Welcome everyone to 2010...
The start of a new year, with it came new and old challenges... firstly the old challenge, the snow. I love it, some hate it. What I think is really annoying is this.. where I live (Up North) we have a good 8" with some wind blown drifts of about 3 foot... nothing too new there, the first day no one goes anywhere as the roads get sorted (and salted) and then the next day life carries on as normal, although there does seem to be less traffic and more 4x4's than normal. I have spoken to my friend Dan (Oddness Blog) who lives in Essex, and is part of the Basildon Massive (shout out). He has put his cam on live stream so we can see the resulting chaos due to somewhere in the region of 12mm of snow (yes folks, about half an inch). Roads are closed, Schools are closed, old people are already quivering in fear due to the extra heating expense.. is it really that hard to drive over 12mm of snow? Peoples of Essex (and most of the southern areas) snow does not mean a Holiday... its just white cold stuff which kids throw at you. Get a backbone, (and some warm clothes, no not short skirts and boob tubes, but real warm clothes) put a shovel in your car (for when your electric cars get stuck in the white stuff) and go out and explore the amazingly stunning views.
Smiles, only kidding, the snow brings chaos with it every time it arrives, I still don't understand why we don't have more resources dedicated to this type of weather, but there you go.
As for the new challenges, trying to survive in a world where everyone wants money off you is a little bit difficult at the moment, but I am surviving. Wish work would pick up a bit more and then I can ask for a pay rise as I have not had one in 2 years, in fact I am on less money now than I was when I started, hmmm.
I was supposed to start training again this week, but as my dojo (Lions Pride) is nearly 15 miles away over country roads I have skipped it so far, maybe tomorrow, hopefully!
Weight is up and down, as always, at the moment UP.. but again addressing that issue now. (again this is Dans fault for force feeding me Quality Streets all over the Christmas period... bugger)
Was great to see Pip Wilson over the Holiday season, and again I promise not to leave it 16 years, in fact I am going to try and make it less than 16 months hopefully bumping into him at Greenbelt this year and who knows, may even make another meet up before that if we ever have the same spare day in our diaries.
This post is quite light hearted, so please people don't take offence, I will post another more in depth blog shortly...
Stay safe and well and may 2010 bring you all enough...
love ya...
Well today is day two, day one went ok, except for a couple of biscuits that snuck there way in during a meeting :o( Oh well, at least that was all...
I had fruit for breakfast, apple, grapes, orange, melon. It was lovely, clean and refreshing. For lunch I had a healthy chicken and bacon sandwich on wholemeal bread. In the afternoon I had 4 biscuits :o(. For tea I had a jacket potato with some beans on them.
I did very little exercise yesterday, except playing with a Funkey Hula available now from The Diet Plate. It was great, and very funny, slightly painful as well, mind you it does say wear a heavy top to stop the wheels bruising you to start with, being one for instructions, of course I ignored that and was wearing a light weight thin summer shirt.. yip it definitely bruises!! Other than that it was a good work out.
Today I have skipped breakfast, grabbing an apple from the shops on the way into work as I was running late, there is nothing to eat in the office, which is just as well as I am quite hungry right now. I will nip out for lunch and grab something fairly healthy. Tea will be a couple of pieces of fruit on the way to the Dojo and I will probably end up grabbing a cereal/nut bar as well for energy, as well as some water. Water is great, it helps with hunger and stops you from getting headaches and dehydrated... My biggest 2 pieces of diet advice for people on the go, 1) The Diet plate for easy portion control. 2) Drink at least 1.5 litres of water a day whilst dieting. Its really that simple.
Well Kind of lol... the last full working week I should say... I think I am in the office on Monday next week as well... but then that’s it till the 5th January. Wahoo... a break, it is sorely needed.
So Christmas, that wonderful glittery (cold) festive (drink too much) time of the year where we get to have fun (see drink too much) and catch up with family members (who normally you wouldn’t spend 5 minutes in the same room) who we haven’t seen all year....
But it’s not all bah humbug... I love Christmas as much as the next person, if not more, ok I agree it has become overly commercialised and the media has turned it into a crazy shopaholics holiday, for that must have gift. Even taking all that into account I still love it. Even though this year I am on my own for Christmas day, I still love it. I love the fact that people smile at you, for no apparent reason, I love the fact that people are nice to you (mostly) for no apparent reason, it is still a time of good will towards all men (ok and women...) lol.
So how am I going to fair over Christmas dieting... I have already accepted numerous offers for 'Christmas drinks' as the locals refer to a right good knees up and party, and I am already beginning to wonder how I am going to deal with all the rich food and drink that is waved under my nose. Until the day comes I won’t know. I am planning on eating just before attending so hopefully I won’t feel like partaking in the food and hopefully not too many drinks. I have planned on changing my drink from vodka and coke to vodka and slim line tonic, hopefully this will help as well. (Also this means I can drink sparkling water and pretend I am joining in, clever huh?)
Training, the Bain of my life... smiles, ok so it’s not that bad. Found myself back in my old dojo this weekend, and to be honest as much as I loved it, I was also sad. I trained fairly easy, and did several rounds of sparing, didn’t get gassed (panting) which surprised my training partner after such a long lay off, and kept my wits about me. It was a good workout but one I am quite sore from, and I am now sporting a nice black eye as well. Happy Christmas.
I ran into work this morning which took me about 12 minutes it’s roughly a mile and a half so not too bad, and I am planning on running home afterwards as well. Tomorrow morning I am planning on jogging to the pool (about a mile and a half, uphill) doing 30-40 lengths and then jogging to work (about a mile and a half, with a 700 yard steep drop down) tomorrow evening I am getting picked up (hopefully) and going to train with Steve Primrose at Lions Pride. It has been a while since I have trained with Steve and I am both looking forward to it and dreading it in equal measures. As I am sure Steve is as well.
That’s about it for now....
Stay well
Hello folks.... how is life in cyber land? Good I hope....
I have stepped up the training as I said I would, however this has not been without problems. My body hurts, and I am suffering migraine type headaches as well. I am keeping myself hydrated, but I am burning through the energy in my body fairly quickly.
Today I rode 7 miles on my bicycle, then did over an hours intensive training in the dojo, had some porridge for lunch, and have drunk a fair amount of water to rehydrate my body. Tonight I am training with Steve Primrose who has just defended his world title last weekend (Well done Steve), in the hope of banging, cajoling and smashing my body into the type of shape it should be for my first full contact fight at the end of august.
I want to drop 21lbs from this weeks weigh in and I plan to do that using The Diet Plate and intensive training. Hopefully within the next 4-5 weeks, this will enable me to have 10 days or so walking around at that weight before I fight...
