In the four months since my retirement I have lost 10 pounds in weight and I thought it was time to givesome thought as to how that happened as I have not intentionally tried to lose weight. Looking much the same as Paul Newman did 20 years ago I don't see the need.


So what has caused the loss? I put it purely down to the change of activities. Now instead of sitting in a car or behind a desk for 60 hours a week and living in hotels I am doing this..... Yorkstone paving!







and this..... Laying travetine in Garden Room



So it's obvious that the physical activity whilst producing an aching back and pains in muscles I didn't know I had is doing me good. I point this out to Christine along with the comment that I need to keep up my strength and need more appropriate food.


Christine, of course, has a completely different view on the weight loss and takes the credit for making me more healthy. She points out that I no longer have the full cooked breakfast each morning, that I no longer have the sausage roll and sandwich whilst driving in the middle lane of the M1, that I no longer have the three course hotel meal each evening and that I no longer have a drink from the hotel bar each night.


Can someone tell me again. Why did I retire?


But Christine carries on and suggests that the nine weeks in the Bahamas with Alex, David and the family, who are all big on healthy eating, was a good start and the wallpaper paste, chicken and vegetables we have now are producing the required results. How can we have lived together for so long and be totally opposites in what we want? Maybe as I have suggested before that it's down to me living away every week. I suggest just a bacon sandwich with morning coffee would help to keep up my strength but Christine tells me I don't need anything between the wallpaper paste and the lunch-time salad.


There has to be a reason I retired.


I guess that food menus is an area in which I am not going to win. 'Weigh in' day is Friday and I expect to have lost another pound or so. Would I rather have the 10 pounds back on and eat my previous diet....?