Like me Mr Ben I think we need to both get with Anthony's Weight Loss Programme. I'm actually starting as soon as i've had my surgery on July 1st. I'm disgusted with myself that i've let all the good work i did at the back end of last year go to waste..
I'm back at 13stone and 17% body fat.. I've tried the low carb route and all i got was wicked constipation and ended up dreaming about eating bread all day etc
Nevermind rehab etc..My main motivation is that I point blank refuse to buy a pair of 34" trousers
I like Gahoo's earlier analogy! Cut Ben! Cut like a knife! Tell me when you're in Manchester and you can come down to my gym! I'm drawing the line at wearing a Dale mask though!
Ben, I think you need to get ripped mate. Seriously, you need to get down to a lower bodyfat and then build it up from there.
I know you like cars so here's an analogy for you.
You need to get skinny like I'm doing. Think of stripping a car down to the chassis before building it up into a supercar! brum brum!! You also need to concentrate on your engine too! i.e. your fitness and eating healthy as you don't want to be a great looking car with nothing under the bonnet (as you are at the moment).
Seriously, If I was you and I had your body - god forbid ;-) - I would get down to a low bodyfat, get really lean and work on eating healthy, I'd focus on that for the next 8 weeks and not worry about bulking. Focus on losing fat and increasing strength while eating decent food.
Hope that helps, just my opinion.
*beep beep*
I like this!
Looks like I will go on a clean eating, life of a monk cut then for a few weeks (maybe six) and see how I get on with losing the bit of belly flab I have. There is no way I want to let loose for my late 20s - so many of the guys from school already have done, and it is gross.
I also remember Gahoo's comment about when your belly is bigger than your chest it is time to sort it out - I am not that bad, but see so many 30+ ers who are in such bad shape it makes me cringe for them inside.
Darnay wrote:
Like me Mr Ben I think we need to both get with Anthony's Weight Loss Programme....
Maybe I will have to join in too
Darnay wrote:
My main motivation is that I point blank refuse to buy a pair of 34" trousers
Never! :-O
ProPlus wrote:
I like Gahoo's earlier analogy! Cut Ben! Cut like a knife! Tell me when you're in Manchester and you can come down to my gym! I'm drawing the line at wearing a Dale mask though!
Which gym do you go to? Is it a chain?
Maybe we will have to have a northern gym meet, there are enough of us about now, and all within easy reach of each other. Dale masks/costumes optional :)
Well....what can I say here, apart from that I have been crap for the last two weeks and only been to the gym once. I feel disappointed in my efforts, and I only have myself to blame!
However, I have realised that a 12 week stint is not for me: I need to break it down, and have a planned in rest break, I think. In future, I will plan this in to my training to manage everyone's expectations, and then not look like I am being the crap-ass that I am!
After consideration with the guys on here, I think my next move will be to go on a bit of a cut (probs for 5/6 weeks) and slim down my belly by being strict on myself , and junking the crap (shock therapy is probs the only way I am going to cut the junk, so I will have to do it!) as I don't want to be victim of the late 20s spread, and get a belly growing.... *shudders at the thought*
I am going to need so much willpower in myself though to be able to do it, as I am partial to the cakes anc chocs - not helped by the folks' apparently relentless attitude to buying in this kind of stuff.
What I will need tho is a bit of help/direction in making sure I am eating the good stuff, and that it is healthy and nutritious and not just a simple cut back of stuff. But, I don't really want to be a slave to calorie counting either.
Well....as you can see I have not been to the gym since my last update on here (although I did have a 30 min swim last week, and a game of roundes on the beach at the weekend). And, I abused my body with bad diet, and bad drinking (and hardly any water, non alcoholic drinks) at the weekend.
I now feel 'fat' again :( Obviously, I am not a bloater, but I feel the belly flab is back a bit more.
Monday will be the start of diet clean up, and re-fcosussing at the gym!
One thing I had forgotten about was on arrival in Cornwall the first thing Ender said to me was that I had lost my facial chub.
I hadn't really noticed it myself. But I was looking through some pics last night from the Northern Drinkies in January, and I look a right bloater in the face then, compared to now! :)
Well....as you can see I have not been to the gym since my last update on here (although I did have a 30 min swim last week, and a game of roundes on the beach at the weekend). And, I abused my body with bad diet, and bad drinking (and hardly any water, non alcoholic drinks) at the weekend.
I now feel 'fat' again :( Obviously, I am not a bloater, but I feel the belly flab is back a bit more.
Monday will be the start of diet clean up, and re-fcosussing at the gym!
I felt like that at the beginning of this week! I had a blow out for our anniversary on Sunday and felt crap all Monday! I feel better now after a week of being good!
