I really should drop one HIIT session back in to mix up my other (slower) training. You've inspired me dude.
Went for a run on Tuesday, bloody hell that was a hard 4 miles. my fitness has dropped away 
KovacsC wrote:
Went for a run on Tuesday, bloody hell that was a hard 4 miles. my fitness has dropped away
Do something about it then
I am....
Training back on.
Training back on.
Lost a stone since the cottage. Amazing what kicking booze and stressing about money can do.
Lonewolves wrote:
Lost a stone since the cottage. Amazing what kicking booze and stressing about money can do.
You realise that if you stopped buying alcohol in order to kick it around, you'd have more money, right?
Lonewolves wrote:
Lost a stone since the cottage. Amazing what kicking booze and stressing about money can do.
I've got 12 pounds off since the start of Jan, I weighed 1lb less than my heaviest recorded weight.
Always get 5-6lbs off from just stopping Christmas eating and drinking patterns, so don't expect similar losses in February
Back to doing 10-20,000 steps a day and this time I've stopped drinking and intend to stay that way after "Dry January"
Going back to the running club in mid-February as well
Mr Dave wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Lost a stone since the cottage. Amazing what kicking booze and stressing about money can do.
You realise that if you stopped buying alcohol in order to kick it around, you'd have more money, right?
I kick other people's booze.
Well done...
I think I have found your lost weight...
I think I have found your lost weight...
made me chuckle...
So you wanna be a triathlete?
Fact: You will not become efficient at swimming, biking or running overnight. This is NOT an easy sport.
Check your ego at the door because chances are someone fifty pounds heavier than you will lap you in the pool. Not to mention she will be ten or fifteen years older than you, too.
You will be passed on the bike many times, and you will never be the fastest runner in your town.
You will have early morning workouts. Really early.
You will plan your weekends around your swim, bike and run.
You will be up while others are sleeping.
You will be training while others are sitting.
You will discover others who also follow this blood, sweat and tears cult.
You will eventually get a flat tire...and have to change it all by yourself.
No matter what you hear, triathlon is NOT an inexpensive sport.
Warning, it is extremely addictive, hence the impulse spending on wetsuits, bikes, running shoes, aero bars, aero helmets, speed suits, power meters, GPS heart-rate monitors and many other “gotta have” items.
You will hate swimming more times than you like it for the first year.
You will suffer through road trips with whiny fellow triathletes.
You will suffer setbacks.
You may experience an injury.
You will develop a love/hate relationship with a foam roller and ice baths.
You will at some point realize you need a coach.
You will hate swimming for the first year.
You will wear tight clothing.
You will not like how this tight clothing fits or looks.
Your age will take on a whole new meaning.
You will discover a whole new meaning for tan lines.
Food will become an extremely important part of your life.
You will learn new words such as GU, cadence and brick.
You will hate swimming for the first year.
You will spend more time on your bike than on your couch.
You may lose a friend or two because you spend too much time swimming, biking and running, and they could care less about your heart rate training, foam rolling pain or 20-mile bike ride.
You will learn patience.
You will be humbled.
You will start to realize you are paying money to put yourself through pain and suffering, but for some odd reason, you LOVE it.
This sport called triathlon becomes a part of you. You start to plan your entire year around sprint, international, half iron- or full iron-distance races. Your vacations become racing, and you start to realize that this could become a life-long adventure.
Many people settle for things in life. They settle for a crappy job, marriage, friends, food, place to live and overall fitness and health. Those who desire more or those who want more out of life than a drive-thru window and boring sitcom, will choose triathlon or an activity that makes them happy—an activity that will change their life.
Triathlon will change your outlook on life, your career, your marriage, your goals, your friends and many other things you thought you had figured out. It’s not just crossing a finish line or going home with a boring finisher medal. It’s the countless hours that got you to that point—a moment in time that you will NEVER forget, a moment that you will discuss with your family and friends for hours if not days after the event. These discussions will most likely be about how you could have done better. At what point could you have swum faster, biked harder or ran more efficient? This is what will go through your head every day until you get the opportunity to suffer again.
So you wanna be a triathlete? Enjoy the ride and train hard!
So you wanna be a triathlete?
Fact: You will not become efficient at swimming, biking or running overnight. This is NOT an easy sport.
Check your ego at the door because chances are someone fifty pounds heavier than you will lap you in the pool. Not to mention she will be ten or fifteen years older than you, too.
You will be passed on the bike many times, and you will never be the fastest runner in your town.
You will have early morning workouts. Really early.
You will plan your weekends around your swim, bike and run.
You will be up while others are sleeping.
You will be training while others are sitting.
You will discover others who also follow this blood, sweat and tears cult.
You will eventually get a flat tire...and have to change it all by yourself.
No matter what you hear, triathlon is NOT an inexpensive sport.
Warning, it is extremely addictive, hence the impulse spending on wetsuits, bikes, running shoes, aero bars, aero helmets, speed suits, power meters, GPS heart-rate monitors and many other “gotta have” items.
You will hate swimming more times than you like it for the first year.
You will suffer through road trips with whiny fellow triathletes.
You will suffer setbacks.
You may experience an injury.
You will develop a love/hate relationship with a foam roller and ice baths.
You will at some point realize you need a coach.
You will hate swimming for the first year.
You will wear tight clothing.
You will not like how this tight clothing fits or looks.
Your age will take on a whole new meaning.
You will discover a whole new meaning for tan lines.
Food will become an extremely important part of your life.
You will learn new words such as GU, cadence and brick.
You will hate swimming for the first year.
You will spend more time on your bike than on your couch.
You may lose a friend or two because you spend too much time swimming, biking and running, and they could care less about your heart rate training, foam rolling pain or 20-mile bike ride.
You will learn patience.
You will be humbled.
You will start to realize you are paying money to put yourself through pain and suffering, but for some odd reason, you LOVE it.
This sport called triathlon becomes a part of you. You start to plan your entire year around sprint, international, half iron- or full iron-distance races. Your vacations become racing, and you start to realize that this could become a life-long adventure.
Many people settle for things in life. They settle for a crappy job, marriage, friends, food, place to live and overall fitness and health. Those who desire more or those who want more out of life than a drive-thru window and boring sitcom, will choose triathlon or an activity that makes them happy—an activity that will change their life.
Triathlon will change your outlook on life, your career, your marriage, your goals, your friends and many other things you thought you had figured out. It’s not just crossing a finish line or going home with a boring finisher medal. It’s the countless hours that got you to that point—a moment in time that you will NEVER forget, a moment that you will discuss with your family and friends for hours if not days after the event. These discussions will most likely be about how you could have done better. At what point could you have swum faster, biked harder or ran more efficient? This is what will go through your head every day until you get the opportunity to suffer again.
So you wanna be a triathlete? Enjoy the ride and train hard!
Oooh Aero bars.
Starting to push myself a little more at the gym again. Treadmill slightly steeper and weights heavier. Feels good to be back in a routine with it again after Christmas.
Christmas. Guaranteed to undo some of the good that my 5:2 lifestyle has done over the last 3 years. I dare not weigh meself as I'll just be pissed off, but I know my trahziz are not so loose as they were in late December and the amount of snacks, chocky, other tempting nosh we STILL have knocking around is luring me into bad habits.
But I've been good with the booze. I got two boxes of craft beers for Christmas (I think there are 8 bottles in each) and I've limited myself to only one or two per week, which is all I drink weekly for the rest of the year anyway. Being the designated driver at Christmas also helps me to avoid over indulgence with the booze and is a good excuse not to drink more when others are quaffing away and asking if I'd like to join them.
I'm working away from home this week, so I'm in control of my own intake, so I'm trying to be really good. I know I've not really stuck to the 'proper' 5:2 model for a long time. The max of 600 calories per the '2' days has been a little wobbly, but some of the stuff I've been eating/drinking has not been in the spirit of the regime, so I'm determined to get back on track now.
I know I need to exercise more (and now they're saying that 10,000 steps a day isn't needed, 3 x 10 mins of brisk walking is recommended) but I have a slightly dodgy right hip that makes that tricky, so I really must take advantage of my free pass for swimming and get to the pool much more often.
But I've been good with the booze. I got two boxes of craft beers for Christmas (I think there are 8 bottles in each) and I've limited myself to only one or two per week, which is all I drink weekly for the rest of the year anyway. Being the designated driver at Christmas also helps me to avoid over indulgence with the booze and is a good excuse not to drink more when others are quaffing away and asking if I'd like to join them.
I'm working away from home this week, so I'm in control of my own intake, so I'm trying to be really good. I know I've not really stuck to the 'proper' 5:2 model for a long time. The max of 600 calories per the '2' days has been a little wobbly, but some of the stuff I've been eating/drinking has not been in the spirit of the regime, so I'm determined to get back on track now.
I know I need to exercise more (and now they're saying that 10,000 steps a day isn't needed, 3 x 10 mins of brisk walking is recommended) but I have a slightly dodgy right hip that makes that tricky, so I really must take advantage of my free pass for swimming and get to the pool much more often.
So when I came back from the cottage last year I was 218lbs (15st 8, ~99kg) and having popped on the scales yesterday I'm now 197lbs (14st 1, ~89kg) so that means I've lost 1½st (21lbs, ~10kg). That's just with quitting drinking in Nov and watching what I eat since New Year—I've not even started exercising yet this year!
Congrats! You weigh slightly less than me now!
DavPaz wrote:
Congrats! You weigh slightly less than me now!
You're a fair bit taller though, aren't you? I'm 5'9.
I'm 5'11'' in socks.
Keep it up! And do some exercise
Keep it up! And do some exercise
DavPaz wrote:
I'm 5'11'' in socks.
Keep it up! And do some exercise
Keep it up! And do some exercise
Softball season starts soon, and a new gym is opening up within walking distance so I signed up for the intro offer of a tenner a month.
If I can get down to 13st I'll be happy. That's where I was in my early-to-mid 20s.
I'm 13st now.
Before I was very poorly I was 36" waist, now down to 33" waist, noticed my jeans are feeling loose again so maybe get down to 32" which is what I used to be on the olden days.
Before I was very poorly I was 36" waist, now down to 33" waist, noticed my jeans are feeling loose again so maybe get down to 32" which is what I used to be on the olden days.
Damn you skinny folk. I'm still hovering around the 19st mark, but I'm eating slightly better lately so I just need to add some exercise.
Good work myp; I look forward to seeing the new buff you once your gym regime kicks in proper!
I'm 99.5kg at the moment but that's after taking a week off the booze, this weekend might put paid to that. At one point a couple of years or so ago I dipped below 15 stone for the first time really ever and that would be nice, but I'm a good ways away from that.
I'm 99.5kg at the moment but that's after taking a week off the booze, this weekend might put paid to that. At one point a couple of years or so ago I dipped below 15 stone for the first time really ever and that would be nice, but I'm a good ways away from that.
Bamba wrote:
At one point a couple of years or so ago I dipped below 15 stone for the first time really ever
Your poor mother!
markg wrote:
Bamba wrote:
At one point a couple of years or so ago I dipped below 15 stone for the first time really ever
Your poor mother!
I'm hovering around 160lbs because I can't be arsed to eat less, which is basically the only thing stopping me from reaching my goal of 150lbs that I set yonks ago. 
Jem wrote:
I'm hovering around 160lbs because I can't be arsed to eat less, which is basically the only thing stopping me from reaching my goal of 150lbs that I set yonks ago.
I think you might have added an extra hundred, there, Jem!!
Just checked and I’m thinking of kilograms.
Anyway, you’re lovely.
150kg would be fairly hefty
DavPaz wrote:
150kg would be fairly hefty
Yeah, that’s why I thought Jem had mistyped. Jem is powerful lifty strong, but not to that degree. I think I misread trader than miscalculated.
Mimi wrote:
Anyway, you’re lovely.
Not 'alf as lovely as you
I am still chunky... carry on
Fucking hell i'm unfit! Haven't done any running in well over a year, probably two. A 2k run just killed me 
I’d leave it if I were you, else you’ll make that lovely coat and it won’t fit your new buff physique. That’d be a shame. Pop the kettle on and have a biscuit to maintain the status quo.
But definitely not 2 biscuits. Oh, well I've opened the packet now. I'll just have another then put it away. Hmm, there's less than half left and they'll just go stale if I leave them
*boils kettle again*
*boils kettle again*
You’ve always got to eat 4+ biscuits from a new pack, otherwise there’s not enough packet to twist/fold down to seal them again and they’ll go stale.
Even the little ‘pull to open’ tab is about three biscuits down.
Even the little ‘pull to open’ tab is about three biscuits down.
and then the wrapper rips halfway down, so you have to keep going till you get to a place to stop. I almost bought a biscuit tin in Morrisons today, but then thought, what's the point...
Did my first parkrun this morning. Took it very easy as I had 2 seven year olds and a5 year old with me. MrsPaz sped off in pursuit of a PB, but we enjoyed our lollop.
I started a yoga programme on Monday and have also made a concerted effort to eat more fruit and veg and less rubbish. It's time to start feeling good about myself again.
I have not lost any weight but managed to get into a size 10 for a wedding last week which has left me a little confused despite literally saying on facebook recently that body weight in lbs != meaningful metric alone.
I did my first 70 miler on the bike.
Got 4 weeks till my race. Getting a bit nervous.
Got 4 weeks till my race. Getting a bit nervous.
Jem wrote:
I have not lost any weight but managed to get into a size 10 for a wedding last week which has left me a little confused despite literally saying on facebook recently that body weight in lbs != meaningful metric alone.
Muscle is tighter packed than fat. I was the same weight for most of last year but dropped 2 Jean sizes.
I was more surprised by my ability to give advice but not take it tbh
If you'd have told me 2 years ago that I'd be voluntarily getting up at 6am on a wednesday to go running in the rain, I'd have said that it was unlikely.
Well, I'd have been wrong.
Well, I'd have been wrong.
Strava next. Then peeking at the next-nearest parkrun and thinking 'well, why not a change?'...
DavPaz wrote:
If you'd have told me 2 years ago that I'd be voluntarily getting up at 6am on a wednesday to go running in the rain, I'd have said that it was unlikely.
Well, I'd have been wrong.
Well, I'd have been wrong.
Well, you'd said "unlikely", which I don't think is technically wrong.
Trust me, at 5:59am this morning, 'unlikely' was still a strong possibility.
JBR wrote:
Strava next. Then peeking at the next-nearest parkrun and thinking 'well, why not a change?'...
And then a few years later, scrambling through an Asian jungle wondering "How did I get here?", presumably
DavPaz wrote:
JBR wrote:
Strava next. Then peeking at the next-nearest parkrun and thinking 'well, why not a change?'...
And then a few years later, scrambling through an Asian jungle wondering "How did I get here?", presumably
And you may find yourself
In another part of the world
...
And you may ask yourself, well
How did I get here?
DavPaz wrote:
And then a few years later, scrambling through an Asian jungle wondering "How did I get here?", presumably
Ha! Well, I hope not, for your sake - you'll either wonder where on earth the family are ("Why am I scrambling up this on my own?"), or bitterly regret bringing them to this sticky muddy spot. Though the parkruns in Aus, NZ, Singapore and Malaysia would have kept you all entertained on the way.
Weight loss has plateaued a bit lately. I'm getting to the stage where I can't take the piss and eat takeaways or cake and still expect to lose weight now. The issue I have is once I get to April I start exercising more regularly and this makes me more hungry, so I eat more.
I need to be a bit more disciplined and not, for example, eat 12 Jaffa cakes with lunch.
I need to be a bit more disciplined and not, for example, eat 12 Jaffa cakes with lunch.
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