OK so I didn't keep updating the Blog. I had a lot of stuff going on and if I'm honest I'm unlikely to post all that often - there I said it; don't expect regular posts...!
Having said that, here's an update on where I am in life at the moment...
So having run every day in January I then had a flare up of an old problem called a pilonidal sinus. I'm not going to describe it just look it up if you like. I've had to take long periods of time off work (and life in general) on a few occasions because of it and although this particular case was a fairly mild one, I still ended up having a couple of weeks off running.
A couple of weeks turned into sporadic short, slow runs over a couple of weeks and eventually running stopped altogether, taken over by other things.
Firstly, as part of an effort to live life a bit more outside my rapidly collapsing relationship I decided to start learning to ride a motorbike. Learning and passing the tests took a couple of months and by April I'd got my licence and my own bike, which was awesome. It also allowed me to join long time friends and now fellow bikers on their annual bike trip around the Alps and Pyrannes in July.
But that must have cost a fortune, I hear you say. It did, but luckily I had a load of money saved for a thing called a 'Wedding' which also got officially called off in
April. So yes form an orderly queue ladies - I'm single.
By September I realised I'd put another stone back on because of eating too many takeaways and drinking too much to dull the boredom of living alone, so I did another 'run every day in...' challenge for September. I missed only one day, the 3rd, for my Sister's wedding where I gave her away. Not because I didn't have time but because the time I had was spent furiously finishing my speech!
So to the present day. October was an up and down running month, and I'm back on full in November with running again. Where I previously tried to run a constant amount of time a little quicker each time, I've decided now to stick to the same speed and run an extra minute every day in November, which will get me up to about 7km in 50 minutes every day by the end of the month.
Mini goals are as follows:
- Do 5k Park Runs in the new year - hoping for sub 35 minute times to begin
- Get down below 18.5st before February - Stag do in Rome...
- Get down below 16.5st before May - Uni American Football reunion
- Get down below 15st before August - The original(ish!) goal from 2009.
Starting weight: 25st 3lb / 353lbs / 160kg
Current Weight: 19st 12.5lb / 277.5lbs / 126kg
Lost since Aug 09 : 5st 4.5lb / 74.5lbs / 36kg
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Right - an update
Since its been well over a year since my last post I thought I'd give an update as to where I am since the last blog post all that time ago.
The holiday I went on just after my last post was one with my then girlfriend and the rest of my family. On the second day of that holiday my girlfriend stopped being my girlfriend and became my fiancé because I asked her to marry me. The date ended up being set for Summer 2012 in order to save up and pay for the wedding and we both also decided that we would try to lose weight for the big day.
My vague plan was as follows and doesn't even remotely stick to the vague plan I had previously:
- I was starting from a weight of just over 25st when I got back from holiday
- By the end of 2010 I would lose 5 stone, taking me down to 20st.
- By the end of 2011 I would lose another 5 stone taking me down to 15st.
- By the wedding in August 2012 I would tone up and possibly lose a couple more stone in order to get down to the lowest weight I've ever been as an adult.
Well so far so good. In 2010 I only managed to lose 4 stone in the end which was a bit disappointing but in November/December I started doing something I never though I would do - I started running, and more importantly I started to enjoy it.
Since then at the start of January I decided I would do a minimum 20 minute run every single day in January, and I did. That despite the fact I had a bombshell dropped on me by my fiancé when she said she wasn't happy and wanted to move out (we're working on it but she's still moving out in February and I think she's probably going to break things off soon after that if I'm honest). Normally that would have been my excuse to call it a day and give up, but I stuck at it and in January alone I lost almost 1.5 stone almost exclusively because of the running I did - just shy of 100km total in the end.
So there's you all up to speed. My weigh-in day is a Friday morning so I'll try to keep this updated a bit more than once a year from now on to try to keep track of how things have gone.
Starting weight: 25st 3lb / 353lbs / 160kg
Current Weight: 19st 11.5lb / 277.5lbs / 126kg
Total lost: 5st 5.5lb / 75.5lbs / 34kg
Read more...
The holiday I went on just after my last post was one with my then girlfriend and the rest of my family. On the second day of that holiday my girlfriend stopped being my girlfriend and became my fiancé because I asked her to marry me. The date ended up being set for Summer 2012 in order to save up and pay for the wedding and we both also decided that we would try to lose weight for the big day.
My vague plan was as follows and doesn't even remotely stick to the vague plan I had previously:
- I was starting from a weight of just over 25st when I got back from holiday
- By the end of 2010 I would lose 5 stone, taking me down to 20st.
- By the end of 2011 I would lose another 5 stone taking me down to 15st.
- By the wedding in August 2012 I would tone up and possibly lose a couple more stone in order to get down to the lowest weight I've ever been as an adult.
Well so far so good. In 2010 I only managed to lose 4 stone in the end which was a bit disappointing but in November/December I started doing something I never though I would do - I started running, and more importantly I started to enjoy it.
Since then at the start of January I decided I would do a minimum 20 minute run every single day in January, and I did. That despite the fact I had a bombshell dropped on me by my fiancé when she said she wasn't happy and wanted to move out (we're working on it but she's still moving out in February and I think she's probably going to break things off soon after that if I'm honest). Normally that would have been my excuse to call it a day and give up, but I stuck at it and in January alone I lost almost 1.5 stone almost exclusively because of the running I did - just shy of 100km total in the end.
So there's you all up to speed. My weigh-in day is a Friday morning so I'll try to keep this updated a bit more than once a year from now on to try to keep track of how things have gone.
Starting weight: 25st 3lb / 353lbs / 160kg
Current Weight: 19st 11.5lb / 277.5lbs / 126kg
Total lost: 5st 5.5lb / 75.5lbs / 34kg
Read more...
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