[OT] Insane Burger

Only downside is having to pay people to do some of the stuff on it that I'm capable of doing myself. I'm learning to live with that more nowadays but it still doesn't make me happy. The number of people I trust to work on my car numbers 4 and thankfully three of them work in the same garage.

I know. I was there.

What happened to the good old British sense of sarcasm?

Was I?

ITYM sarchasm.

We did get aircon fitted this summer though. It got turned on the day the sun went back in.

School/Work butties everyday used to be 8 slices of bread, meat or fish or cheese filling with salad and mayo, a yoghurt, 2 bags of crisps, and a piece of fruit. And for 10 years I couldn't put on weight and would be starving by the time I got home to a huge plate of food for tea. Then maybe have chips when out on the street with mates.

Now, I look at a Krispy Kreme and the button on my trousers burst.

Congrats, that is a good drop.

If I can eventually get down from arround 17 to 14st ish, I will be happy. Very happy.

If it wasn't you, who was it then?

Do I?

According to all the medical charts for my height I should be between 11st

11lb and 14st 7lb, unfortunately I think that would make me look like I just got out of Belsen :-)

James

why are the chesse burger people after me i should of not gone and ate all those burgers at mac donalds .maybe i m insane in the head . just kiding around or am i o come on can you take a joke .

I think if I get down to 14st, my shoulders/chest/arms will look a little thin, but the gut will hopefully have gone. I can muscle up the chest/arms after if I need. So far, 2pound short of a stone, and very little has happened to the gut. Everywhere else yes, gut no.

If the gut mostly dissapears when you suck it in, then that'll be down to the tone of the stomach muscles. You used to cycle a lot; why not get back into that?

Apart from the spare tyre, yes most of it does. When not sucked in, I look 8 months pregnant. But there is layer of fat there that wants going too.

I always want to get on the bike, then 5 minutes down the road I want to get back off again and shove it in the shed. When I put it together I was doing a serious lot of offroading which meant allow I was a little overweight I was fit, so could handle a beefy bike with soft suspension and a very upright riding position. Now I'm a lot overweight and would be mainly road riding for a while so the bouncy suspension would be working against me. I was on the soft side of OK when I was that bit lighter, now it would be like riding a space hopper even when preloaded to hell. And the riding position feels much to short and upright to maintain a sensible road riding position.

I got around at least half of your problem by replacing the rear shock with a block of wood once. Worked well. Takes a while to get back into cycling but once you're in, you wonder why it ever was! Poor workman blames his tools!! You'll get used to it. Something I learned from 18 months on the road living out of a backpack or in an old VW van was to make do and mend and how flexible the human body (and moreover, mind) is. I went shopping with my sister for some trainers to do jogging in, to replace my knackered old ones that have a hole in the bottom. She kept insisting that I go for all this expensive high-tech bollocks. I said look, if I can run five miles in these old holey ones, I can run ten in a new pair of those cheap ones and I won't look like a chav either. Both are probably better than Roger Bannister wore when he did the four minute mile. The rest is marketing!

Our decadent Western lifestyle leads us to believe we need X and Y to achieve Z. What a prat I felt in my knock-off North Face in the Himalayas when the local Sherpas were up at 3000m in the snow with

50kg of live chickens in a cage strapped to their back walking in flip- flops.

heh, fair enough. So maybe a cheap road bike until you're back in shape enough for the old one? I only suggest it 'cos I assume that you actually enjoyed cycling, and I reckon enjoying the exercise is the key thing which lets you stick at it...

You'll already know this, but the gut is the last bit to go. I reckon I'm still carrying a stone or so of fat and most of that is around the gut and the top of the thighs. (This is getting way too personal, but I don't give a f*ck any more.)

Anyway.

I used to be a 40" waist and am now somewhere between a 30" or 32". Even at that, there's a good bit of spare still to lose there and it's proving very very tough to get rid of. I reckon I can still lose a good 2" of circumference around the middle and get to a genuine 30" waist - hence the cycling and other exercise I'm now doing. It won't beat me.

If you're already doing something about it, no more needs to be said. Well done for getting this far. Once you really get into the mindset, it will become a mission.

a lot of the exercise stuff I've looked at is normally pointless. most of it makes the exercise easy! I was looking at a lot of stuff for sit ups when all you really need is a padded mat. or to get better abs a tilted bench which I'll probably get sometime along with a punch bag :)