Just a quicky today. I’m conscious that I keep banging on about how much belly I’ve lost this year, so thought it might be better to just show you. However, I also wanted to avoid you having to sluice your eyeballs with drain unblocker, so I’ve delicately censored the before/after pics.
In this post, I’ll be harking back to my first visit to the Slimming World group, back in January. As I mentioned before, I had plenty of reservations. Even the word “slimming” is a bit cringe – always makes me think of 1980’s fitness tropes like jogging, legwarmers and running away from Michael Jackson. It’s…
Well then… I’m now three months into “Operation Stop Being a Fatty”, and if there’s one thing I’ve taken from it so far, it’s that I’m far better at eating healthily than I am at writing blog posts. This is how it was supposed to go… Beginning of January: Relaunch the blog, in anticipation of…
January 2024 I’m a 48½ year old male, living in the UK, and I have a perfect BMI. Well, it would be prefect, if I was 7’6” tall. Sadly I’m not. I am in fact 5’6”, which means that at a hefty 110kg I’m roughly the same shape as Spongebob Squarepants, or R2D2 if he’d…
Hello stranger. Imagine a phoenix, rising from the flames. Now imagine that it’s rising quite slowly, on account of having let itself go a bit. Maybe it’s a phoenix who’s a bit too fond of Wotsits. In fact, it’s probably best if you imagine that the phoenix is in fact a fat little puffin. Well,…
1. The easiest way to keep warm is to do it somewhere that isn’t cold. Examples include Brazil, Spain, the Democratic Republic of Congo, or inside your own imagination. 2. Stuff insulation inside your running clothes. You could use cotton wool, scrunched up newspapers, or your mate Barry’s loft insulation when he goes on holiday…
Hey lovely reader, how’re you? Those little zipped pockets they put on the back of running shorts are great aren’t they? No. No they’re bloody well not, and here’s why… A couple of weeks ago, I found myself arriving at work with an hour or two to spare, so decided to make the most of…
Hello blog-reading person Following on from my last post, I just wanted to quickly tell you about something else that happened in the hotel gym, in the faint hope that the act of putting it down in writing will somehow exorcise the godawful memory of what happened (it won’t). So, this was my second or…
Hola! (That’s pretty much the only Spanish I know, other than “Soy una princesa de hadas”, which I use more often than I ever thought I would). I’ve just got back from a break in the south of Majorca. Some long-overdue family time, with no worries or cares (other than the ever-present threat of being…
A tinkle. A wee-wee. Taking a leak. A piddle. A widdle. A wet hello. A gypsy’s kiss. A wazz. Watering the buttercups. Bath-time at Uncle Geoffrey’s house, Spending a penny. A piss. Whatever you want to call it, I’m sure we’ve all been caught short mid-run. If it’s a short run you might be able…
I wish weather reports would stop being so bloody vague. When they said “expect winds with gusts of up to 50mph, accompanied by heavy showers”, that could have meant literally anything. If you’ve ever seen me out running, you’ll know that I look like an idiot at the best of times, lurching haphazardly along like…
Running clubs are a great idea if you want to spend time with likeminded people, give yourself fresh challenges, stay motivated, or if you just really enjoy wearing vests. And while joining can just be a simple matter of turning up and filling in a registration form, you should also be aware that there’s a…
One of my most favouritest out-and-back routes has a particularly nasty hill at the halfway point. There’s a gatepost at the top, and I’ve developed a triumphant little ritual of high-fiving it whenever I get there. I think this sort of behaviour is quite common among runners. We like to tap inanimate objects1 as a…
When I go for a run, there are two constants. Two absolute rules of the universe that simply cannot be avoided. One: The more wonderful it is, the more likely I am to find new and inventive ways to bring it crashing down around me. Two: If my run brings me within 30ft of a…
Born to Plod 