Maintaining on holiday

208
That's the number to beat, or equal. So I'm going to an all inclusive hotel for a week and aiming not to gain weight. Wish me luck!

Feeling wintery

I'm definitely ready for a holiday.

This week I've just been feeling exhausted, stressed and thoroughly worn out. I don't know if I'm feeling tired because I haven't done enough exercise and haven't been eating the right things but its definitely a vicious circle once I get back in to those habits.

My sleep patterns are really a problem with my eating. No sleep = sugar craving.I guess running helps with this but when I'm really tired I don't want to run! I guess this is just an excuse though.

Another excuse - my knees have been hurting. Is it the cold and me turning in to an old person? Who knows.

So basically my body's going in to hibernation mode for the winter!


Anyway enough moaning, let's cross over to where I'll be soon.....


Egypt! Sunshine! Good times!

Goal for next week: maintain and maybe do some "active relaxing" by making use of the sports facilities!

I'll post my weight tomorrow (this is not going to be good!) and that will be my goal weight for my return. 

Science, partying and birds

Oh look at me, managing to post more than once a week, or not, whoops!

So lets get down to business goat lovers, my weight this morning was....
209.8 lbs

Little bit over a pound lost in a week, I'll take that.

Here's a whirlwind trip of how I managed that this week:
London Science Festival - aka too busy geeking to get busy eating.

Running - couch to 5k week numero 4 continues.

Walking up hills - and walking extra fast to prove how much fitter you are than your parents. If you ever want to go for a walk just a short train/car ride out of London I recommend The Chiltern Hills, they are one of my favourite places in the world.

Eating well - apart from partying and being ridiculously hungover so not eating at the weekend I actually burnt more calories than I ate every single day this week, even the days I didn't exercise, good times!

PARTAY - or rather get so drunk you are unable to eat much the next 2 days (a sensible weight loss strategy? No. A fun strategy? Very much so). But yes, I do not condone this lifestyle - alcohol has calories too, sadly.

Also when I was in the Chilterns on Sunday I saw five Red Kites up close, they are absolutely stunning birds that were successfully reintroduced to the Chilterns in the 1990s...

Image from ahisgett on Flickr

This week I have equal amounts of science geekery with less partying planned, so hopefully more running. Next week I will also be in beautiful surroundings in Egypt.

So where's your favourite natural beauty spot? Do you exercise there and, more importantly, does it have majestic birds of prey to gawp at?

Stop. Think. Recognise.

So today I had rather a frustrating morning at work. And unfortunately was also stuck between other frustrated people who took it out on the nearest goat they could find.

As I was also tired (I'm rubbish at sleeping during acceptable night-time hours) my first thoughts were "Eurgh, Latte and Chocolate Croissant NOW."

Fortunately I had a very busy afternoon which prohibited me from buying said things AND gave me the chance to think: "AHA! When I am tired and frustrated I eat and drink rubbish things. I must remember and correct this emotional food pattern in the future!"

Yes, it sounds both self evident and cheesey, even I want to laugh at myself, but guess what goat fans - I am proud of myself for actually recognising a pattern in my eating instead of just robotically "quaffing coffee" (try saying that in a New York accent). So there.

So I think the title of this post is basically a good mantra for the future, no?

Goat love for now x

Goat goals

I've toyed a bit with putting my actual weight on this blog as I know, eventually, someone I know in "real life" is going to see it and I don't know how comfortable I am with that.

However...

as this blog is mainly in existence to keep me on the straight and narrow (quite literally) full disclosure seems more in the spirit of things.

ALSO, for the glorious minority of us, I want to provide a realistic picture of how much tall girls (we're talking 5'10" plus) weigh. I've always felt there's a huge lack of information on what weight, clothes size or even shoe size is "normal" and/or healthy for girls of my height (6 foot) and have personally felt like society assumes that anyone of a certain height must be athlete or model size! So I'll try to share some thoughts on being tall-but-not-skinny where I can.

Right! The first weigh in, here we go:
Start weight - 211.2 pounds
Goal weight - 168 pounds (that's 12 stone for UK peeps who don't watch as much Biggest Loser USA as me!)

I also like to keep track of my BMI (using the calculator on calorie count) and this is currently 28.6 (24.9 is healthy).

So after that shock revelation I have some questions for you goat fans:

Are there any other tall girls out there who feel the same way about weight goals? Or perhaps you're of an average height, or even shorter than average (big up to the extremes!) and have similar feelings about portrayals of weight at your height? Let me know!

Just a big old goat

Hello there and welcome to my little blog.

This is going to be a blog about  a big goat who wants to get skinny and a slow goat who wants to run wild and free like my mountain top brethren.

I'll be writing about my attempts to lose about 40 pounds and run a half marathon - hopefully this blog can keep me on track.

Bye for now goat fans x