New blog

What’s up homies. Happy New Year.

Here’s the plan for the first quarter of 2014.

My neighbour Jack - who you might recall helped me get this blog going and stayed at our house when we were in the UK (please pay attention) and I are going to lose 13 kegs in 13 weeks.

You can lose more than 1 kilogram in a week but it’s not averaged , ie you still then have to lose 1 kilogram each and every week.

We are then going to have a consolidation period of a further 13 weeks where you can’t pile any chub back on.

We are going to post a picture of our digital scales after our weigh in each Monday morning with one (collective) blog each Monday - for the next thirteen weeks.

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We are seeking to shift some pudding for slightly different reasons. Anyone following this blog fairly regularly knows I’ve been doing a bit of cycling over the last few months.

After staying pretty static for a couple of years it’s fair to say it’s recently jumped up a level which is pleasing given it wasn’t something that came easily to me.

I was 105.9 kegs on 1/1/2014 - see photo attached.

I’m keen to get a little faster still on my bike. Any mud around your middle is the enemy of going quicker (particularly up hills) so eventually you have no choice but to say no to the KFC. Eventually you realise that everyone you know who cycles very well looks like a cyclist who cycles very well so that’s the next step for me.

Whilst he would never say this about himself Jack has been handed a lot of genetic gifts. He’s the lead singer in a band,  is a good looking rooster, is better than useful at sport with pretty impressive hand eye coordination. One gift he wasn’t handed was the ability to eat mountains of shit food and stay lean. A year ago he was 90 kegs and pretty pleased with himself. We did a little training together in the lead up to him getting to that 90 kegs which is where I possibly underestimated Jacks resolve a little. I set up two bikes in my garage and we were doing some cycling followed by a run around the block (2k) and you do it two or three times. Jack was on the cusp of breaking the 10 minute barrier for the circuit and I didn’t think he was trying hard enough so I bullied him a little during the second lap only for him to stop at the shop behind my house (150m from the end of the run) – and throw up in the bin there – before finishing the run to his credit. And by throw up I mean he really gave it some – not one of those attention seeking excuses for a chuck that some people roll out just to get to the showers early. Fast forward to 1/1/2014 however and he’s 119 kegs, (photo attached) which is a little untidy for a young bloke.

This level of pork is an area he probably needs to get on top of sooner rather than later for lots of reasons so we are going to do this together as with that element of friendly competition and making it somewhat public we are almost duty bound to be successful.

Our first official Monday weigh in and post is tomorrow so I’ll see some of you then -  but before I go let me hand you over to Jack….

So many of you will already know John and may have heard of me before. John is at 74, i'm at 70! I've house sat for him before and drunk him under the table a couple times too. There may be a huge age gap but mentally we're on about the same level.

We've also got a penchant for food whilst also being elite athletes. The King (as he likes to be known) has completed numerous events that make me tired just watching them and I think we were all proud of him when he completed the Busselton Ironman. We followed him from home online and were happy to get the news that he crossed the line.

Anyway, neither of us are insubstantial blokes and we both want to be slightly less substantial. I've lost 30kg twice in my life but not done a great job of keeping it off. This time is going to be different. 26 weeks in total. 13 to lose some kegs and 13 more to make sure we keep it off.

It's going to be tough, I might even vomit, there could even be some decent comedy but it'll be 110% no matter what.

Keep following our progress and get around us! Wait to see how good we'll be looking come July!