naboo

End of the 2nd week and I'm doing very well in fitness terms, but terribly when it comes to beer. Whisky's boring, maybe the cutting it out altogether option would be better.

Weighed myself, 78.1Kg suggesting I've lost 5 kg already. Me thinks the scales were broken.

However, getting lots of 'you look so slim today!' comments, so maybe I've lost a bit. We'll see.....

No beer today...... hopefully!

Well, a week of two halves (one bigger than the other). Started fantastically, on Tuesday I'd been to the gym 5 times in 6 days, Tuesday was my break day, had run 15km in that time, cycled double that and stepped up a notch on the weights.

I'd only had 2 large beers and 2/3rds of a bottle of whisky in 6 days, not bad at all for me! All I needed to do was stay dry on Tuesday and go to the gym on Wednesday.

Tuesday went out with a mate to have some munch. Had a beer, went ...

No, its not spam, its me....

I'm currently overweight. I've lost a lot of weight over the last 3 years.


As of today, I weight 84.3kg = 13st3lb or 185.5lbs. I am 179cms tall, or 5ft11.


That makes my BMI (I know, a crude measurement) 26.3, with 20-25 being normal, 25-30 overweight.


My waistline is 38 inches. I have man boobs. Its time to get it sorted.


I drink too much beer. I eat too much red ...

Buying trousers.

Your bog standard department store. You pop in, have a wide choice of trousers to take your pick from. The customer service girl will walk around with me, telling me which match up best with the shirts I've bought, I take my pick and she measures me up, sends the trousers downstairs to be cut to length. 15 minutes later, I've got perfectly fitting trousers in the style I wanted.

In England, in you go, find the trousers you want, but they only have a ...

Haircuts.

For the equivalent of half an hour's wage in Thailand, you get a 15 minute head massage with hair shampoo'd and conditioned. You're moved to a chair where a well trained, generally gay, man gets to work. Everything is done with scissors, none of this cheating with clippers leaving a rough finish after a couple of weeks' growth. Care is taken to ensure no hair goes down your top leaving you itchy until you get home to shower. Back to the sink for another wash, shorter head ...