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Been home from holiday for just over a week and I have managed to shift the 3+kg that I put on in the 10 days of holiday. Now I am essentially back to the weight I was after Edinburgh. Another couple of weeks and I might be back to my pre-Edinburgh weight and then I can start on the diet.
Can September pay for August?
One of my many (slightly self-parodying) goals for 2025 was to end the year being able to fit into my wedding suit (it would be more of an achievement because I actually got that suit taken in a fair bit when I subsequently got slimmer). As I discovered yesterday I currently don't fit into any of my suits or smart trousers and I am a good 7kg away from being able to do so. But New Year's Eve is a long way away and if my weight loss continues at the rate it has over the last 8 days then I should be there by the end of the month.
If I am successful at losing weight, the annoying thing is that people will assume I am on the weight loss jabs. I have never taken a diet supplement (aside from Diet Coke) over all my years of succeeding and then failing to diet. I consider taking drugs to be cheating. Not just in weight loss. In any scenario. Even drugs used in hospitals to save your life.
It just casts doubt on all your previous records. If he's prepared to take drugs now, then how can we believe any of his other achievements.
That's why, in spite of the fact that my penis has shrivelled up and died and looks like Baby Voldermort before he drank Harry Potter's blood in that graveyard (or for older readers, like the aliens in Cocoon), I refuse to take these boner pills that all the old men are taking. Sure I might be able to have proper sex again, but at what cost. If this sex is drug enhanced, then people would look back at my Olympic level achievements of the past and probably have them stricken from the record. So I will continue to work with what I've got, even though it's like pushing a baby kangaroo into the opening of an uninflated balloon. All my bronze medals will remain proudly in place and untarnished. Though it's impressive I have so many bronzes when I only had sex with more than one person at a time once in my life. A really good one-to-one lover does not come first. Or second. He comes third.
I am not sure I'd want to take a drug that just makes you not want to eat stuff any more. I like eating. Also when I get overweight it's not because I don't know when I'm full, it's because I keep on eating junk regardless.
It doesn't feel like drugs is the healthiest way to do it and I am only trying to bring my weight down for health reasons. And so I don't have to buy new suits. If nobody else can die until at least November then I'd really appreciate it.
