Splodge's Diary

Monday
1 Gym session, 40 mins walking, 0 Golf, 0 Wine, 1700 cals, 0 snacks

A rotton rainy day here in Dublin. I went out on my lunchtime walk putting more faith in my raincoat than it deserved and ended up working in a soaking wet shirt for the afternoon. I did a pretty harmless session in the gym, but at least I went there. Stuffed myself with canned tuna and salad for lunch. God I hate tuna. Why do healthy things have to be ugly.
 
Tuesday
0 Gym sessions, 40 mins walking, 0 Golf, 0 Wine, 1900 cals, 0 snacks

A quite day, needed a rest after 3 days in a row at the gym. I'm doing well avoiding the high calorie snacks, but the coffee machine is taking a pounding. I have golf arranged for Friday after work, it will be a bit of a push getting 9 holes in before dark and the weather forecast isn't looking great. After having to cancel last weekend I'll be a bit pissed off if I can't get out. I suppose I might be able to get out later in the weekend if it doesn't come off.
 
Week 2 results

Target 4 Gym sessions
Actual 3 Gym Sessions
Target 150 mins walking
Actual 120 mins walking
Target 9 holes golf
Actual 18 holes golf
Target 250ml wine
Actual 1000ml wine
Target 1 high calorie snack
Actual 3 high calorie snack
Target 14,000 cals
Actual 14,100 cals

Start weight :125.2 kg
End of Week weight : 125.4 kg

Accumulated results

Target 8 Gym sessions
Actual 7 Gym Sessions (-1)
Target 300 mins walking
Actual 320 mins walking (+20mins)
Target 18 holes golf
Actual 18 holes golf (0)
Target 500ml wine
Actual 1500ml wine (+1000ml)
Target 2 high calorie snack
Actual 4 high calorie snack (+2)
Target 28,000 cals
Actual 27,000 cals (-1000 cals)

Start weight :130.2 kg
End of Week weight : 125.4 kg

Overall not doing too badly but off the rails on wine and snacks. Child broke his collar bone last week which caused me to miss gym session but I also used it as an excuse to break open a bottle of wine. In an attempt to make up for the missed gym session, i overdid it and did somethinking nasty to my knee, no biggy, but it will rule out the gym this week. Will do swimming instead. Calorie intake is going unusually well and I'm not finding it too difficult. It would be easier still if I wasn't wasting calories on wine and snacks. Between the litre of wine and the 3 snacks I could have had a couple of substantial meals. Never mind still going ok.

I'm not worried that I didn't lose weight this week. Between losing 5 kg the previous week and the high cal salty snacks at the weekend, plus a few bottles of sparkling water, it was never going to be a great week on the scales. If I'd measured actual fat loss it was probably not much different either week. If I keep plugging away like this (or preferably a bit better) I would expect to be back losing a kilo or 2 next week, and maybe get a bit more consistent thereafter.
 
hey splodge, keep it up man.

I dunno how you would try to do some exercise in places like Ireland - we are having the wettest year in 10years in Australia and I can't stand when it is cold outside when I want to go for a run.

Give me the Spring already!!!

What is your golf handicap? I play a bit as well, only had 1 chance in the last 4 months though as its been raining everytime I have wanted to go out.

Im still a hacker really, I hit in about the 90s of my local course but Im not a member of anywhere.
 
It's many a year since I went for a run, but when I did, I always preferred running on a nice cool evening in the rain. With golf though rain is no fun at all. From now to next April it is hard to be confident about getting a 4 hour period without rain. And when the weather forecast looks good at a weekend, it can be hard to get a tee-time. I'm just a hacker as well, not a member and no handicap, but I get out as a guest of a member onto a decent course. I used to play a lot when young and fit but I tried taking it up again over the last 12 months after 20 or so years. Not as fit or flexible anymore. Still haven't broken 90, there always seem to be 3 or 4 fluffs along the way. I think for the first time on Sunday I came back with the same golf ball I started with, which is something.

Thanks for calling by.
 
if you think running in the cool when it is raining you obviously havent had the chance to run on a nice warm spring morning with the sun on your back!

each his own though.

I bought a new set of clubs at the end of summer this year and only got to use them a half dozen times before the weather turned crappy, hence I have been itching to get back on the course.

I initially started playing regularly this year to get me out and walking around a bit but that old saying is true "golf is an easy way to ruin a nice walk"!
 
Sore knee. :-(

I'll have to write off all training this week, which is a shame as the feeling that I actually want to train isn't going to last very long. Have done my lunchtime walks the last 2 days, or more a lunchtime hobble, but I think that isn't helping the knee get any better. I'll just concentrate on keeping the calories low for the next few days, rest the leg, and hope it will be back on song quickly. I don't think there is much wrong with it that a couple of days rest wont fix. Maybe start back with a couple of light swims at the weekend.
 
Did my lunchtime hobble. Didn't eat much. Knee is stiff rather than sore, should be ok for a little light workout at the weekend. My wife is doing well at weightwatchers which is nice and it's helping me that she's sticking to it as well.
 
Hey there! Hope the knee and the kiddo are feeling better soon :)
its nice that you and your wife are able to support each other right now. I live with my little sister(120lb sister. pshhh!) and she eats crap food every day all day... Its horrible to try and eat healthy when shes got pizza up in your face :rolleyes: ahhh, well. we just keep on trekkin. Have a great weekend!
 
Hi Jess,

I know the feeling. One negative thing about my wife doing the diet is that it turns into a breath holding contest. Once one of us sucks in some air, the other instantly feels justified in breaking loose as well. Just something I'll have to be wary of (or more likely herself).

I don't want to have a great weekend. I want to have a low cal, highly active, productive, weight losing weekend. Maybe that would be great. It's the weekends that ruin the hard work done during the other 4 days, despite the fact I have more time to be active and do healthy things. I have an 'official' weigh in on Monday, but curiosity has me on the scales for a preview most days. I very rarely weigh less on Monday morning than I do on Friday morning, which effectively means I'm only concentrating on losing weight for half a week every week.

Yesterday was similar to the previous day. Good eating, got the lunchtime limp in, but no orchestrated training. The knee is nearly there. I'm afraid of going back into it too early and doing real damage. I might go in for a very light session tonight setting the resistance levels very low on the machines and taking it very easy, with maybe a bob in the pool afterwards. It wouldn't be very benificial from a weight loss or fitness perspective, but I want to keep the momentum going of just turning up.
 
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Week 3 results

Target 4 Gym sessions
Actual 2 Gym Sessions
Target 150 mins walking
Actual 160 mins walking
Target 9 holes golf
Actual 0 holes golf
Target 250ml wine
Actual 1000ml wine
Target 1 high calorie snack
Actual 0 high calorie snack
Target 14,000 cals
Actual 12,800 cals

Start weight :125.2 kg
End of Week weight : 123.4 kg (-1.8kg)

Accumulated results

Target 12 Gym sessions
Actual 9 Gym Sessions (-3)
Target 450 mins walking
Actual 480 mins walking (+30mins)
Target 27 holes golf
Actual 18 holes golf (-9)
Target 750ml wine
Actual 2500ml wine (+1750ml)
Target 3 high calorie snack
Actual 4 high calorie snack (+1)
Target 42,000 cals
Actual 39,800 cals (-2200 cals)

Start weight :130.2 kg
End of Week weight : 123.4 kg (-6.8kg)

Not too bad in the circumstances. I did 2 good gym workouts at the weekend, putting in a bit more effort into a swim rather than my usual wallowing like a hippo, to make up for taking it easy in the gym workout, to give the knee a chance to repair. It's back 100% now so no excuses this week.

Failed miserably with the wine again, there is a good French wine sale on in the local supermarket and I've "had to" sample a few rather than buying half a dozen and discovering they aren't to my taste. I've bought over 50 bottles so far. At my target of 250ml a week that should last me well into 2012. Not going to happen really is it. I suspect I'll be buying more for Christmas.

Whatever trick the scales played on me, I was 122.8kg on Sunday morning, the magic number that takes me out of "extreme obesety" according to Fit Day and into plain old common or garden obesity. I reckon I was probably a bit dehydrated from drinking the night before. Sadly I'm back up to the extreme catagory despite breaking my arse at the gym and eating really carefully yesterday, spurning the opportunity to pig out on a magnificent roast beef lovingly prepared by my wife, in the hope of maintaining my status. It was nice to see that, from a roast beef that would normally be devoured in one sitting, there is now sufficient leftovers to make a full family meal for the next day. I should comfortably cross that extreme obesity line next week, hopefully on a permanent basis.
 
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I've been a good boy for the last 3 days, good calorie intake, no snacks, no wine, decent exercise. I was itching for wifey to ask would I like a glass of wine, but I didn't want to be the one to suggest it, sadly(or happily?), neither did she. Very tempting with a big stash calling gently to me every night. My "gym" session on tuesday, consisted of cutting the grass with a tiny little handmower after I'd cut enough of it with a proper lawnpower before it started belching smoke, that it would have looked odd not to finish it off. Last night I did my first really tough workout at the gym since my return. 7 intervals of 2 mins slow one minute fast on the exercise bike, and 4 intervals of 3 mins slow one minute fast on the cross trainer. I'm sure I look a right pillock belting away on the cross trainer as fast as my legs can manage (whatever about the bike), but my self respect in the gym is long lost at this stage. Did 3 x 6 at the heaviest weight I can manage on seven weight exercises and finished off with with 12 slow lengths of the pool to cool down afterwards. Unless I really blow the weekend I should officially be common or garden obese next Monday as I've raced paced that mark on my unofficial sneaky weigh-ins. Next stop is to get under the 120kg.
 
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keep it up splodge!

good to see your self control regarding the wine!

Ive managed to give up all midweek drinking and it was hard for about a week but after that youll feel the difference.
 
You're right. The thing is to keep active. If I spend the night slobbing in front of the tele I'm far more likely to reach for the forbidden at some stage.

Yesterday I was tired and hungry for most of the day. I think it was from overdoing it a bit at the gym the previous day. While I like to try and challenge myself when I train, there's no point in doing the demented hamster routine and quitting after a few weeks. I have already missed a week's training through injuring my knee. I'll get back at it tonight without pushing it quite so much. I have golf arranged for tomorrow so there's no point ending up so stiff and sore I can't hit the ball properly.

Despite having pangs of hunger all evening, I ate sensibly during the day and didn't crack. In truth I went to bed early to avoid the possibility of cracking, as I said, I was tired anyway.

Now cometh the dangerous three days of the week. If I can get to the gym tonight and Sunday and play the golf on Saturday then I'll have done my full alloted exercise for the week, and it will keep me out of trouble for a bit. I reckon I'm on a low cycle of weight at the moment, my sneaky weigh-in this morning shows I've lost over 2kg in the last 4 days, so I'm not going to be any lighter on Monday, I just don't want to be any heavier.
 
Week 4 results

Target 4 Gym sessions
Actual 3 Gym Sessions :-(
Target 150 mins walking
Actual 160 mins walking :)
Target 9 holes golf
Actual 12 holes golf :)
Target 250ml wine
Actual 1500ml wine :-()
Target 1 high calorie snack
Actual 2 high calorie snack :-(
Target 14,000 cals
Actual 14,900 cals :-(

Start weight :123.4 kg
End of Week weight : 121.3 kg (-2.1kg)

Accumulated results

Target 16 Gym sessions
Actual 12 Gym Sessions (-4)
Target 600 mins walking
Actual 640 mins walking (+40mins)
Target 36 holes golf
Actual 30 holes golf (-6)
Target 1000ml wine
Actual 4000ml wine (+3000ml)
Target 4 high calorie snack
Actual 6 high calorie snack (+2)
Target 56,000 cals
Actual 54,700 cals (-1300 cals)

Start weight :130.2 kg
End of Week weight : 121.3 kg (-8.9kg)

I was doing really well until Friday but had a rotten weekend from a weight loss perspective. I headed out to the gym on Friday all full of good intentions, only to get stuck in traffic for a nearby Michael Buble concert. After 15 mins not moving, I turned back and polished off a bottle of wine, popcorn(don't like) and onion ring crisps(don't like). Saturday I came back from golf and made some smoked mackerel pate toasties, which I reckoned needed a glass of wine to do them justice. Wife was a good girl and abstained so I drank the full bottle myself. Sunday lunch we had a 5 hour slow cooked shoulder of lamb, braised in a bottle of red wine, with buttery leek mashed potatoes and all the trimmings. I made a pig of myself on the meat but didn't go mad otherwise. I went to the gym afterwards determined nearly to punish myself for being a bold boy, and I think I overdid it a bit, was beyond wrecked for the rest of the day when I got back.

Somehow I managed not to put on weight since Friday morning, but I suspect that is a trick of the scales and I will find it very hard to lose anything this week as a result. I'd love to lose 1.4kg to get under the 120kg mark and have lost over 10kg since my new start, two milestones in one week. You'd imagine that would be sufficient incentive to make sure it happened. We'll see. In terms of my total bodyweight, 10kg isn't a huge amount, but when you think of lifting 10kg of potatoes into a shopping trolley it's a tidy little amount. Even if what I've lost isn't all fat, it just takes that much pressure off my joints when I'm getting on with normal life and I can feel an improvement in my back and hip after my daily walk compared to the first week or two.

Anyway, one milestone is broken this week. I'm officially no longer in the "extreme obese" category, as my BMI is now less than 40. It's a long way to go to get below 30 and be merely overweight. Whatever happens with this weight loss journey I want to get away as far as possible from that extreme tag and never get near it again.
 
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2 good days to start the week. Ate well both days. Rest day Monday but mega session last night at the gym - 8 intervals of 2 min slow and 1 min fast on both the bike and the cross trainer, followed by a good weights session. It probably sounds pretty harmless to many but I definitely couldn't have done that a few weeks ago. I'm getting there, slowly.
 
Bah, struggling again. Bless me Father for I have sinned, it has been two weeks since my last confession.

I've gone to the gym less frequently than I had hoped, but still haven't given up. Played less golf than I had hoped, but played 9 holes at the weekend. I've had major eat-outs and eat-ins due to friends dinner parties, inlaw invasions and just a need to get out, but have kept the eating pretty much under control other than that.

The result of all this is that I've only lost 0.6kg since my last weight posted here, so 120.7kg is the current score. I'd actually got down to 119.3kg before the fun began. With a bit of luck, I'll be back at that weight next Monday.

I'm not getting that giving-up feeling yet. If anything I'm somewhat encouraged that I have done so little damage. Monday to Thursday 6.30am to 6pm, and until I get home from work on Friday, are established in my routine as absolutely safe periods. I have a healthy breakfast (porridge and berries), an ultra healthy lunch (fish & salad, or soup) followed by a 40 minute walk and a generally healthyish dinner (either a small portion of what I'd used to have or a meal designed to be healthy). Even during the blip I have clung on to that. The problem is the weekends are hit and miss at best. And even during the week there is always the temptation to drag out a bottle of wine - although I'm slower to do that now without visitors.

In order to succeed, this has to be a long project and blips (even two week blips) are inevitable. I'm still well on target to make my end of October goal of 119. If I can dig a little further past that point I can hopefully aim for 109 for the new year.
 
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Still plodding away, doing good stuff at the gym, eating well, still having the odd bottle of wine too many.

My gym membership is up for renewal on Monday. I'm not 100% sure yet if I will renew. I don't really like going to the gym. I've got to the point at least 4 times in the last month that I was all packed up and ready to go, and then found an excuse not to, in the couple of minutes before walking out the door. It's more the thought of it I don't like, when I get into it, I sort of don't mind the streams of sweat falling off me, and the sense of achievement you get when you put in a good session. Then again, I didn't turn up at all for about 5 of the last 12 months. Then again, again, If I don't prepay I'll probably do even less for more than 5 of the next 12 months if I don't rejoin. Decisions, decisions. I'll probably rejoin but I hate spending money on things I don't really like, even if it is the right thing to do. It's a bit like buying broccolli, only more expensive.

I should, just about, make my target of 119kg by Monday. That would be 11.2 KG lost in 8 weeks. this will end a full year of gym membership at, just about, my lowest weight of the year. It is annoying to think that if I'd kept at the diet, even just consistently losing 0.5kg a week for the year, I could be 15 or so kgs lighter now. instead all I've done is lost the same 10 or 11 kgs twice, having undone all the good work from my initial effort over the summer.

I'm determined that I will be that 25kg lighter this time next year. It isn't even that ambitious, as long as I can avoid going whole months without losing any weight or worse still, putting it on. At my current weight I feel I am living on the on the edge for all sorts of joint and health problems. Although I'd still be obese, I reckon if I can quickly lose another 10kg it will make training, and day to day living a fair bit easier.
 
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