Weight until the rain stops

What a clever pun that title is. I must be some sort of undiscovered genius. Anyway, I'm a bit miffed as the weather has been pissy for the last few days, I've been sniffly and it's meant I've not been out on my bike much in the past week or so. As a result, I've started to put on weight.

So far, I've gone up about four pounds in weight and I can really feel the difference. I'm never particularly slim but have gone from 'just over eleven and a half/just under eleven and three quarters' stones to, more or less, twelve stones dead on. If I was eleven stones and thirteen pounds, it wouldn't stick out so much but reaching the landmark of twelve stones has got me a bit worried.

Having been a fat child and teenager, it's not something I want to go through again and I'm getting a little paranoid about it now. I'm not about to make myself puke my dinner up or anything like that but it's not good to see weight go on when I know it's just useless fat. All I can do is watch what I'm eating a bit more carefully (ie. don't keep cutting off slices of cheese and eating them when I'm making a sandwich, don't spread butter so thick you can't see the bread through it etc.) and cycle for a bit longer when I get the opportunity.

I'm afraid it seems the best of the year's weather may be behind us and, as such, it's important to get full use of it when it does come. If the forecasts are even vaguely remote, tomorrow should be pretty good and I should use it for a semi-decent run. I reckon I'll try to cover seven of the nine Glens of Antrim. I'll leave out Glenshesk and Glentaisie, not simply because they've got silly sounding names (if that was the case, I wouldn't even consider Glenballyeamon) but rather due to their being a bit more out of the way and a pain in the arse to get to if I want to make it home the same day, especially before the rush hour. This proposed run should burn off a few calories for me. According to BikeJournal's calorie calculator, I burned off just under six thousand calories doing a run covering all nine glens last Saturday. If it's even vaguely accurate (which I'm not sure about as it only takes speed, distance and weight into consideration), I reckon I must be on for a few thousand tomorrow, even at my slow speeds. Hoorah!