BelfastBiker's Fitness Blog.

260.0lbs on 17th March, 257.4lbs on 6th April.

262 lbs on 21st April.

258.1lbs now.

Talk about zigzagging!

I suppose the being down nearly 4lbs in a week is good, if I could do half that this week, game back on!

Also 57 miles mostly walking in last week (tiny amount of running) for a total of 353 miles so far this year.  Starting to up the miles a little on average….

Bizarrely though, the chest/hip/thigh/waist measurement don’t show a LOT of change, despite throwing two pairs of trousers out and being able to fit in two other pair, and shifting a couple of belt holes too. Perhaps not having my proper measuring tape is a factor, hopefully it’ll turn up. ) 

Wonder if I can get go apeshit, get 4.4lbs off this week, get to 80 lbs lost ? Nah…. too much to ask for…. isn’t it? 

And had to throw out two pairs of trousers and delve into my collection of “no-longer-fit-me” clothes to find two pairs that now do!

Also 65miles walking this week (with a tiny bit of #BarefootRunning in there too.)

Off to shop for cakes and chocolates, it’s carb up time for this low carber!

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 it’ll show in all those times I DELIBERATELY walk to someone instead of phoning or emailing them.  

Gonna have four eggs with lots of butter beat-up in a cup to celebrate. :)

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 eating almost completely, it’s fantastic!!!

One wee thing, I was lighter the previous day - it’s shocking how a salty snack and meal yesterday can hurt a couple of days of dieting!  To think I used to do that at worse each and every day, any wonder I got up to 23 and a half stone. :)

Just a walk to work and back and a bit - bit late posting this, so walk was actually yesterday!

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.

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 prominent if I bend over to do things like tie shoelaces.  Thinking of getting slip-ons. :)

Fasting Blood Lipids/Glucose/Cholesterol test pencilled in for Monday too.

Not letting it stop me walking, that’s low-BPM exercise anyhow.  I’ll pause the C25K running program though - my intervals are typically 150-160bpm, which is 75-80% of max HR, so I’m not taking a risk.

Scared.  I’ve had these pains for months, and should have sorted this before now.  But I realise that these pains may be partly the reason for my horribly disgusting nightmares, where I’m dragged below ground, and have things thrust into my lungs, or crawl onto my brain etc.  I literally FEAR falling asleep, so end up falling asleep at 3AMish.

Hopefully, HOPEFULLY, I’m just being paranoid, considering mum’s cough got worse and worse, and her cancer was only found when she was taken in with pains in her torso.  It’s natural I’d be concerned, I guess.

If there’s some sort of thing there, or a narrowing or some bloodline somewhere, and they can deal with that, then knowing now is better than not knowing now.

All good vibes and prayers gratefully received. :)

Nearly 5lbs down from last weigh-in, all the right direction!

Walk to work, walk at lunchtime, bit of a walk home, and then C25K W1D2.  Great food today also.  Get in!!

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 had a few blowouts, but largely, i’ve been sticking to Paleo - lots of veg and meat, little carbs.

We’l see how that pans out…..

All other trousers drying, needed to pop to shops, had to use reserve pair of jeans, damn near fell down in the shop!

Health-wise, 2010 was great, then got difficult…

Started at 327 lbs, got down to 242 (loss of 85 lbs) halted in September/October, and EXPLODED upwards in December to 258 lbs again.  Ended the year 69 lbs down.  With 160 lbs total target to lose, that left about 90 lbs to go.

But, it’s not all about WEIGHT - even taking my blip into consideration, all my measurements are in a positive direction:

• Chest 54->47”
• Bum 59->49”
• Waist 56->45”
• Resting HR 100->49bpm
• BP 138/97->120/84

I now run, walk, cycle, weight-train, and finding it easier each week.

I’m committing to 1 lb per week weight loss, and am well on target thus far this year, in January I’m down 7.5 lbs already.

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