Sigh, I’m fat again. Well, still… I knew I’d gained some back just visually, and I’d also been having some trouble being short of breath and verging on sleep apnea again, but it wasn’t until I finally replaced the battery in my scale that I could confirm I was back up to around 136kg.
I fell off the eating-properly bandwagon. Meals are actually okay, I tend to stick to decent choices and proportions for them. But snacking crept its way back in, to the point where I’d get chips and ice cream and bags of nuts and such at least once every week, instead of as an occasional treat. I need to get back to maybe a once-a-week treat as an end-of-week reward, and that’s it. It’s not even a hunger thing, I just want snacks as a comfort food, so I should probably also be dealing with that underlying cause, but…that’s a whole other issue…
I also sorta-fell off the exercise bandwagon. When I shifted back from work-from-home to going into the office, I stopped doing my daily long walk, but I figured that it would be offset by walking to and from the office each day instead. It’s not quite the same, though; the long walk was one big burst of activity over 6km and taking over an hour, whereas the walk to work is only a little over 2km each way, in two separate 20 minute sessions, and I don’t think that was really giving me nearly the same benefit. I also fell out of the habit of doing the long walk on weekends, especially in the winter months, which didn’t help. So, for now I’m at least trying to get back to doing the long walk on weekends. Maybe now that construction on the hill has cleared up I can look at doing the old hill route in the evenings, too.
So once again I’m basically looking at starting from scratch at trying to take better care of myself. I have a set of directories where I’ve been collecting data as I try, and each time I fall off and have to restart after a long gap I create a new directory and fresh set of data files, and I’m up to the directory ‘attempt_20’ now. But, I gotta do it, because at this rate I’m not sure I’ll make it to 60 if I don’t try harder.