As of today, I am turning over a new leaf. Or more correctly, I’m dusting off the old leaf that I turned over at the start of the year, and turning it over again. I actually feel quite strong of willpower again, for the first time in ages, and today will be a no chocolate day. I think that writing yesterday’s post was exactly what I needed, which I suppose was the whole point of the website in the first place. Also, and most importantly, this morning I cycled to work. Not having cycled any great distance for the last few years (and given that I was riding Ellen’s ladies bike) I was expecting it to be a lot harder work than it was. I covered a journey that usually takes the bus 45 minutes in half an hour, and according to NutraCheck, by cycling to and from work today I will have burned an additional 656 calories. Which is not too shabby.

The only thing that worries me is the hillyness of the journey. On the way in this morning it was very up and down, but it was far more down than up. This is all weel and good of course, until you go in the other direction. I imagine that the ride back will be much much harder, but then the only way to look at that is that it will be a lot more calories burnt. I really want to shift the extra weight I have put back on as quickly as possible, and experience has shown that that shouldn’t be too hard, but I now have a stone and a half to go overall, rather than the single stone that was my target only a month back. But I feel like I have turned a corner again. May was a write off, but as long as I stop the decline, it’s not a wasted month. If nothing else, I can take from it a reminder that I do have the willpower to continue. Or at least that’s the theory. One day does not a turnaround make. But it’s a start.