Category: Lardathon

Lardathon Day #3

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I’m sorry but I can’t blog today due to my brain being left behind on a treadmill somewhere in Holborn.  I think I need a lie down.  And my feet hurt.

Stats
Starting weight: 9 st 4
Current weight: 9 st 3
Breakfast: Soya yoghurt and muesli
Lunch: Quorn sausage sandwich with lettuce, cucumber and light mayo
Dinner: Wholewheat spaghetti with aubergine and tomato sauce
Other: Mini baby bel, nectarine
Lard based confessions: 0
Cows: 0
Exercise:
Treadmill: 90 minutes
Distance: 13k
Speed: 8.5/9/9.5kph

Lardathon Day #2

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Although I couldn’t get on my body pump class tonight (probably because of blokes booking all the places so they can ogle the girls), I pack my gym kit anyway and in the morning, ten minutes before I have to leave, I remember that I only have five songs on my little iPod and so I take my big iPod too and after work I go to the gym and do a feeble attempt on the treadmill and a not so feeble attempt on the rowing machine and on the way home I look out for the cows again but they’re still not there.  Damn, maybe tomorrow.

Stats
Starting weight: 9 st 4
Current weight: 9 st 5
Breakfast: Soya yoghurt and muesli
Lunch: Quorn sausage sandwich with lettuce, cucumber and light mayo
Dinner: Caribbean coconut, courgette, spinach and pumpkin curry with wholegrain brown basmati rice
Other: Mini baby bel, nectarine
Lard based confessions: 0
Cows: 0
Exercise:
Treadmill: 20 minutes
Distance: 2.85k
Speed: 8.5/9kph
Rowing machine: 30 minutes

Lardathon Day #1

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I haven’t set a very good Lardathon example today, although not as bad as joggerblogger who hasn’t even attempted Lardathon, coming up with the pitiful excuse that it’s Sunday.

A pub lunch beckoned as we wanted to investigate the smoking ban and as pubs aren’t renowned for their healthy grub I had a tomato, brie and mayonnaise sandwich and chips although I did manage to resist putting mayonnaise on my chips. And because we were in the pub, it would have been rude to not sample their alcoholic beverages so I had two bottles of Corona too. Unfortunately it wasn’t raining so I didn’t get to gloat at any unhappy smokers having to get pissed down on while they nipped out for a smoke. Shame.

Stats
Starting weight: 9 st 4
Current weight: 9 st 4 (although probably not after the amount eaten and drank last night)
Crap eaten: Brie, mayonnaise, chips, coleslaw, beer
Dinner: Quorn burger in two slices granary bread
Other food: Two Mini Baby Bels
Exercise: None

Juneathon Day #30. The end.

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We made it, the end of Juneathon! But I wimped out of the 8 miles my training schedule had down for me due to, um, not really feeling like it but still, I couldn’t wimp out totally, what with it being the last day of Juneathon and that so I loaded up my iPod with some of my favourite tunes, although for some reason my favourite tune ever ever ever wasn’t in my iTunes folder and you’d think with 5,000 songs in there, my favourite one ever ever ever would be in there and so I decided that I couldn’t leave the house without it and eventually found it hiding in an external hard drive and so with my 18 minutes of tunes decided to run for 18 minutes and I went out in the rain, hardcore stylee, and went round the park and up to the sports field and because I am the only hardcore stylee finely tuned athlete in Walthamstow had the place to myself and it’s raining and I’m getting soaked and my favourite tunes are being blasted into my ear drums and I get back to the park and Joining the Plankton by Cardiacs which is my favourite song ever ever ever comes on and I think this is the last song but I’ve only done 15 minutes, I thought I put another song on and then Stereo Total start singing I Love You, Ono and I think can I get round the park before this song finishes so I speed up and I don’t quite make it to the gate before the song finishes and I go home having completed Juneathon and I think I should win Juneathon because, um, I like winning things.

Stats:
Miles: 2.12
Total time: 19:31
Average pace: 9:11
Total calories: 196
Music:
The Damned – Smash It Up
Graham Coxon – You & I
Delorean – As Time Breaks Off
Cardiacs – Joining The Plankton
Stereo Total – I Love You, Ono
Juneathon stats:
Days completed: 28/30
Miles: 71.95

LARDATHON – THE RULES
Right then, who’s up for Lardathon?

Lardathon is simple. The rules are

Lose weight.
No eating crap allowed (unless it’s your birthday or anniversary or your friend’s coming round to see your new bathroom and you’re going to your favourite Italian restaurant after)*.
You must post your food diary every day and confess to any crap eaten.
You are allowed to drink but not 20 pints every night.
You can drink more on beer drinking weather days.
You can drink in any pubs where smoking is banned.
Do lots of exercise (doesn’t have to be every day).
If you want a logo, design it yourself 😉

*Crap includes pizza, crisps, chocolate, cakes, ice cream**, donuts, anything containing large quantities of cheese, cream and butter, lard. This list is not exhaustive.

**Free ice cream is allowed.

I will make up some more rules later.

Today my scales said I was 9st 4 and I want to be under 9st. Ideally, 8.7 st. Actually, I’d like to be 8st but then people start moaning at me for being too skinny (I’m 5 ft 6).

Juneathon Day #24

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Last night’s excesses weren’t as excessive as originally planned and although I was slightly hungover this morning I needed to clear my head and a spin round the marshes seemed more appealing than a two mile walk to the gym. So off I went with my newly charged wireless headphones and loaded my iPod with the album I first ran to over the marshes and it’s quiet over the marshes and it’s raining and I’m getting soaking wet and I’ve turned up my iPod so loud my ears are bleeding. Bliss.

And while I’m running I’m thinking about next month’s Lardathon and how I want to lose a stone and be the size I was before I stopped smoking and if it wasn’t for the fact that the smoking ban comes into force in a week I’d start smoking again although not really because then I’d just sit around smoking and doing fuck all else like I used to and I’m thinking about how I only bought my scales last year because I thought I’d put on weight and then my scales said I was 8 st 8 and now they say I’m 9 st 5 and how could I have put on nearly a stone when I eat reasonably healthy most of the time except for yesterday’s double caramel magnum, pizza and banoffee pie and next month there will be no crap eating at all except for the free ice cream at the end of the month because free ice cream doesn’t count.

And as usual I try and get round the marshes in less than 30 minutes and as usual I don’t manage it but that would probably be because I always stop to walk up the small slope big massive hill.

Today’s route

Stats:
Miles: 2.96
Total time: 30:09
Average pace: 10:11
Total calories: 278
Hangovers: 1
3 mile marshes routes done in 30 minutes: 0
Music:
Black Wire – God of Traffic
Black Wire – Attack! Attack! Attack!
Black Wire – Smoke And Mirrors
Black Wire – Promote The Happy Hours
Black Wire – Hard To Love Easy To Lay
Black Wire – 800 Million Heart Beats
Black Wire – Broken Back
Black Wire – Both Your Houses

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