Days 183 - 186

I've been having excellent fun on the hired scooter. On Thursday I had to visit a client over in Muswell Hill and that was quite a pleasant little ride away. By time I was finished there it was dark so I had my first ever ride in the dark on my way back home. The day's dieting went pretty well too, I stuck to 810 with great ease, so I thought at the time. In retrospect I've realised I've missed out my milk allowance each day back on 810 so far. Ooops, it's only been 3 days, I hope I don't make a habit of it.

On Friday I rode down to Berkshire to see some friends and family. It was the furthest I had ridden and it was great fun! There was plenty of dual carriageway and also a few nice twisty B roads. The real darkness and lack of street lighting was slightly intimidating at first but I did OK and I'll get used to it. Most of the people I went to visit had not seen me for over a month and even though my weight-loss since then has been poor as far as I'm concerned, pretty much everyone I saw mentioned how different I look now. My grandma spent my whole visit trying to feed me so I ended up explaining a lot more about CD than I had before and I think she's a bit worried about me now. Hopefully I'll not have withered away to nothing before I next go and see her, that should put her mind at rest. I had a few lectures about losing weight too quickly from a couple of my other friends too and I'm not the sort of person to take the easy way out and just reply with 'I know what I'm doing' so I spent a considerable length of time explaining about CD and how it works to them too. Now, one of them thinks I'm nuts and the other fancies trying it herself!

On the way back to London on Saturday, I tried a different route suggested by my lovely biker friend and it was great, even more dual carriageway than on the way down, I got back quite quickly really. I did take a small detour through Hounslow by accident, I misread the lane markings and ended up coming off the A4 instead of following it all the way to Hammersmith. It wasn't too bad really and I was back on track within a couple of miles, it can't have added more than about 5 minutes to my journey.

Due to being very busy on Friday and Saturday, I managed to stick to the plan with great ease (apart from forgetting the milk allowance) and although I spent most of the day resting, the diet went fine today too. I also stepped on the scales today and I've somehow shifted 3lbs in the 4 days since my official weigh-in!! There's a very real chance I may reach my mini-goal after-all. I think the scooter is doing me good. Thank you Honda!