Hi All,
Well hasn't this been interesting, the last blog I posted was in September last year, I am sorry for not posting anything sooner but I honestly have not had anything to post about till now.
I will start with the title "Back to basics", with the weight loss I achieved the past few months have not been good to say the least, I have slowly been gaining weight week by week and passing it off as muscle gain or natural body growth, I was wrong.
Around September last year I was 114kgs I am now 127kgs, I have been going hard at the gym for Spartan race which was in March (a little more on that later) and while my body fat has decreased my weight slowly crept up and up.
Living with Tracy means I not only eat for myself but my food choices effect her as well, let's take a step back for a minute and go all the way back to before my operation.
Here I was a guy who ate his way to 218kgs, then lost 104kgs in 2 years now don't get me wrong, it's a great achievement but I always have a saying in life I like to use, "Do not continue work without a solid foundation, one day it will fall down".
My foundation is not learning how to eat correctly, a balanced diet, how to count calories, learning what is good and what is not great to eat, too much protean not enough salt, too much dairy not enough carbs, too many carbs not enough fiber? Yeah you get my point, it took an outsider to make me aware of this and boy was it a wake up call, for 4 days I backed off on the excess intake of food and lost 500grams. It may take a while but I do live with someone who knows how to cook to maintain weight, it's going to be as hard as all buggery but it's something I need to overcome in this journey of mine.
Oh and I just threw out all the Easter chocolate.. here we go.
Onto some good news! Spartan race 2013! Check the photos I uploaded the first picture is (L-R) Scott, Me, Sateesh, team Red Sauce On Pasta!
The Spartan race is actually more difficult than Tough Muddah (so I was told) it was 7kms with about 20 obstacles from balance beams to 8 foot walls, sand bag hauling with a tire field, mud climbing ect ect... There were about 5 obstacles I couldn't do which all came down to grip strength and being able to lift ones own weight up a rope, that wasn't going to happen this time around.
All good though I paced myself enough that by the time we hit the 5km mark Scott and Sateesh were slowing down a bit, I was good and happily keeping pace, basically shocked Tracy and Lauren (Scotts gf) I have a feeling they were not expecting me to be up front =)
Finished the course in 1hr 55mins, signed up to the 14kms course in October, our goal is to match this time, which means pretty much non stop jogging between obstacles, we can do that the cardio isn't all that bad from this point on, just lots of jogging and endurance training.
I need more grip strength so off to the park I go to swing on some monkey bars.
I think that will do for now, once again I don't know what else to write about, idea's are welcome people, oh but I will update the facebook page more often with my weight loss progress.
Thanks for reading.
~Peace Age.
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