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It's km/h or kmh^-1

I have just had a Bupa Medical, Since my last medical June 2012, my BMI has dropped from 33 to 25, Currently at 16st 12 so need to shift more 6lbs.

Nice work!

I'm about 6lbs off my fattest weight on record when I dieted and exercised before my wedding 5 years ago.

Used to do a lot of running with my wife and she was always the driver of us going and doing it, now we have a son we never go together and I never go at all.

Has a back op a year ago so that held me up and I also have been making excuses as well.

So now I have joined a group at work, we all weighed ourselves and will be running just over 2 miles 3 times a week at lunch time

Hope that I will do more at weekends as well, I'm lucky that generally once I start up exercise I find I have soon get fit again and can increase my distances

Do you use Strava? it is good for achievements and kudos, and it seems to help.

Not used anything like that, my wife has a old Garmen watch that I don't think does that much very easily with SmartPhones

Was thinking that if I can keep it up I might invest in something to see how may miles you have to run to get rid of all the weight, hopefully that will start me thinking the next time I drink beer or eat shit food!

Strava, is a web app, there is a mobile down load.

I have my garmin connect software connects to strava.

Strava's useful not so much for the recording - though that's interesting - but because you can compare yourself with locals running/cycling the same route, and see what others have been up to that week. If your group were on it would put your joint runs together, but also perhaps give you the quick 'oh, they've just done a sneaky 3 on Saturday' motivation. You can log exercise with a GPS watch and connect it up or directly from the app using your phone.

Plus you can link it to your parkrun profile, so it has become quite the social thing for me.

Oh, not linked it to park run yet..

Bought a new heart rate monitor strap. As my old one says my BPM was 240 all the time.

A selling point for new one is 'one size fits most'

Have found a brilliantly priced bike with 19" frame 26" wheels - is that too small a frame, though?...

Depends on leg length

I would go to your local bike shop and try a few for size.

I would go to your local bike shop and try a few for size.

*goes to fetch a tape measure* to hip?

Right, I have a 32" inside leg, which should put me at 5"10', but I'm only 5"5' - this does not make choosing a bike the easiest task... *goes to cycle surgery*

No true. I have 34 leg and 6'2. I would go and sit on a few

I was thinking about getting a fitness band for the missus for Valentines (ever the romantic, me). Any suggestions as to the best?

I got Mimi the Fitbit for Christmas and it seems to have gone down well. Auto syncs with the phone and computer, and tracks steps and sleep patterns.

I use a garmin 910xt, but that might be overkill. I records multisport activites.

Didn't they get recalled, or was that something else?

One of the models did, but not all models.

my training so far.

Just signed up to do Yorkshire 3 Peaks for BHF Fundraising stuff. 24 miles and 3 hills in under 12 hours. I'll shake you down for cash closer to the time.

Great stuff. When?

11th July. It is going to hurt

So my weeks are now looking like this until the end of April:

Mon - Gym
Tue - Fasting
Wed - Spin
Thu - Fasting
Fri - Cricket nets
Sat - Baseball practice
Sun - Rest

Fingers crossed that will get the belly shifted.

That will depend largely on what you eat/drink.

Not really. I am only having 600 calories on Tues and Thurs.

You still have to eat sensibly on the other five days if you want to lose weight.

I'll eat around 2,500 calories most days.

Just did a 5k walk in 45 minutes and strava reckons I've used 500 calories. Running is for chumps!

For the first time in my life since I was only a few months old, I now actually (believe it or not) have a BMI in the healthy range*.

Alas, my body fat % is still only 9%. When it should be 14 as a minimum.

But still, progress.

* - or at least it was before they poisoned me on wednesday.

I had a doctors appointment today where they questioned an anomolous BMI measurement taken two weeks ago, which wasn't calculating properly.

Looking at the fields the nurse filled in I was listed as 63(cm) tall and weigh 177(kg)...

D'oh.

So they dragged you in to see if you were essentially a solid space hopper without actually checking it *might* possibly be a clerical error? Did they have previous readings and thought "FUCK ME she's got caught in a car crusher" or the like?

Yeah, you're taller than that. 80cm?

Hehe, no, I was there for an appointment anyway. I only joined that surgery two weeks ago, so they were my initial recorded measures from that date, but as I've been fainting noticed that my BMI was very wrong,

Rechecked both and they'd just been swapped in the boxes when they were typed in. Like to think they might have thought I was a space hopper, though.

Shut it.

Have you contacted Disney to see if they need another Ewok for the new Starwars film?

Started running again, go out every 2nd day on a 1.5 mile circuit around the block, on Fridays my wife drags me out with her and our son (in the jogging buggy) for a 3 mile run. Been doing it 3 weeks now.

Feel so much brighter in the day and sleep like a log, some muscle stiffness but its all where is should be, in my legs as a pose to my back, so that means my disc op has worked

Plan to increase distance in the next month or so as the days get lighter

Glad I've finally started

Too hairy.

Lol.

Shut it again.

*double take*

Well my running was going really well until last week when I went skateboarding and tweaked my already fucked knee then decided to run five miles the next day thinking it would somehow help make it better. It really didn't. It's fine again now apart from a weird thumb-sized lump underneath one of the surgery scars but I still can't run because I'm full of some shitty virus cold thing again. Ah well.

My new steed.

Very nice

Angle's a bit severe

Weighed myself yesterday... down to 16 stone 6...

I look hot

Probably the menopause.