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For context.

Really??

Crikey. I'm 34 waist, but with a 'you're older and chocolate turns to fat a lot easier' type belly.

Sometimes I can wear a belt with my 24 trousers. Other times not so much.

Yeah. It does vary on how much I've had to eat, but I vary from 32 being a bit loose to a 32 being too tight but needing a belt for the few pairs of 34" trousers I own.

I can't get in 32 as my legs are too big.

I'm staggered that I'm the same waist as Mr Dave, KovacsC, and Russ!

I think I need to start losing weight though. T-shirts no longer hang off me like tents.

I'm a 34 waist too!

What colour are your trousers?

I am in Levi's 562. In a traditional denim.

I'm staggered that at 13st 2lb, I still have to buy 36 inch waist troos. It must be my child bearing hips.

your helium filled balloon head counteracts the heavy belly-ness.

We'll probably get away with a bunk bed we're that tiny now.

(I'm still 15 and a half stone so maybe not so much)

You look older than that.

Northern climate and crystal meth.

Jesus, Kovacs, you must be like a racing snake now. My trousers are all 32-34", with 34" usually needing a belt to feel secure - they never fall down completely, but hang around my hips in that horrible "teenager" styley.

I can't decide whether I should be more concerned about my expanding waistline or my rapidly retreating hairline.

Cycled in to work twice this week and it's starting to get easier again. I'll be pleased if I can manage two journeys a week all the way through till October this year.

not quite a racing snake, still got a bit of a belly to shift

Nice one!

good work!

It's a decent journey to get some exercise - 9 and a bit miles each way with a proper hill to climb while carrying a change of clothes and my laptop gets the heart rate up but doesn't take so long that you begrudge the time to do it. It also means I don't need to "waste" time going out in the evenings just to get some exercise.

https://www.strava.com/activities/263658134

I couldn't do it every day even if I wanted to as I need the car for work some days, but I can usually work round that and the shitty weather.

That's good planning. I wish I did that.

If you wear your trousers on your hips then you can get away with smaller waist sizes. I wear a 34 but my waist size is actually about 68.

I don't think he meant centimetres.

Speaking of middle aged spread this is Andy Bell from Erasure at the funeral of Steve Strange this week

Oh come on. He deserves a little respect

Stop!

(not gonna lie, my first thought on seeing that photo was that his head looked like Alex Murphy's face without the helmet on in the original Robocop - just a piece of skin badly stretched over a skull too big for the neck.)

Fuck a duck! Did he eat Vince Clarke? And no, not just his winky.

I'm on a very healthy eating tip now. And more exercise once I'm allowed.

See if I can get down to 32 waist. I was up to 36" a couple of years ago and last year down to 34". Not been weighed until I was in hospital and was told I'm 13stone 8lb and 6' tall. Not sure what my weight should be, just want to shift my belly really.

You're probably just in the 'overweight' BMI classification. I'm firmly in it!

You're roughly the same height and weight as me (if you discount my gargantuan bonce, natch). Clearly most of your weight comes from bacon grease lining your major arteries.

Too soon?

In actual fact I'm almost obese according to the NHS BMI tracker, which seems about right for a baseball player.

For the first time in many many years, i am not

I am one fucking happy bunny!!

My PB for the park run yesterday.

You beat my PB dude - nice job

Thanks.. will take a while to beat that.

Don't worry about Saturday night btw. All you missed was me getting completely off my face, crying all over Gaz and going to bed before 10pm.

I'm never drinking again.

(Til next time anyway.)

Ha ha.. i could not keep awake.. Perhaps doing a Parkrun and Playing Rugby was too much.. it was a bloody hard game.

I still hurt.

Not really liking what I see in the mirror at the moment (in profile anyway), so it's spin tonight, baseball tomorrow, spin wednesday, cricket Friday, then a short amble on Sunday.

parkrun parkrun! Good work, man. I ran Basildon - there are so many different ones. It's a three lapper, and normally I don't like those, but it's a varied lap with a lake to run round, and entertainingly Essex, complete with the orange folk dotted through the field. Nice folk.

Welcome to my world.

Make sure you put a rest day in, to recover.

Thursday, innit.

Exercise won't cure your face though

Got rid of 8.5lbs now, still have a way to go maybe another 2 stone or more

Extending the run this week, went out with my wife and son (we have a jogging buggy) and did 2.5 miles, I didn't stop once which I was please about as my fitness is getting better.

Hard thing is still getting out, often I get home and my son is all over me, he gets really upset if I move the cars about on the drive as he thinks I'm going somewhere without him, never mind me going running.

Might start running in the mornings once it gets lighter.

I am down to 16 stone 2. But worried it is still falling. Not sure I am eating properly.

That's a pretty damn impressive 5k time to carry 16 stone around in.

Cheers, now aiming for 25 mins.

Having colds all winter, horrible weather, lack of spare time, bad legs and some laziness are all combining to keep me from regaining any sort of running form. Need to just get on with it now, though.

25 mins is my next target. We should pace each other

While I drag myself along the floor 10 minutes behind you, clawing at the gravel as if my life depends on it.