Everyday Systems

Graham

12st 10lb, 44 1/2", BMI 27.5, WHtR 65.9%, Body Fat 40.3% #

Graham

12st 7lb, 44 1/8", BMI 27.1, WHtR 65.4%, Body Fat 40.2% #

Graham

12st 7 1/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.1, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40.4%, #

Maybe I'm adjusting to almost daily tango? Very good tango teaching by Paris Allen in Liverpool on Tuesday and Lucy Wishall in Leyland and Preston on Wednesday and Thursday. Dare I risk the Dolphin Studio again on Friday?

I am sorry I ...

Graham

12st 6 3/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40.6%

Tango effect nullified by a chocolate bar? (and a cream tea, and pint of cider)

No matter, the DJ at Fleetwood was the best of the lot and I really enjoyed my dancing.

Graham

12st 6 1/2lb, 43 15/16", BMI 27, WHtR 65.1%, Body Fat 39.9%

Monster parking charges in Blackpool cut our evening slightly short, but the Tower Ballroom was something to see. Dancing to the live band, El Cachivache was a worthwhile experience. Now off to Fleetwood again, to complete the dancing ...

Graham

12st 6 3/4lb, 43 7/8", BMI 27, WHtR 65%, Body Fat 39.7%, #

@3hours Tango at the Marine Hall in Fleetwood, a pint of cider but no snacks. Tonight, the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool.

Not getting all of my 5-a-day, maybe 3 or 4. Never mind.

Graham

12st 8lb, 44 1/2", BMI 27.2, WHtR 65.9%, Body Fat 40.8% #

Graham

12st 9 3/4lb, 44 13/16", BMI 27.5, WHtR 66.4%, Body Fat 41.1% #

This is a puzzle. Yesterday I was off my food, I definitely ate less than usual, also less bread. So, why a weight and waist gain? It was choir rather than tango yesterday, does that make sense of this? Seems insufficient.

Graham

12st 8lb, 44 7/16", BMI 27.2, WHtR 65.8%, Body Fat 40.7%, #

The fast earlier in the week went OK till I ate my fast-ending evening meal. By then I felt odd, and continued to feel odd, so later I ate more hoping to feel normal. By the next day I was 1lb heavier than the day before! What was the ...

Graham

12st 9 3/4lb, 44 7/16", BMI 27.5, WHtR 65.8%, Body Fat 40.2%, Fasting

Despite weekend tango I'm finding reason to try a fast today. SO is away, no-one to cook for. I have a slight sore throat which will probably worsen as fasting seems to trigger them, but my digestion, I suspect, may enjoy the ...

Graham

12st 8 3/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.3, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40%, #

Graham

12st 11 1/4lb, 44 9/16", BMI 27.7, WHtR 66%, Body Fat 40.1% #

Not going in the right direction. Leaning a bit on convenience foods - noodles, for example.

My less sugar regime continues to feel effortful, and evidence of benefit is scant. I haven't bought any meat or fish since I read Foer's ...

Graham

12st 8 1/2lb, 44 3/8", BMI 27.3, WHtR 65.7%, Body Fat 40.4%, #

Graham

12st 8lb, 44 5/16", BMI 27.2, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40.4%

Tango for @5 hours yesterday. Home to supper: chickpea curry, beetroot, broccoli, rice and cream cheese.

Hi Rawcookie, thanks for the thoughts and suggestions. My efforts to be vegetarian or vegan span many decades. By sympathy I would be ...

Graham

Saturday 12st 10 1/2lb. I think I didn't bother measuring my waist.
12st 9 3/4lb, 44 1/8", BMI 27.5, WHtR 65.4%, Body Fat 39.5%

Tango at an art gallery in Croydon, then off to picnic in Battersea Park. A practica on the bandstand, a walk to the peace pavilion and finally home. A long day, and I'm ...

Graham

Wed 12st 9 3/4lb, 44 3/8", BMI 27.5, WHtR 65.7%, Body Fat 40%
Thu 12st 8 3/4lb, 44 3/4", BMI 27.3, WHtR 66.3%, Body Fat 41.2%
Fri 12st 8 1/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.3, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40.2%

I am not sure how trustworthy my scales are these days. My mechanical scales, which have a scale too small ...

Graham

12st 8lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.2, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40.2%, #

Still not getting my 5-a-day - and yesterday I saw a New Scientist* article cited claiming 10-a-day was what it took "to make a difference". Personally, I notice clearly the difference between 5 and, say just one or two, and feel the ...

Graham

12st 7 1/4lb, 44 1/2", BMI 27.1, WHtR 65.9%, Body Fat 41%

Tango and biscuits, then a beer with friends. Home to fresh bread and Match of the Day. I didn't eat many healthy calories yesterday. Back in London, time to restock the larder.

Graham

12st 6 3/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40.6% #

2 hours tango in Preston last night. A bit less fruit, a bit more veg.

Graham

12st 7lb, 44 3/4". BMI 27.1, WHtR 66.3%, Body Fat 41.7% #

I ate fruit yesterday, and starch, some fat, not so much protein. Breakfast: buttered spelt toast and a boiled egg. Later I had asparagus, sweetcorn, passion fruit, plum tart with cream and sugar. Attended tango class and dance from 7:30 to ...

Graham

12st 7 1/2lb, 43 3/4"*, BMI 27.1, WHtR 64.8%, Body Fat 39.2%, #

*Southport scales and tape measure. Snacks aplenty during a 5-hour drive, but what else to do? Crisps, a few very sour Haribo and a very aged Fry's Turkish Delight that emerged from the glove compartment. Kept me going - and I'm ...

Graham

12st 9lb, 44 1/8", BMI 27.4, WHtR 65.4%, Body Fat 39.7%, #

Graham

12st 7 1/2lb, 43 7/8", BMI 27.1, WHtR 65%, Body Fat 39.5%

Spelt loaf turned out OK. 3/4 through "Eating Animals" - I'm glad I'm not that fond of fish - cruelty free fish doesn't seem to exist. Meat.., poultry..eggs.. dairy.. it all depends. Nothing cheap, that's for sure.

Graham

12st 9 1/4lb 44 1/8", BMI, 27.4, WHtR 65.4%, Body Fat 39.6%

Yesterday 3 hours at Tango Garden, evening meal roast organic chicken with salad. Today 5 hours at La Mariposa.

We will have chicken and salad again, and maybe my new spelt bread. I hope it recovers from several hours in the fridge ...

Graham

12st 10 3/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.6, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 39.5%, #

A painful surprise. So what did I do yesterday to deserve these figures? I can't figure it out. I walked a fair bit, danced for at least an hour. Plus an isometric work-out, and yoga.

Oddly, the first day in years when I ate more ...

Graham

12st 8 1/2lb, 44 1/16", BMI 27.3, WHtR 65.3%, Body Fat 39.6%, #

I have started reading "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer. Very well written, intelligent, at times very distressing.

I wish he had gone into whatever differences there are between the UK and US. US state laws exempt farm ...

Graham

12st 8 3/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.3, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40%, #

So, despite some hours of tango, demanding to brain and body, corpulence unaltered.

Graham

12st 8 3/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.3, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40%, #

Graham

12st 9 3/4lb, 43 3/4", BMI 27.5, WHtR 64.8%, Body Fat 38.6% #

Despite the efforts of Reprieve and others, Pakistan executed Shafqat Hussein in the early hours today. I signed several petitions, attended demonstrations, did a little bit, cared about it. The injustice was so glaring, a proper ...

Graham

12st 9lb, 43 3/4", BMI 27.4, WHtR 64.8%, Body Fat 38.8%

Lots of tango yesterday, I creaked a bit afterwards.

Graham

Vitamin D is also well-supplied by eating free-range pastured eggs and drinking whole milk from pasture-fed cattle. Being outdoors in sunlight enables chickens and cows to produce more vitamin D which passes into their eggs and milk respectively.

Drinking skimmed milk cuts down on the fat and ...

Graham

12st 9 3/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.5, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 39.7%, #

Despite an hour digging on the allotment. Too much starch and too few vegetables. No tango today.

Graham

12st 8 1/2lb*, 44 9/16", BMI 27.3, WHtR 66%, Body Fat 40.8% #

*London scale: it doesn't show fractions always, and gets stuck at the same weight even if I pick up an article to change the figure. But I think this is right after many re-weighings.

Graham

12st 6 3/4lb, 44 1/8", BMI 27, WHtR 65.4%, Body Fat 40,3%, #

Tango class and milonga in Leyland.

Graham

12st 10 1/4lb, 44 1/2", BMI 27.6, WHtR 65.9%, Body Fat 40.1%, #

A little over 2 months since I stopped having sweeteners or sugar in my hot drinks. I recently tried unsweetened porridge too. All tolerable, not as much fun as with added sweetness, but I'm not inclined to go back.

A nice surprise ...

Graham

12st 9 1/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.4, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 39.9%

Graham

12st 9 3/4lb, 44 3/8", BMI 27.5, WHtR 65.7%, Body Fat 40%

Mostly busy indoors.

Graham

12st 8 1/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.3, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40.2% #

Does Merseyside have tango? I thought not till I finally discovered "tango timetable", a website listing events and classes in the Northwest. But, though listed, Liverpool tango didn't happen last night. I hope Preston on Wednesday ...

Graham

12st 8lb, 44 1/4"

Southport scales: trustworthy?

Graham

12st 9 1/2lb, 44 1/16", BMI 27.4, WHtR 65.3%, Body Fat 39.4%, #

Graham

12st 9 3/4lb, 44 3/16", BMI 27.5, WHtR 65.5%, Body Fat 39.6% #

Graham

12st 9 1/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.4, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 39.9%, #

Tango practice and shopping, plus home-made bread, home-grown salad, and finally, blackberry crumble with cream..

Graham

12st 8 1/2lb, 43 11/16", BMI 27.3, WHtR 64.7%, Body Fat 38.8%

Choir, tango, allotment.

Graham

12st 10 1/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.6, 65.6%, Body Fat 39.6%

Not so much tango and 2 excess eating invitations: - a birthday, then Eid. Lots of carbs.

Graham

12st 10 1/4lb, 44 3/8" BMI 27.6, WHtR 65.7%, Body Fat 39.9%

Graham

12st 12lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.8, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 39.1%, #

Despite no snacks, no sweets, no sugar, another day staying at home, reluctant or resistant, and my weight climbs. I had a pleasant evening meal, chicken with fruit, vegetables and linguine. I got my 5 a day, and a beer, and achieved ...

Graham

12st 9 3/4lb, 44 5/16", BMI 27.5, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 39.9%, #

Two demanding tango classes yesterday. Who would guess walking to music could be such hard work?

I'm not certain about this chicken stock, it smelled a little odd when I was cooking it, though now it seems pleasant enough. I will use ...

Graham

12st 10 1/4lb, 44 1/8", BMI 27.6, WHtR 65.4%, Body Fat 39.3% #

Didn't eat much or do much yesterday. I did try making chicken stock. Today I've got tango, and tidying.

As I predicted my coffee's bitterness is not so annoying today, following a lower-sugar day yesterday. (the raspberries have run ...

Graham

12st 9 1/2lb, 44 1/8", BMI 27.4, WHtR 65.4%, Body Fat 39.5%, #

I had raspberries with sugar and cream for dessert last night. I noticed how the lack of sugar in my coffee this morning seemed more annoying than on days when I've not had a sugary dessert. It was a new coffee though, stronger, so ...

Graham

12st 8 3/4lb, 44", BMI 27.3, WHtR 65.2%, Body Fat 39.4%

Choir then tango. A mixed experience, I was noticing just how skillful some dancers are, and got a little depressed. I lose myself somewhere, and my partner, the music is a factor.

Some tangos invite connection, savouring, other music ...

Graham

12st 9 1/2lb, 44 5/16", BMI 27.4, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40%

3 hours tango, 2 hours allotment. Nice day.

Graham

12st 11 3/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.8, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 39.2% #

Puzzling weight surge. I wasn't massively active yesterday, but walked for at least an hour during travel and shopping. I drink more milk since I stopped having sugar and sweeteners in my beverages. I get just as many drink calories as ...

Graham

12st 9 3/4lb, 44 3/8", BMI 27.5, WHtR 65.7%, Body Fat 40% #

Thank you for the kind remarks about my writing Linda.

On the "guilt" issue: I happened to watch an animal welfare video a few days ago, and budget issues can't absolve me from my part in it all. I have to somehow weigh convenience ...

Graham

12st 9 3/4lb, 44 1/4" BMI 27.5, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 39.7%, #

3 hours tango, some cake, some chocolate.

Graham

12st 10 1/4lb, 44 3/8", BMI 27.6, WHtR 65.7%, Body Fat 39.9%

Graham

12st 10 1/4lb, 44 3/8", BMI 27.6, WHtR 65.7%, Body Fat 39.9% #

Graham

12st 9 1/4lb, 44 3/16", BMI 27.4, WHtR 65.5%, Body Fat 39.7%

Hours of tango yesterday, mostly happy. Praised and damned by different partners in the same afternoon.

Graham

12st 11 3/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.8, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 39.2%

Yesterday's hot weather again interfered with my eating* and sleep. Now it is cooler and raining. If this had started last night, how delightful my sleeping hours might have been. At least I'll be spared a couple of hours watering here ...

Graham

12st 10 3/4lb, 44 3/8", BMI 27.6, WHtR 65.7%, Body Fat 39.8% #

Heat-sponsored lethargy till the evening. Then choir, followed by a really late allotment visit, picking raspberries in the twilight and watering in the dark.

Raspberries need cream and sugar, I find. My rescued loaf is interestingly ...

Graham

12st 8 3/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.3, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40%, #

Tango outdoors at Spitalfields. I tried a new loaf recipe yesterday: dough didn't rise a bit. Disappointing. Adding extra yeast now, fingers crossed.

Graham

12st 9 1/2lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.4, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 39.8%, #

Too hot to cook much yesterday. More raspberries with cream and sugar* last night, so(?) my unsweetened coffee tasted particularly disappointing today. Sugar is a particularly hard-to-avoid addiction for me (and for many).

Eating ...

Graham

12st 11 1/4lb, 44 3/8", BMI 27.7, WHtR 65.7%, Body Fat 39.6%, #

Graham

12st 11 1/2lb, 44 1/2" BMI 27.8, WHtR 65.9%, Body Fat 39.9%, #

Fruit is evil, all these raspberries and my diet's shot to hell.

Graham

12st 10 1/2lb, 44 3/8", BMI 27.6, WHtR 65.7%, Body Fat 39.8%

Yesterday I was again industrious at the allotment once the temperature dropped enough to permit it. I watered all fruit trees and bushes generously. I trundled several barrow-loads of compost up the sloping allotment site, I was bitten ...

Graham

12st 9 1/2lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.4, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 39.8%

Paralysed, unable to get going all day - till the cooler evening brought relief. Then off to the allotment, watering, digging. Home to refried beans and dross tv.

@Sonya: I don't think it matters so much what I eat on tango days. I ...

Graham

12st 11lb, 44 1/2", BMI 27.7, WHtR 65.9%, Body Fat 40%, #

The weather is hot, energy-sapping, I didn't overcome torpor till the evening. My new loaf was excellent. Perhaps a little sweeter than it need be, and the crust is soft, but it is much better than the last one.

I got my 5-a-day, and put ...

Graham

12st 10 1/4lb, 44 3/8", BMI 27.6, WHtR 65.7%, Body Fat 39.9%, #

Hi Rawcookie, not sure the dough was over-moist, those who saw and tried it said it looked perfect and weren't sure what I was concerned about, though I too wondered if that might be the problem. I'll try again today, and see how it ...

Graham

12st 9 1/4lb, 43 7/8", BMI 27.4, WHtR 65%, Body Fat 39%, #

Tango lesson, class, then Mexican meal out (Wahaca in Brixton). Then headache, acid indigestion, last episode of Mad Men series 7 part 1, and a good night's sleep.

And the loaf? It looks great, and is somehow disappointing. SO thinks it's ...

Graham

12st 9 3/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.5, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 39.7% #

I was 12st 10 1/2lb yesterday and too downcast to measure my waist. I visited the allotment yesterday, watering plants and collecting compost. I also baked a wholemeal loaf, the first bread I've made for many years, the first yeasted ...

Graham

12st 8 3/4lb, 44 1/2", BMI 27.3, WHtR 65.9%, Body Fat 40.6%

More tango, less food. Tango from 2 to 7:30pm with some breaks. Didn't get my 5-a-day, but ate as much as I wanted of various leftovers.

I am wanting to improve what I eat. Addressing food quality and how both people and animals are ...

Graham

12st 10 1/2lb, 44 1/2", BMI 27.6, WHtR 65.9%, Body Fat 40.1%

Good meals, some snacks, tango.

Graham

12st 10 3/4lb, 44 3/4", BMI 27.6, WHtR 66.3%, Body Fat 40.6%, #

A vegetable rich lunch, an afternoon allotment visit then evening visitors with pulau rice and cream cake.

Graham

12st 11 1/4lb, 45", BMI 27.7, WHtR 66.7%, Body Fat 41.1% #

I do hope I'll reverse this trend now I'm back in London. I sometimes ate because I'd promised to cook, when I was tired and would rather have slept.

There was a freezer to empty. Both outward and return journeys were lengthened to @ 6 ...

Graham

12st 9 3/4lb, 44 3/4", BMI 27.5, WHtR 66.3%, Body Fat 40.9% #

A week in Southport has been my undoing. Only managed one bike ride. Otherwise a productive trip, necessary things got done. Back to London today, let's see how I progress.

Still no sugar or sweeteners in my hot drinks. It isn't doing ...

Graham

12st 7 3/4lb, 44", BMI 27.2, WHtR 65.2%, Body Fat 39.7%, #

Went to the allotment, no proper lunch, some biscuits with black tea, then choir, late, simple meal, nowhere near my 5-a-day. Pursuing 5-a-day sometimes leads to eating more.

Graham

12st 8 3/4lb, 44 1/8", BMI 27.3, WHtR 65.4%, 39.7%, #

Graham

12st 9 1/4lb, 44 3/8", BMI 27.4, WHtR 65.7%, Body Fat 40.2%, #

Graham

12st 9 1/4lb, 44 1/2", BMI 27.4, WHtR 65.9%, Body Fat 40.5%, #

I am too sedentary on non-tango days. Today is a tango day. Biscuits will be on offer. If I don't take an alternate food source, I may succumb, despite a filling breakfast, as I'll be there till 3 or 4pm.

I have no fruit to take, and ...

Graham

12st 9 1/4lb, 44 5/8", BMI 27.4, WHtR 66.1%, Body Fat 40.8%

This sudden weight-gain is a puzzle and a disappointment. Decreasing sugar and sweeteners isn't enough, on it's own, to slim me. When I reflect on my eating yesterday, I see nothing to be embarrassed about. Perhaps it's just a change in ...

Graham

12st 7 1/2lb, 44 5/16", BMI 27.1, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40.5%

I'm drinking my unsweetened tea, somewhat adrift. I don't like either tea or coffee so much without sugar or sweeteners. I drink less, I get thirsty, and hungry, my routines are disrupted, I do not know myself. I don't have a really clear ...

Graham

12st 8 3/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.3, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40%

I did wonder whether my weight loss owed something to the cold I caught at the beginning of the week from which I'm now recovering.

I'm still hot drink sugar and sweetener free, and will persist with it. There are plenty of good reasons to ...

Graham

12st 6 3/4lb, 44 1/2", BMI 27, WHtR 65.9%, Body Fat 41.2%

Weight went up, hit 12st 12lb one day. Not able to control things via fasting, a growing suspicion that twice-weekly fasting was weakening my immune system, contrary to all the proclamations of benefit.

My new experiment: no sugar or ...

Graham

12st 7 3/4lb, 44 3/4", BMI 27.2, WHtR 66.3%, Body Fat 41.5%, #

interesting...

Graham

12st 6 3/4lb, 44 5/16", BMI 27, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40.7%, Fasting

Graham

12st 7 1/2lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.1, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40.4%, #

So, I shed 1lb despite some post meal snacking. Dancing also helps, when I do it: this week that'll be Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday if all goes as expected. Will I do a second fast? Friday, ending in time to feel OK for ...

Graham

12st 8 1/2lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.3, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40.1%, Fasting

Between this fast and the last one I briefly hit 12st 11lb. And was rather under the weather. Lost my enthusiasm for my exercise regime too. Wasn't meditating. Now I'm meditating again, perhaps things will come right.

Graham

12st 8 1/2lb, 44 1/4", BMI 27.3, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 40.1%, #

I enjoyed the fast OK, post fast eating was excessive. No sore throat in the end though, and that's a plus.

Graham

12st 8 1/4lb, 44 1/2", BMI 27.3, WHtR 65.9% Body Fat 40.7% Fasting

Fasted on Friday, which went OK, I really needed to, let's see how this one goes, both during and after.

2pm and I have a slight headache and sore throat. I've taken some vitamin C in my ginger and lemon tea, but clearly not ...

Graham

12st 5 3/4lb, 44", BMI 26.9, WHtR 65.2%, Body Fat 40.2%, # Fasting

So I'm giving fasting a go once again, with some trepidation. A series of what felt like incipient throat infections and finally a cold apparently precipitated by a fast led me to take a break.

I'm wondering if adding a gram of ...

Graham

12st 5 3/4lb, 43 15/16", BMI 26.9, WHtR 65.1%, Body Fat 40.1%, #

Graham

12st 6 1/4lb, 44", BMI 26.9, WHtR 65.2%, Body Fat 40.1%, #

Graham

12st 4 3/4lb, 44 1/4", BMI 26.7, WHtR 65.6%, Body Fat 41.1% #

Graham

12st 2 3/4lb, 43 5/8", BMI 26.4, WHtR 64.6%, Body Fat 40.2% #

Graham

12st 4 1/4lb, 43 5/8", BMI 26.6, WHtR 64.6%, 39.8% #

Graham

12st 3 1/2lb, 43 5/8", BMI 26.5, WHtR 64.6%, Body Fat 40%

Graham

12st 1 3/4lb, 43 3/4", BMI 26.2, WHtR 64.8%, Body Fat 40.8%, #

SO's birthday, tango, chocolates.

Graham

12st 1 3/4lb, 43 5/8", BMI 26.2, WHtR 64.6%, Body Fat 40.5%, #

Graham

12st 1 1/2lb, 43 3/4", BMI 26.2, WHtR 64.8%, Body Fat 40.9% #

Tango, snacks and a chocolate.

Graham

12st 2 1/2lbs, 43 11/16", BMI 26.4, WHtR 64.7%, Body Fat 40.4%

Graham

12st 2 1/4lb, 43 3/4", BMI 26.3, WHtR 64.8%, Body Fat 40.6%

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