fatmanslimming

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!

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

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…

Over the last two weeks I have lost 500 grams, while hardly astounding it is a least going in the right direction and that now means that I have lost 21 kilo’s in total, it is good to be back on the wagon again and off at a gallop.

Today however I decided to give the old wagon a bit of a push. Today is my day off and the car brakes needed to be done so I thought I would drop the car off walk back home and then a couple of hours later walk back and pick the car back up. The round trip would take me about an hour and fifteen maybe even less.

Well it all started to plan I dropped the car off, and started heading off back home, I then remembered that I needed to go to the post office rather urgently, not a long detour (about 20 mins) but a detour none the less. About five minutes from the post office realised that I haven’t taken my house key off my key ring and its back at the mechanics, so I turn around and back I go! So after another 30 or so minutes I find myself back at the post office and finally send off a parcel that has been in my satchel for the last week.

So then its finally off home I go, enjoying a lovely spring day in Sydney, by the time I get home I have already been walking of an hour and fifteen and I must say I looking forward to bit of a rest before walking back to pick up the car in a couple of hours…….but oh how life can be cruel…….I discover that my house keys aren’t in my pocket were I thought they were!!! I sit down and go through all my possessions to find that they are definitely not on me, its at this moment the days great indignity occurs, as I sit there fuming a bird fly’s past and shits on me, I couldn’t believe it, the blue bird of happiness had finally achieved its goal and shit on me!!!

Between fits of hysterical laughter and tears I then hike it back to the post office were I find my keys – thankfully – and then not so long after that its of to pick up the car and finally back home….3 bloody hours later!

Besides some very sore feet and being very very tired I managed to walk for 3 hours almost non stop with out to much complaint, I must say in retrospect I am quite happy to know I can do that, but I won’t be replicating that feat again for a while – I Hope .