Hello all of the fatmanslimming readers out there…. If there’s any left! It’s been 1 year 8 months and 18 days since my last post so I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there isn’t anyone left.
So why return to the world of blogging you may ask, well to be frank I started getting fat again, not that I got completely unfat the last time but I did manage to keep of 25 kgs (55 pounds) for 18 months or so. But just after Easter I got stressed and started to eat more and put on weight again (more on this later). Over a 6 week period or so I put on 7 kilo’s, so I have decided to do something about it and this blog is an integral part of this process – yet again!
In the last couple of weeks I started getting into some serious diet restructuring, as well as starting to exercise again (plenty on these two to come!), and hey presto I’m back to 140.1kgs or 308.9 lbs as of today.
So what went wrong you may be asking, well the main thing is slipping up on my rule’s I created for myself (see My top ten tips for weight loss! for more info). The two main culprits were the sucking down of food without chewing, otherwise known as eating too fast (rule 2.) and a gradual increase in milky coffees i.e. cappuccinos and mocha’s (rule 7.). So rectifying these to erroneous habits has certainly been a priority. But that said I have decided to go further as I wasn’t happy settling down at my current weight so on I press, and yet again you get to hear all about it.
So in the next couple of days I will go into further detail about all the things I am doing in greater detail as well as some of the things I am planning.
Till then…dance a little (rule 10!)
Well, I hope this works, my poor website is falling apart at the seams!!! first I lost the whole website, next it was my saved posts and know its all of your guys comments!!!
Anyway technical glitches aside, I have been working on my diet over the last couple of weeks. It started two weeks ago with trying to eat slowly again as I had slipped into the “hoover the food down like there’s no tomorrow” way of eating again.
This week I have been concentrating on better food choices, i.e. salad and protein for lunches and making sure I have breakfast every morning. It seems to be working as my pants are fitting better than they have for a while.
I still am a bit nervous about exercising as it seems every time I start I hurt myself! But I know I need too!!! So I am going to start with walking again, as I am able to easily get back into that groove … I hope 
Talking of injuries…I seem to have recovered fully from being walrus man, and have managed to keep the walrus man suit firmly stuffed into the wardrobe – thankfully 
Several months ago, when I was going full steam ahead, a friend of mine asked me “how do you stay motivated” and I stoically answered “I don’t stay motivated, I just grind it out” or something along those lines. I of course was clearly full of crap 
as everyone needs to have motivators. My first and foremost motivator is living a long live and seeing my son grow up! But for some reason the brain seems to need more than one motivator, so I am on a quest to find some more. I have always been inspired by literature, so I intend to start reading books about people that inspire me and see if that helps keep me on track. Any other motivational suggestions would be welcome.
Tomorrow night I’ll see if I can make the comments come back!
Sorry guys, I have been having some technical difficulties with the site and its been off and on line a lot over the last week or so. I think I’ve got ot fixed and can try and get a normal post out over the weekend.
Last night I became spiderman…kind off…for just a short while anyway…
As I was leaving work last night, my son decided he wanted to go down the lift. I had him on my shoulders and he thought it would be fun – he could reach to press the down button while on my shoulders – very exciting when you’re almost five.
Unfortunately for us the lift died after we had made only a short 3 foot trip, I was able to open the first set of doors through some brute force but unfortunately not the second set (the ones that are attached to the building). I also managed keep my son calm as he certainly was quite scared – this was my first amazing feat for the night.
Thankfully I was able to get a tech on the phone who told me that if I could reach, I could open one of the doors by tripping a switch about 3/4 of the way up. Now this is were I became a super hero (in my son’s eyes anyway) and preformed my second amazing feat. By pushing my back against one wall of the door frame (the inside lift door) I was able to use my legs on the opposing frame to walk up the inside of the frame, but unfortunately my arm just wouldn’t reach the switch. While I was doing this I had a fairly enthusiastic cheer squad below me – he was jumping up and down on the spot clapping his hands and cheering “you can do it daddy, you can do it”. This made me determined to get the damn thing open, the other motivator was the expected 45 – 60 min wait for the tech to get there.
As I was luckily enough to have my wife outside the door, she was able to get back into work and get me a wooden coat hanger and with me prying open the door as much as possible pass me it to me. Now up I went again. I think it was then that I had the image of spiderman shimmying up a wall, just a fat older spiderman, who happens to resemble a walrus with legs trying to wiggle up a wall, as a opposed to an athletic super hero. I can see it now – Is it a bird, is it a plane, no its – walrus man – able to climb tall buildings in very very very slow crawls… Anyway by whacking the hell of the switch with the coat hanger I was able to trip the switch and one side of the door opened. I was was easily able to get the lad out. To get myself out I donned my Lycra again (every super hero needs lycra or spandex or both) and shimmied up the frame and in a very undignified manner squeeze myself out the door – butt first! – again think of a walrus wiggling out of a door – It was then as I lay on the ground that I realised that my right knee was killing me and today is swollen quite badly. I don’t feel like it is injured badly but only time will tell.
Although in retrospect I’m sure I didn’t look much like a super hero (ok I know I didn’t look like a super hero : d) , to my son I was a super hero that night for getting us out of that lift. Even though I injured myself in the process I am still impressed that I was able to shimmy my fat ass up the inside of a lift door frame, hold myself there and bash the crap out of that switch – I sure did feel quite proud of myself that night. And I have to admit to going to bed dreaming super hero dreams (yes including the spandex and lycra).
Ok I’m back, I’m bad and I’m black! Well actually a little black and blue from dropping our cash drawer at work on my foot while doing a PC upgrade.
So I thought I would drop this wee little post just to let you all know that I haven’t expired! I also thought I should let you know that I have mended the cart…by hand! I also will do a couple of posts in the next week or so to give you all an update on the highs (very few) and the lows (many) of the journey over the last 6 months.
Speak soon!!!
The last month has been a complete write off! My attempt at a cleanse failed in its first week due to me catching the flu, and my attempt at gyming didnt even make it off the ground due to me injuring my knee. The flu (followed up by sinusitis) I can deal with, that’s just life. The knee however I need to deal with, I think I might have done some semi serious damage so I’m off to see the physio next week to see what I have done. The worst thing about it is that I did it at work, smacking it hard against my desk and making it flex in a very unnatural position. I could cope if I had injured it playing some back yard sport or some other act of athleticism, but not at work… against my desk….sigh.
So I have been feeling a bit defeated over the last month or so, so going back over the blog tonight and reading my kick up the pants from Sideliner and Spike! as well as my encouragement from Jen Hocking and kathie has motivated me again to push on, as even with a sore knee and a blocked nose I can till get out there and do it!
So I am off to do it! If you know what I mean
(Edit 21 Feb – Holy cow batman this post was supposed to be on the site in January, I somehow managed to stuff up the upload…sorry guys!)
Well a plan I hear you cry…or is that me crying I hear…
For some reason I have never liked following plans, I guess it is a man thing, it never fails to amaze me how easy IKEA furniture is to build if you use the plan, well ok that is a bad example, but you know what I mean
But last year I proved a) that plans work and that b) I can follow them. So I have decided that this year I need a new plan, there is nothing wrong with my old plan, its just that I’m a bit bored with it. The basics are the same (see my top ten tips), but I am going to do a bit of a digestive cleanse to start the year off, (we’ll nearly the start of the year) and I’ve finally decided I need to rejoin the gym. The continuing changing weather has forced a rethink on my current walking regime. It seems to rain 4 days out of 7 at the moment and it’s the middle of summer!!! I can’t wait for winter….not!!! This has meant I haven’t been able to get into my stride – literally. I must admit not really looking forward to the gym that much – it’s been a long time and gym culture doesn’t really inspire me.
Although going to the gym is a big change and challenge. The digestive cleanse is a really big thing, anyone who as subjected themselves to this style of self flagellation knows what I mean. The reason I am doing this is not necessarily to lose weight or even to help lose weight. I’m doing it to help clear up a few digestive issues I have myself and to also help me to get back into the discipline of changing bad habits and keeping them changed. After the cleanse I am going to start tweaking my diet to make sure I am getting the proper nutrition I need.
Of course being as my plan is as structured and well set out as an IKEA plan it should work just fine…..
Well before we launch into the New Year I will first go back and recap last year….
But before even that, I would like say a big thank you to everyone out there who has followed this blog, put up with my tardiness in posting and left feedback over the last 12 months I have found them incredibly motivating and encouraging.
A special big thank you to spike!, sideliner, nellc and lovehandles for their prolific posts, gentle nudges and kicks up the bum – all of which I duly needed. Thanks guys I hope you keep it up this year!
I should be able to blog a bit more regularly now that the Christmas and New Year rush is over at work, although these days I always seem to be busy!
Last year my goal was to lose between 25-30 kilos, unfortunately I fell a bit short, although I had lost 23 kilos a couple of weeks before Christmas my Christmas excess meant I lost a total of 21 kilos for the year. Although I was initially disappointed with this I haven’t gained any more weight and have in fact lost a kilo since Christmas – maybe the 2 kilos was all alcohol
This is the first time in my life that I have lost this much weight and kept it off over such an extended time, several years ago while doing a protein style diet I lost a similar amount of weight in about half the time but put it all back on by the end of the year and then added to it the next. I think the main reason I am being so successful this time is my more realistic approach to weight loss.
I finally made the realisation that there is no magic bullet. It takes time, patience and a daily determination to change the bad habits that got me into this situation in the first place. So off into the New Year I go….now I just need a plan…..stayed tuned!
Just a quick post to wish you all a very merry Christmas, I can’t believe how quickly the last year has gone particularly the last half of the year.
I will do a full post next week with an end of year recap, I have been doing crazy hours at work and very little exercise, but still seem to be hanging in there by the sin of my teeth.
So till next week have a very merry Christmas.
I must admit to having no idea that so much time has passed since my last post, as they say time flies… so much has happened to keep me away from my PC to do a regular post. Lets see were to start, first up there was the tax department hammering at my door for an overdue tax return, for some reason they are rather difficult to ignore Then there was the big spring clean, this was an urgent necessity as my mother in law was coming to stay and funnily enough demanded that she have somewhere to sleep…the cheek of it! Then there was my mother in law – enough said really Then to top it of was the on again, off again, on again, and finally off again attempt at buying our own piece of Sydney and despite all of that I still managed to loose a couple of kilo’s. Did I mention that it was our sons fourth birthday as well so amazingly I managed to loose 2 kilos while consuming 1 or 2 dozen chocolate crackles – quite amazing!
In the midst of all of that our business (feel amazing wellness centres) won two local business awards, this rare double included some seriously good times, I’m not too sure how I survived those two wild nights!
I think the reason that I managed to continue to loose weight at a modest amount is that I have been consistent with some form of exercise or another. Whether its a couple of short walks (to work and back), longer walks at night or more incidental exercise, I have kept moving. I have also been sticking to my eating plan of 3 meals a day and the occasional good snack i.e. an apple or some raw nuts, and maybe the odd naughty thing.
So as I head toward the end of the year I am realistically looking at a 25 kilo loss for the year, part of me wants to start pushing myself to try and get to a 30 kilo loss and the other part of me is very content indeed at the progress I am making. It really is a tough call. If the rest of my personal life settles back into its normal rhythm over the next week or so I reckon I’ll give it a shot, but I’ve learnt not to overwhelm myself as that is a recipe for procrastination…so I guess its a bit of wait and see…
