bedfordguy
Wed, September 28th, 2005, 06:53 PM
Hiya all
A friend of mine pointed out this site to me and thought I'd join in.
A bit about me December 2003 I was a huge lump of lard at 18 stone and undeterminable body fat %. Trouser size was a UK size 40. Alright I was 6ft 2 but as you will see from the piccy I was fat no two ways about it. So in January 2004 I started my quest.
I dont believe a diet should run your life so for me dieting starts Monday 9 am and Finishes at 5 pm on a Friday and then its party time. Yes this hampered my progress but it meant I stuck to it.
The going was tough I followed a Matt Roberts training programme that was based on HIIT twice a week a long slow run one day a week and then one day small muscle workout and another day a large muscle workout. At the end of the first month Id lost a stone.
And so I carried on. My first goal at the outset was to drop 2 trouser sizes and lose two stone. After 3 months of starting I achieved this goal so I carried on and on and on.
And then I plateued in January this year and also had a car crash which meant I couldnt run. Two months of inactivity also followed but I managed to eat sensibly as by this point had been on a relatively controlled diet based losely around GI principles.
So in July Mens Health Magazine website started a challenge which I enterred into argggg Im on the home page!!!!!!!!! It was a lose your love handle challenge. Starting point was 14st 7, trouser size was 36.
Well it was a 12 week challenge and in the first 4 weeks I lost 14.7 lbs!!!!!!! I was gobsmacked. All with no cv at all only slow weights at 5 up 5 down. The diet has been restrictive calorie cycling from 1800 down to 1400 on 200 down 100 up cycle over 6 weeks.
But am nearing the end of this challenge and am now circa 12 1/2 stone and trouser size is a very lose 32. But this is just the beginning............ there will be more but cant say what yet so this is why I am posting now as I just want to show what you can achieve when you put your mind to it
A friend of mine pointed out this site to me and thought I'd join in.
A bit about me December 2003 I was a huge lump of lard at 18 stone and undeterminable body fat %. Trouser size was a UK size 40. Alright I was 6ft 2 but as you will see from the piccy I was fat no two ways about it. So in January 2004 I started my quest.
I dont believe a diet should run your life so for me dieting starts Monday 9 am and Finishes at 5 pm on a Friday and then its party time. Yes this hampered my progress but it meant I stuck to it.
The going was tough I followed a Matt Roberts training programme that was based on HIIT twice a week a long slow run one day a week and then one day small muscle workout and another day a large muscle workout. At the end of the first month Id lost a stone.
And so I carried on. My first goal at the outset was to drop 2 trouser sizes and lose two stone. After 3 months of starting I achieved this goal so I carried on and on and on.
And then I plateued in January this year and also had a car crash which meant I couldnt run. Two months of inactivity also followed but I managed to eat sensibly as by this point had been on a relatively controlled diet based losely around GI principles.
So in July Mens Health Magazine website started a challenge which I enterred into argggg Im on the home page!!!!!!!!! It was a lose your love handle challenge. Starting point was 14st 7, trouser size was 36.
Well it was a 12 week challenge and in the first 4 weeks I lost 14.7 lbs!!!!!!! I was gobsmacked. All with no cv at all only slow weights at 5 up 5 down. The diet has been restrictive calorie cycling from 1800 down to 1400 on 200 down 100 up cycle over 6 weeks.
But am nearing the end of this challenge and am now circa 12 1/2 stone and trouser size is a very lose 32. But this is just the beginning............ there will be more but cant say what yet so this is why I am posting now as I just want to show what you can achieve when you put your mind to it