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Chubby Checker - Week 35
The bi-weekly check-in for those of us trying to be less of us is back.
The kids go back to school after the holidays this week, so I'm hoping to remind my body what exercise feels like. Despite spending a lot of the six weeks outdoors, the pace of a tween who can't walk too far and a toddler who stops every few paces to climb on walls and up trees means there's been no vigorous cardio going on. Vigorous cardi-wearing - yes, cardio - no.
There is a special reason for wanting to get more fit and shapely. I want to change the colour of my bum.
I was talking to lovely katyg from this parish about cycle seats just the other day, and she mentioned buying hers from a shop where they measure your posterior to get the right size seat. I pictured something along the lines of customers having to drop their trousers and sit on a photocopier, in the traditional Office Christmas Party style, but I may be wrong.
Katy was told she was a medium. "Oh, do they use terms like small, medium and large?" I asked. "I'm surprised - it's not very tactful. I would have thought they'd have inoffensive code words." "You're right, they've changed it now," Katy explained. "My mate - who has a much bigger bum than me - was told she was a purple." I then imagined going into the shop and suffering the ignominy of the fella behind the counter measuring me and then yelling to his mate in the back: "OI, STEVE, GET US A PURPLE FROM THE LARGE STORE CUPBOARD, WILL YOU? YOU KNOW, THE ONES TOO BIG FOR THE HOOKS."
My friends, we need to get our purple arses in gear. Are you with me?
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YES! I'M WITH YOU!
As explained at jaw-crackingly tedious length in the last CC thread, I'm back on the wagon. Or rather, the treadmill. And the bike. And the slightly terrifying machines that look like they belong in a tech-savvy dominatrix's dungeon, all belts and pulleys and "Danger!" signs. Oh yeah, and the pool. Although I'm in that, not on it. It's not for me to compare myself to Christ.
So, in short, I'm eating less and exercising a lot. Worked pretty nicely last time around, except this time I've had a birrovvan epiphany: it's not "a diet". I'm not just doing this until I'm a bit less of a chubster. I'm doing it, to a greater or lesser extent, for the long haul. This has got to be me now. All different and stuff.
Ooh, looky: I'm going on at jaw-crackingly tedious length again. Go me.
In short:
Lost this week: 3 lbs
Total lost: 3 lbs.
I'm back, baby. Back.
Tip 1: If you exercise a LOT (I've been going every day for reasons I explain in the last thread), you start to feel genuinely weird if you miss a session. On Saturday, I didn't go all day, and was planning a little day off. Felt VERY twitchy, and ended up going for a run anyway. I'm getting a little bit addicted.
Tip 2: Technology is your friend. I'm using a phone app - (iPhone and Android versions available) - called MyFitnessPal. It tracks your calories, offsets your exercise against your food and even barcode-scans packaged food and comes up with the nutrition info. It's magic, and I wouldn't be without it now.
Good App Choice, Bob...
...I swear by (and often at) MyFitnessPal.
I'm just back from a 10 day cruise and will be facing the shameful truth tomorrow morning in the cold and sober light of day. Then I will be back with you all next time we check the colour of our arses!
It’s been a fortnight of
It’s been a fortnight of highs and lows on the dietary front. Following a poor summer performance where I gained about half a stone, I was determined to get back on the programme.
Two weeks ago I posted a 2 lb loss which was encouragement enough for me to get more organised. On the plus side, I’ve been very good at work, making best use of some excellent catering facilities with some healthy eating choices. Another plus was that I’ve started to get back into the walking regime that served me well in the early days of the chubby checker bash. This has included one 13 mile walk last weekend.
However, my guard slipped on more than one occasion to include beer and wine in quantities likely to have a negative effect. In my mind the two extremes were likely to cancel each other out and so I stepped onto the scales on Friday confident of a small nod of encouragement.
Disappointingly I gained a pound. Since then I put in a dreadful performance over the weekend. Polished off beer and wine at home on Friday, spent Saturday making the task of looking after a very sick relative more palatable by consuming more of the same. After a band rehearsal last night, a couple of beers and a large whiskey was washed down with a late night donner kebab and pizza.
This week is gonna be tough on the domestic front, there’s no getting away from that, so best behaviour at work is a must.
I know what needs to happen, to ensure that all my efforts this year don’t go to waste, but I’m having real trouble getting going. Why does beer have to be so bloody appealing?
Lay off the sauce.
Seriously. It's easier than you think - I've been off it for nearly a fortnight now and I'm not missing it. Half the time it's just habit.
Tell you what, Martin - I'll stay dry at the next Word bash if you do. Deal?
My ducks are refusing to get into line!
Hmmmm, I'll have a proper think about that particular challenge and get back to you!
I have enjoyed a few spells of that particular flavour of abstinence over the years. I probably did about six weeks at the beginning of the CC programme come to think of it. For me, it is the only way of ensuring weight loss when combined with other good habits.
I had an entire year off the sauce about six years ago and really enjoyed the experience.
One thing I have realised is that to really commit to a health regime, I have to have a number of things fall into line. At present, domestics are transpiring against me. (Although, even as I type this, I'm fully aware that I'm using that as an excuse for a drink or two.)
So, I'm working on getting my ducks into line, honest!
My target has always been to be able to drink socially when out and about, but to not indulge when at home, particularly when nobody else is drinking! The reality however seems to be all or nothing for me.
Perhaps I will take you up on it after all.
Well done on your great progress by the way, keep at it!
Had me worried.
"Tell you what, Martin - I'll stay dry at the next Word bash if you do. Deal?"
I thought you were talking to me. I was about to tell you to sod off.
I'm not an idiot, Len.
;-)
(Oi, shut up at the back!)
YES!!!
Yes, and yes again.
I have still only lost a total of about 7lb since January. However this morning, inspired by Mo Farah's victory in the 5000 metres, I can proudly report that I set a new personal best for Wii Fit circus juggling AND rhythm Kung Fu!
London 2012 here I come.
Vorsprung durch Technik
Lost 8lb overall since starting this new regime. Like Bob, I've been using a phone app, which is brilliant. Not only does it track your intake & exercise & set targets for daily calories & weekly exercise, it also uses the gps on the phone to track how far you run & at what speed. I can't get my head around the fact that these apps - which do everything that a very expensive gps sports watch does and more - are free!
Cool.
My app doesn't do the GPS thing, but I have a little sensor in my shoe which links to the Nike+iPod app in my phone, and does much the same job - effectively a pedometer with bells and whistles on.
haven't weighed myself in forever
but I think I'm doing ok, belt still doing up on the same notch.
actually, I think I'm doing ok given the circumstances.
life still very stressful. I also suffer from horrendous PMT, and it all got a bit much last week, and I found myself comfort eating again for the first time in months. This went on for a couple of days, then I was able to stop again, and it's been alright since then. However, I'm slipping back to old habits and nibbling at the odd bit of food / chunk of toblerone that I'm not properly hungry for, just because it's there.
still been off the gym due to combo of ankle injury and school holidays. however, went for a job yesterday which was fine, and the kids are back at school tomorrow so I'll be back at the gym.
having said all that, I don't feel like I need to lose any more weight, I'm actually still really happy with my shape right now (my BMI may beg to differ - technically I could do with losing another stone and a half, but I don't actually think I want to). I just don't want to put any weight back on.
anyway. hugs all round. xxx
A little update
Interesting. As I said above, I haven't weighed myself in a while, and hadn't been to the gym in ages, and had been back on the comfort eating a bit. I'd been a bit worried that I'd blown all my hard work.
BUT - the kids are back at school and suddenly
1) I'm straight back into my gym routine very happily
2) the comfort eating blip lasted less than a week, and then I snapped out of it - I really have changed my eating habits
3) as the kids are back at school, I'm now seeing the mums I haven't seen in six weeks - I've had a lot of "CRIKEY! YOU'VE LOST EVEN MORE WEIGHT!"
4) bought a new top yesterday and I'm still a size 14. Seriously, I haven't been a size 14 since I was a teenager. This is ace.
So, in conclusion: bloody hell, I'm actually really not doing too badly. Phew. PHEW.