London for 2 days tomorrow though, always a challenge but have purposefully made no plans to see anyone after work!
Picture below of where I do my pull ups in the homestead, clinging on for dear life.
Onwards...
Monday, 4 March 2013
Day 50
A pretty hedonistic weekend of bevvie and food as expected. Hugely encouraging photo today though, pleased with how things are developing around the midriff and just the encouragement needed to push on this week pre-India.
London for 2 days tomorrow though, always a challenge but have purposefully made no plans to see anyone after work!
Picture below of where I do my pull ups in the homestead, clinging on for dear life.
Onwards...
London for 2 days tomorrow though, always a challenge but have purposefully made no plans to see anyone after work!
Picture below of where I do my pull ups in the homestead, clinging on for dear life.
Onwards...
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Day 45
I soldier on.
Main change from last year is I've relaxed the rules at the weekend of late, keeping up appearances and the like. Same again this Saturday I think.
Pictures still going up, pleased with progress. Weighed in at 12st 4lbs this morning so very nearly lost a stone as we pass the halfway mark.
I go to India with work a week on Saturday, haven't decided how I'm going to approach that hurdle yet...
ONWARDS!
Main change from last year is I've relaxed the rules at the weekend of late, keeping up appearances and the like. Same again this Saturday I think.
Pictures still going up, pleased with progress. Weighed in at 12st 4lbs this morning so very nearly lost a stone as we pass the halfway mark.
I go to India with work a week on Saturday, haven't decided how I'm going to approach that hurdle yet...
ONWARDS!
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Day 31
Going strong folks. Smashing the exercises, smashing the diet, sleeping well, no cravings for bad food, never hungry.
Pleased with the latest photo. Weighed in 12st 7lbs this evening so all heading in the right direction.
Got a party to go to in Aberdeen this weekend that I'm going to let my guard down for, will just aim to steer clear of beer.
That's it folks. Mastering my own FIYL destiny at the moment. Hope everyone else is too.
Pleased with the latest photo. Weighed in 12st 7lbs this evening so all heading in the right direction.
Got a party to go to in Aberdeen this weekend that I'm going to let my guard down for, will just aim to steer clear of beer.
That's it folks. Mastering my own FIYL destiny at the moment. Hope everyone else is too.
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Day 23
Squeezing out a few extras pre-bed...
Up early in the morn, on the 05:40 to Manchester and not back til after 8. Egg wraps made for the train. Hopefully will have enough left in the tank to bash out my sets when I get home. Those are the awkward sets that'll really make the difference when all's told!
TBC
Up early in the morn, on the 05:40 to Manchester and not back til after 8. Egg wraps made for the train. Hopefully will have enough left in the tank to bash out my sets when I get home. Those are the awkward sets that'll really make the difference when all's told!
TBC
Monday, 4 February 2013
Day 22
Photo posted.
I weighed in at 12st 10lbs this evening. This thing isn't about weight loss but I suppose it gives me a marker that my body changed shape to the tune of 3lbs after 1week and a further 3lbs in the next 2 weeks. I'm feeling stronger so that's great, managing to squeeze out a few pull ups and get through the ab work with good form. Long way to go but I may need a new rope before too long judging by the picture below!
Feeling pretty whacked this evening as I stayed up a bit too long watching the Super Bowl last night, quite the game even though I only lasted til the lights went out. I expect I woke feeling a damn sight better off than Reeyaz judging from the snaps on facey though! Kev was always pretty good at avoiding being incriminated by photographic evidence, despite being the ringleader 9 times out of 10. I expect last night was no different!
Well played everyone.
I weighed in at 12st 10lbs this evening. This thing isn't about weight loss but I suppose it gives me a marker that my body changed shape to the tune of 3lbs after 1week and a further 3lbs in the next 2 weeks. I'm feeling stronger so that's great, managing to squeeze out a few pull ups and get through the ab work with good form. Long way to go but I may need a new rope before too long judging by the picture below!
Feeling pretty whacked this evening as I stayed up a bit too long watching the Super Bowl last night, quite the game even though I only lasted til the lights went out. I expect I woke feeling a damn sight better off than Reeyaz judging from the snaps on facey though! Kev was always pretty good at avoiding being incriminated by photographic evidence, despite being the ringleader 9 times out of 10. I expect last night was no different!
Well played everyone.
Week 3 recap
Somewhat belated but here's a recap on week 3...
Had a night out on day 13 which was great but after a few vodka and sodas I eventually caved in and had a couple of beers, followed by a couple more, etc etc.. So that got week 3 off to a difficult start!
Was then off to London very early Tuesday morning for work. I specifically chose a hotel with a gym so I'd have space to do my exercises, in the end I was upgraded to The May Fair though so space wasn't so much of an issue! Picture below shows a reflection of me relaxing in my pants, and yes, that is JR on the TV screen. Eating FIYL compliantly in such a hotel requires a level of restraint and I was pleased I managed to keep it relatively in check. Arabic roast chicken was dispatched with a pomegranate salad (yoghurt dressing). I ate the salty skin too, damn it was good! Avoided carbs in my order but they brought a couple of pieces of pretty marvellous bread with my water, ah well!
Anyway, after a breakfast of two poached eggs on a piece of brown toast (£12, thank you) I continued on my merry way and completed the week well. On Friday I really struggled to motivate myself with the exercises but I got there. More testing times lie ahead, you can't cave on day 19!
I toasted England's victory in the rugby on Saturday with a fillet steak. I had it with a roasted pepper/tomato concoction I saw on TV. It's pictured below with Thursday's salmon. Do this one guys, it's not exactly turbo FIYL as the bad boy is roasted for an hour but its absolutely compliant and damn is it good!
So, very easy, halve a pepper, hollow him out, chop a clove of garlic into thin slices, split them between the two pepper halves, wedge 4-5 cherry toms into each half so they're snug. Pour over a generous glug of your favourite vinegar, I'm rolling with sherry at the moment but white wine, cider or balsamic would work too I expect (malt, not so much). Chuck it all in a preheated oven at 180 for 45mins until the peppers got a wee char and boom, taste sensation! A basil leaf or two left to wilt on top goes well too. Simon Hopkinson made the real thing on tv the other day, it was swimming in top drawer olive oil, he'd also skinned the tomatoes and then rested a couple of anchovies on top. I will do that when this thing is over but until then the above is a good compromise. More about Simon later I expect, suffice to say he's a big old gay chef who's got some seriously good stuff on iplayer at the moment so have a deek if you get chance.
That's us back up to speed, ready to bash on with week 4 now. Bring on the eggs...
Had a night out on day 13 which was great but after a few vodka and sodas I eventually caved in and had a couple of beers, followed by a couple more, etc etc.. So that got week 3 off to a difficult start!
Was then off to London very early Tuesday morning for work. I specifically chose a hotel with a gym so I'd have space to do my exercises, in the end I was upgraded to The May Fair though so space wasn't so much of an issue! Picture below shows a reflection of me relaxing in my pants, and yes, that is JR on the TV screen. Eating FIYL compliantly in such a hotel requires a level of restraint and I was pleased I managed to keep it relatively in check. Arabic roast chicken was dispatched with a pomegranate salad (yoghurt dressing). I ate the salty skin too, damn it was good! Avoided carbs in my order but they brought a couple of pieces of pretty marvellous bread with my water, ah well!
Anyway, after a breakfast of two poached eggs on a piece of brown toast (£12, thank you) I continued on my merry way and completed the week well. On Friday I really struggled to motivate myself with the exercises but I got there. More testing times lie ahead, you can't cave on day 19!
I toasted England's victory in the rugby on Saturday with a fillet steak. I had it with a roasted pepper/tomato concoction I saw on TV. It's pictured below with Thursday's salmon. Do this one guys, it's not exactly turbo FIYL as the bad boy is roasted for an hour but its absolutely compliant and damn is it good!
So, very easy, halve a pepper, hollow him out, chop a clove of garlic into thin slices, split them between the two pepper halves, wedge 4-5 cherry toms into each half so they're snug. Pour over a generous glug of your favourite vinegar, I'm rolling with sherry at the moment but white wine, cider or balsamic would work too I expect (malt, not so much). Chuck it all in a preheated oven at 180 for 45mins until the peppers got a wee char and boom, taste sensation! A basil leaf or two left to wilt on top goes well too. Simon Hopkinson made the real thing on tv the other day, it was swimming in top drawer olive oil, he'd also skinned the tomatoes and then rested a couple of anchovies on top. I will do that when this thing is over but until then the above is a good compromise. More about Simon later I expect, suffice to say he's a big old gay chef who's got some seriously good stuff on iplayer at the moment so have a deek if you get chance.
That's us back up to speed, ready to bash on with week 4 now. Bring on the eggs...
Saturday, 26 January 2013
Day 13
I type this while face to face with another plate of steaming breakfast egg and veg...
Lots of jobs to do today then a 30th party tonight. I'll eat before we go out for dinner (who says that?!) so I can just have something small to limit the damage. I'll steer clear of beer and wine but may have a whiskey or two to join in on the celebrations.
Those are my intentions, lets see how it pans out!
Exercises still going well.
Lots of jobs to do today then a 30th party tonight. I'll eat before we go out for dinner (who says that?!) so I can just have something small to limit the damage. I'll steer clear of beer and wine but may have a whiskey or two to join in on the celebrations.
Those are my intentions, lets see how it pans out!
Exercises still going well.
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Monday, 21 January 2013
Day 8 - Weigh in
12st 13lbs.
4lbs shed in 7 days, gently easing back down to the 12 and a half stone mark that I class as a 'respectable' weight for my frame. Keeping the week 2 diet again this week, need to get a bit creative with the evening meals though. I'm getting bored of some of some of the staples already and need to nip that in the bud. The secret's not to have the same element of any evening meal twice in a row I think. Reintroduced myself to my old pal the avocado tonight though which was particularly enjoyable (the few drops of Lea and Perrin's certainly aren't allowed but if that's all I do wrong I won't beat myself up too bad!).
If any first timers are looking for feeding tips feel free to give me a shout. Happy to share my triumphs and disasters!
Exercises - check.
Photo uploaded too, nothing to see here.
4lbs shed in 7 days, gently easing back down to the 12 and a half stone mark that I class as a 'respectable' weight for my frame. Keeping the week 2 diet again this week, need to get a bit creative with the evening meals though. I'm getting bored of some of some of the staples already and need to nip that in the bud. The secret's not to have the same element of any evening meal twice in a row I think. Reintroduced myself to my old pal the avocado tonight though which was particularly enjoyable (the few drops of Lea and Perrin's certainly aren't allowed but if that's all I do wrong I won't beat myself up too bad!).
If any first timers are looking for feeding tips feel free to give me a shout. Happy to share my triumphs and disasters!
Exercises - check.
Photo uploaded too, nothing to see here.
Sunday, 20 January 2013
Day 7 - Any Given Sunday
This is great! Last time round our day off was on a Tuesday or Wednesday, can't remember which, so it was nice to get a break from exercises during the week but they always hung over every weekend like a bit of a dark cloud. This time however, as we started on a Monday the rest day is a Sunday. So when I'd wrapped up my exercises after breakfast yesterday, I knew I wouldn't be back at it (save the 500 skips I just did which is no chore) until Monday evening. I think this is going to be a definite plus point this time round.
I bought some coconut oil over the weekend. One to discuss in the week 2 question forum I think. I tried a small scraping from the jar stirred into some wholewheat noodles with Thai basil leaves and a chopped scallion... lovely stuff and I know it's talked of as some sort of wonder oil (so it should be at £7 a jar!), but it is still oil at the end of the day. We'll see.
Had a couple of rums last night while watching a rerun of Lance and Oprah part 1, just neat over ice. Felt pretty rough this morning, i believe because there aren't the usual carbs in the diet to soak up the soup, but it certainly stirred the debate about how much of a knob old Lance is!
Fresh on the back of Chelsea Arsenal and Spurs Utd, I'm now settling in to watch the NFL conference championship games. Let's go Buff-a-lo (I wish).
Hope everyone FIYLed well this weekend. Bring on week 2.
Swee x
I bought some coconut oil over the weekend. One to discuss in the week 2 question forum I think. I tried a small scraping from the jar stirred into some wholewheat noodles with Thai basil leaves and a chopped scallion... lovely stuff and I know it's talked of as some sort of wonder oil (so it should be at £7 a jar!), but it is still oil at the end of the day. We'll see.
Had a couple of rums last night while watching a rerun of Lance and Oprah part 1, just neat over ice. Felt pretty rough this morning, i believe because there aren't the usual carbs in the diet to soak up the soup, but it certainly stirred the debate about how much of a knob old Lance is!
Fresh on the back of Chelsea Arsenal and Spurs Utd, I'm now settling in to watch the NFL conference championship games. Let's go Buff-a-lo (I wish).
Hope everyone FIYLed well this weekend. Bring on week 2.
Swee x
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Day 4 - Subzero
No, not the hockey stick wielding bad guy from The Running Man, but the temperature outside at skipping time. Glad we're only churning out low numbers at the moment and I can retreat to the warmth of the Bear Pit to wrap things up.
I bought some perfect push ups last time round, the ones that are in the advert claiming to be invented by a marine. They cost about £50 and I never used them. Sucker.
Anyway, if i remember rightly the reason I didn't use them was because while I could do, for example, 3x12 push ups using just my bare hands and an old fashioned piece of floor, when I introduced the 'perfect' contraption it turned out I could only do 1x12 then I'd collapse halfway through the 2nd set and resort to doing a couple more on the floor before tutting at my frivolous waste of money and moving on to the next exercise.
I'm using them from the start this time and so far so good, hitting the targets on each set and they now sit proudly in the living room, waiting for me to get home from work every day. Turns out I didn't use them last time cause it made exercising harder. Guess what? Exercising is supposed to be hard.
I'm definitely not suggesting anyone should buy press up machines just because they're endorsed by a marine, but I've already wasted my money so I'm going to give them a whirl. There's a moral to the story in there somewhere too. Something about corners.
I bought some perfect push ups last time round, the ones that are in the advert claiming to be invented by a marine. They cost about £50 and I never used them. Sucker.
Anyway, if i remember rightly the reason I didn't use them was because while I could do, for example, 3x12 push ups using just my bare hands and an old fashioned piece of floor, when I introduced the 'perfect' contraption it turned out I could only do 1x12 then I'd collapse halfway through the 2nd set and resort to doing a couple more on the floor before tutting at my frivolous waste of money and moving on to the next exercise.
I'm using them from the start this time and so far so good, hitting the targets on each set and they now sit proudly in the living room, waiting for me to get home from work every day. Turns out I didn't use them last time cause it made exercising harder. Guess what? Exercising is supposed to be hard.
I'm definitely not suggesting anyone should buy press up machines just because they're endorsed by a marine, but I've already wasted my money so I'm going to give them a whirl. There's a moral to the story in there somewhere too. Something about corners.
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Day 1 and a half
Ooft! I remember this feeling. 45 squats and I'm hobbling around the office like John Wayne today.
Show me the LUNGES!
Show me the LUNGES!
Monday, 14 January 2013
Day 1
And away we go....
Start weight : 13st 3lbs. The less said about that the better.
Shambles in the kitchen this morning, one egg failed, mushrooms needed longer, coffee went cold, forgot about my spinach. It'll be down to a fine art by the end of the week though, mark my words!
Busy day at work so no issues re: hunger or anything like that. Was well armed with fruit. Home for exercises in the relative comfort of the back yard for skipping, living room for the rest. Ice applied to the groin which clearly found squats a bit too much to cope with.
Dinner was great. I roasted some turkey steaks in foil in the oven, oil free, just a crack of pepper. Steamed my allocation of veg in the wok with water (steamed, like i said) then chucked in 100gs of brown rice I cooked last night. But where's the flavour? Everyone's old friend 'Chinese five spice', dig it out from the back of the cupboard, he'll serve you well this winter, comrades!
Picture uploaded to Flickr, and here's one of the above mentioned FIYL compliant scran.
Time for a weird herbal tea. Until tomorrow....
Start weight : 13st 3lbs. The less said about that the better.
Shambles in the kitchen this morning, one egg failed, mushrooms needed longer, coffee went cold, forgot about my spinach. It'll be down to a fine art by the end of the week though, mark my words!
Busy day at work so no issues re: hunger or anything like that. Was well armed with fruit. Home for exercises in the relative comfort of the back yard for skipping, living room for the rest. Ice applied to the groin which clearly found squats a bit too much to cope with.
Dinner was great. I roasted some turkey steaks in foil in the oven, oil free, just a crack of pepper. Steamed my allocation of veg in the wok with water (steamed, like i said) then chucked in 100gs of brown rice I cooked last night. But where's the flavour? Everyone's old friend 'Chinese five spice', dig it out from the back of the cupboard, he'll serve you well this winter, comrades!
Picture uploaded to Flickr, and here's one of the above mentioned FIYL compliant scran.
Time for a weird herbal tea. Until tomorrow....
Sunday, 13 January 2013
Seconds out, ROUND 2
Here we go again.
Things have slipped dramatically in the last 2 months so looking forward to getting stuck in and already excited by the prospect of tailoring elements to our specific needs.
Delighted we have such a strong team assembled too. Let's get this thing smashed!
Time to start thinking about that 'goal physique'...
Things have slipped dramatically in the last 2 months so looking forward to getting stuck in and already excited by the prospect of tailoring elements to our specific needs.
Delighted we have such a strong team assembled too. Let's get this thing smashed!
Time to start thinking about that 'goal physique'...
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