Absolutely gutted!! Head spinning trying to work out what had gone wrong, I stepped off the scales with a little bit of disgust!
The previous week had been spot on, I had planned out what I was eating, I had started back properly at the gym, I was weight training, I was doing boxing again...so why was the number on the scales only three pounds less than last week?
I know to most people that A 3ib loss is a fantastic result, but for me it was a bit of an anticlimax to what I was expecting!
Now I think that monitoring the "KPI's" is a crucial part of this battle but it is not the be all and end all of the process. Clothes this week have started feeling a lot looser, I'm sticking my belt up two extra notches and I've noticed how much easier everything seems to be again!
Never one to be deterred, today has seen me start something a little bit different!! Zumba!!
I wasn't 100% sure what to expect of this class, and I was glad that I wasn't the only boy doing it either, although I have to add that both of us who were doing it were obviously not Heterosexuals!!
The reason I've taken to group activity recently has been two fold, I believe, that it makes you work harder due to the embarrassment factor of not wanting to be the one sitting out, and more over, I am trying to improve my balance and co-ordination in order to take up skiing and snow boarding later in the year!
The music started off like having a meal in Nando's and at one point I was expecting us to break into the Macarena, we ended up doing some quite high energy moves to David Geutta thankfully! I was terrible at it, but I'm sure it will come with time! Got in a decent weights session afterwards, and then had a pleasant walk home!
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Friday, 21 February 2014
Its all about the journey...
Well again, it seams like I'm apologising for the lack updates!
So what has occurred in the, shameful, 8 months since my last post?
Well I hit my interim target: 10 stone off, and in time for Florida, made the flight, terrified admittedly at first by the thought of being chucked off, but as it happens all was fine in that respect, then secondly by the sheer number of bumps, growls and noises that a 747 makes hurtling down the runway at 160mph, this of course being my first flight, and then seeing the Cheshire countryside fall beneath my feet as we glided off over the Atlantic!! For the record I now love flying and have barely had my feet on the ground since!!
Finally got the big promotion I was after, another thing that I think my weight held me back in...but this lead to a crash back down to earth...with a bit of a bump!!
My new job is very project based and requires a lot of time, and a lot and I mean a lot of travelling with the farthest reaches of my area being 3 hours and about 150 miles from home, as well as a lot of hotel stays, big hotel breakfasts, and bigger hotel dinners...all from the Buffet!! It was like being back in America!!
Now leaving home at 4 in the morning, and getting back at 8 at night, and this was an average day, there was only one way that my weight was going to go. . . 4 months into the new job and I'm up by 2 and a half stone!!
I've spent a lot of time reflecting on this, and if I could have done anything different? The answer ultimately is yes, but it's taken me back a long way to when I first lost all of my weight 10 years ago!
I have learnt I am a person of extremes, I don't do middle of the road, I don't do "medium" (in any sense of the word) and if it's going right, it goes extremely right, and if it goes wrong it tends to be a bit of a train wreck! This trait is something that other people have told me about myself on lots of occasions, and its something that I really struggle to control.
In the past coming off track (pardon the train puns!) has lead to a huge downward spirals, which I have never been able to catch myself in until it was too late.
Being a little older and wiser, I'm a little more self aware now and I've been so accutely aware of the changes that have happened over the last four months:
1) Tiredness - my sleep pattern has been absolutely in a mess, and I am always exhausted, my energy levels were down!
2) Clothes! Argh!! I've spent about £200 on Superdry and G-Star Tshirts which I could get into in America, but oddly feel like they have shrunk!!
3) Health - it's nothing major but the number of aches and pains I have had the last few months are starting to get to me!
So what's all this amounting to? Well it's been a very good learning experience. Having been back on plan for about a week, the change in how I feel has been amazing! I've had to adapt some of my choices around trying to get the gym in, which means I'm sometimes out later at night, but by being a bit smarter in how I plan my work days, it's been very easy to fall back into the old (good) habits!!
I'm going to start being a bit more regular as to how often I post too, as I want to try and capture a lot of my progress through this blog.
So what has occurred in the, shameful, 8 months since my last post?
Well I hit my interim target: 10 stone off, and in time for Florida, made the flight, terrified admittedly at first by the thought of being chucked off, but as it happens all was fine in that respect, then secondly by the sheer number of bumps, growls and noises that a 747 makes hurtling down the runway at 160mph, this of course being my first flight, and then seeing the Cheshire countryside fall beneath my feet as we glided off over the Atlantic!! For the record I now love flying and have barely had my feet on the ground since!!
Finally got the big promotion I was after, another thing that I think my weight held me back in...but this lead to a crash back down to earth...with a bit of a bump!!
My new job is very project based and requires a lot of time, and a lot and I mean a lot of travelling with the farthest reaches of my area being 3 hours and about 150 miles from home, as well as a lot of hotel stays, big hotel breakfasts, and bigger hotel dinners...all from the Buffet!! It was like being back in America!!
Now leaving home at 4 in the morning, and getting back at 8 at night, and this was an average day, there was only one way that my weight was going to go. . . 4 months into the new job and I'm up by 2 and a half stone!!
I've spent a lot of time reflecting on this, and if I could have done anything different? The answer ultimately is yes, but it's taken me back a long way to when I first lost all of my weight 10 years ago!
I have learnt I am a person of extremes, I don't do middle of the road, I don't do "medium" (in any sense of the word) and if it's going right, it goes extremely right, and if it goes wrong it tends to be a bit of a train wreck! This trait is something that other people have told me about myself on lots of occasions, and its something that I really struggle to control.
In the past coming off track (pardon the train puns!) has lead to a huge downward spirals, which I have never been able to catch myself in until it was too late.
Being a little older and wiser, I'm a little more self aware now and I've been so accutely aware of the changes that have happened over the last four months:
1) Tiredness - my sleep pattern has been absolutely in a mess, and I am always exhausted, my energy levels were down!
2) Clothes! Argh!! I've spent about £200 on Superdry and G-Star Tshirts which I could get into in America, but oddly feel like they have shrunk!!
3) Health - it's nothing major but the number of aches and pains I have had the last few months are starting to get to me!
So what's all this amounting to? Well it's been a very good learning experience. Having been back on plan for about a week, the change in how I feel has been amazing! I've had to adapt some of my choices around trying to get the gym in, which means I'm sometimes out later at night, but by being a bit smarter in how I plan my work days, it's been very easy to fall back into the old (good) habits!!
I'm going to start being a bit more regular as to how often I post too, as I want to try and capture a lot of my progress through this blog.
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