I’m loving (most of) the Fitbit reports that I get now I have wasted money on the premium service.  My current favourite is this graph.  Very Active MinutesNever thought I would see something that tells me I am 1356% better than average when it comes to activity.  This is “very active minutes”, and I am not entirely sure what makes one minute “active” and another “very active”, I’m sure there is a FAQ about it on the Fitbit website.  I should take a look . . . well, now I know.  It is when you are exercising at 6+ MET .  Active is only 3-5 MET.  1 MET is your body at rest.

Now you know.  Comment if you feel your life was enriched by that knowledge.

This past week has actually been pretty good.  I got up to the Botanical Gardens 4 times.  I would have made 5 but had to take Friday off with “gastrointestinal issues” (the less you know the better for you).  And I’ve started taking the steepest street to get to the gardens, which really gets my heart-rate going.  It’s been really good.  Even on Friday I still managed to get out and do a 6 km walk around the neighbourhood in the afternoon, so was very pleased with myself.  All up last week was the most active week I have had since I have been on The Plan™, I managed to walk a total of 59.57 km which is nearly double what The Plan™ says I should have done.  I’m a machine.

So at the end of the 18th week on The Plan™ I have walked a total of 411.9 km in 97 hours and 43 minutes.  That is clocking in at 113% of what I have planned to do.  Not too shabby.  Oh, and I’ve lost 23 kg in the past 6 weeks.  So nearly 4 kg a week.  At this rate I should reach my weight loss goal sometime in mid-September.  Oooo, in time for my trip to Rarotonga!

Me Overlooking Thorndon

At the Thorndon Lookout in Wellington Botanical Gardens

Here is a photo I took of myself last week up in the gardens.

I have been back in contact with the lovely people at Earth Sea and Sky around some of the details for my custom made shirts from them.  So am looking forward to getting those. They have made me an official ambassador for them, so go buy their stuff.  I suggested the best ambassadorial work I could do for them was to dress in their competitors clothing so that people are put off wearing them.  They laughed.

On more clothing news I have had to retire my old suit because it is just too big and baggy for me now, I can barely wear the trousers they are so loose.  I popped into Harford’s where I have my suites made up (because I needed updated chest measurement for Earth Sea Sky) and while there it was pointed out how bad my suit was fitting.  So I am getting new trousers made up (I will hold off the jacket because if I continue to shrink at the current rate it won’t be cost effective).  Luckily I tried on an ‘old’ suit I had in the closet, and it fits me again (it isn’t really old, it wasn’t worn much before I expanded beyond its confines).  I can also wear my dinner suit again which was made for me in 2007, so I am going to wear that to a work function this week; because I can.