Oh my, has it really been since the 7th of June? 

Lots to update but let’s first start with numbers:
Week 1: 97.7 -800g
Week 2: 98.3 +600g
Week 3: 96.3 -2KG
Week 4: 95.2 -1.1KG
Week 5: 95.1 -0.1KG
Week 6: 94 -1.1KG
Week 7: 93.6 -400g
Week 8: 92 -1.6KG
Week 9: 91.2 -800g
Week 10: 91.5+ 300g
Week 11: 90.5 -1KG
Week 12: 89.1 -1.4KG

Berlin was brilliant.  For the most part I took care of myself as best as I could - that meant eating my “normal” breakfast of fruit, yoghurt and cereal and taking care at lunch time that I had a salad or at least a diet-friendly sandwich.  I did drink beer and eat sausage.  I also went out for Mexican :)  On the movement front though, we went running in the Tiergarten, we did a 6 hour bike tour and we walked a lot (after Mexican we walked a good 3KM before we decided to get on the U-bahn back to our apartment).  There was a 300 gram gain when I got back, which I thought was pretty decent damage control.  The last time I went away it was a lot worse!  I also weighed in that week at a different WW meeting, simply because I had to work from home that day and I wasn’t going to schlep all the way out to Amsterdam to weigh-in!

I feel like things are going really quite well :)  I’m still working on C25K - we are currently in Week 7 and it is taking a while, but it’s been hard on my lungs with the humidity and heat.  It took me 3 tries to get Day 1 complete and that finally happened by doing it at 5am instead of in the evening.  I’m going to try for Day 2 today or tomorrow.   I am also working on the 100 pushups program - am in Week 2 and currently ready to do Day 3.

I went out on Thursday evening and had a bit too much to drink.  I need to still find a balance in preparing to go out and enjoy and not killing myself beforehand with exercise and limiting my intake (that’s what I did and let me tell you it doesn’t work).  I think that is actually the hardest thing about changing the way you eat and move - maybe it’s more about damage control after instead of trying to prepare before?  I thought I was doing quite well, saving up my regular and activity points, but by Thursday during the day I was not happy - headache, cranky and starving.  I need to just eat normally and then learn moderation in going out as well.  Well, this is all a learning process, right?

So that’s my update.  Kind of boring isn’t it?