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Goodbye bowling ball
Week 3 weigh in and progress is being made. But by God, there's still a long way to go.

Trig50ish
Oct 18, 2025


It's happening again...
The one or two of you who have been following this blog may remember that I was on a diet last year. And it was very successful, for...

Trig50ish
Sep 30, 2025


Day Three Hundred and Thirty Five - oh dear
This was originally intended to be a diet blog and over the last few months my attention has drifted a little. Today I mustered up the...

Trig50ish
Dec 3, 2024


One Hundred and Sixty Five - over excitement
Haven't talked a lot about dieting recently. Given this is a blog about my diet, I think I should probably rectify that. All the bad...

Trig50ish
Jun 10, 2024


One Hundred and Thirty Seven - Northern Lights
Everyone who doesn't live within 3 miles of me saw the Northern Lights over the weekend. So that's pretty much every living soul in the...

Trig50ish
May 13, 2024


One Hundred and Thirty - Georgian wine
Today we recovered from over-indulgence for Romanian Easter on Sunday. Iulia introduced us to a new wine from Georgia which was as close...

Trig50ish
May 6, 2024


One Hundred and Twenty Three - legacy
Every day tens of thousands of people post something on LinkedIn - and I'm probably underestimating the volume massively. So very little...

Trig50ish
Apr 30, 2024


One Hundred and Sixteen - the Hulk
Loki is becoming a danger to himself. He sees a road and his immediate thought is to run across it. And given his Romanian mum is full of...

Trig50ish
Apr 22, 2024


Day One Hundred and Nine - quality time
There is very little time in the day at the moment. Lot of stuff going down. Having repercussions.... I've figured out that quality time...

Trig50ish
Apr 15, 2024


Day One Hundred and Two - spike ball
I still can't quite believe that I've lost the amount of weight I have. It doesn't really feel like I've been dieting that hard (and some...

Trig50ish
Apr 8, 2024


Day Ninety Five - Easter dining
Last weigh in for the quarter today - reads a little like a financial report that line doesn't it? But it's true - 3 months of dieting...

Trig50ish
Apr 1, 2024


Day Eighty Eight - under exploited talent
Monday morning - another weigh in, and jitters about what damage the naughtiness on Friday might have brought. Different levels of...

Trig50ish
Mar 25, 2024


Day Eighty One - the mania
The light in the eyes glints differently. There's slightly more white too. And it comes with the occasional shudder. When you see it, you...

Trig50ish
Mar 18, 2024


Day Seventy Four - slowing down
Weigh in day today and the scales gave their judgement. Beginning to think we may need to install some kind of CCTV for the weigh-ins...

Trig50ish
Mar 11, 2024


Day Sixty Seven - skinny bitch
Not a bad weigh-in today. Almost getting to the stage where my portrait in selfies doesn't look like I'm wearing a latex mask on top of...

Trig50ish
Mar 4, 2024


Day Sixty - another weigh in
I had no idea how much sweating I've been doing these last few days. Jesus I can sweat. I've lost over 3 kilos of myself in water into my...

Trig50ish
Feb 26, 2024


Day Fifty Three - more than one piece
My secretary asked me today 'are you back in one piece from the skiing?' to which I can only reply after standing on the scales...

Trig50ish
Feb 19, 2024


Day Thirty Nine - reset
The day of truth arrived. And slapped both Iu and I on our flabby arses. We've gone backwards weight-wise. There's no hiding from your...

Trig50ish
Feb 5, 2024


Day Thirty Two - still rolling
Today's weigh-in was something of a surprise - managed to lose a bit of weight during the week. A smartphone, a paper back book, or a tin...

Trig50ish
Jan 29, 2024


Day Twenty Five - another one bites the dust
I've never considered myself a superstitious type. Always found people who name inanimate objects (like their cars) as ridiculous. Until...

Trig50ish
Jan 22, 2024
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