February 2012
14 posts
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12.4 miles walked, 249/2500 to target....
Good distance today, and over 25K steps. Left calf a wee bit ballixed with the barefoot running!
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6 miles walked, 237/2500 miles to target. #FitBit...
Haven’t left house much today, and managed to walk 6 miles while bro and myself cleaned and tidied my house top to bottom -climbed stairs exactly 50 times!
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5lbs DOWN this wk - 70lbs loss total! #Paleo...
I *knew* I could redress last weeks silly weight-gain! Even though my lovely work colleagues provided many cakes and buns and chocs and sweets on my birthday. :)
Being MOSTLY paleo diet-wise is helping greatly - also started barefoot running with Couch to-5K yesterday… hopefully get injured less! My new FitBit is working great, after I finally worked out how to calibrate it, so hopefully...
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9.5 miles walked, 231/2500 miles to target. ...
Got my FitBit today, another gadget to keep me right - bit of an easier way to track mileage and number of steps. Had no fun calibrating it at all, had to walk the same 0.7 mile loop 5 times! all sorted now….
Also started C25K, barefoot this time - I hear good things about barefoot running… we’ll see how that goes. Damn treadmill gets hot underfoot….
221 / 2500 miles to target. Forgot to log this...
Oops…..
6 miles walked, 213/2500 to target... #GoTheDist
Bak to it….
4.8 lbs UP this week! All better now though....
Buggery ballix! :)
For a variety of reasons/excuses (mostly gone now) I’ve tkaen the eye off the ball walking and foodwise, and end up hugely UP! To think my diet and lifestyle was liek this 24/7 before….any wonder I got up to 330lbs….
Anyhow will do a long walk later, and a healthy food shop. Back in control…
4.8 lbs…. sheesh!!!
8 miles walking, 200/2500 to target. #GotTheDist
Plus 7 miles biking on Sunday, how could I forget? My ass certainly cannot.
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3.5 lbs DOWN this week. 70lbs DOWN total....
That’s FIVE stone gone, only about six or seven to go - Walking lots and 90% paleo diet is working very well for me, and haven’t needed to count calories!
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10.2miles walking, 192/2500 to target. #GoTheDist
Clawing back a wee bit of deficit.. :)
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5 miles walking, 182/2500 to target. #GoTheDist
Bit light, other things doing today, had to get two buses home, sadly.
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9 miles done, 177/2500 miles to target. #GoThedist
Busy day, no lunchtime walk, but decent mileage nonetheless. Allowed myself a chocolate bar, apart from that solid as hell Paleo diet. roll on payday to allow me to prep food better!
January 2012
27 posts
5.2miles done, 167/2500 miles to target....
Bit light, uncontrollable water leak this morning made me get the bus to work, grrr!!!
5 miles done, 163/2500 miles to target. #GoTheDist
Tired, not sleeping.
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2.7 lbs DOWN this week, 11lbs DOWN this month,...
Also this month I’ve taken 2” off my chest, 2” off my ass and 2.5” off my waist. AND my resting heart rate is down TWENTY to 62bpm.
Now, I’m basically at my weight/heart rate/measurement stats that I was at last May 2011. So I’ve just rewound 7 months of neglect in less than a month. Over 150miles of walking has clearly helped, but I put this down to Paleo...
8.2 miles done, 157/2500 miles to target....
Did half of those barefoot on the treadmill. When I start running again, will consider that barefoot too, so basically training my arches tonight.
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Great Cholesterol results for a fatty!
TOTAL Cholesterol - 151 mg/dl (<200 is good, >240 is high risk.)
HDL - 39 mg/dl (getting that up to 40 would be best, or higher, work to do!)
LDL - 101 mg/dl (right on the edge of fantastic - reduced chance of atherosclerosis, heart attack, stroke. >160 is high.)
Cholesterol Ratio - 3.9 (well into low risk, less chance of heart disease. >9.5 is moderate risk,...
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5 miles done, 149/2500 miles to target. ...
Tired.
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4.5 miles done, 144 / 2500 miles to target....
“Normal.” Had to ask the nurse to repeat it over the phone.
“Normal.” Not a winner for talker of the world, or greatest rapport, but I could have kissed her down the phone line.
Waiting for chest x-ray results when you’ve unexplained occasional pains in the left part of chest under rib cage, where you heart is, and recent memory or exactly how your mum’s...
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8.7 miles done, 140/2500 miles to target....
Plodding along. Not loving the dozen or so sharp but minor synchronous pains in left of chest plus upper left back that happened over a few mins on walk to work. Not terrible, just weird. Perhaps I’m just a worrywart. Is that even a word?
Chest x-ray results tomorrow. Hope they just say “all clear big lad, come in for further checks to see if we can find what the occasional...
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6 miles done, 131/2500 miles to target. #GoTheDist
Cut short today, things to do. Only walked part way to work, walked to/from docs, walked home. Ho hum. Still at it though.
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8 miles done, 125/2500 miles down. #GoTheDist
Just a walk to work and back and a bit - bit late posting this, so walk was actually yesterday!
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3.7lbs DOWN this week. 61lbs down total....
Only 100lbs to go now! Not even having to count calories at all on Paleo eating. Been doing well since December. Down from my starting point of 327lbs to 266lbs currently. In old money, that’s 23stone 5lbs, down to 19stone dead.
Yeah, I got this.
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4.5miles done, 117/2500miles down. #GoThedist
Not feeling it today, walk to work and lunch, but couldn’t be arsed walking any more, early night.
8 miles done, 112/2500miles down. #GoTheDist
Bed early, feeling depressed, typing this on iPhone. Was planning on going beyond the 8 miles today using treadmill, but mind’s not in it. Catch you tomorrow.
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7 miles done, 104/2500miles down. #GoTheDist
Left chest/left jugular niggly pains, so not running for now. Scan done today, results in a week. Pain in heart area comes and goes, pulses even, gets worse if I have a big meal so I don’t have big meals any more. I call it the “scared as fuck of dying diet”.™
Pain in left jugular area is all around there - upper left chest, neck, jugular, left ear, left shoulder. Is more...
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10 miles done, 97/2500miles down. #C25K #W2D3...
WEE bit late late of the Week 2 Day 3 of the couch to 5K. Now just 15miles behind my 7m/day target! Knee still giving issue, otherwise, I’d do this deficit in two days…
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7 miles done, 87/2500miles down. #GoTheDist
Walk to graveyard, into town, back from town… had to cut short due to shooting back pains. :(
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4.8lbs DOWN, 11 miles done, 80/2500miles done. ...
Nearly 5lbs down from last weigh-in, all the right direction!
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5.4miles done, 69.5/2500miles down. #GoTheDist
Jut walking today, started too late ,hence limited distance.
Weigh-in tomorrow, oo-er…..
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8.5miles done, 64/2500miles down. #C25K #GoTheDist
Bit of walking, bit of running today, clawing back the deficit….
6 miles done, 56/2500miles down. #GoTheDist
Three walks together today, right knee still a bit sore!!
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8 miles done, 49.6/2500miles done. #GoTheDist...
Week 2 Day 1 of C25K, not too bad! Plus three walks today. No weight training, ran out of time!
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9.75miles done, 41.4/2500 miles down! #GoTheDist
Completed week one of Couch to 5K, not bad! Also did 8.1 slow miles on the treadmill - knee doesn’t allow me to walk very fast currently! Most miles overall though since started… Finally, I’ve bumped up the yearly target from 2400miles to a round 2500. EDIT: I’d worked out the total miles wrong, it’s not 39.75, it’s 41.4. rocking….
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6 miles walking, 30/2400 miles down! #GoTheDist
Light day, right knee niggly, so a bit lighter effort today especially as had photo class tonight, and didn’t want to walk home so so late. Tomorrow wil be much more covered in awesomesauce.
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7 miles walk&run, 24/2400 miles down. #C25K #W1D2...
Walk to work, walk at lunchtime, bit of a walk home, and then C25K W1D2. Great food today also. Get in!!
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8 miles done, 0017/2400miles down. #GoTheDist
Treadmill, it’s cold outside and I wanted to watch things while walking!
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2 steps forward, 1 step back (#GoTheDist)
(Stock check of where I’ve been, where I got to, where I am now, to compare with as I’m going along.)
3 measurements for each thing: Starting point on Dec 31 2009, Low point at 26th Sep 2010, and current state:
Weight: 327lbs / 242lbs / 274.5lbs
Waist: 56in / 42in / 47.5in
Thigh: 32in / 25.5in / 29.5in
Chest: 54in / 44.5in / 49.5in
Ass: 59in / 46.5in / 51in
See why I say...
9 walk/run miles done out of 2400 target.
Did 3miles in the wee hours on the treadmill, just done the other 6miles on local streets. Cold!!
http://runkeeper.com/user/belfastbiker/activity/64502835
Also done the Chest/Shoulders/Tri’s workout this morning too…
http://fb.pumpone.com/ipump-web/print?printjobid=68bdg0o0000j96dapc9g000000
A decent start!
December 2011
4 posts
3 mile walk to bring in the new year...
…benefits of a good treadmill. Looks fecking cold outside. :)
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Down 2.6lbs. Not a bad XMAS gift!
For once, ever I haven’t put on the expected 8-10lbs over xmas.
I was just over 277lbs on 10th December, and now, going into the new year, I’m 274.5lbs. I was HONESTLY expecting the scale to say 284/5, which is why I haven’t weighed myself since the 10th.
Can’t really explain it, my exercise has been shot to pieces, but I suppose the food has been…. OK. I’ve...
November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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Struggling.
Broke down in work 10 days ago, been off since. Mum’s terminal illness is a roller coaster, mostly one hurtling down. She used to have “up’ weeks, then up days, now I’m happy if she feels some sort of respite for a couple of hours.
Doc said apart from arranging counselling for me I should exercise. Just as well, as with my weight up to 270lbs, it feels like I’m...
June 2011
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263.3lbs, 37.2% bodyfat. 1st day with @Withings...
First automatic weigh-in on the new Withings scales. If these don’t keep me honest, nothing will. 263.3lbs and 37.2% bodyfat. Dead on the weight, and within variance of my previous “normal” scales, so statistically insignificant. No matter which is closer to true, this is the scale I’ll be using from here on.
Step on, weight and bodyfat automatically shoots to...