Feb 12.

Well, it's been a few days since my last blog... It was a long and hard road back after a serious slip-up. I am now finally back to absolute rules. Last week I was mostly compliant, after my heavy weekend, then this weekend I was away with family up north. So, a little drinking (no beer) and a little too much normal food... However, I am now back on lock down and am completing my workouts too. Didn't miss a beat over the weekend.

I will be very strict this week, as we are away skiing on Sunday, and I will be having normal food while I am away. Skiing every day from 9.30am - 5pm (ish) which will look after the exercise. Maybe a few squats and a shot of the band in the evenings, just to see me through. There will be alcohol, but I am fine with that. It won't be like last weekend, where it took my 3/4 days to recover...

How is everyone else getting on?

I think Joe is doing is own version of FIYL now, so not really at all.

I know Sam is still going strong and will bet my life that Swee is. Would be good to hear from the rest of you.

Getting there...

It's been so hard to get back in the saddle!!

Diet has been wavering, not too bad and mostly just lunch on a couple of days. Still not managed eggs and fruit for dinner yet!

Managed 1 full workout this week, the rest have been missing parts, depending on where I've been when doing it.

...SO, still trying to get back to form but I am gonna get there. I'll get some pics up shortly, not much change.

Body strength is good but struggling with the skipping at the moment. Combined with dietary fuck-ups...not burning enough FAT!!

Still not got a good blog in me either....DEREK>>>

Well done others.

FIYWHAT?

It's all gone horribly wrong....

Finding it very hard to climb back on the horse. I will do my 1st exercise since Thursday today.... After all my chat about missing it!! Well the punishment and pain I will feel, will be well deserved.

Im not going into detail.

I will right more shortly, when I am feeling more positive and back on the bandwagon.

Apologies... mostly to myself.

Customisation

Lying in bed, messing with the Blog, I think I have worked out how you link the weekly picture. I will talk Sam and anyone else interested through it. However, I did say I think... 

Ripped the handles of my ropes today, that only worked for a while, so had to do skipping without ropes... weird huh! 

Pull-ups were very hard today, I am doing 2/3 then basically jumping up and lowering myself down, I think this is a good way to build yourself up to them. Looking forward to them coming. 

My friend Christophe is coming over at the weekend, as I said. There will be some cheating, mostly drinking but I am sure there will be some food involved too. Will try and keep it on a level. He is in the shape of his life!! He does a lo of calisthenics, yoga, eats very healthily, so while we will enjoy a drink, it will probably be quite motivating for Joe, Sam and me, of course Swee too, if he fancies it..?

Looking forward to Scotland vs England on Saturday, we could get an absolute humping, but it's usually a good game. Tough opener. 

GG made fish cakes last night for dinner, not sure if that's okay. There was no oil or anything from the banned list used, maybe the flour is a no no in the evening but hey ho, they were tasty as. 

Laterz 

FIYLing without wings

Another good day, smashed the work-out AM, I realised this morning that I had done day 19 exercise yesterday... Ah well, I'll do it again.  Pull-ups... they seem impossible and right now, they are, but I know if I keep at it they will eventually happen. Got to get it in the head!

So, while skipping this morning, my rope was playing up, it's got a counter etc and is a bit over enginered. It was struggling to do revolutions on the right handle and bunching up, it wouldn't quit. After 300 skips with some serious frustration brewing, I decided to kick it to the kerb. I did the remaining 600 skips without a rope. It was a bit weird at first, I did the hand movements for the entire time and it all worked out. I think I'll invest in a new rope tomorrow, perhaps something a little simpler.

Quick thought, I was meaning to say, I have been replacing my bread carbs in the morning with some porridge oats. I am pretty sure this is okay, I have them cold with milk. Weekends will see a few raisins, some chopped banana and if I am feeling lucky, some honey. Somebody shout at me if this is bad, although I can't see why. I have my eggs and veg after, it gets cooked while I am munching down my bowl. I love it!! I reckon I could eat porridge 3 times a day and be happy...

Glad everyone is getting on well,  keep up the good work.

Friday is an off day for me... Good friend in town that I haven't seen in 5 years... Rules will be broken... That I can promise... But it won't hold me back...Joe is the ringleader... More on that later.


Ciao ciao

Writers Blog

Dear Diary, 

Nothing much to report, all coming along nicely. Sticking to the diet a lot more than the1st time round, which I am sure will be visible at the end of this run... I am absolutely smashing the exercises, haven't missed a beat. Working for myself certainly does make it easier I think, I can get it done early and not have it hanging over me in the evenings. 

Which brings me to my next point. I am reading about people skipping exercises and missing bits here and there. I think it's my duty to pass on my knowledge and experience in this department. If you regularly miss things now, you will not be able to keep up, as we move through he program. It gets steadily harder and soon enough, it gets quite brutal, if you haven't been building up to it. I know that life gets in the way sometimes, and I accept that. But if you tell yourself it's okay to miss some bits sometimes, I think that will seriously hold you back. I reckon, actually, I know from past experience that having that mindset is just opening yourself up for slacking off. There will be times (not very often) that you can't get it done, but letting yourself thing that is okay, will surely just let you miss more. And as I said, this is only going to get more intense, so if you miss out now, it's gonna be even tougher. Please don't take this the wrong way, I am only offering the truth. 

First proper pull-ups today! Insanely hard, I managed about 3, then reverted to the early model. They will come though, you just have to stick with them. 

Right, I am off to do some extra shifts for Summerhall, working for someone else :-( But it's going to pay for Ski-pass :-) 

Thanks for listening (eh!?) 

Byeeeeee 

No means Yes...

Dearest reader, 

Great weekend, not a drop of alcohol in sight! All workouts executed to the max and diet (pretty much) in check. 

Managed to say no to a night out, a 30th birthday celebration of a close friend. I was a little annoyed that I was missing it, but to be honest, when Grainne came through the door at 6.15am I felt a lot better about myself. I would have most certainly caved and got right involved in the bevy, that would have led to deep-fried food and maybe some more shitty food today. 

So as a result of my good behavior; 

Got up early and did my skipping. Managed to get around 730 skips before faulting, unbelievable really! Watched the tennis, poor Andy. Went to the super market and stocked up for the week, a few admin jobs here and there, saw my nephew and Im ready for a nice sunday afternoon/evening. May go to the flicks and see somthing. We will see. 

Swee and I did our workouts together on Saturday, was good to see how other people do the things that you're doing all the time. We smashed it in no time, outside Club Claremont. 

Right, later skaters.