Fatbusting: Kirwan's log
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[QUOTE]I'm a towering 176cm but can trace [B]my lineage back to brick shithouses [/B]so that accounts for my big bonedness!! 100kg plus is def in the pie zone for me but mid to low 90's I'm ok with that [/QUOTE]<br />
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Classic. at a towering 1.78.5 90kg is pretty handy for me, competition weight of 80 sustainable for a week!!! -
To compare I am 180cm on the dot and currently about 82kg (fortnightly weighin is today). This weight feels pretty good but 85-86kg is my target and thats a lean 85-86kg so from here up more in muscle and down more in fat.<br />
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I left school in my mid 60s and pretty dam skinny and this was due to all the running I did where I competed in various long distance running (road race, cross country etc) at nationals level. Was pretty fit back then. Stopped all the running once I hit uni and from there started putting on the weight but given I was working out at the uni gym it was in control. <br />
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Post uni years I steadily climbed up through the 70s and ballooned in to the 80s. I blame all the corporate entertaining and (perceived) lack of time to exercise plus a couple of years in the UK didnt help either although at least I made an effort to go to the gym over there. My last trip to the UK in September though was the killer. Put on alot of weight while there and wasnt overly positive about how I was looking.<br />
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I always thought you were pretty slim or in shape back in the UK Kirwan? Did you put on your weight since you got back to NZ? What do you put it down to?<br />
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Good to see the progress you have made so far. Its pretty impressive how that weight is coming off. Keep it up eh. -
No, I pretty much maintained the weight in NZ. In the last four years I've been around 85 and heading back up to 87.<br />
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When I went to the UK in 99/00 I was around 73. When I was 28 I got down to my low of 68 but that was very brief and I was very skinny. I don't think that's achievable again as I've gotten older and much broader through the rib cage, stuff I can't change the shape of!<br />
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In the UK, I then proceeded to try and drink my own body weight weekly in a vain effort to keep up with Duluth <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> I can clearly remember see the scales hit 80kg for the first time and being in shock.<br />
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When did we last catch up? If it was around 2005, when I got married, then I was briefly back down to 83-85 so might have looked slightly trim. I was also playing a small amount of rugby then so wasn't too unfit. Rest of the time was a lard arse <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> -
Ok, was a great week. Hitting the scales at 80.5kg, which is a 1.3kg loss for the week and 6.5kgs in total lost so far. That's the biggest drop in a week since I started.<br />
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Main changes this week were longer mid-intensity cardios (two 10km rows, a 14km and 11km cycle, and a short run) and eating more during the day and less in the evening. Was a cleaner diet too, with a moderate cheat day.<br />
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Getting under 80kg feels very, very close. And as other have noted, am starting to see some changes now that the weight loss is starting to accumulate.<br />
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I have three weeks to get as far under 80 as I can to protect against my work trip. American sized meals and alcohol will be my enemies, but I intend to have fun. Will just have to try and maintain a reasonable intake of food like I did for my summer holiday. -
[quote name='MN5']A 7 in front of my weight at 190cm is downright scary. Even in the 80's back in 2004 my Mother was concerned I wasn't eating properly ( I probably wasn't but there was certainly a lot of liquid in the diet ! )[/QUOTE]<br />
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I had my parents concerned that I was to small back in xmas 09 when I got down to 105kgs. I was fit as hell, but not big enough for a prop at my height (192cm). -
[quote name='Chubby13']I had my parents concerned that I was to small back in xmas 09 when I got down to 105kgs. I was fit as hell, but not big enough for a prop at my height (192cm).[/QUOTE]<br />
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Ha we're both just unders....you're just under 6 4 I'm just under 6 3 in the old language. I might try sleeping like a bat for awhile to stretch the spine to hit 191 ! -
[quote name='BartMan']go the hour K, always a good target and you'll feel knackered but great once done! An hour though, that's a LONG way away from me at the moment!! 20 minutes about my lot.[/QUOTE]<br />
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You. Are. A. Bastard.<br />
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One hour complete. 13174km at 2:16. Slow as a slow thing but I'm still pushing back in my innards. Last ten was very tough. Everything mentally after 10km was tough.<br />
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I know this doesn't count, but before row: 80.9. After row: 79.7kg...... -
lol, only a kilo .2!!<br />
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well bloody done though.<br />
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the first one is always tough, new ground and all that. but once you have done one, it's gets addictive, and you just [I]know[/I] you can beat that distance each time...!!<br />
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and only about 8 kilometers away from a half marathon, hmmmmmmm? -
Dunno if I'll be doing that again any time soon! I was pleased the second 30mins was faster than my first, despite the wall between 50-60mins.<br />
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I think I could do another 8kms at that pace, if I had too. Might need to take on some fluids around the hour mark to make it though.<br />
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And in a dumbarse move that you will appreciate, I rowed outside and to avoid the stinging of sunscreen sweating into my eyes (like the last 10km row, like it's not hard enough) I wore a hat. But for some reason I wore it backwards, and now I have sunburned a triangle into my forehead. FFS. -
[quote name='Kirwan']Dunno if I'll be doing that again any time soon! I was pleased the second 30mins was faster than my first, despite the wall between 50-60mins.<br />
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I think I could do another 8kms at that pace, if I had too. Might need to take on some fluids around the hour mark to make it though.<br />
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And in a dumbarse move that you will appreciate, I rowed outside and to avoid the stinging of sunscreen sweating into my eyes (like the last 10km row, like it's not hard enough) I wore a hat. But for some reason I wore it backwards, and now I have [B]sunburned a triangle into my forehead.[/B] FFS.[/QUOTE]<br />
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<img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> that is gold! an hour is a loooong time on the rower! -
Of the triangle? Never <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> Of before and after, I'll post something like that once I'm under 80, which should be in a few days. There is a particular photo taken of me that spurred me into action.
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I'm actually starting to feel a bit fit now, certainly feel lighter wandering around (slowly) for my recovery run today. Got around 5km, with 1km of that walking when the calf got tight, relax, then off again...<br />
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Trucking along at 80.3kg, and tonight is cheat night <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> 6.7kg total loss so far.
