A Year in the Life of a Fat Man

19St 13Lb

2007-02-07T13:31:00.000-08:00

Oh yes under 20St for the first time this year.

Got the doc's tomorrow - hope to be under 20st for that and see what he says.

Bloody knackered - roll on half term

20St 1lb - 20St on the dot yesterday!! :-(

2007-02-02T12:15:00.000-08:00

Well hit my target then promptly went over it - never mind another month another stone - hopefully.

20St 2lb

2007-01-30T13:32:00.000-08:00

AAggghhhhh bloody busy day totally knackered and failed to get to the gym. This was not part of the plan. Eaten okay but am worried going to miss the 20st target on Thursday morning. V frustrating.

20St 5lb and counting

2007-01-29T12:37:00.000-08:00

Ah well xmas comes at a cost but not as high as it could have been!

Down the gym today so fingers crossed - want to hit 20st by Feb 1st going to be tight!

20St and very hung over

2007-01-28T11:57:00.000-08:00

Well on the one hand a minor miracle that I got down to 20St yesterday.

Unfortunately, we then had the second christmas day and I nearly burst so dreading the scales tomorrow - one step forward 2 steps back!!

So hung over - 7 bottles of wine + whiskeys between 3 people unlikely to be anything but messy!

20St 6lb and pissed with counting!

2007-01-22T12:41:00.000-08:00

Okay v pissed off have no idea where that 5 pounds came from - apart from the half packet of after eights - oh the willpower.

Anyway still holding my head up high and even managed to go to the gym for the first time since the end of November. Managed 20St 1lb last Friday the target is 20St or under this week. We shall see.

20St 1lb and counting

2007-01-20T11:29:00.000-08:00

Cool: lowest weight so far; Liverpool spanked the "chosen ones"; I have a new carpet for the stairs and living room and the bath has been fixed so I can soak like a hippo ahhh feel the stress of the days wash away.

Believe that the new carpet in the lounge will actually help the weight loss program because food and drinks have been banned from the room. So this means a whole lot less snacking and I have to walk to sup on my Barcardi and coke - I must be burning the calories before I've even raised the halowed ice filled glass!!!

Absalutly knackered with late nights and early mornings - up before 8 this morning - Its a saturday for crying out loud!! The reason for this masacism is the need to go to the post office and as u know I hate shopping - I have a confession its not so much the shopping as much as the people. Yes shopping is bad but shopping with crowds is agonising torture as they plod through the shopping centre at a pace a snail would be embarrased about getting in my way and generally crowding my space - I have the same agrophoibia about the cinema I hate a full cinema. Not only is there the usual lack of social decorum with the inability to sit without talking or making a racket with the monster sized portion of pop corn the person has acquired but its one of those places where people feel they can invade your space and take delight in the war of the arm rest. I now have 2 tactics

1. Take my wife I have the aile seat and she knows better than to use my arm rest.
2. Go during the day to a 15/18 movie - oh the luxury:-)

20St 3lb - and counting

2007-01-17T13:22:00.000-08:00

Okay dudes got to admit been avoiding posts because of fluctuation upto 20st 6lb but back on track now 20st by end month - fingers crossed.

20St 4lb

2007-01-14T12:37:00.000-08:00

Okay so first step back and in all fairness entirely self inflicted.

Managed to stay up until 4am eating curry, drinking copious amounts of vodka, whisky and bacardi and generally pretending I was 21 again.

Shock horror woke up feeling like dogs doodoo and put on a couple of pounds.

Still, managed to get back on the metaphorical wagon went for a 2 hour cycle ride with my daughter before collapsing back into bed listening to fighting talk on the listen again service from the BBC. Got to say that I cannot wait for TV on demand. Radio on demand via listen again is fantastic and I cannot wait for the moment that when I go to the TV there will be zero danger of ever accidently flicking onto some of the turgid crap that litters our TV's masquerading itself as entertainment.

Big question is will I have lost the pounds for tomorrow to go 2 weekends on the trot without putting on weight? Doubt it but am not bothered - weight loss is for life not just for January!

20St 2lb and counting

2007-01-13T12:12:00.000-08:00

Good evening all a fine day all round - out and about on my bike, pulled up the carpet in preparation for the new carpet and the bathroom tiles were being grouted all in all the house is coming together at last and I did not put on a lb despite the ice-cream! Happy Feet was groovy from the perspective of someone who loves to dance, however, at the end when mankind appeared to get its act together and not destroy the planet there should have been a caption of some pigs gently flying across the sky!

20St 2lb

2007-01-12T09:55:00.000-08:00

Wehay 4lb in a week. Carry on like this and the doc will have to hand over the slimming pills :-)

Celebrated with KFC - bit stupid but at least eaten before 5pm so got a good chance of being okay now can I repeat the same trick as last weekend and get through these non structured days with no extra pounds. Further dilema as going to movies and will want ice cream aaagghhh!

Oh well easy come easy go (not in the case of my weight!)

20St 3lb and counting

2007-01-11T13:08:00.000-08:00

Oh my God took 2 hours to get home tonight - after 1 hour I was actually further from work than when I began!! Serves me right for trying to be clever :-)

Still managed to avoid a terrible binge and who knows tomorrow maybe have lost 3lb in a week which aint bad by all accounts.

20St 3lb

2007-01-10T13:03:00.000-08:00

Slow but steady progress thats what we like to see. Although likely to have put it all back on as out to dinner to celebrate the end of the 11+ for my poor daughter. I do believe in Grammar Schools for able kids its just a shame they have to go through the stress of the 11+ to get there. Fingers crossed she made it - will be another dinner out if she does!!

20St 5lb and counting

2007-01-09T12:52:00.000-08:00

Long and tiring day but at least lost a pound.

Having to decide on lunches as the work lunches can be healthy but I always eat more than if a packed lunch, however, unless I go to the canteen I work right through which is not good for stress and mental health. So think will do lunch when I need it and have packed most of the time. Also if do packed I will be able to go for a walk.

Uninspired today. Need an early night and good sleep.

20St 6lb and counting

2007-01-08T12:56:00.000-08:00

Wow this is a first, the same weight on Monday as on Friday. You see in the past I have managed to lose weight during the week only to put half of it back on over the weekend. So I am going to classify this as a small victory in the grand battle.

I hate going to the Doc's when you yourself are not contagious - somehow it does not seem fair to have to sit there desperately trying to avoid breathing in the noxious vapour of those around you. The 40 minute wait today for some ear drops felt like an eternity as I tried to breath through my shirt as some pathetic form of protection form the smog of illness that surrounded me! Oh well only a sore throat this evening - maybe I got lucky! The real pain in the ass is the doc went for ear drops rather than the full on tablets for my ear infection and they still hurt so will probably be back there next week running the gauntlet once more.

Hope to be about 20St by Friday - fingers crossed :-)

20St 6lb and counting

2007-01-07T14:09:00.000-08:00

Well even after Liverpool losing and Chicken kebabs and a load of beers still at the same weight - there is hope yet!!

20St 6Lb

2007-01-05T15:48:00.000-08:00

Well today I made it to the docs.

And lo and behold the positive news is that my scales at home are fairly accurate and with those rosy tinted glasses on I stepped onto the surgery scales and under the tape measure and once all the calculations had been done the doc pronounced that I had just scraped into the "morbidly obese" category rather than the "oh my god how r u still breathing category". So that was a bit of a home truth that I am trying to assimilate.

This weekend will be an interesting test. Managed to get through a sausage, KFC burgers + variety meal and a full round of cheese and biscuits - is this denial or 2 fingers to the truth? Not sure, but tomorrow I am not going to give up and come Monday I will be on course rather than a repentent sinner. Maybe :-)

20St 8lb

2007-01-04T12:47:00.000-08:00

Well Well Well half a stone down.

No do not think that I am making this up. I know the diet that works for me. It is a personalised variation on Atkins. Basically if I do not allow myself to eat bread, butter, or potatoes I end up with a diet high in protein and veg and not a lot else. The wonder of this is that I probably get more vitamins than when I am not on a diet and feel full most of the time. I have been very successful on this diet before but fell off the wagon and never bothered getting back on - the key to this year is to stay on the wagon and if I fall off to climb back on there rather than saying "Oh well, bring on the cardiac arrest because I'm willing to die for white bread butter and any filling"

I love half weeks only worked 2 days and got just Friday until the weekend - hapiness is a 3 day week!

20ST 12lb and counting

2007-01-03T12:39:00.000-08:00

Well day 2. Back to work.

I am a teacher and I believe that one of the reasons teachers get so depressed is that they have to go back to work so often, nothing worse than the end of a holiday :-) PS anyone want to get on a soap box about how lazy teachers are feel free to go to www.TTA.org.uk and walk the walk then I'll listen to you talking the talk ;-)

Good to have started by losing a couple of pounds - I managed to avoid the roasties yesterday. The plan is to lose a stone a month in preparation for the arrival of my baby at the end of April. The idea is to be a bit fitter and healthier so that I can enjoy a great life with my kids rather than worring when I'll have a heart attack and be in danger of not seeing their 10th birthday.

To add to my shirt woes from yesterday and add further incentives to me losing weight I failed to be able to squeeze into a suit I was wearing only a few months ago. Almost my whole wardrobe is waiting form me to lose a few pounds!!

The First Day - 21 Stone and counting

2007-01-02T07:22:00.000-08:00

Well not quite on time but it has begun.

This is my personal record of the great battle between me and the bulge :-)

Started the day trying to find some shirts for the return to work. And as usual discover that size 18 shirts are a scarcity. I do not really understand why shops have a million and one 14-16 shirts a few 17's and then almost nothing above. I know I am fat but I can't be the only fat person in the area looking for a new shirt for the return to work, not only that I do not see the size 16's flying off the shelf!! Never mind, found a couple of suitable shirst (not my first choice ones though) and off home before the shoppers arrived on mass.

This experience kind of tipifies one of the rerasons I want to lose the bulge - not only is it going to send me to the grave at an early age but I'll be a corpse dressed in a bad suit and a shirt that does not quite fit!

Made it through lunch 4 sausages and some onions. The real test will come this evening - I am cooking Roast Lamb and I love roast potatoes :-)

Well this is my first test post so will see how it looks.