Lick The Lard

Today’s weight: 75.5kg

For various reasons, I’ve ended up eating very very late every night this week, hence my weight registering shockingly high when I got up the next days. However that’s clearly not the only thing going on. I broke the 76kg barrier this week, which means that even taking into account the late nights and early weighings, I am definitely on the up.

Part of the issue is the routine I have dropped into the last few weeks. Not only did I have the irregularity of the vacation days, but my lunch routine changed, and I started leaving work later in the evenings, so my evening routine changed. My whole daily routine now is a shadow of what it was a month ago.

I recognised this today and decided to take immediate action.

A few weeks ago, when I was near goal, I discovered a place near my work that has a kimchi, pork, and rice lunch set. I adore kimchi, having lived in Korea for some time, so I started buying it - and, as expected, it was delicious. Since then I’ve been buying it daily. That’s OK when the rest of my routine can support such a lunch, but at the moment it clearly cannot.

Last week I recognised that I need to go into Emergency Mode. Despite that, the thought of giving up my lovely hot kimchi lunch and returning to the healthier (dressing free) salads was something that my mind didn’t want to consider - which is strange, because I love the salads also. I guess I just love the kimchi more.

Since it wasn’t working for me to go out and buy salads without coming back with the kimchi set, I decided to change my lunch routine completely: from today, I’m going out to a cafe for lunch and studying Japanese while I eat.

Cafe culture is something I adore, so this will make it easy to stay away from the fatty kimchi pork option - and anything that makes the good choices easier is very welcome.

I still need to make a change to my evening routine, but at the moment, I haven’t worked out how. The change I did make - starting to walk the hour home from work to my house - is a good change, but it is meaning that I get home late and eat late. Something different is needed. I need to think what that will be.