Fuelling the Engine - 1. Getting it Wrong and a Lesson

I love my steak. Thats ok, tri training actually needs heaps of protein so usually I dont feel guilty but last night it all went wrong. What was the problem? Portion control!

While I love my steak, my local butcher (yeah its part of a chain prime quality meats - but they are reasonably priced, grow their own, hormone free and it tastes great) has cheap, but great quality, waygu rump. This is a trap and I fell for it. Two massive bits of meat and I felt like I was having a little waygu baby. Whether I did much damage to my diet or not I felt like crap all night.

The lessons?

1. Do not buy more than you should eat.

2. If its a sale and you really have to buy extras, freeze the excess immediately, DO NOT COOK IT!

Some of you may have the willpower to ignore these rules, I dont and I just got a nasty reminder of that weakness.

Well, a quick, unscheduled hour ride was added to my training this morning to compensate. Was this effective? Was it needed? Am I becoming a little obsessive? Dont know the answers to the first two questions yet but I suspect the answer to the last is yes.

Back again as a changing man

This will be a quick post to reactivate my blog and get myself kicked off.

So whats the big news? Well I'm a changing (not yet changed) man. Like some 70% of the population this year I made myself a promise, that I would lose weight, that I would get fit and that I would take up triathlons as a sport.

Well a few months into 2011 and it was all looking pretty sick but then a few weeks ago I lay in bed feeling sick, with horrible indigestion and unable to sleep. Finally it was time to get up and I just felt like shit. I looked like crap. But worse of all it finally dawned on me that I was going to die if something didnt change. ok, maybe I wasnt going to die that week, or month or even year but I was certain to drop off the perch earlier than I wanted to and earlier than I had to.

So I finally, really, took the decision to change.

For that last 6 weeks or so I've trained everyday but 2. I've put myself on a pretty strict diet and so far so good.

So some stats. I'm 192cm tall (or 6'3"). When I started this journey a few weeks back I was 127.5 kg (281 lb). Now I'm at 121 kg (266 lb). A loss of 6.5 kg or 15 lb. I realise this weight loss is not spectacular but combined with my strength and fitness improvements I'm pretty stoked. I didnt take a gut measurement at the start of this but now its 120cm. I do know all my clothes feel (and look) a lot better so something's getting better.

Ok, well thats it for now. More to come as tomorrow (I promise) I'll be back.