2005 - November

[El Gordo]

I can lose weight, mainly because I have plenty of it to lose. Oh yes, I can lose weight in the short term, but in the long term? Much harder. I end up undoing all my good work with my frequent R 'n' R periods.

I lost around 15-20 pounds during the Hamburg campaign for instance (depending on where it actually started), but 75% of that is back on after my lazy summer and autumn.

If you don't have much to lose, but just have a bit of a paunch, it must be much harder. You have to be a bit fanatical to get rid of it with plenty of sit-ups and other specific exercises. Whether it's worth it is another matter.

As for alcohol, yep it makes weigh-loss harder. In my case, I think it's less the stuff itself (though it's undoubtedly calorific) as the havoc it wreaks on my self-discipline. Who doesn't fancy a good curry after a few beers? Some cheese and biscuits to go along with that glass of red wine? The peanuts and crisps I eat in the pub are more fattening than the beer.