ymir

Stuff like this keeps me motivated, great job!

SARGE

congratulations mate awesome achievement great post

Rowlf

Stunning post mate, very motivational for me as I start a cheeky little cut. Thanks!

jjb1

i want to be 19 stone but an awsome looking 19 stone :-)

your doing well chap takes guts to post pics i did it and i looked like poo but im hopeing it will inspire me to better myself

best of luck to you

noturbo

thats a brilliant transformation and by the sounds of your dedication its only the begining, congrats so far and goodlouck for the future!

oh and goodluck with the blood test results too

Slamdog

well, back from holiday and 12lbs heavier but my trousers havent got tighter..

i basically said firk the diet, firk the supps... i'm on holiday...

so.. ate good food... and puddings which is something i havent done for a while (puddings that is)

bulgarian cooking... a lot of tomato and cucumber, big chunks of meat...

It was a real shock to my body only having 3 meals a day.. big ones admittedly but still only three. I did a lot of walking, swimming and generally enjoying life again.

what would i do differently if i had the holiday again? probably swapped the cokes for water... although coke, beer and local spirits were free, water you had to buy...

sod it.. it was a holiday... it was 2 weeks of fun...

now to look forward to blood tests at the end of the week... time to get healthy again.

megatron

You said it mate, don't feel guilty at all - you enjoyed the holiday now get back to training and diet

Good Luck

Getting On!

Hi Slamdog.

Where do you train in Northampton? I used to train many years ago at Mike Bakers in Fetter Street and at Image in Gregory Street, the latter moved and I think they became known as Image & Unique - or something like that!

Northamptonian born & bred mate although now live in Daventry and only train at Fitness First.

Your thread and story it contains is inspirational mate. You have done extremely well, and long may it continue.

Slamdog

I use Image and yes, they do use the name Image @ Unique as well these days. Now they are on brackmills industrial estate and Coke have let me in on the corporate scheme which only costs 50 quid a year. The summer holidays are playing havoc with my training because I'm looking after the kids while the wife is out at work. Normally on my off shift days I drop the kids at school and then spend a couple of hours there. At the moment, I'm sneaking sessions where I can but also mindfull of my rotator cuff injury which has slowed me down a bit as well. I think when I do get back into the swing of things I'm going to have to start like a newbie again and get used to the weights, building back up to the level I was at before the injury. The tendonitis still hasn't gone yet either..

At least the kids go back next week... wahay!

Getting On!

Hope all goes well for you mate.

stow

Very good read and inspirational, fair play to you for all of that effort.
I think you already realise just how valuable it was for you!
Excellent.

13stonetarget

Congratulations, good effort!

Slamdog

again, thanks guys.

I did put on a fair bit of weight in the 2 weeks holiday. nearly a stone all told, but I have dropped than now in the first week of being back. I am going to see how things progress over the next few weeks once the kids go back to school and I get back to work. I went for a set of blood tests today, liver function, cholesterol, diabetes etc to see how things are going now that I have changed my lifestyle. I will be getting the results sometime next week so I will see what that says about the diet and general health.

I still haven't figured out why I nearly pass out when they take blood.... The nurse said that I should not have a problem seeing as I have tats, but I said its different... I like the feeling when getting a tat... It must be the thought of my arm leaking that does it....

Slamdog

OK... my birthday today.....

Went to the gym. This is the second time since I managed to injure myself at work. All in, a 6 week lay-off and if I'm honest... I wont be doing a lot of heavy shoulder work because it hurt a bit today. I don't think it has fully healed and I'm not going to risk it being permanent.

It's amazing how much strength I seem to have lost. I just seem to struggle with weights I was managing before the shoulder injury. Never mind, I'll soon build that up again.

I'm still trying to lose fat.. doing more cardio stuff but again, probably not enough. I thought about buying a treadmill or cross trainer for home but haven't really got the space for either... If only my life had more time in it..... why can't the day be 30 hours long?

My weight is staying fairly constant at the moment, around the 14st 12lb mark +/-2lbs but I think i'm getting leaner... I can actually see my veins in my arms now where as before they were pretty much invisible. If only my belly would start to dissapear and take the love handles with it.....

As a sideline, the kids had a one use camera thing... they finally got it developed after 2 years... one of the pics... me and the missus... boy do I look huge... the belt on my jeans must have been at maximum safe loading. I'll try and scan the pic... will have to dig out the scanner from the loft....

Con

Just read the looooong post lol and all i can say is very well done to make such a change in life style at any age is a very hard task.