This coming the week before a 2 week holiday to the Western Cape wine region of South Africa!

I did what any sensible person would do, and decided to carry on as normal and postpone the blood test until such a time as I could fit in a week without booze.

The holiday started of fairly weel, and I was looking forward to eating pretty sensibly – lots of fish, a little red meat and very little processed food. We were looking forward to daily swims in the pool at the villa and lots of getting out and about and walking as much as possible.

As it was, my wife was set-upon by the other woman in our party of 4 and ended up in tears at a restaurant table in Franschoech! Having been told the next morning that we were ruining their anniversary holiday, we bailed out of South Africa, changed the flights and were back home a week early. What a disaster!

The problem with the diet now was that we had no food in the house, I wasn’t due back at work for another week and we were both pretty down about everything. I’m not saying that we drank more wine than usual, but we didn’t cut back as much as my doctor would have liked…

The moral af the tail?

You can never really be sure how anyone is going to react to a situation, even if they are supposed to be a ‘friend’. We will almost certainly be returning to South Africa, and very certainly on our own..

This followed a trip to a new doctors practice and a new patient medical, where they informed me that I ate too much, drank too much and didn’t exercise enough. No surprises there then…

What did surprise me was that my blood pressure was high enough to deserve some medication and that my cholesterol was low enough to prompt to doctor to ask if I was already on statins – a definate NO!

So for the last 2 weeks I’ve been having a salad for lunch instead of sandwiches and attempting to cut down on alcohol consumption, especially the couple of glasses of red wine each evening. Having said that, I’m on holiday to the Paarl wine region for 2 weeks before my next blood test, which doesn’t bode well for the sext set of liver function results!

Oh, and I must stop eating chocolate for breakfast and try to get out for a walk each lunchtime!.

Having got my weight back down to mid 15 stones, I’ll have to see if I can get it much lower without some serious effort!

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What a pleasant surprise it was this morning to jump on the Wii fit to find that I’ve actually lost 4lb in the last 3 weeks!

I’m beginning to completely not understand this dieting lark.

The time of day that you eat seems to be as important as what you actually eat. I’ve been tucking into bacn and egg baquettes quite a few mornings over the past 3 weeks, and then not eating much else until the evening. No I know dieticians would frown on that approach, and it really isn’t that healthy, but there is a saying that seems to sum it up.

‘Eat like a king at breakfast, a prince at lunchtime and a pauper in the evening.’

Basically if you’re going to eat stuff, try to get it in during the day rather than in the evening. The old saying about not eating after 6pm may well be true after all.

I’m going to try to stick to this and see where it gets me – more news soon.

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