Weigh In: Week 3

Starting Weight: 25 stone, 13 pounds.
Previous Weight: 24 stone 12.3 pounds.
New Weight: 24 stone. 11 pounds.
This Week's Loss: 1.3 pounds
Total Weight Loss: 1 stone, 2 pounds.

Oh dear. I had planned to lose half a stone every week for the entire year, thus dropping my entire body weight and presumably existing thereafter as some form of gas. But not to be. Less flippantly, I had expected something like this after my heavy night's drinking and a number of not particularly great food choices during the course of the week, pizza and burgers among them. I've also snacked too much between meals and my Pepsi Max consumption is creeping up again. It's something I'm going to have to work harder on but I'm going to take the attitude that any loss is a good loss. Having been over 25 stone for at least a year, it also feels good to finally be 24 stone something. I don't want to be 25 stone plus ever again.

This blog has gone up late again because I'm seemingly too lethargic over the weekend to get my thoughts together in any sort of coherent way. Doing that and trying to get to 70,000 steps a week is a challenge at the moment. I spent most of Saturday in bed, not tired enough to fall asleep or awake enough to do anything more constructive. I dragged myself away eventually to watch Garrett Millerick at Soho Theatre and very much enjoyed the show. He has a number of strong routines, including a particularly delightful piece on cultural misunderstandings involving his friend's Chinese wife. His no-nonsense persona is appealing, even if I suspect the average audience won't get on board with everything he says. Although as he rightly points out, you're not supposed to. His previous show 'Sunflower' is available on Spotify now and I'm looking forward to giving it a listen.

Of late I've also seen 1917 and Bombshell at the cinema. I broadly speaking echo what others have said about 1917 in that it's a wonderful technical achievement from a cinematography point of view and is a genuinely immersive and tense experience, with jump scares worthy of any horror movie. I always prefer watching films on the big screen to watching them at home and 1917 is a film you need to watch on the biggest screen possible.

I had the opposite experience watching Bombshell. I read someone on Twitter say that Bombshell is essentially a TV movie with a handful of A-Listers and it's difficult to disagree with that assessment.  It's a bland and mostly toothless retelling of the story of the Fox News sexism scandal, elevated slightly by John Lithgow's portrayal of the sleazy, corpulent Roger Ailes and Margot Robbie as Kayla Pospisil, the inexperienced young staffer eager to get ahead but naive as to what that will entail. It will only be worth a look when it comes around on TV if you're especially interested in the subject matter.   

 

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