Fatbusting: Chowie
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Hey boys, it's been a while since I've been on here but I've been busy!<br />
I finally decided to eat humble pie (and not a 'Le Moulin' steak and cheese one either!) and realised that I had a weight problemo.<br />
This was also given a serious edge when my doctor informed me that I had high blood pressure.<br />
He put it in simple terms: you have 2 choices, you can either live or die.<br />
Chowie has momentary panic attack<br />
I joined Weight Watchers about 11 weeks ago and (drumroll please) I've now lost 11.5kg.<br />
I started at 111.4kg, and I'm now (as of Thursday) 99.9kg!<br />
This is a biggie for me, as it's the first time I've been in double digits since I came home from the UK.<br />
The secret for me has been the food diary that WW gives you, and regular [u][b][i]aerobic [/i][/b][/u] exercise.<br />
Simply waliking the dogs at a good pace to start was enough for me to start with, and I started playiung golf, I've even joined Wainui Golf Club.<br />
I'm now running and riding the old dusty mountain bike with Mrs Chowie (who did the Special K Dualthalon in Welly last month, and loved it so much that she went up to Roto-Vegas with her mate to do that one too!).<br />
Word of advice: forget about doing weights until you've lost the weight, then think about toning.<br />
My goal weight is to get to 85kg, which my doctor thinks is a realistic goal, I'm not so sure but I'll sure give it a nudge.<br />
I have 2 rewards in mind, one is to play 80:80 grade in Welly club, which would be a lot of fun.<br />
The other is to run the London Marathon, in 2008.<br />
I can now run for 6kms non-stop, which is a good start.<br />
Good luck lads, and I'll keep posting my progress, and be an interested reader of all yours. -
99.0kg at the weigh-in today, so it's nice to have the under-the-hundie consolidated with a 900g loss.<br />
Happy with that, given I had to spend all weekend writing an essay, and couldn't exercise.<br />
Managed to squeeze in a couple of good pedals, though.<br />
I've started cycling as I've been told I have to stop running for a while as the jarring is aggravating my sciatic nerve.<br />
Now that I'm under the hundie, my next goal is 95kg, which I have not been under since I had glandular fever when I was 18.
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Down to 98.3kg (13.1kg total loss) at my latest weigh in, but my next one is tomorrow, and I expect to have put on a slight amount.<br />
Went for a hell pedal on sunday,from brooklyn down to owhiro bay, round the south coast and miramar peninsula, through the city and then back up brooklyn hill.<br />
Two and a half hard out hours.<br />
Going again this arvo. -
Have decided to have this week off Weight Watchers, as the weather is utterly shite, and I've got to concentrate on my exams.<br />
Looking forward to this weekend, because that's when my four week orgy of World Cup, AB tests and hardcore exercise begins... -
Right back into it this week so far.<br />
Started back properly last Friday, with a good solid walk (still not allowed to run due to sciatica) and then 4 hours of golf on Saturday.<br />
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I only put on 400g in total over my exam period, so as I wasn't exercising or eating well, that is a re-sult.<br />
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A good tip to remember for any TSF fatbusting golfers: [i][b]carrying [/b][/i]your clubs rather than pushing a trundler will burn roughly an extra 2000 calories in one 18 hole round of golf!<br />
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Rebel Sport have good, cheap, back-pack style golf bags, that are actually prett easyto carry round.<br />
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Haven't posted for a couple of weeks, but put on about 1.6kg week before last to go up to 98.9kg, but stormed home with a 1.2 loss this week to go back down to 97.7kg.<br />
It seems when I have a bad week, it takes two weeks to show up! Bizarre.<br />
Back on track now. -
Mrs BartMan just finisihg Jenny Craig - not that she bloody needed it, and they reckon it takes ten days to show up a bad day, but fuck - calories in an out, isn't that what it is all about. Just a good myth perhaps that all the weight loss schemes like to keep burning??
