Nick - these are mostly purebred Texels. So its big shoulders and backsides of lambs and hard work getting 1.85 per ewe. Very labour intensive.<br />
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Regarding your Suffolks. As a neighbour said to me as a young fella:<br />
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"thon ole ram can buck away all he likes, but he's not doin the job. After number 20 he's just shootin' water"<br />
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In retrospect I reckon - fair dues. "thon ole ram" got to 19 before he started "shootin' water"Â :nta<br />
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Apologies to the non-farming posters and lurkers for this terribly agricultural discussion of ovine fornication.... <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
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Due to the pressures and stresses of work and more IR has not really done any fat-busting since Day 8.<br />
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Exercise should be your release from stress :neutral: But NTA knows what you mean, having done the 14 hour days thing for weeks at a time.<br />
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Aye. It is great for that.<br />
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When you ain't even getting enough time to sleep then there is dang all chance of working out.<br />
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Saturday will be a 14 hour day. Stress-release though. I'll be up to me oxters is silage and all sorts. Mate in Ireland has 400 ewes lambing and 40 cows calving. I have been booked to fork silage, lamb sheep and de-horn calves. Will be great!!!! <br />
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Yes - I a f**king wasted on an office-job.... <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> <br />
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Lunch today - super noodles x 2<br />
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Hope to enjoy spuds and salmon for tea.<br />
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And exercise will be more painting of ceilings..... -
Due to the pressures and stresses of work and more IR has not really done any fat-busting since Day 8.<br />
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It is now Day 12.<br />
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94.7 kgs on the weighbridge<br />
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Eating healthy (regime as outlined above) but no exercise just now. <br />
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Bugger. Went to the pizza slice shop for lunch. Haven't done that in the past 7 years. I'm not sure if that means I had seven years of remarkably good behaviour with one relapse (today) or a sign of a total breakdown in self control.<br />
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I trust painting a ceiling will burn off some of the meat-substitute topping on what was classified as a 'tandoori' pizza slice. -
Come on Volty!!<br />
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Get the finger out FFS!!! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> -
Day 8<br />
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94.1 kgs on the weighbridge, despite the return last night to the traditional diet of my nation - potatoes and alcohol. I have noticed the past 2 days I'm getting light-headed now and again. Reckon I will start to eat a bit more.<br />
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Breakfast 1 (6am) - milk and garabaldis<br />
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Gym (7am) - 30 mins on cross-trainer (heart rate - 150 bpm, 600-ish kcals burned the machine reckoned), 20 mins on 'grinder' (c.210 kcals)<br />
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Breakfast 2 (9 am) - proper brown bread (2 rolls) and low fat cheese<br />
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Fell off the Fatbuster bandwagon folks<br />
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Lunch - salmon salad baguette<br />
Tea - Indonesian<br />
Rugby - half a hundred-weight of M&Ms<br />
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Dare not put meself on the weighbridge tomorrow.... -
Okay - Day 7<br />
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94.2 kgs on the weighbridge<br />
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The effects of only weights and no cardio in 2 days? No weight loss for the first time. But upped my free weights by 7% last night. Same reps and no strains this morning<br />
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Breakfast 1 (6am) - milk and garabaldis (280 kcals)<br />
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Gym (7am) - 50 mins on the cross-trainer, heart rate at 147-150 bpm. Just over 1,000 kcals burned reckons the machine (worried these machines are full of shite)<br />
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Breakfast 2 (11am) - 3 ryvita, spreadable (mystery) cheese (150 kcals). No coffee - it gives me the jitters and I shotgun-emailed people to death yesterday!!! oops <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> <br />
Lunch 1 (1 pm) - 3 ryvita, spreadable (mystery) cheese (150 kcals).<br />
Lunch 2 (3.40 pm) - 3 ryvita. am starving but no more cheese in office. I 'look forward' to relating the joys of this gastronomic experience. Tasted suprisingly edible...<br />
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Forgive me fellow Fatbusters! For I have sinned. 2 beers with a mate after work. Felt like 10 pints. Honestly. Pissed as a fart I was / am. No joke. No drink for a month, 3 ryvitas in the belly and 2 beers (halves!!!) and I was half-cut.<br />
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Dinner 1 - (6.30 pm) - milk and garabaldis (280 kcals) Slowly sobering up.....<br />
Dinner 2 - (8.30 pm) - potatoes and salmon<br />
Dinner 3 - more milk and garabaldis -
Day 6<br />
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94.2 kgs on the weighbridge.<br />
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Have failed to mention that I cycle to-and-from work ever day. Even in the snow (this morning). Adds in 20 mins excercise I suppose, but it is just scooting along at an easy pace, hardly counts.<br />
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Drank a lot of milk yesterday. Worked out that on this regime drinking sugar-free diet Fanta when hungry gives me a headache within 10 minutes. No kidding. All that chemical crap messing with your brain.<br />
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Breakfast 1 (6.15 am) - milk and the garabaldi's once again... (280 kcals)<br />
Breakfast 2 (11am) - 3 ryvita, spreadable (mystery) cheese (150 kcals)<br />
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Lunch 1 (1.30) - Super Noodles!! (280 kcals)<br />
Lunch 2 (2.30) Almond biscuit - 77 kcals. Tasted heavenly though.....<br />
Lunch 3 (4.30) - 3 ryvita, spreadable (mystery) cheese (150 kcals)<br />
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Dinner 1 - (7 pm) green-pea soup, extra peas & carrots (c.350 kcals)<br />
Dinner 2 - (8.15) 3 garabaldi biscuits<br />
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45 minutes weights<br />
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Dinner 3 (9.45 pm) - Grilled chicken sausage (just for the protein after the weights) - 50g -
Good stuff Nick.<br />
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The way I look at it - okay, I may gain nothing in muscle / strength just now through weights (beacuse I am trying to keep the calorie intake low) but it is additional exercise / burning kcals and gives the cardio (bike / cross-trainer) muscle sets a rest.<br />
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I'll go late on tonight and record and post what i do. -
I'm down 1.6 kgs, if you want to add that into the TSF Butter / Lard Mountain MvJ
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If I work out at night, then eat no carbs (going to bed hungry), even if I have my usual breakfast - when I try to work out again in the morning I am farked.<br />
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So what works for you. <br />
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But carbs are just fuel. No point filling the tank and parking the motor in the garage. -
Know how you feel Nick - once the energy levels are up you can't beat hitting the gym and pulling the arms off yourself!!!
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Day 5<br />
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94.4 kgs on the weighbridge. (and drank water like a fish yesterday). Facing the prospect of converting myself from a loosehead prop (I was 104 in July 2005) to a half-back. Luckily I have skill and flair to spare, and can kick off both feet....<br />
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Breakfast 1 (6.15) - milk and the garabaldi's once again... (280 kcals)<br />
Breakfast 2 (10am) - 3 ryvita, spreadable (mystery) cheese (150 kcals)<br />
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PS - 'Pride & Glory' the Zaak Wylde album from 10 years ago. Black Sabbath meets Lynyrd Skynyrd. Simply the best music ever for the gym. Ever.<br />
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Lunch 1 (12.15) - 3 ryvita once again and spreadable cheese (150 kcals). Loads of water. Succumbed to a black coffee with two sugars. Tasted amazing!!<br />
Lunch 2 (3.30) - more fecking ryvita, liquid cheese, la-la-la we all know the score...also a (shock horror!) chocolate bonbon from the gurl in the office next door....<br />
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Dinner (6.15 pm) - chicken schnitzel, steamed brocoli & coleslaw<br />
Dinner 2 (8 pm) - - milk x 2 and the garabaldi's once again<br />
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45 mins weights<br />
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Dinner 3 (10 pm) - Grilled chicken sausage (just for the protein after the gym) - 50g -
Day 4<br />
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94.7 kgs on the weighbridge (slightly concerned I am just losing fluids - will drink 3+ litres of water today).<br />
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Breakfast 1 (6.15) - milk and the garabaldi's once again... (280 kcals)<br />
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Gym - 30 mins on cross-trainer (heart rate - 150 bpm, 600-ish kcals burned the machine reckoned), 20 mins on bike (interval training, heart rate - 145, 160 on steep inclines, 200-ish kcals burned)<br />
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Breakfast 2 (9am) - 3 ryvita, spreadable (mystery) cheese<br />
Lunch 1 (12 noon) - 3 ryvita, spreadable (mystery) cheese<br />
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Drinking loads of water.<br />
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Dinner (5.30pm) - noodles with egg, tofu, cabbage and onion. More water.<br />
Dinner 2 (9 pm) - milk and the garabaldi's once again, 2 ryvita & coleslaw -
<img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> - Paj. Sparky, I've learnt it's all about the mental side. If you develop a strict routine and stick to it, you're laughing.<br />
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Day 3<br />
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95.4 kgs on the weighbridge<br />
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Breakfast 1 (6.45 am) - yep, milk and the garabaldi's once again... (280 kcals)<br />
Breakfast 2 (8.30 am) - one glass of multi-fruit orange juice (100 kcals) to get the sugar levels up pre-gym<br />
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30 mins on cross-trainer (heart rate - 150 bpm, 625 kcals burned the machine reckoned), 20 mins on bike (interval training, heart rate - 145, 160 on steep inclines, 225 kcals burned), 10 mins on 'grinder' (105 kcals). Thats nearly 1,000 kcals according to the machines (whcich is probably a load of cack!).<br />
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Lunch 1 (12.45 pm) Super noodles with peas and carrots, 425 kcals<br />
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Match (4pm) Ate c.400 kcals of crap (nuts, sweets, crackers etc)<br />
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Dinner 1 (6pm) - 2 vegetarian samosas<br />
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Gym 2 (6.30 pm) 30 mins on cross-trainer (heart rate - 150 bpm, 625 kcals burned the machine reckoned), 20 mins on bike (interval training, heart rate - 145, 160 on steep inclines, 225 kcals burned)<br />
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Dinner 2 (8 pm) Half a peshawri nan -
Okay. Recommended daily intake - 2500 kcals.<br />
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You need to burn 7000 kcals in a week to lose 1 kilo.<br />
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So: drop food intake to 1500 for 7 days - a kilo goes. And any exercise on top of that will burn even more kcals / kilos.<br />
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Eating six times a day - with 'bulky / fibrous' foods - I have hardly been hungry all day. And had the energy to do an intensive weights system in the evening. This works - I got down from 100 to 96 in 5 weeks in Jan / Feb on this model (granted, eating crap on weekends and doing cardio most mornings). No alcohol.<br />
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I'll keep this regime up for 28 days and see where we end up.<br />
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Oh yes - taking a 'all-in-one' vitamin tablet every morning -
Avoid ANYTHING that is processed.<br />
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If you stick to natural un-processed foodstuffs you will be fine. It is more work cooking & preparing but after a while your taste buds will be delighted with simple things like steamed carrot or broccoli.<br />
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BUY A STEAMER. Steam ALL your vegetables!!! Tastes fantastic, very healthy and loads of vitamins. -
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Good work mate!<br />
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Eating every 3 hours is the way to go. Even if you eat at bit more, it will keep your metabolism spinning and will do more benefit. -
Day 2<br />
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96.1 kgs this morning<br />
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Breakfast 1 (6.30) - milk and 3 garabaldis (100 kclas & 180 kcals)<br />
Breakfast 2 (10 am) - brown bread roll, with the now inevitable spreadable cheese, & 2 cups of black tea (? 150 kcals I'm guessing)<br />
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(Proposed 50km bike ride tomorrow will be postponed due to freezing temps and bitterly cold northerly wind)<br />
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Lunch 1 (1 pm) 3 ubiquitous garabaldi biscuits, black tea (180 kcals)<br />
Lunch 2 (4 pm) 3 ryvita, spreadable (mystery) cheese, black tea (150 kcals)<br />
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On the weighbridge at 6.15pm - 95.2 kgs (surely just system getting cleaned out)<br />
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Dinner (6.30 pm) green-pea soup, extra peas & carrots (c.350 kcals - but a huge bowl of food, feel full as)<br />
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The prospect of a weights session after the Calcutta Cup looms......<br />
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Dinner 2 (8.30 pm) - milk and 3 garabaldis (100 kclas & 180 kcals)<br />
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45 mins weights<br />
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Total kcals - 1400 kcals. -
Right I'm playing catch-up.<br />
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Weight this morning 96kgs. Target 93kgs.<br />
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Food today:<br />
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Breakfast 1 (6am) - glass milk, 3 garabaldi breakfast cookies (c.180 kcals for cookies)<br />
Breakfast 2 (10 am) - 3 ryvita with spreadable cheese<br />
Lunch (1pm) - 3 ryvita with cheese<br />
Lunch 2 (4pm) - 3 ryvita with cheese<br />
Dinner (6.30 pm) - chicken schnitzel with peas and sweetcorn<br />
Dinner 2 (9.30 pm) - 3 eggs, scrambled, 2 garabaldi cookies, glass of milk<br />
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Exercise - 1 hour weights in the gym at 8pm. No cardio - I refuse to cardio at night. -
Is it too late to jump on the bandwagon?<br />
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Feck it.<br />
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I'm in.<br />
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Current weight - 96kgs. Target - 93kgs.<br />
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Let's go fat boy.........
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