fatmanslimming.com

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…

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 .

After an easy week last week, to help ease my back into exercise again, I went full steam ahead this week. Starting on Sunday I had my first decent walk in at least six weeks or maybe even eight weeks. I thought fathers day was an appropriate day to stretch out again as our soon to be four year old was the main inspiration in getting me out the door and getting fit again in the first place. I must say the walk itself wasn’t that hard, but holy hell the next day did I know about it!!! My ankle was complaining my adductor was complaining, I was complaining and generally the world sucked!!! After resting Monday and doing it again tonight, I have to say the world still sucks, but it should all be good by the end of the week…I  hope

I must say my adductor started hurting pretty early in my walk on Sunday but seems to have settled down well, my ankle though is still giving me plenty although it is better once it has warmed up while I’m walking, so I’m pretty confident I haven’t done anything serious to it.

I have been toying with the idea of accelerating my weight loss and fitness regime partly for the extra mental and physical challenge and partly to give me more to write about. I have been successfully plodding along since January and I feel I have proven to myself that slow and steady works pretty bloody well and isn’t terribly difficult so once I’m back up to speed in a couple of weeks I think I might start to push myself. I will try and come up with a plan in the next week or so and let you all know. Till then its slow and steady….

As so often happens in life it sometimes takes more than one thing to really push us into action. Last week Spike! posted a question; was it time to recap? This made me think about why the last couple of months have been so difficult, it has been one thing after another. It occurred to me initially that it could be a bit of self sabotage, I dismissed this at once as I just didn’t think it was the case, but I now know it was…

On Monday I got interviewed by channel 10 news on my opinion on the Goji berry debate. As I watched my self on T.V. later I realised that I really do need to lose that other 20 kilo’s that I have been procrastinating over. For the last month or maybe longer I have been doubting that I need to lose another 20 kilos, it just seemed too much! Surly I don’t have that much left on me! But watching myself on video certainly changed that, and although I got lots of positive feed back from people that hadn’t seen me in a long time and were surprised at how much weight I had lost, I now know that I do still have that much to lose.

For some reason though I find that quite reassuring, I know what to do about it - I just need too pick myself up, dust off the dirt and do exactly what I have been doing for the previous six months and keep firmly in mind that I have at east another 20 kilos or 44 pounds to go - easy really

We’ll it has been an interesting few weeks after jumping back onto the wagon I unceremoniously fell off it and onto my butt!!! A couple of days after my last post I slipped and twinged my back, specifically my sacral iliac joint, which has meant that I have been a grumpy so and so (my beloveds words not mine) and haven’t done much of anything besides work and complain about my back a lot.

The bad news is that nothing has changed in my measurements over that time, although that could be good news as well as I haven’t been moving much. It is nice to sit down tonight tonight and not feel like someone has a knife either in my butt check or my groin (were the pain was referring) so to celebrate I went for a walk today and feel completely exhausted although a bit achy.

I will try my best not to injure myself this week and see if I can get back on the track with out falling off it…again

Well I seem to be definitely back on track after the very sluggish last 5 or 6 weeks, with another 600 grams coming off the scales and a centimetre of the waist.

My BIA result was very odd and made no sense, which was a tad worrying until I realised that the battery was flat, I had somehow missed the flashing sign on the screen. That probably had something to do with sleep deprivation as I had been staying up late to get through the last Harry Potter book before someone accidentally slipped up and told me the ending. Now that I am done (It was very good by the way) I am going to try and get some catch up sleep as sleep deprivation inhibits fat loss, and we can’t have that!!!

So I will try and redo my BIA this week and hopefully the lack of sleep since Saturday night won’t interfere too much with this weeks results…fingers crossed