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Weight = 106.5 kgs

Steps = 12376

This morning I managed to turn off my alarm and slept in until 6:25 so I had not time for a walk this morning 🙁 I did my weigh-in and I was 106.5 kgs soup 0.1 kgs from yesterday 🙁 I then started work until 7 am then got showered dressed and walked into the office.

I noticed that walking into the office has a totally different feel to just walking first thing and although I felt better for doing it I didn’t feel as good as I normally would! I’m not sure if it is basically because I am commuting or if my usual morning route is uphill for the first mile so is way harder than my flat or downhill walk to work! Either way I need to make an effort to get out and walk first thing!

I then worked until just after 12:00 and then walked home and chilled for a bit and ate then started work again at 14:00. I was on 10800 ish steps by the time that I got home so I was pretty likely going to get my steps in.

I then worked through until about 7 pm when I built up my new TV stand that arrived in the early evening and got the TV back in my room. I then kept an eye on the builds until about 22:30 and then went to bed. I was so busy in the evening that I almost forgot about getting to 12000 steps but luckily I had walked around the house enough to get them in without remembering 🙂

At about 18:00 I had a really bad stomach and had a load of diarrhoea which I think was due to having McDonalds for lunch and also a build up of eating really badly this weekend while the house was upside down due to doing the floor. It could also mean that I am coming down with something which would explain the sleeping through the alarm this morning! I guess we will see.

So I have just finished 8 weeks of walking over 12000 steps a day and to say that the consistancy is working is an understatement! I have lost 2 kgs in weight but my body composition has changed a lot and I am roughly 2″ less on my waist judging by my 38″ race pants falling down with the belt fully tightened 🙂 I have also noticed that my t shirts are way baggier now too and my stomach is much less pronounced than it was before!

My back is feeling so much better and so are my knees.

I have also noticed that things that used to make me out of breath like walking up stairs or walking in general are not really making me even breath heavily any more!

I have noticed a massive difference on the BMX to as I can now do full speed first straights and pump the rest of the track and not be too winded any more where as I would have been blowing out of my arse 2 months ago 🙂

I am at a point where I can now start to add sprints and track work back into my weekly training which is amazing!

Over the past 8 weeks I have walked a staggering 740990 steps which works out at 92623 steps a week or 13473 steps a day 🙂

On a more worrying note I have completely got out of the habit of walking in the mornings over the past couple of weeks which I need to address before it becomes an issue as it makes it really difficult to get the steps in as you end up having to get them in at night before you can go to bed which will become an issue when I start adding extra training in the evenings.

My main goal for the next 4 weeks is to get back into the habit of waking up and going walking or rucking as soon as I wake up then I can not only start the day with a big win and an endorpin rush but I will also get over 1/2 of my 12000 steps ticked off before I start work in the morning!

My diet is still really bad although I have cut out fizzy drinks and a lot of crisps and sweets I am still eating a lot of takeout which is far from ideal and is reducing the amount of weight that I am losing at the moment! So this next 4 weeks I will try and not eat takeout, sweets or crisps and cook food at home instead!

I am also going to start exercising in my lunch breaks and start riging the mtb, doing sprints doing gates sessions too as I want to start getting BMX fit too and build on my base fitness level that the waking has built.

I am going to start filming my sessions too so that I can try and work out the rinkles in my form as I can feel that I am not fully over the bars when I am sprinting down the start hill at the moment so I need to work that out! I also need to start learning to ride on the rollers so that I can get good enough to start roller sprints to build leg speed sooner rather than later!

Weight = 106.4 kgs

Steps =

This morning I woke up just after 6 am which is late for me so I must have been tired! I could feel that my legs were really sore and as soon as I got up and walked to the bathroom to do my weigh-in they were screaming! My weigh in was positive at 106.4 kgs so I have dropped 1.1 kgs since yesterday 🙂 I noticed this morning that my love handles have reduced a lot so that is a really good sign 🙂

This confirms that I need to start doing sprints and getting back to riding the BMX every day again to get my weight dropping. It still amazes me how just walking has made me fitter on the BMX as it shouldn’t but it has! I guess that it has built a good base level of fitness!

Like I said yesterday I am going to also start doing press ups and squats every morning and evening to try and get mre toned as well! Its a little bit of effort a day but it pays off over time and it is just another habbit that I want to add into my daily routine!

I am not going to walk early again and will instead lie with my legs up to try and get rid of the soreness so that I can crack on and finish the floor a bit later on. i have to wait a bit as I will have a lot of sawing to do and my neighbor likes to sleep in so I will wait until after lunchtime to start work!

Weight = 107.5 kgs

Steps = 12204

So yesterday I spent all evening fitting my new bedroom underlay and floor so I struggled to get my 12000 step in and had to walk on the treadmill once i had got to a convenient place to stop for the night! This meant that I didn’t get finished with my steps until about 9:45 then I had to feed the axolotls and get the bed set up to sleep on so it was way past 10 pm when I got to sleep. I managed 12379 steps for the day so a good amount seeing as I did all but 3000 walking around the flat!

I woke up at 5:30 this morning without an alarm and got up and did my weigh in and I was 107.5 kgs today so my weight is going in the wrong direction again!

I then went back to bed and slept until about 10 am which is unusual for me but I guess I had had a busy few days 🙂

I then got some breakfast and chilled in my 1/2 finished room which feels a lot better than it did before even with the part of the room by the door insulated or boarded yet!

I have decide that from next week I will make an effort to get back to Rucking in the morning before work AND start to do timed sprints on Tuesday and Thursday lunch times again to get back in the habit of sprinting again!

I am going to do short sprints (5m, 10m and 15m sprints) followed by Timed gates in Tuesday lunch times as I am on a 1/2 day so I have time to do this and I will do long sprints (30m and 60m sprints) on Thursdays.

I will also try my best to get to gates in Andover on Wednesday nights and to the Friday lunch club and Saturday gates at Bath on Saturdays.

Monday, Wednesday lunch times I will do a 2 tunnels ride at lunch time to try and burn some blubber too 🙂

I have just bought a Sprint Block to make the sprints more realistic to gate starts too.

I have decided that I am going to change up the way that I sprint at the track so that I will sprint away from the track instead of towards the track as then I can rest in my car and keep my sprint book dry and also rest sat down in between sprints too. It also means that I have a longer run out after sprints too.

I am now getting ready to go to the track for gates and hopefully I can finally get the timing system working so that we can start having timed club sessions at the track!

So I have just put my 38″ race pants on and they are way baggier than they were 2 weeks ago! I now have the belt as tight as it will go so I think another couple weeks of consistent exercise will mean that I am back in my 36″ race pants again 🙂 This just shows that the scales don’t show the whole picture!

I also need to start riding on the rollers in the evenings to learn to use them so that later in the year I will be able to do roller sprints without falling off off all the time to build leg speed!

So next week I have to:

Ruck in the morning Mon-Friday

Sprint on Tuesday and Thursday Lunchtime

Go to gates at Andover on Wednesday night (Super long 1st straight so great for leg fitness 🙂

Do Gates at Bath Tues, Friday and Saturday

Ride the 2 tunnels Monday and Wednesday lunchtime.

I also plan to work in the office Monday-Friday mornings to be more active!

I make also decided to start doing press-ups and body weight squats in the morning and evening Mon-Friday too to add some kind of strength training into the routine too.

So Gates went well and I liked the new cranks as I was able to spin them faster than the longer ones! I now need to get on with sprints to learn how to spin again but that will come.

In the evening I went for a walk with my son as I was only on 7500 steps after getting back from gates and then I chilled for an hour and then went on the treadmill to get the last 1000 steps in as my Son only wanted to do the small loop when we went for a walk. After the 12000 steps I went to bed and messed about on my phone until about 22:30 then went to bed.

I just scraped the 12000 steps today with 12202 steps but I was really sore from doing the flooring on Friday and gates today so I am impressed that I managed to talk myself into doing the last 1000 steps when I was so sore 🙂

So I woke up at 5 am and dod my weigh in and I was down 0.1 kgs to 106.9 kgs so mot a great deal of weight loss but its weight loss none the less! I was really tired so I went back to bed until 6:30 then got up and started work before heading into the office on the ebike for 7:30. I did what I needed to do at the office then headed home as I was expecting a delivery at 11 am. By the time I got home I was on only 3681 steps so I plan to walk on the treadmill this afternoon while I’m working!

At lunch time I decided not to go for a walk and instead did my tidying 30 minutes and did the washing up, put the washing away, did some more washing and then hoovered through the flat as well!

Weight = 107

Steps = 13669

So I woke up with my alarm again and dragged myself out of bed and did my weigh-in and I was the same weight as yesterday (107 kgs) even though I am feeling much tighter today so I have deffo burnt fat at a minimum. I then got dressed put the weight vest on and went for my morning ruck on my uphill route.

This morning walk I slowed it down a bit but it was so much easier to climb the hall than it was yesterday so that’s a good sign that I a need to keep it up 🙂

By the time I got home I was on 6589 steps so well over 1/2 way to my 12000 steps goal and its only 6:20 🙂

When I finish work just before lunch time I will drag my son on a bike ride along the two tunnels and back then we are going for a drive to my parents then I have to hoover and mop there before we drive home again.

We didn’t have time to go for a ride but did go for a drive to my parents and then I hoovered through their house and mopped the floors and got some logs in then we walked the dog as well as my parents hadn’t had time to take her out before we got there!

I then drove us home and dropped my son off at his mums and then headed home. I then had to wait for my shopping to be delivered which was almost 22:30 before that arrived and I had put it all away! I then went to bed but struggled to get to sleep.

By the end of the day I was on 13669 steps.

Weight = 107 kgs

Steps = 12483

So this morning I woke up with my alarm at 5 am and I dragged myself out of bed and did my weigh-in and I was up 0.5 kgs to 107 kgs this morning.

I then got dressed, put on the weight vest and my coat and went out for a morning walk:

I rucked 2.71 miles in 52:19 and did 6212 steps according to Strava!

When I got home I opened all the doors and windows and did my 10 minutes Lüften while I was doing my morning tasks for work then I got ready and rode the ebike into the office. I then worked until 11:30 ish and then rode home and woke my son up and at just after 12 we went for a bike ride along the 2 tunnels to Midford and back:

The rear break on the mtb was rubbing a lot so it felt like someone was pulling me backwards most of the ride but it was fun and we rode 7.37 mikes in 29:47 and averaged 14.9 mph so leasurely at best! I think when I was fitter and did this ride a lot on my road bike I averaged over 20 mph so a long way off that pace!

Apart from the rubbing break the mtb felt much better with the new 29 x 1.75 tyres on it! It felt way less tractor like and almost like a road bike so I am happy that I bought the tyres! I checked the size of the disk and its a 160mm disk so I have loads of them in the parts bin so I will swap it out at some point!

When we got back from the ride I was on 11126 steps so I will definately get my 12000 steps in today!

I will do my backwards walking and chin ups later and then I have ticked off all of my exercise things to do other then my rollers but I wasn’t planning to do them today anyway and will start them tomorrow.

So I didn’t do backwards walking as once I was in my break my legs were sore so I decided to take it a bit easy. I did get over 30 minutes of cleaning though and managed to hoover through the flat, get the washing up done and do a load of washing and get it dry so not a bad use of my evening. I also got a load of work done so a good day all round!

By the end of the day I was on 12483 steps.

Weight = 106.6 kgs

Steps = 12274

This morning I woke up at 5:15 without an alarm and got up and went and did my weigh-in and I was down to 106.6 kgs so happy with that seeing 8000 of my steps were on the treadmill yesterday! 🙁

I then went back to bed until about 9:30 when I woke up my son and get dressed and while he was getting dressed I put the washing away that I did last night.

I then gave my son a lesson on pumping up the car tyres (and where to find the correct pressures on the door frame)so that he knows how to do this now! We then went for a drive to my parents via the track where I dropped off some stuff to get the kettle working.

When we got to my parents we had some lunch and then we took the dog for a walk through the woods which was fun but a bit wet. I was on just over 10000 steps by yhr time we got home.

We then washed the dog and then headed to my ex wife’s house and picked up some clothes for my son as he has none at my house at the moment! We parked the car a bit down the road so we had to walk there and back which got me to just over 11400 steps when I got in the house.

I then got the rest of my steps in on the treadmiull which took no time at all and I am now chilling on the computer in bed!

Tomorrow first thing I plan to walk in the weight vest to start rucking again to start dropping weight again! I am also planning to drag my son for a ride down the 2 tunnels at lunch time before getting my 10 minutes backwards waking in!

By the end of the day I had got to 12274 steps

Weight = 107.1 kgs

Steps = 12323

So today I woke up without an alarm about 5:30 and got up and did my morning weigh-in and I am back up a bit to 107.1 kgs again today as I had a fry up and chicken burger and chips yesterday again so its my own fault!

As my knee was still sore I decided to chill in bed for a bit and went down an investing rabbit hole and I have spent all morning signing up to trading 212 and adding money and buying my first months stocks too 🙂

After this month I am going to use the investing to invest some of the money that I wasted on deliveroo so I will invest £5 a day every day going forwards to see how I get on! My thinking is that for now it will mean that I can’t afford to buy takeout all the time so I will have to start cooking every day and start to stick to a budget going forwards.

To get a realistic figure for my budget I have also started keeping my monthly expense tracker so that next month I will go through how much I spent and make a budget from there and then keep doing it an keep updating the budget as I go!

I have also decided to actually go to the supermarket every evening and buy my food for the next day so that I don’t have too much food to waste in the house and also I get an evening walk out of it too 🙂

This month I have loads of food left over to eat up so I should spend less than I normally would but we will see I guess! I have set an initial budget of £50 a week and I am planning to start taking my food budget out in cash then I can make sure that I do not overspend and if I do I will have to live with the consequences at the end of the week!

This should save me about £600 a month that I was wasting on takeout and delivery charges so even with the £150 that I am investing a month I should be spending £450 a month less on food which should help me get my debt under control pretty quickly.

Next month I will start back on the carnivore diet but with eggs, cheese and fruit as well as meat as I felt so much better when I was on the carnivore diet last year. I am not sure if the budget will allow too much meat though but I can try it and maybe increase the budget if necessary I guess! It will definately be way less than the deliveroo diet has been costing so it will still be a win 🙂

Exercise wise I am going to rest the knee until next week then I will start back on the morning walks and rucking as well as start on the rollers and backwards walking too!

By the time that I got home from the track I was only on 4000 steps so I got my shorts on and then got the treadmill out and walked until I got to 12000 steps which took well over an hour but I got it done!

I finished the day on 12323 steps.