Day 30

Fark me, that is a step up and a half on the exercise front. Good tho, lots of burn to punish me for basically 2 days of big style lapsing last weekend - wedding followed by heavy night on golf tour (guiness, wine, stela, irish car bombs ....urrrgh)  Weight continues to fall off & can only imagine that will continue now we are on the tremendously appealing veg, fruit and egg white dinners. Any tips on sprucing up an egg white to make it more interesting gratefully received.....

wheels off

After 3 weeks of saintly existence it seemed only fair to let our hair down at a wedding yesterday a little bit. The food was not too un-PCP but definitely overdid it on the booze. Skipping this morning with a hangover was the punishment - each landing each of the 1100 jumps felt like patrick was hitting the top of my head with a mallet. 

Loving the new exercises - can see how the planks are going to start hurting tho. 

Off for more PCP rule breaking activity on a 2 day golf jaunt with the lads...  

Day 16 - RAINY BLOODY SUNDAY

Its chucking it down and freezing. Sods law after a delightful Friday seen from inside the office.

4kg down now and trousers feeling a lot less tight round the waist. So pleased I treated myself to my eldest sons half uneaten chocolate ice-cream cone at the (cold) fete yesterday and some salted pop-corn whilst being dragged along to watch Bridesmaids (which is actually very good) last night. Patrick, before you cut my carbs yet again as punishment it won't happen again, I promise.

Loving the exercise, even starting to feel not hungry almost all day. Its just the evenings now..need some ideas/distractions as that was my pre-PCP favourite time to continuously graze. Difficult habit to crack.

Excellent video I thought for the question threads - really useful to understand the thinking behind what we are doing.

Day 9 already

3kgs down...salty food absence meaning less water retained? Someone please explain.

Thank God the half portions are over. It did completely demonstrate that I was eating way too much and also not frequently enough. Have settled into this weeks food much better although it almost feels like eating too much for breakfast and could do with splitting that throughout the morning & having a later lunch. Must admit I have cheated with nuts and raisins especially after running to and from work (not sure if should be doing that every day or if we can modify diet to allow for the run calories burnt too Patrick ? 3.7 miles e/w, would prefer not to drop running cos it beats the train hands down but did feel exhausted with exercises on top by Thurs this week) Skipping much better now - cracked out 150 x 3 with no trips and then stumbled a bit on the last 150 yesterday.

Sleep is all over the place. Not sure if its body adjusting or something unrelated but I seem to be taking a while to drop off (vs pre PCP half a bottle of claret sedation technique) and then getting a deep 5 to 6 hours and being wide awake but still feeling tired later in the day, Interested to know if anyone else is being affected on sleep front.

Wonderful to feel less bloated, gassy and lethargic and the sugar cravings definitely do get better - I was seconds away from lifting a dairy milk bar from the vending machine on Thurs tho.

First night out this week - 3 separate sets of drinks (not popular - I gate-crashed all of them) on Thurs night - water at the first one, diet coke the second & third but no booze. Two cigarettes to stave off boredom and then home for day 7 skipping. Utterly surreal.

Day 4

Feeling a bit dizzy from the half portions. Patrick is right though, the cravings do seem to pass & get better each time you resist. 2kgs off already but that doesn't sound right so I reckon there must some water retention issues going on! Not sure I am going to be able to keep up the run to/from work every day once the exercise steps up. On the plus side, getting considerably better at skipping. Managed a whole 60 without tripping up this eve...

Hungry. Otherwise doddle. Love skipping more than anything.