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June

// June 3rd, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Diet and Exercise

So. I’ve decided to forego alcohol for June. Figure it will save me money. And i’ve also decided to go carb free in June. Figure it will lose me some pounds the alcohol will be saving me.

To do this I have another list of things I need to do to hit the target above:

So yes, no alcohol.
And yes, no carbs.
No nuts.
No chocolate.
Run at least 3k a day. Averaged over a week.
Do 50 press-ups a day.
Eat less than 1000 calories (after subtracting diet kcals).
Swallow all required multi-vits and other supplements.

All in the aid of losing 21lbs by July 1st. Not sure I’ll manage it but determined to try.

Review and Resolutions

// January 4th, 2010 // No Comments » // Diet and Exercise, Money, Quiz, Random Stuff, Reviews, snZero

8/10 & 1920 x 1200 for the laptop, about the same for the Mac on the TV.

2009 has been and gone now, and I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand I’ve made a load of new friends through taking over the quiz at The Adelphi, Pin and doing one at the Nation of Shopkeepers here in Leeds. I’ve made a fair few new friends through my endeavour to unite the digital folks of Leeds with snZero, which is still getting more than 50 people a month turning up. I even made random friends in the shape of The Salts girls through a drunken night out early in the year. Truth be told that my facebook friend count has gone up quicker and to a greater degree than ever before. And for this I am happy.

That said, work has been a up and down slalom of emotions, busy for 12 months, new clients, demanding decisions, new people, old people, gone people. And for the first time in my life I think I really know what stress is. Even when I used to work 18 hours a day it wasn’t as stressful as the last year has been. If I had hair I think that it would have deserted me by now. But of course it deserted me ages ago.

On the plus side, I went and lost almost 4 stone in the middle of the year. Granted I then went and put a stone of it back on. But hell, only a couple of stone too heavy … and not “obese” any more. So that made me a happy bunny. Not happy enough, but happy enough to fit into a 34″ pair of jeans - and my black Boss suit from years gone by. So yeah, happy.

And on the minus side, I’m still single. And still have no hair. Though I do have  an ace flat. Rough with the smooth eh…

Back at the start of 2009 I made the following guesses for what the year would bring…

• Sort out my tooth-ache.. Yeah, I did this. Not had a toothache since March.
• Cut out 90% of my Coke intake.. Yup, did this too really. Not had more than a can a week really.
• Lose 1/4 of my body weight.. Probably managed 1/5 … ish.
• Become financially viable.. I have a credit score of 900/1000 - which must be good? Still owe almost 20k…
• Blog… Yeah, not really.

So as you can see I managed most of them to a degree of success. 2010 is all about…

• Lose 1/5 of my body weight.. I want to get down to 12 stone… ish.
• Become financially viable.. I want to be down to 10k debt by year end…
• Blog… NO, not really… Though I do want to take a photo a week…

And those are my real resolutions.

And so it begins… Again

// August 1st, 2009 // No Comments » // Diet and Exercise, Random Stuff

Yes, rather dull-ly, after 3 weeks of eating what the hell I wanted, I’ve started the diet again. Hoping I’ve not piled too much weight back on - will see when I weigh myself on Monday.

Thank god for Cows and Chickens - those lbs are coming off!

Five sixths of a man…

// July 4th, 2009 // No Comments » // Diet and Exercise

A nice little graph showing my weight loss over the last 8 weeks… Going for 14′7 next week which will be exactly 3 stone lost over 9 weeks, which will set me up quite nicely for the last push to 13 stone before August 15th…

5/6ths of a man

Wait, update!

// June 15th, 2009 // No Comments » // Diet and Exercise

So, in May/June I’ve lost 2 stone.

In June/July Iwant to lose 1.5 stone.

In July/August I want to lose 1 stone.

I want this diet to finish on the 15th of August. Then I will go out and eat pizza.

Losing more pounds…

// June 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // Diet and Exercise

Well, I’m eating my way through enough meat to keep a few cow/chicken farms going for the foreseeable, and been doing a fair number of miles at the gym every week too - not to mention the crazy amount of vitamins and supliments I’m feeding into my body on a daily basis … and what this means is that in the 24 days since I’ve been on my fAtkins diet I have lost 1lb short of 2 stone… I don’t expect that to carry on at the same pace, but I am glad that it’s going to be payday soon so that I can buy some new jeans that fit.

Losing pounds

// May 22nd, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Diet and Exercise

I’ve started on the Atkins diet again. Back in the early 2000’s I did it and lost almost 4 stone. Then had a relationship breakdown and ate myself to fat again.

Anyway, I’ve decided for the last time that I’m too humongous and need to get bcak down to within a few pounds of my ideal weight. So, I’ve been on said diet for 5 days. I’ve cheated through 2 days of it - having copious amounts of cider. And I’ve lost 2 lbs. This is good. I’m going to head down the gym this weekend and hope to lose 3 by the end of 7 days.

By Christmas I want to be 12 stone. It will be a very uphill battle.

By next Christmas I want to be on the cover of Mens Health.