Categories: university, diet
Date: 06 May 2012 16:32:38
I did weigh myself on Monday (as intended), but then had to run around all day on my last day health visiting before starting the new job on Tuesday, and by the evening I had forgotten how much I had weighed :o I know tomorrow is a bank holiday, but I am working a normal day (sigh, just like the NHS) so as I remembered to weigh today here it is. I have also decided to also add here how many kgs I still have to lose, as another incentive (hopefully):
Weekly (well a bit more) weight loss: 0.5kg
Running total lost: 1.5kg (though MFP, the monitoring site I use, says I have lost 1.4kg overall and I suspect they're probably right).
Amount still to lose: 28.5kg (I know this sounds a lot, and it is, but if I can keep chipping away at it just a little bit each week that will be good).
The new job is going OK so far. I have been told (by a 1st year PhD student who is being supervised by my line manager) that I still had a bit of a 'rabbit in headlights' look, which pretty much sums up how I felt, although by Friday I did feel like I'm starting to get my head round it all a bit. My colleagues are very nice, but it is a very different working atmosphere - before I was in a large open-plan office with lots and lots of people and constant background noise (it was like a zoo to be honest), and now I am in an office with one other person. I am aware of other people around about, but they do their thing and I do mine, so although I am meeting a few people I really don't know who they are for the most part, so that will take a bit of getting used to. In the last place, by the time I'd been there a couple of days I knew everybody's business and they knew mine, it was just that kind of place, and most subjects were up for discussion, but I've really not had that kind of conversation at all. There have been a few frustrations (for example my contract which I signed and sent back a month ago had got lost, probably sitting in someone's in-tray being ignored, and they only found it 3 days after I'd started, so that was all a bit irritating as it means I still don't have a working email address and I was also beginning to wonder if I'd get hit with emergency tax as my P45 was with the contract), but mostly it is just going to be a case of getting my head down and reading round the subject in preparation for fieldwork - I will be travelling from next month for interviews and regularly thereafter for a good few months, I'm looking forward to the work though will need to get used to long train journeys and B&Bs for a while. I'm still feeling a bit of a novice as the research is in a subject I'm not an expert in, but overall I think it will be a really good experience, and come the end of the year/into next year it should be a lot less pressure and I can do more of the fun bits like writing (and trying to make a difference for clinical practice).
I am though going to need to sort out the diet and how it fits in with work. I have an epic commute every day, so eat my breakfast at stupid o'clock, and then by the time I get to work I'm ready for another breakfast. So that's going to need a rethink - I might try just having a bit of fruit before I leave then bringing some cereal to work to have breakfast then to take me through to lunch time. On Friday I started thinking about lunch from the moment I walked into the office at 8.45 (and had eaten most of what I'd brought in for lunch by 10!), so that definitely needs some work. :)