Marathon Training

The weight loss hasn't been going great lately but I have done very little so it's not exactly surprising.  I did say a while back though that once my local soccer teams season was over, I was going to have a real go at losing weight.  The season finished on Saturday past and the diet has started today.

My wife has decided to join me in it which is great as it gives me someone to share the journey with and if she's eating healthy then I have no choice but to join her.

If you have been reading my previous posts you will see that I have been struggling for an incentive.  Well, I have found the perfect one.  I have entered next years London marathon.  I may not get picked but I won't know that until October so I have put myself in a situation were I need to be in much better shape in October because knowing my luck, I'll be the first name drawn out. 

I weighed myself this morning and I currently weigh 284 pounds.  That's a long way off marathon weight and the hard work starts now.

Aspiring to be Clinically Obese

Well that was a good start, wasn't it?  Coming up to three months since I started this blog and I still haven't made the slightest effort to start dieting.  I was certainly feeling motivated when I wrote it but I obviously wasn't in the right place mentally.  I can make as many excuses as I want but ultimately the main reason for the lack of movement comes down to pure laziness. 

I've decided to draw a line under that last attempt.  It's in the past now and all I can do is try to go down a different road in the future.  I have weighed myself and the results were not good.  I am now 20st 7lbs (130.5kg) and with my height being 1.79m, my BMI is 40.73.  Those numbers aren't good and mean that I am now in the "Morbidly Obese" category.  Well isn't that a kick in the stomach?  Will it be the kick I need to get my arse in gear and do something about it?  The truth is, I don't know but it has to be.  With me now being morbidly obese I had a quick search of Google and it would turn you into a hypochondriac.  Every illness known to man is now an "increased chance" or "high risk" of me getting it as the BMI has edged over 40.

It certainly doesn't make you feel very motivated and instead a sense of paranoia sets in every time I cough or sneeze.  However, I do need to make some changes to my lifestyle as I have a wife and three children under the age of five and it's not much fun when I feel wrecked after playing with the kids for five minutes.  I will use them as my inspiration to get fit as it can't be much fun for them that I'm too tired to take them to the park etc.

Previous attempts have ended in failure because I have set myself unrealistic targets.  I am not a patient person and if I go for a run I want to lose a stone in weight.  Unfortunately it doesn't work that way and I am going to start off very slowly this time.  I am off work now until next Wednesday and I will set myself a target to walk twelve miles in that time.  That's not too bad and should be manageable with me being off work.

Regarding eating, I'm not going to worry too much about it for the time being.  If I can get myself into the habit of doing some exercise for a week or two I will then look at what foods I need to cut out.  That may not be the right attitude but I've tried everything else and it hasn't worked so I may as well give this a try.

My first weight loss target is to get the BMI below 40.  At my height I would need to weigh 128.1kg which would mean a loss of 2.4kg (5.5lbs).  I am not putting a time limit on that target.  I don't care if it takes a week, two weeks, a month or a year.  If I get to that weight, I am going the right way and I will re-evaluate then but for my all I really want is to be "Clinically Obese".

Introductions

Hi, my name is Gerry.  I've just turned 28 and I've also just turned 20 stone.  I've been hovering around the 19 stone mark for a while now and I have talked about losing weight but I have done nothing about it so far.  I've tried diets to no avail and have decided to write a blog about my efforts.  Nothing else has worked so I may as well give it a try to see if the pressure of knowing people are reading this helps push me on.

Today is the day I decided to stop looking like this...