 11th weigh-in day, and I'm still not at goal. This week I've lost 0.5kg, which is good, but just a shame it's a little off! I'm confident that I'll make it to goal next week, particularly as I'm going to start training in earnest for the Cancer Research UK 10k tomorrow (please sponsor me here) that's taking place on the 8th of October. You can read about my training progress and how I'm feeling on my new 10k blog, and leave comments of support!

I have, however, managed to get out to run and cycle a few times over the past week, and have earned some bonus points (which I nearly managed to eat too many of last night), which you earn through exercise. It seems no-one really knows how best to use them, but the general consensus is that you can earn as many as you want, but only eat 12 of them per week (to stop you from shovelling in cream cakes while you're on the treadmill). Some people, me included, prefer to eat half of the bonus points earned (I've yet to earn over 12 in a week). The amount earned depends on your weight, the intensity of the exercise and the length of exercise. So, for example, someone of my weight (63.3kg) would earn 0.5 bonus points by walking slowly for 10 minutes, whereas a 1/2 hour run would earn me 3.5. It's all a bit of a carrot on a stick really, I'm sure some people on weight watchers would do anything for some extra food, even if that means trampolining (sorry, I mean 'rebounding'), skipping or the obsessive completion of the Davina McCall 'Power of 3' dvd ;-) !

Onwards and downwards (a little bit)!