Showing posts with label fitness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fitness. Show all posts

Friday, September 9, 2011

Training makes me vain and selfish.

My wife pointed something out to me this morning.  Training for this triathlon has been great for me, I'm more toned than I've been in 15 years, lighter than I've been in 20 and generally pretty happy with myself.   Every trip to the closet is a reminder that my current clothes no longer fit and some of the old time classics in deep storage actually look ok again.  Unfortunately, this is getting pretty boring for the people I live with.

Right now I feel like I've made a new friend - myself - and I love hanging out with him.  But I need to be careful not to neglect my old friends and family.

Friday, May 27, 2011

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.