Well its almost two weeks after my last weigh in, today when I hefted myself upon the scales I discovered that days out in London drinking cider by the bucket and trips to the Rugby where I also drank cider by the bucket don't do much for weight loss efforts.
But I am pleased to report another loss. A mere 0.5kg this time but it's better than nothing given the general awfulness of my calorific intake. Since my last weigh in I have also started running more frequently, a simple route of just over 1.2 miles (accuracy over such short distances isn't great with my mapmyrun app, this route shows as anything from 1.22 miles to 1.27 miles).
In four runs I have reduced the time it takes for me to run the route from 16 mins to 13.57 mins, again far slower than the runs I used to manage and over a much shorter distance but whilst I'm getting started again I'll take it as a good result!
Mr Half on the other hand goes out for a run at the same time as I do and comes back 20 mins later having run between 6 and 8 miles, weirdo.
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Making the World a little bit better
Something which is quite important to me is the idea of equality, to me it that means less about the niggles of everyday life in the UK which we complain about as being unfair for whatever reason, but attempting to make equal people accross the world, to this end I use a website called Kiva.org
Kiva is a microfinance lender, it operates by allowing you to loan someone a minimum of $25 . You can choose who you want your $25 to go to from the list on their website, your $25 is usually a fraction of the total amount being loaned out. Each loan is disbursed through a local person or organisation, it's these people who then collect back the repayments each month - you then get an email once a month telling you how much has been repaid and thus how much you have to reloan.
You don't earn interest on the money and in most cases you don't lose money either although there is a danger of currency loss as some loans are made in US$ while others are made in the local currency.
As it stands I have been a Kiva lender for a little over 2 years and have made 8 loans with $52 , reloaning each time enough has come back in to my account. You can make the original payment to Kiva via paypal, and can when the laon is fully repaid have the money paid back in to paypal shold you wish.
Take a look, you may help change the life somebody you'll never meet in a country you'll never visit!
Kiva
Kiva is a microfinance lender, it operates by allowing you to loan someone a minimum of $25 . You can choose who you want your $25 to go to from the list on their website, your $25 is usually a fraction of the total amount being loaned out. Each loan is disbursed through a local person or organisation, it's these people who then collect back the repayments each month - you then get an email once a month telling you how much has been repaid and thus how much you have to reloan.
You don't earn interest on the money and in most cases you don't lose money either although there is a danger of currency loss as some loans are made in US$ while others are made in the local currency.
As it stands I have been a Kiva lender for a little over 2 years and have made 8 loans with $52 , reloaning each time enough has come back in to my account. You can make the original payment to Kiva via paypal, and can when the laon is fully repaid have the money paid back in to paypal shold you wish.
Take a look, you may help change the life somebody you'll never meet in a country you'll never visit!
Kiva
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
10 Days Later
10 days after the bed crater finally broke me I jumped back on the weighing machine at the chemist. This week I now weigh 11st 9lb, but appear to have shrunk as my BMI has jumped to 28.1....me thinks I'll continue to ignore that measurement in favour of watching the other numbers reduce.
The slight weight loss is entirely down to doing little more than watching what I consume, cutting out the sharing of a full pack of cookies in the evening with Mr Half while we have a brew before bed and doing a little more exersize. Choosing when I drove to Father Half's house for the long weekend to take with me my running things and drag my butt around what was a comfortable 1 mile circuit not so long ago. I just need to maintain the motivation to go out for the odd run from now on!
The slight weight loss is entirely down to doing little more than watching what I consume, cutting out the sharing of a full pack of cookies in the evening with Mr Half while we have a brew before bed and doing a little more exersize. Choosing when I drove to Father Half's house for the long weekend to take with me my running things and drag my butt around what was a comfortable 1 mile circuit not so long ago. I just need to maintain the motivation to go out for the odd run from now on!
Monday, 2 May 2011
Baldness
There are many ways to deal with losing your hair as displayed by the typical male.
1. The Comb Over - as displayed at my current work site by one of the newer academic staff, every afternoon he arrives at 4pm to buy the same items, opening the door with his long hair flowing down the left side of his face, while the hair on the right is distinctly shorter. Shortly followed by the reflexive shoving of the long bits across the shiny hairfree part at the front of his head in an attempt to pray that we don't notice.
2. The Homer. As displayed by yet another civvie on camp, this one a member of staff with the maintainence companies. Although Homer combs his hair across his head to create the style is recreated by the man who has at most 10 strands of hair, combed directly forward from the rear of his head, and then firmly gelled in place...as though we wouldn't notice that there are no more than 10 strands. And this from a man who boasts that he has his clothes hand made at the finest tailors...but seems to be confused by the concept of a dentist - and does not wear these expensive tailored clothes to work sticking to cheap jeans and primark t-shirts.
3.a. The Military cut, a number 2 all over, in the hope that they never need remove the beret and reveal the parts lacking in hair.
3.b. The Military Bald and proud. As worn by an AGC SSgt at the current site, in his words, the hair fell out and I'm lazy so I get it shaved off and forget until the fabric stops slipping.
Although MrHalf as yet has a full head of hair my favoured style is by far 3.b. -the confidence to admit that you have hair loss is it has to be said something of a turn on for me - of previous partners two were totally bald while an third maintained a 'bald' style. Style 2, stinks of desperation and an inability to let go of the past, and style 1 quite honestly makes me want to puke - you try visualising a man above you in bed with almost flowing locks on one side of his face while the other has near no hair without at the same time seeing a sweaty overweight horror! 3.a. on the other hand is the usual way men seem to deal with hair loss, cut it short and carry on as normal.
Thank god the military frown upon the old favourite of the mullet in not only their own staff but their civilians too.
1. The Comb Over - as displayed at my current work site by one of the newer academic staff, every afternoon he arrives at 4pm to buy the same items, opening the door with his long hair flowing down the left side of his face, while the hair on the right is distinctly shorter. Shortly followed by the reflexive shoving of the long bits across the shiny hairfree part at the front of his head in an attempt to pray that we don't notice.
2. The Homer. As displayed by yet another civvie on camp, this one a member of staff with the maintainence companies. Although Homer combs his hair across his head to create the style is recreated by the man who has at most 10 strands of hair, combed directly forward from the rear of his head, and then firmly gelled in place...as though we wouldn't notice that there are no more than 10 strands. And this from a man who boasts that he has his clothes hand made at the finest tailors...but seems to be confused by the concept of a dentist - and does not wear these expensive tailored clothes to work sticking to cheap jeans and primark t-shirts.
3.a. The Military cut, a number 2 all over, in the hope that they never need remove the beret and reveal the parts lacking in hair.
3.b. The Military Bald and proud. As worn by an AGC SSgt at the current site, in his words, the hair fell out and I'm lazy so I get it shaved off and forget until the fabric stops slipping.
Although MrHalf as yet has a full head of hair my favoured style is by far 3.b. -the confidence to admit that you have hair loss is it has to be said something of a turn on for me - of previous partners two were totally bald while an third maintained a 'bald' style. Style 2, stinks of desperation and an inability to let go of the past, and style 1 quite honestly makes me want to puke - you try visualising a man above you in bed with almost flowing locks on one side of his face while the other has near no hair without at the same time seeing a sweaty overweight horror! 3.a. on the other hand is the usual way men seem to deal with hair loss, cut it short and carry on as normal.
Thank god the military frown upon the old favourite of the mullet in not only their own staff but their civilians too.
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