Happy New Year 2012

Ready for the January Detox? I have got some serious work to do to shift my festive lard this year. Not done an official weigh in yet (too scared!)

A Temple

My darling wife offered me a chocolate cookie last night. I am on a bit of a health kick at the moment (which is different to actually having lost some lard). so I said: “not for me, my body is a temple” At  which my 7 year old son looked up quizzically and said “what… [...]

Welcome back

Hi so I have been away for a while. And mixed news – I got down to 77.0 kg (170 lbs , 12 stone 2 lbs) a few months ago (July 2010 ish I guess). things were good, clothes fitted better than for a long time, I felt healthy, I was getting more active etc [...]

Still still here – still fat

My efforts in reducing my body fat are directly proportional to my efforts with this blog. That means both have been floundering for months. I havent even weighed myself for months, I know its not a disaster as I can still get in my ‘big’ clothes. But there has been a marked lack of progress. [...]

Update 25 Apr

A mixed bag over the last week, but overall good news. I scraped in at 87 kg ( 192 lbs, 13 stone 10 lbs) this morning. Overall since I started this blog that is a net loss of zero, which is not overly impressive. But its a kilo lost in the last week which is [...]

Update

I’m still here, still as fat as ever! I’ve had a mixed few weeks, but am rapidly coming to the conclusion that obsessive is not working for me anymore. It works well for a week or so, but is unsustainable, and the rebound puts me back where I started or worse. I have started doing [...]

Climate factors

In much of the health debate the focus is on food. References to exercise are vacuous at best. What they conveniently ignore is the weather and the seasons. In the UK we get a lot of rain. Thats great for some sports but for many its a major turn off. In our winter its dark [...]

Operation obsessive – day 4 and 5 report

Today (fri) Late last night I sneaked a couple of biscuits, and things have sort of gone downhill. No exercise today due to snow and generally crappy weather. Diet has been poor, but not a complete disaster. Don’t feel anywhere near as good as yesterday. Lost about 40 quid in rewards I’m not getting. I [...]

Operation obsessive – day 2 report

Tinkering around the edges didn’t work so well, so this week I am trying being obsessive. Its working well so far – I haven’t ‘forgot’ I’m on a diet. I have pushed myself to get out and get active. I have set myself up a spreadsheet with the following columns: date Target weight actual weight [...]

Replacement theory

I read plenty of ‘advice’ on what to eat, and what not to eat. and plenty of advice on what to do and not do. All in the name of reducing fat or losing weight. Personally I think advice on ‘cutting things out’ is misguided. I don’t think its possible to remove something on its [...]