The Janus Principle

And here we are, ten full months in to what started out as a twelve-month project, and is now likely to be at least a twenty-four-month project. d read last night's entry and chuckled.
"Official weigh-ins, unofficial weigh-ins...you know it makes no difference to anyone but you, right?"
"Oh yeah," I agreed. "Still..."
The reason I even thought about giving an official weigh-in figure today was...well, firstly for the official feeling of "this is what I've done in ten full months of 2011", aned secondly, because I did an "unofficial" weigh-in yesterday morning when perhaps radically empty (Chinese Buffet+Xenical - good combo if you want to impersonate a flume). And the result was fantastically good - 15 stone 11 pounds! Sooo, figured this little egotist, if I do an "official" weigh-in the day after, I'll look superbly good, having lost four pounds or more since Tuesday!

Yyyyeah. Had pizza yesterday. Woke up this morning, and my official ten-month result is 15 stone 13.75. One tiny ogrefart into the world of Fifteens, but hey - good enough to please me. Definitively 4.5 stone in ten months. Awoohoo.

So - how was your 2011? Mine was fairly mental - as you of course know. Looking back, it feels like longer than ten months. Feels like a lifetime, in fact, since I whittered on about diaries and how we used to use them, but now we blog our most intimate thoughts for the world to see. What have we done since then...begun walking, plugged in the exercise bike, ramped each one up, to five miles a morning and ten or twenty miles a day, shat ourselves absolutley stupid in Camden Town, lost a few stones, fallen down some stairs, seen the Olympic venue, gotten hopelessly lost more times than we can count, gone on holiday, broken a toe, had more blisters than seems possible, lost a few more stones, gotten sick of human beings and the grind of London, moved house across country and unpacked more boxes than we ever seem to have packed.

And that was 2011.

So what are my Resolutions for 2012?

Well, let's see:
1. I will not die in 2012 #fuckyouMayancalendarboy
2. Having lost 4.5 stones in ten months, I will lose at least the same amount in, say, eight months of 2012 - hitting my ideal weight and BMI by the end of August 2012.
3. I will avoid the flappy-skin syndrome of most heavy weight-losers by increasing the range of my exedrcise to include muscle-building work.
4. I will not freak out when I put on weight in muscle mass, reminding myself that 'muscle weighs more than fat nehh nehh nehh...'
5. I will attempt to re-integrate normality into my life, doing Aristotelian experiments with pleasure from time to time.
6. I will take the time to see some of my pals and particularly Karen Pulley, who has said she wants to join the Disappearing Wagon in 2012.
7. I will attempt not to bore the arse off you lot, while staying entirely honest to what the Hell happens in my life from day to day.

Will that do us, maybe? (Shrugs). Probably for now. How do you want to spend your 2012?