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I went for my walk this morning at 6.15 am and kind of enjoyed it, not completely but almost, it quite shocked me really. I can honestly say that I still don’t like the mornings, but hey it’s only been a week!

Well I finally measured myself, and it has confirmed that I am completely barrel like in shape, my waist, hips and chest are almost the identical dimensions - quite freaky really.

On a depressing note I was unable to take a weight measurement as I am currently heavier than my scales measure i.e. I overloaded the scales

This will surprise a few people that know me as the advantage of being the shape of a squarish barrel is that I don’t look as fat as I am. On another depressing note I can’t make the bloody technology to work and make the photo’s upload and work properly

So the stats are;

• weight = >150 kgs / 330 pounds / 23.6 stone
• chest = 142 cm / 55.9 inches
• waist = 148 cm / 58.2 inches
• hips = 148 cm / 58.2 inches

The most important figure here is my waist measurement, there are several studies that show that waist measurement is an accurate predictor of mortality, basically the greater the measurement above 100 cm / 40 inches for men and 88 cm / 35 inches for women, the shorter your life expectancy. This is rather sobering to sit down and actually write down, I have known this is the case for a while but to actually see it written down is a bit of a shock!

So I have some work to do, as you know I have been concentrating on just getting my butt up and out. Now that I have some hard data to work with I need to plan this a bit better. It is a well documented fact that the human body doesn’t like change and when we do change it puts its heels in the ground at almost precisely 8 weeks. So part of my plan is to change in some way what I am doing every 7 weeks. For the next 6 weeks I am going to continue to walk every other day regardless of what day that falls on, this gives me time to prepare for my first 7 week change which will be the dietary change.

So it will go something like the bullet points below, with each number representing the 7 week marks and therefore changes.

1. Get moving - walk every other day for between 30 - 45 minutes
2. Start the diet phase
3. Increase to walking every other day for an hour
4. Walking every day for an hour!
5. Start lifting weights again

That should get me a wee way into the year, obviously it’s a rough sketch and there will refinement but it should be enough to start with. On a lighter note, I have to say that MyssC story about driving when jumped upon by a spider had me in stiches, it’s a vision I would have loved to have seen, it reminded me of my Mother who once did a similar thing, then when she couldn’t find the giant beast later decided to sell the car, sad but true