Wednesday 8 October

Sorry, was going to put up a picture of the new, improved Steven last night, only to find that our camera's gone missing.

We found the culprit though - stepson staid during the school holidays last week and took the camera to Vodacom last week when the Blue Bulls where there to sign autographs. He forgot to take the camera out of his bag and then took it home with him. We're going to go fetch it on Saturday so instead of a '8 week' pic, it'll be an '8 1/2 week' photo. Not that I mind, gives me the chance to work on the tan a bit :-)

Oh, and lose some more weight, and gain some muscle ...

I think I'm well on track to my target weight of 80kgs. I've definitely stepped up my exercise this week, and am expending about 1000 calories per session. Over 6 days, that's probably 2 days' worth of calories ... So I should be able to accelerate the weight loss again to 1 kg a week ...

Cardio went well today, though I was starting to feel a bit woozy towards the end. Didn't sleep all that well for the last 2 nights, so that might have something to do with it.

Met my dad at the airport - he'd come up from the Cape for the afternoon as he had a business meeting at the airport, so I thought I'd go say hi. He hadn't seen me since before I started the challenge, and although he didn't say anything at first, when I asked if he saw something different about me, he said he hardly recognised me at first. Nice to hear that people do see the difference :-)