Feb
26
2010
The weighting game
Author: Steve Kidwell
It’s that time of year, just after Christmas when we are thinking about that trip abroad and wanting to be a decent weight, for it. Never before has this really been a problem for me. If I have been training for the London Marathon, I have given up alcohol on New Years eve and not drunk again till after the race. My weight has been between 65 -67 kg at the time of the race. I am sure some-one has done statistics on it that if you weigh 5 kg more than your ideal weight and your stride is 2 metres over the course of the race that you carried an extra 105,000 kg or some such fact, so I have always been around my ideal weight.
After Christmas this year my weight was 70 kg, so not to bad, at normal times but awful if you are going to the North Pole and having to survive on 2,500 calories a day when you will be using 6.500 to 8,000 a day. I have been told I will loose around 15 Kg. I just don’t know where from, so serious eating and drinking required ( no dear I am not down the pub I am training).
After coming back from a business trip to Hong Kong in mid January my weight was 72 Kg, so putting it on slowly. Weighed myself last week and I was 71.5 Kg, this putting on weight lark just isn’t working. It could have something to do with getting up at 5:10 every morning, and going to the gym for an hour. Its a routine I have had for about 15 years now and just don’t want to stop. More lunches are required then.
Simpsons Tavern is a bit of a favourite at the moment, a good rump steak, egg on top, a sausage with a bit of bubble and squeak with some extra vegetables, washed down with a couple of pints. As the office is close to Brick Lane, Peter Dunkley insisted that we went for a curry last Thursday. After walking past a couple of empty restuarants we tried a place that was a buffet style. After starts I went round the main course’s twice then a bit of dessert. Peter had to roll me back to the office I felt so bloated. I do though think I will try and make this a regular Thursday event, down Brick Lane for a Ruby Murray. I will be trying to get up to around 80 kg by the time I go, so support on my eating and drink is always welcome.