The acid test

I've managed to move back to the UK now. It's been a busy few weeks, having to wrap things up at work with the end of term, sorting out a proper handover and packing up my life in Beijing. It's incredible the amount of useless tat we end up accumulating and the amount of it we believe we still need.

Alongside all of that there's been endless leaving do's. One after the other all involving as much food and drink as you can muster. Of course after one leaving do, what you need is another one with more food and drink, as if there wasn't enough food or drink in the first one.

Then as soon as I got back to the UK the onslaught begins. Food, food and more food. I got here on Friday, had my birthday celebrations and on the saturday a Stag and Hen do (Shen). Sunday involved the inevitable medication for the hangover with enough food to feed a small army and whats even worse is the picking. Picking at birthday cake, a box of chocolates, crisps, cheeky Frankfurters. It all comes crashing in.

The point being that food and drink never stops. Its always there. Every social event revolves around it. But now there's a lull before it all starts again. This brings me to the point of today's post. The idea of this blog was for it to be a resource for me to remind me of what I need to do to get back into the mindset which gets me results and stay in that mindset.

Now it will be far fetched to think that I could stay in that mindset all the time, but I can definitely build better habits and that's certainly what I'm working on. But still, life can get in the way. The leaving do's and the stag do's and wedding related stuff are all part of life and something that I want to enjoy and make the most of. However, as there's a lull in all of this, I want to get back to baseline weight and need to get back into the groove to do so.

The posts on this blog are for me to help get back into the groove by helping me to focus my mind on the most important factors and stay in that mindset as long as possible to get the results I want. Although it's unrealistic to stay in that mindset forever, I can have a level of it which is permanent. This is now the acid test for this blog, to see if it can really help me to shed the excess by getting back into the groove.