2006 - December

[Nigel]

It's a difficult week for me, too, although perhaps not as much so as for Alan Pardew at West Ham.

Having hit my all-time top weight of 94kg just a week before London last April, it was a real relief to get down to 90kg by August. I settled around 88kg for most of the autumn but a combination of enthusiastic lager-testing and an increasing affinity for the chocolate bar machine at work saw me shockingly back to 90kg last weekend. I've eaten little since.

Meanwhile, I'm running a trade show this week so have had to supplement my lean diet with those all too familiar treats of Stella Artois and canapes, followed by nothing but paracetamol for pudding. There is no running in sight this week, I'm afraid as well.

It isn't quite the road to hell, but it's not exactly the path to personal redemption, either.
That's the trouble with clean living - the occasional lapses are just too bloody enjoyable, and nowhere near as occasional as they should be ...