My cold has gotten worse. But not enough to justify the day off work. :( No gym for me tonight.
Yesterday was a recovery day so no gym anyway.
Diet as follows:
Fruit (see other days this week)
1 tuna sandwich
2 pieces of chocolate (85%)
*mumble mumble mumble*1 sausage roll, 1 mince pie, 1 slice of Christmas cake *mumble mumble mumble*
Chicken and chickpea Jalfrezi.
Okay so I broke. I had to walk into town to pick something up from the estate agents which meant I was surrounded by Christmassy stuff which put me in the mood for some baked goods. No damage done, this morning's scales showing 13"10' still (or 192lbs to the Imperials and 87.1kg's for the metrics).
As an aside, Tesco Finest Jalfrezi sauce is pathetic. I've never had a jalfrezi in my life that had no heat to it whatsoever before but now I have.
Just need to get well now as the rest of this week's gym is likely off. Have to balance it out by controlling the junk food.
Thursday, 25 November 2010
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
I'm a sick man....
No not a perve, I'm actually sick. Now I'm usually suffering either allergies or some kind of sinus infection (not sure which, but four months of a runny nose isn't a headache) but now I have a cold. It's not too bad yet but it'll go down hill if I don't get some rest. Mercifully tonight is a recovery day so let's see how it goes. As a silver lining, if I'm sick tomorrow I can take a day off in bed. Lovely, lovely bed.
Okay, so yesterdays eating:
2 apples
1 orange
1banana
1 tuna sandwhich
A few pickled onions
2 Carrs small water biscuits with v small bit of jarlsberg
1/2 pitta bread with 3 chicken dippers, HP
chicken pesto pasta
3 boiled sweets
1 Penguin Orgasm (like a Tim Tam Explosion, just more English and with coffee)
Although it could be better, the I kept the worse bits small.
Exericse
2k row, 8:23 mins
50 minutes endurance spinning
stretching
Took it easier as I could feel this cold coming on, and my leg is feeling funnier by the day. Might swap a spin sessions later this weekfor the running, see if that helps.
That's it. Onwards and upwards.
Okay, so yesterdays eating:
2 apples
1 orange
1banana
1 tuna sandwhich
A few pickled onions
2 Carrs small water biscuits with v small bit of jarlsberg
1/2 pitta bread with 3 chicken dippers, HP
chicken pesto pasta
3 boiled sweets
1 Penguin Orgasm (like a Tim Tam Explosion, just more English and with coffee)
Although it could be better, the I kept the worse bits small.
Exericse
2k row, 8:23 mins
50 minutes endurance spinning
stretching
Took it easier as I could feel this cold coming on, and my leg is feeling funnier by the day. Might swap a spin sessions later this weekfor the running, see if that helps.
That's it. Onwards and upwards.
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
2 Week Health Kick
Okay, so I know my posting has been sloppy, my apologies. This should pick up for a little while at least, as I'm going to do a 2 week health kick.
Myself and my darling dearest have decided to do a couple of weeks of heavy gym going (for us), good diet, low booze (boooo!). Our attendance has slipped markedly compared to the previous two months (I told you it'd happen) so we need a boost to get us back in the game. I'm aiming for five sessions a week; four mid week standard sessions, 1 long session at the weekend. This is also about getting us to a point where have a little leeway over Christmas. So this is my benchmark, where I am right now (192lbs). I don't want to go back over it during the festive period. If I lose about 3-4lbs before 23rd December (when work ends and the fun begins) that should be enough breathing space. I'm hoping to be able to hit the gym at least once and do some walking (trudging*) through the snow so stabilise the damage.
As such, I shall be going back to basics and jotting down my consumption and exercise again. A tad boring I know but it's helpful to keep me focused.
So yesterday I ate:
2 apples
1 orange
1 tuna sandwich (two slices of seeded batch bread, butter, 1 tin of drained tuna)
2 slices of toast, butter, marmite
1 Penguin (it's a biscuit, not a bird...)
Couple of small pieces of tikka chicken
1 pitta bread, toasted, a little houmous, a little tzatziki
1 Battered Haddock, Mash, Mushy peas, ketchup, can of Bass Shandy.
Okay, so not perfect but okay. We're trying to clear out our freezer a little which is why the haddock is there. The biscuit wasn't needed but I'm not gonna bitch at myself for it, it's not a regular thing. Same goes for the shandy - I only ever drink it if I'm having some variant of battered or breaded fish (something about it just goes right).
Exercise? 45 mins running, usual cycle. Was planning on an hour but my hip and leg were hurting so cut it short. I think it might be just tension in the leg so I stretched it out after the run. Followed with some crunches and reverse planks.
Easy, feels good.
Just gotta keep at it.
* Trudging - To trudge: the slow, weary, depressing - yet determined - walk of a man who has nothing left in life except the impulse to simply soldier on.
Myself and my darling dearest have decided to do a couple of weeks of heavy gym going (for us), good diet, low booze (boooo!). Our attendance has slipped markedly compared to the previous two months (I told you it'd happen) so we need a boost to get us back in the game. I'm aiming for five sessions a week; four mid week standard sessions, 1 long session at the weekend. This is also about getting us to a point where have a little leeway over Christmas. So this is my benchmark, where I am right now (192lbs). I don't want to go back over it during the festive period. If I lose about 3-4lbs before 23rd December (when work ends and the fun begins) that should be enough breathing space. I'm hoping to be able to hit the gym at least once and do some walking (trudging*) through the snow so stabilise the damage.
As such, I shall be going back to basics and jotting down my consumption and exercise again. A tad boring I know but it's helpful to keep me focused.
So yesterday I ate:
2 apples
1 orange
1 tuna sandwich (two slices of seeded batch bread, butter, 1 tin of drained tuna)
2 slices of toast, butter, marmite
1 Penguin (it's a biscuit, not a bird...)
Couple of small pieces of tikka chicken
1 pitta bread, toasted, a little houmous, a little tzatziki
1 Battered Haddock, Mash, Mushy peas, ketchup, can of Bass Shandy.
Okay, so not perfect but okay. We're trying to clear out our freezer a little which is why the haddock is there. The biscuit wasn't needed but I'm not gonna bitch at myself for it, it's not a regular thing. Same goes for the shandy - I only ever drink it if I'm having some variant of battered or breaded fish (something about it just goes right).
Exercise? 45 mins running, usual cycle. Was planning on an hour but my hip and leg were hurting so cut it short. I think it might be just tension in the leg so I stretched it out after the run. Followed with some crunches and reverse planks.
Easy, feels good.
Just gotta keep at it.
* Trudging - To trudge: the slow, weary, depressing - yet determined - walk of a man who has nothing left in life except the impulse to simply soldier on.
Thursday, 18 November 2010
Slow Posting, slow going
After my good news last week and my intention to update here more....it all came to nothing. A weekend in London (people who walk slower than me really should either stay in days, walk in the gutter or be prepared to be punched in the back of the head. I hate tourists) which included far less drink and far more cupcakes than it should have scuppered me for a few days. But just look at them....
I was shattered from the weekend. A 3 hour train ride home turned into 5 because our shoddy nationalised Railtrack can't stop people stealing copper wire from the signals. Which meant dinner was from the Chinese, yum yum!
Okay, so I'll stop with the excuses and get to the facts. No workouts on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Absolutely shocking performance. Poor form dude, poor form.
Back in the gym last night. Hit the rower, didn't go nuts, kept my time under 9 mins for 2k. 120kcals. Then on the spin bike. Felt great for first 40 minutes but then energy sapped from me and slacked. Not ideal but I think I might well be developing a cold. Temp who sit's next to me refuses to stay at home with her cold is spreading it round. Bloody carriers.
Anyway, I checked the scales this morning to assess the damage. Huh, whaddya know, 13 stone 10lbs (192lbs, 87.1kg). Maybe I have cracked some new fangled diet, cupcakes and stress!
I was shattered from the weekend. A 3 hour train ride home turned into 5 because our shoddy nationalised Railtrack can't stop people stealing copper wire from the signals. Which meant dinner was from the Chinese, yum yum!
Okay, so I'll stop with the excuses and get to the facts. No workouts on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Absolutely shocking performance. Poor form dude, poor form.
Back in the gym last night. Hit the rower, didn't go nuts, kept my time under 9 mins for 2k. 120kcals. Then on the spin bike. Felt great for first 40 minutes but then energy sapped from me and slacked. Not ideal but I think I might well be developing a cold. Temp who sit's next to me refuses to stay at home with her cold is spreading it round. Bloody carriers.
Anyway, I checked the scales this morning to assess the damage. Huh, whaddya know, 13 stone 10lbs (192lbs, 87.1kg). Maybe I have cracked some new fangled diet, cupcakes and stress!
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Current Stats - Redux
Been a bit lax in my updating lately, need to pick up the slack. It's coincided with a drop off in my gym going too - only been twice this week (good sessions though at least, one bike session, one treadmill session) - and too much drinking at the weekend
To kickstart my re-use of this blog I'm going to update you on my stats. I'm not using the gym's monitor any more (or often anyway). If it can't calculate my height or body fat correctly, it's just telling me my weight. Which my bathroom scales can do. So I'm using those guys and leaving the body fat check till I can afford some decent calipers (any recommendations would be appreciated). It also means I can do it at home at the same time each week, which will be Thursday mornings (should be longest time since I've had something to drink).
So weight this morning:
Weight: 194lbs/88kg
Woop! I am under the 14 stone barrier finally. Yeah it's in the morning before I've even had a glass of water but still, I'm not gonna bitch. Between my original weigh in back on the 1st October, I've lost 8lbs. More like 14lbs since I actually started taking my training seriously again which was a week or so before that.
I think the key to this has been my weekday breakfast of fruit without increasing my cals later in the day. This has been an easy change to make, I love fruit anyway, and seems to be melting the fat off me despite my brief relapses into laziness.
Speaking of stripping out calories, I've often been having tuna sandwiches for lunch, but because one tin of tuna is too much for a single sandwich, it ends up two. Frankly, I don't think I need the extra bread, even if it is wholemeal. I often come away from lunch feeling a bit stuffed, which I don't want. I think I'll just try stuff the sarnie for now and just munch at the counter whatever won't fit.
In regards to training, the running seems to be really good in terms of both calorie burn and CV fitness, but it seems to have brought on a pain in my right hip. I might alternate my sessions between the bike and the treadmill to help reduce this, at least till it stops. I'm wondering if it's my stride doing the damage as I have long legs and the treadmill doesn't give me much room to stretch unless I'm going hard. Let me know your thoughts if your reading this.
Okay, so with that good news I am going to re-motivate myself. There's a chance I'll be in Oz next year so I want to be in good condition by the time I'm there. A barman extraordinaire like myself (well I was before I wound up in a bank) needs to look their best if they want to maximise their tips.
To kickstart my re-use of this blog I'm going to update you on my stats. I'm not using the gym's monitor any more (or often anyway). If it can't calculate my height or body fat correctly, it's just telling me my weight. Which my bathroom scales can do. So I'm using those guys and leaving the body fat check till I can afford some decent calipers (any recommendations would be appreciated). It also means I can do it at home at the same time each week, which will be Thursday mornings (should be longest time since I've had something to drink).
So weight this morning:
Weight: 194lbs/88kg
Woop! I am under the 14 stone barrier finally. Yeah it's in the morning before I've even had a glass of water but still, I'm not gonna bitch. Between my original weigh in back on the 1st October, I've lost 8lbs. More like 14lbs since I actually started taking my training seriously again which was a week or so before that.
I think the key to this has been my weekday breakfast of fruit without increasing my cals later in the day. This has been an easy change to make, I love fruit anyway, and seems to be melting the fat off me despite my brief relapses into laziness.
Speaking of stripping out calories, I've often been having tuna sandwiches for lunch, but because one tin of tuna is too much for a single sandwich, it ends up two. Frankly, I don't think I need the extra bread, even if it is wholemeal. I often come away from lunch feeling a bit stuffed, which I don't want. I think I'll just try stuff the sarnie for now and just munch at the counter whatever won't fit.
In regards to training, the running seems to be really good in terms of both calorie burn and CV fitness, but it seems to have brought on a pain in my right hip. I might alternate my sessions between the bike and the treadmill to help reduce this, at least till it stops. I'm wondering if it's my stride doing the damage as I have long legs and the treadmill doesn't give me much room to stretch unless I'm going hard. Let me know your thoughts if your reading this.
Okay, so with that good news I am going to re-motivate myself. There's a chance I'll be in Oz next year so I want to be in good condition by the time I'm there. A barman extraordinaire like myself (well I was before I wound up in a bank) needs to look their best if they want to maximise their tips.
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