3 km commute will be perfect as you won't need a rack and panniers, just a backpack. As you get fitter you can find longer ways to get to work aiming to get around 40 minutes exercise each way. That apparently is the length of exercise needed to get full benefits of fat burning intensity. Hills are always hard work, you just go faster as you get fitter.

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Good work fellas, really inspiring. It's hard work for sure, but if we all stick at it and stick together I think we can all get there.

My running is going great guns. Finished the Run for a Reason Half Marathon this morning in a personal best. Really surprised myself. Was hoping for 1hr 55 as this one was a little harder, but came in at 1hr 45.

Very very happy.

It's just the rest of my life unraveling at the moment.😢

The toll of the drinking and going behind the girlfriends back and not telling her the truth about things, has really come to s head at the moment. Plus a gambling habit that has shown it's ugly head recently. I haven't gambled for nearly 8 years.

Going along to an addiction councilor on Tuesday, and a group session on Wednesday, fingers crossed we can make a bit of progress.

My cousin has just completed his hypnotherapy course, so I may give that a go as well.

Anyway this is today's effort. 😄😄😄😄

@@Pops110

 

I'm in awe of the distances you do on foot and bike and bemused by your private life difficulties which it seems you know and indeed highlight here. Surely that recognition is the first step in changing your habits if not your lifestyle.

 

Gambling: If your doing it then put up a picture of your dream speaker/amp set-up as you PC wallpaper or ph and every time you want to gamble a 20 a 50 a 100 a 1000, well put it in an online account and watch it grow. It's how I stopped playing pokie machines many years ago.

Cheers Luc.

Old habits are hard to shake. I'm trying my hardest to get through things, I'm not ashamed to admit my faults and I try to tell as many people as I can. I think it helps and could maybe help others as well.

As long as the body can hold up, long distance running I think is all mental. I'm trying to combine the mental aspect of running into my daily life. It will work, I will get there.

Cheers Dave.

@@Pops110, I don't know if it is of any help to you but you have my best wishes at all times when you are grappling with your demons. How you wrest back the control that you recognise that you need to have is something that only you can determine. It's a good move to go and see a counselor, well done, it takes a lot of courage to take that step.

Edited May 24, 201510 yr by JukKluk2

Dave, you must be incredibly fit.

The council would be throwing lime on me and rolling my dead body off into the table drain if I tried to run that far.

@@Luc , buy the B&W's and a steamer suit.

Edited May 25, 201510 yr by Darren69

And your weigh in @@Darren69?

Thanks for the reminder Kluckster, I was 94.5kg, not really happy but not fretting too much. Portion control is my main problem.

Went for the run this morning and it wasn't pretty, didn't feel very rhythmic at all but we got there.

Well, still at 95kg.

Just back yestie from a few days away at Qld raceway doing a trackday on the bikes.

You want another one Daz?

Yeah sure....then it's my shout.

Sigh.

Should be no more 'off the grog' distractions for a while now. Would love to make 93kg. I would be happy with that.

Daz, every man deserves a beer after a track day or ten!!

its funny uint how we hover....

 

am still just under 90kg ! 

 

wanted to go for a jog today and it started to pour down with rain...so decided to go to the gym instead... un paused my membership that had paused over summer, autumn. now its winter suspect will need to go there more if wanting to get some exercise in.

 

wonder if this different exercise will budge past 89 and under ! 

its funny uint how we hover....

 

am still just under 90kg ! 

 

wanted to go for a jog today and it started to pour down with rain...so decided to go to the gym instead... un paused my membership that had paused over summer, autumn. now its winter suspect will need to go there more if wanting to get some exercise in.

 

wonder if this different exercise will budge past 89 and under ! 

 

But you wear it well al - look in reasonable shape to me! 

 

So what do you employ - an extra strong elastic girdle or baggy slimming clothes? 

(like me!) 

 

So what do you employ - an extra strong elastic girdle or baggy slimming clothes? 

(like me!) 

 

 Sorry @@evil c, but on the evidence of the photo's I have seen it isn't working with you.

But you wear it well al - look in reasonable shape to me! 

 

So what do you employ - an extra strong elastic girdle or baggy slimming clothes? 

(like me!) 

 

oh I wish evil ! 

 

carrying a spare tyre I am…can you believe I have been 17 kg lighter ! 

 

need to ideally loose about 10kg…about 5 kg off I'd realistically would be happy for starters !

 Sorry @@evil c, but on the evidence of the photo's I have seen it isn't working with you.

 

But I have the advantage - I looked fantastic  - - -once! 

 

 

oh I wish evil ! 

 

carrying a spare tyre I am…can you believe I have been 17 kg lighter ! 

 

need to ideally loose about 10kg…about 5 kg off I'd realistically would be happy for starters !

 

Look your problem isn't your weight @ al - it's your height or lack of it, like my affliction as well as heavy boned of course! 

17kg lighter??? - fine if you want to ride a horse competitively 

But I have the advantage - I looked fantastic  - - -once! 

 

 

 

 

No, you didn't, your mum just told you that because that is what mums do. Was it just as you were going out on your first date? All Brylcreem, black pants, white socks and a face covered in Clearasil? Hate to break it to you, but, she was lying.

https://blog.myfitnesspal.com/when-will-running-start-feeling-easier/?user_id=239287143444477&alt_source=mfp&alt_medium=email&alt_campaign=weekly20150601&utm_source=mfp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly20150601&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokvqnNZKXonjHpfsX77uQlWqG%2FgYkz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTsdjPa%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7DBLM153N8QXRTg

Day three alcohol free.

Am on a weightloss diet at the moment as I clocked in at 98.8 a while back and decided it was time to do something about it.

Google "13 day metabolism diet"

There's a number of different variations of it and it's getting mixed reviews.

Did it a few years ago and dropped from 105 to 95 in 2 weeks and got down to 92 over the following months, but have climbed back up again...

It's a bit of a drag and you don't get to eat a lot but it still involves eating meat and fish so it's not an all out starvation diet like soup or juice "crash diets".

It's the snacking and beers that are my worst enemies and this time around I've developed more of a potbelly than lovehandles and manboobs which was the case last time.

Would love to get to the magic 90kg this time around (not in two weeks obviously but over a few months)

Just gotta cut back on the beers.....

Edited June 3, 201510 yr by Dirty_vinylpusher

:lol:

Took me a while to get around to it....

http://www.stereo.net.au/forums/index.php?/topic/78668-off-the-grog/?p=1293715

Well I'm going pretty well with the no drinking, or occasional drinks when out. However I'm eating more crap as a consequence. Wife had a bit of a trend of buying dark chocolate so I was replacing beers with that, and also chips or twisties during the day. Going for a road ride tonight with a couple of mates tonight, should be around 60kms so somewhere between 2.25-2.5 hours as we are easing back into it.

 

Well done @@Dirty_vinylpusher . Just thought I'd let you know that the juicing is not a "diet", it's really just a 3-5 day detox with dramatic weight loss being a side effect. Even Joe the guy who made the juicing movie says that you shouldn't do it for too long as you are missing out on no soluble fibre. I'm now having a veggie juice (800ml) every second morning for breakfast. I find it keeps the energy up and I feel healthier for it. Probably helps with the digestive system too.

I am the same, rewarding myself with chokkies or bikkies or beer whenever I lose weight, which blows out a bit and the weight sneaks back on, dammit.

It's a balancing act.

@@blybo, the fibre is the reason i blend & with a spoon of protein powder no hunger

I am the same, rewarding myself with chokkies or bikkies or beer whenever I lose weight, which blows out a bit and the weight sneaks back on, dammit.

It's a balancing act.

Yep am balancing the exercise with food s little too well... To point of no loss or gain

@@blybo

I just mentioned juice as one of those "only eat/drink one thing for two weeks" kinda diets.

Like soup, cabbage, whatever.

Of course you can do it different ways.

@@Darren69

Yeh, "rewarding" yourself for avoiding one "bad" thing by eating another usually doesn't work

:lol:

Day three (still :lol: )and I would like to say all is well, but afternoons in the shed without beer just aren't the same....

Edited June 4, 201510 yr by Dirty_vinylpusher