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Obsessive, Moi?

johnweet — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:01:19 +0000

I called this blog “the ramblings of an obsessive man. My mum couldn’t understand that. “you’re not obsessive” she said.

As if to prove my point, here is another weight related post.

The software that I use to track calorie consumption and weight has a graph that shows where your weight is and where you are aiming for. You will see from this graph that I am no longer obese, I am just overweight now. Well that’s alright then.

That’s the first stone gone…

johnweet — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:36:42 +0000

It’s official. I’m now a stone lighter than I was 6 months ago. Only another two and a half stone to go and I’ll be where I want to be.

A big reason for the increasing loss is the amount of exercise I’m doing. Did another 9 1/2 mile run yesterday, my last training run before a 10 mile race next Sunday.

Another lb today…

johnweet — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:50:49 +0000

…. that’s a total of 11 lbs this year so far, and 7 of that in the last month.

I would have been hugely disappointed if I hadn’t lost much, the amount of exercise I’ve been doing.

The chart shows my exercise for the month as plotted on Mapmyrun. That is a total of 18,239 calories, and at 4,000 calories per lb that is 4.5 lbs in exercise alone, without taking into account reducing my cake intake down to Zero.

Measuring weight loss by the size of the overhang

johnweet — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:04:56 +0000

My kids (bless em) used to use my stomach overhang as an indicator of how overweight I was.

Well I have been dieting again and exercising more and i know that the weight is starting to fall off.

I can also see that the stomach overhang is getting smaller, so I must be losing it.

Curing vegetarians

johnweet — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:45:20 +0000

I tend not to buy a daily paper. I read “The week” which for those who don’t know is a magazine that picks the best articles from newpapers around the world to give a summary of the weeks news. Reading this i can get all my moral outrage and anger out at once. I was reading a letter on their letters page that was originally published in the Times. The letter was titled “Veggies, ignorant bliss” in it, the writer says that there is relatively new farming saying that goes “if you want to cure a veggie, take em ploughing.” what does that mean? Does he think that we would watch a farmer ploughing and say “oh look, he’s killed a baby bird, and a hedgehog, and a family of cute little dormice. Kill me a cow i’m cured” What a tw*t the writer is and what a stupid bloody saying.

It’s official, i’m not quite obese

johnweet — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:23:32 +0000

The cut off point for obesity is 30. I come in at 29.9. Hurrah, I’m not obese – but if i’d calculated it last week i could well have been. I’m not bothered though. I know that the using BMI as a calculation of obesity is flawed. I am reasonably fit and can run for one hour non-stop. There aren’t many people of normal weight who can do that. I also know that my weight is dropping.

I need to tape the picture on the left on the biscuit barrel or maybe I should look at it in a more positive way and use the picture below (yes that’s me in the middle) as an image to aim for as opposed to using an image to move away from.

Getting back into the running

johnweet — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:27:05 +0000

Had a great run this morning. It’s nice to get back out into the forest again in the morning. Now that the mornings are getting lighter I can see where I am going. Always a bonus. It was a morning of layers, layers of clothing to ward off the nip in the air and layers of landscaping. The low lying mist was creating one layer, then there was a layer of trees and shrubs, then there was a layer of orange sky as the sun was coming up, then the blue of the sky and the white of the clouds.

Can’t wait till the next run now. I need to up my mileage if I am to meet my running goal by the end of the year. We are 20% into the year and I am only 9% towards my target of 650 miles

The diets going ok, the weight is still dropping off very gradually, but then I have had two weeks with very little exercise so that is to be expected. 15st 3lbs (213 lbs) still but the trend is downwards. I am hoping to lose a stone by my birthday in May.

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I nearly waivered

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:13:00 +0000

Had lunch which consisted of a jacket potato with a 3 bean chili, along with a pint of beer. We went to Goblets wine bar in Southampton. Very reasonably priced very good food. On the way back I waivered. I was going to buy a cake but remembered my promise from earlier. Then I was thinking about what loopholes I had left in and decided I could go and buy biscuits. I got to the office door and was going to walk on by to the shop, i waivered, i was tempted but I didn’t. Hurrah.

Then I opened the birthday presents I had got from my sister in law and found some chocolates. I confess, I did eat some, but not many. Total damage for lunch was 900 calories. I have 1500 saved for this evening.

213 lbs this morning…

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:48:00 +0000

… 213 lbs, can’t believe it, that’s 4 pounds less than last Saturday. Got to keep this up.

Went for a great cycle ride this morning (after I had cleaned up the half eaten pigeon the cat’s had brought in, nice.. at 5:15 in the morning) Cycled nearly 14 miles. See the route here Burnt 1379 calories but I still need to be careful as I have a lunch date with my sister in law and Dawn and I are out this evening for Tapas at Frampton Mill in Ringwood.

I have no control….

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:37:00 +0000

I didn’t need a maple and pecan danish for my breakfast yesterday but I felt a pull towards the bakers when I went down to move the car. I was too weak to resist the pull.

I also didn’t need the vanilla slice I had at lunchtime. For those who don’t know what a vanilla slice is imagine a tower made from layers of pastry and thick synthetic cream, with icing on the top. Again, I couldn’t resist.

I also didn’t need the scone I had after dinner, nor the lollipop my son gave me, but I couldn’t resist.

After all that crap I’m surprised that I still managed to burn 352 more calories than I consumed. This wasn’t through any strong will on my part, I wasn’t event trying. I do need to stop though. That is it, from now on in I will not eat any cakes that I buy. That’s it, a public declaration, no more.