And Lo, Did The Calories Lay Siege

So from last week’s entry you might assume my diet has been going badly and I’m losing focus. Well, wait until you see what happened in the rest of last week.

Wednesday: -422 calories remaining

Thursday: 412 calories remaining

Friday: -1445 calories remaining

Saturday: -280 calories remaining

Sunday: 757 calories remaining

Total: -978 calories remaining

Weight: 232lbs

So fudge you, Liam, for having a birthday celebration that I enjoyed, and fudge you, Mod, for being a generous person and buying everyone pizza at about 3am. If you weren’t my friends my diet would be intact. However, I’d rather you were my friends and wouldn’t really blame anyone apart from myself for my calorie overdose.

Saturday was another birthday party but I left that early to prevent myself from gorging on the scrummy barbeque food and drinking even more. I still enjoyed it a little too much – 280 calories too much, the one burger I had while there or the two cans of Carlsberg – but the walk home helped.

Early on I knew I had to acknowledge that in only a very small number of circumstances could I accurately cite other people as being the reason I broke my diet; horses to water and all that. So, accepting that fact, I have to acknowledge the only way my diet will fail is if I let it. Which could, understandably, lead to a depressive stage wherein one thinks that any failure means a total one and there is no way to continue.

But thanks to a youth spent playing computer games I believe in extra lives! All through my formative years I would fail at something only to be given another chance at it and I would go back, stronger than before and armed with more knowledge, to conquer whatever level was ahead and achieve whatever goal I’d been set – and they were many and diverse. So it’s quite easy for me to pick myself up after a bad week like this one (for the diet) and go back to doing it properly. And to be fair, I’d rather enjoy these events when they come around than miss out because I feel I have to limit myself.

I like to think of myself as unlimited, and try to live that way. I even have card to prove it. And yes, my calorie intake is unlimited – but only if I accept my exercise limit is as well.

Some people may have noticed that my gym visits have dropped off recently. This is sad and I am looking to rectify it as soon as possible so I can eat more and be less hungry.