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…IÂ 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
Last week I reached a weight loss milestone, I have know lost 20 kilos or 44 pounds. Although the progress has been much slower over our particularly cold winter this year, there is progress none the less and I was pretty damn happy to get to the 20 kilo mark at last. If I get time I will do another BIA on myself this week so I can compare to last time and of course post the results.
One of the downsides of losing this much weight and size is the continual need for new clothes, although I understand many of you may see this as an upside, it really gives me the ….. well you get the picture. But an incident the other day may have changed my mind on this stubbornness not to buy new clothes every five kilos or so.
I decided to take our son out for some breakfast and to do some shopping while leaving my wife at home for a sleep in a couple of Sundays ago, anyway without thinking I threw on a top and my favourite jeans and braved the madness that is the shopping centre. I did notice when I put my jeans on that they were a little loose, but I didn’t think much of it, that was a mistake. As we walked around the centre picking up odd bits and pieces it wasn’t long until I was loaded down with bags and it was time to head back to the car. At this stage of course our son had started to get tired and I thought I could carry him and the bags all at the same time, it was then as I stood on the travelator with no free hands that I first noticed that my jeans were heading south, it was a very slow decline but it was noticeable, I managed to hike them up a bit with the grocery arm and headed into the car park. I strolled toward our car, with someone stalking me in their car for my spot, my pants started heading south again, panic started to set in as I tried to hold on to them with my grocery arm while trying not to disturb a now dozing 3 1/3 year old, by the time I got to the car one side of my jeans was half down making me look like M.C. fat white bastard and the other half was been held up by a badly fatiguing arm. I had no choice I had to wake the child to save by dignity and to get out of there, he thankfully fell asleep again in the car, which unfortunately gave me the same holding child and grocery’s scenario while opening the front door. This led me to entering the house with my pants around my ankles while praying that the neighbour’s who entered their driveway at the same time as me didn’t think it was too odd to see me trying to open the door with my legs spread as far as possible in the vain attempt to keep my pants from falling down in public, it was unfortunately a fruitless attempt, but it could have been worse, the very old looking couple in the car following me in the car park could have really been in for a treat
I have to apologise for my lack of a post, I will put one up tomorrow (or actually later today), I was going to do it tonight but got carried away watching the Socceroo’s bet Thailand 4:0, although a good result it wasn’t in the bag until the end. It’s hard work being a Socceroo’s fan
So I will definitely do a proper post tomorrow, I will now crawl into bed…
The same tee-shirt, 17 weeks later and 12 kilos lighter!
Last week increasing the exercise helped and I lost 200 grams and by this morning another half a kilo, so it looks like I am back on track. I will post on Friday or Thursday night with this weeks weight in.
Till then…
First up my apologies for the delay in posting, I have spent the last four days fighting of a wave of spam posts that has kept me way too busy!!! Why I was the target is anyone’s guess, then again why any of us are the targets of spam is anyone’s guess!!! The only good thing about it is that I have to approve comments before they are posted so although it was a time consuming process to get rid of them, when there were hundreds of them, at least you weren’t stuck with having to read them first!
Hmm…now for my bad news – I had my first plateau last week, I wasn’t really surprised as I had been cruising for the last month and not really pushing myself, but still I was a little disappointed, actually I was more angry at myself to be honest!!! I also realise that this is a normal cycle of any lifestyle change, so hopefully the changes I started to make last week will kick in this week – I of course will let you know what happens!
On a funny note, singing guy was back last week, this time though in broad daylight. It was about 7.30 am on Sunday morning when my 3 1/2 year old son convinced me to go out side in the freezing cold to see the fog (yep it was cold!!!). We are standing there admiring the frosty weather when we hear what can only be described as a barn yard animal howling in pain. Then to our amusement and my son’s great delight singing guy strolls on past singing as loud as he possibly can. After he had passed my son declared “him silly” then he casually walked inside leaving me chuckling behind him. The most annoying part is that I still have no idea what he is singing
