Fat Busting - Dodge log
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Starting weight on 15th March: 13 stone 8 pounds<br />
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Weight loss method: dodgy curry 1 week before flying to India for 3 week abuse of the system including dodgy local lager and street food, a couple of incidents of Delhi belly and loss of poo control. Add 10 660ml bottles of Kingfisher Strong (8.5%) on the day of the flight home to a bit of Cryptosporidiosis resulting in 2 weeks of sitting on the toilet spraying liquid out of your arse whilst vomitting repeatedly into the bath.<br />
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Finishing weight on 30 April: 11 stone 8 pounds<br />
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stick that up your conscientious eating, physically fitter arses. I am now in a race to see just how quickly I can put it all back on, I will continue to update. -
Right, all this talk of fitness is enough to motivate a bloke. I'm a couple of pounds heavier than I was this time last week, however, I'm going to aim for 12 stone for the time being - swapping fat for muscle, I've been to a new gym a couple of times this week, after fucking up my shoulder in October I've not been able to train or swim which is the big deal for me, now it seems I can do both without too much trouble - well apart from being incredibly sore after trying to do the old exercises! <br />
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Its scary how little I can lift etc compared to 7 months ago but I'm determined to rebuild it - my arms are also smaller now than they were when I was 15, which is just embarrassing. I tried upping the weight after one session and my left shoulder collapsed, slowly slowly catchy monkey is my new motto.<br />
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I don't expect or need anyone to read this thread, I just get now why recording it somewhere you know other people can see it means that you're not only lying to yourself if you're not doing the right things. At the moment I'm going to try and gym 4 times a week, my job makes it hard but its time I stopped making excuses and started finding the time, if that means 6am then I'm there. -
<img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> 6am! You socialise too much for 6am gym sessions. I personally think you ought to be out on the golf course more often hint hint! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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Good Luck boyo!!! -
I'm three days into a bender (I'd been drinking for several hours before yesterdays posts, ditto todays), I'm out at the comedy store tomorrow night and at the cricket with a client on Friday. So 13 stone 8 is looking closer all the time...Hooroo, lets get out on the bloody golf course.
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Dodge - shoulders suck. Hundred years ago when playing rugby dislocatd one. Was back to bench pressing the BAR only, and had to work my way back up to decent weights. Took 6 months of lifting like a bloody back before the strength / stability was back. Even today though, when benching, my left arm will lock out about 2 inches after the right.
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it's the worst injury I've ever had because I don't know how to carry on training without it, I'm a swimmer not a runner, so immediately that went. I was a kayak instructor, now I can't lift my left arm above my shoulder line. Having been back in the gym for a week or so, I don't know how to get round it - tonight I had a massage in a pub and i was almost in tears with how painful my left shoulder was when she leaned on it. it's going to be a bit at a time, lifting a bit more every time, using dumbells to do every exercise makes you realise how limited you are on one side. In the next 6 months I'll balance the bastards up, i just wish I wasn't starting from scratch again
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I'm three days into a bender (I'd been drinking for several hours before yesterdays posts, ditto todays), I'm out at the comedy store tomorrow night and at the cricket with a client on Friday. So 13 stone 8 is looking closer all the time...Hooroo, lets get out on the bloody golf course.<br />
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Right I've successfully got back to 12 stone 10lbs without going anywhere near a gym, I'm smoking too much, drinking too much and eating crap. Therefore I now rejoin fatbusters, this time to take it seriously. My shoulder is still fucked, been going to physio but nothing she gives me to do seems to make any difference, she told me not to swim, so I'm going to ignore that as well.<br />
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Smoothie for breakfast, gym tonight. Will report tomorrow. -
ok second gym visit today, got on the rowing machine for the first time in a while, 8min on the dot for 2000m, shameful, but at least I've started - few more sessions and I'll start posting on the Concept2 board. 20 mins on the bike, 2km run, followed by 40 casual lengths in the pool as a warm down. Feel very virtuous, although I'm still gonna have to shake the smokes and the booze.
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that is not sahmeful Dodge - 2:00 / 500m is what I would call my 'standard' pace. Anything slower than that, bad, anything faster, good. Mainly use that pace though as it is easy to do figures with in your head as you are rowing - if you do 1000m in 3:45, you can say to yourself you are 15 seconds ahead of pace (my rower a C model that has no pace boat). I do lots of shit like that when rowing!!<br />
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But throw those times straight onto the board, lets get it packed. -
Legs were a bit stiff today, didn't want to ruin them by running or rowing, so got in the pool and went for it, first serious swim in months, swam 1km in 18 minutes and probably could have gone quicker, was gobsmacked. Pretty chuffed with that. Then still had enough energy to sprint 5 sets of 80m.<br />
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feel great today, feels so good to be back doing something, have to keep it going now. Can't train tomorrow, so for the first time in years I will go to the gym on a Saturday. (thanks to Hooroo for being such a pussy he backed out of meeting for a beer tonight and allowing me to go to the gym instead, Hooroo of course was worried I would drink him under the table and kick his arse at pool...again...) -
had a warm up row, did a few weights and then hit the pool, forgot the bloody goggles, did 20 lengths, couldn't see, eyes hurt like fuck, gave up, bit pissed off, didn't feel like a decent work out. Still, have rediscovered the needing to work out feeling.
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been a quiet ten days exercise wise, played a few rounds of golf, couple of swims in crap hotel pools so don't really count. Best mate got married on Saturday, only just sobering up, been eating and drinking non stop since last Wednesday, I'm at 12 stone 12lbs, so need to take it a bit more seriously. I have however given up smoking, smoked a few ciggies on Sat night at the reception but otherwise didn't smoke for the 6 days prior to or the two days since, don't want to smoke. Gone from 30 a day to none and feel better already.
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still haven't smoked, eating better, not drinking quite as much, but still struggling to find the committment to exercise. Because my work life is all over the place getting into an exercise routine is impossible, without a routine I'm fucked because I'm too lazy / not dedicated enough to go to the gym when i get home after 3 days away.<br />
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oh, and I've seen a guy about my shoulder, buggered rotator cuff apparently, probably needs an op. -
still refusing to have the op and have got back in the pool instead, seems to have settled it a bit. Am up at 13stone on the dot at the mo, haven't smoked this year, still drinking far too much though. Signed up for a health check at work today and they sent me a questionnaire to fill in before the session in April - I can't face telling them the truth about how much I drink so I'm going to have to cut it down before then.<br />
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Hate working out when there are other people in the gym / pool, just find it irritating to have my routine shaken even a little bit so only go to the gym / swimming during the day when everyone else is at work, rather than in the evening. Don't like not having a routine, can't be arsed to get into one - vicious circle. Still, I've decided I'll post in here every piece of exercise I do, see what happens.