Full fridge = big belly

My diet and traning regime hit the buffers over the last few weeks as my life became a bit more hectic and my daughter and her partner kept filling my fridge with tasty delights that I had trouble avoiding! However, they now have their own fridge in their own flat so it's back to the diet and training. I'll post some new pics when I'm down to 94.0kg and then I'll have a better idea of how long it's going to take me to get to 80kg.

95.0 KG

Day 26 - 04/10

95.0 kg

One of the problems that I am experiencing is the fact that I have other family members living in my house and when we go shopping they often pack the fridge and cupboards with all the tasty stuff that I'm trying to avoid. I also had a night on the beer, which sometimes you can't avoid, and this was followed by a large chicken doner, so that probably set me back a few days.

My training is gradually increasing in it's intensity and I did some out of the saddle work on the spin bike this morning and managed to stay out of the saddle for 120 revs so that was a good improvement and certainly got a good pump in the legs.

At the moment my diet consists mainly of tuna fish, celery, salad and chicken and I'm trying to cut down on all carbs including bread and potatoes although I do occasionally have a bowl of porridge.
 

FAT Again!

Day 1 - 09/09

98.3kg

OK. I'm sitting here weighing-in at just under 100kg and I've decided that I need to sort my life out and stop being a lazy fat bastard!

I have a job, like many others no doubt, that allows me to sit at a desk all day and do fuck-all exercise. I also work from home, which means that I'm never more than 10 seconds away from the fridge.

I did realise earlier this year how fat and lazy I had become, so I set a challenge to get down from over 100kg to sub 90kg. This I did achieve over a few months through exercise and diet and I was starting to get into shape. However, as soon as I hit sub 90kg and the Summer arrived I moved back into 'lazy fat fucker' mode and added copious amounts of beer to my diet which has seen my weight balloon back up to almost 100kg ... DOH.

Now I've always been involved in sports such as running, football, swimming and weight training, so I understand different types of training. I also competed in a couple of natural bodybuilding competitions way back when I was much younger, so I also know quite a bit about diet.

In hindsight my previous challenge was probably not demanding enough. I was fat at 100kg and in pretty good shape at 90kg, but now I want to be ripped! I mean bodybuilder style shredded with a very low body fat percentage and an ultra-defined physique. Judging by my previous effort I probably need to get closer to 80kg to achieve this look ..... in fact 80kg will by my goal.

Therefore my aim will be to move from a lard-arse 98.3kg to a 6-packed 80kg in a period of 20 weeks. Losing 1kg per week should be fine, but I fully expect that it will get a lot harder after I have dipped below 90g as my body fat will naturally be lower and the step from 85kg to 80kg will be pretty tough. Now my 52nd birthday is on January 14th and that's roughly 20 weeks away .... so that is the goal!

I'm feeling like a sack of shite today as the missus has give me her cold and sore throat. The weather has suddenly changed from 29 degrees last week to 13 degrees today so that hasn't helped things either. I doubt if I'll train today, but I'll definitely be avoiding the beer/biscuits/cakes/bacon/sausages etc.


Day 3 - 11/09

OK. I've been unable to train due to having this cold but I might try and jump on the spin bike this evening for an easy 20 minutes if I'm feeling better.

So here's how I look today:

 Kinda looking a bit serious eh? I'll try and put a smile on my face for the next set of pics.

And a side pose:

What a handsome chap!

So the type of physique that I'm aiming for is probably something kinda like this maybe?

Day 6 - 14/09

Finally feeling well enough to start training. It was my grandaughters birthday on the 12th so I treated myself to a small slice of cake with my cuppa this morning and then jumped on the spinning bike for an easy 20 minute session.



Day 8 - 16/09

97.5kg

I've gradually eased myself back into a training regime including the spinning bike, barbell curls and some press-ups. Have also started a low carb diet and I've only really eaten tuna and salad over the last couple of days and a bit of lamb yesterday.

Stretching - I've never really persevered with stretching, apart from my very early days of dabbling with a bit of karate, and this means that I'm stiff as a board. So I've decided to add a bit of stretching to my daily routine and I would imagine that my flexibility is going to improve greatly as this is as far as I can go at the moment ... (pic to follow)




Day 15 - 23/09

96.2kg

OK. I've started to gradually up the training and did 30 minutes on the spinning bike this morning. I normally choose an average type of resistance and tempo, unlike a true spinning session, and for this morning's session every 5 minutes I increased the resistance and cycled out of the saddle for as long as possible. You get a good pump in the quads and I usually count the number of revolutions that I can manage before having to sit back down again. During this morning's session I managed 100 revolutions for maybe 2 or 3 of the sets, so the next time I do this type of spin session I'll aim for 110+.

I'm going to train and diet quite hard this week so should be sub 95kg by Day 20.