Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

And the smoking...

I may have already quit......

For all I know you may well have.....

Ouch.....

[outragous76]

A brilliant topic for the day! You may know I am on a weight loss crusade! Today I have reach my first target of 16 st, over a week ahead of schedule, but I love the fact (given my profession) that I can say that I weight 2 bags of cement!

Today I'll be known as 2 bags!

Ty tikay, you have brightened my day with that little nugget!

No, I was not aware.

How much did you weigh when you started the diet?

What is your target weight?

What timescale have you set to achieve it?

I was reflecting this week on my year, & how happy & good I felt whilst I was hard-dieting, a process that took over 4 months, during which I shed 5 stone. I was never happier, & never felt better, physically & mentally.

Typically & illogically, I'm piling it alll back on now, & don't feel so good mentally, & far far worse physically, & struggle to get out of bed every morning, instead of springing out of bed like a springy happy thing, now it's all groan & moan, aches & pains.

I can't wait until the New Year, when I start again. Meanwhile, & equally illogically, because I'm due to start another diet soon, I'm binge eating terribly now.  You could not make up my stupidity at times.

And yet when I diet, I won't fail - it's the easiest & most satisfying thing I've done in years.

Well I started due to reaching a "nearly milestone". I reached 16st 13 and figured that I could never say the words out-loud that I weighed 17stone - so it started that day.

I really like low carb/low GI style diets, as they suits my lifestyle and keep me disciplined. I did "the atkins" in 2003, and I have now refined that concept to something far more civilised and less restrcitve (and healthier), but which enables me to maintain a steady weight loss. I also walk more too.

The targets are 16st by new year (which I reached today), 15st by 30 April 2011, and then I was encouraged to resurrect an old bet (see 2003 atkins diet), and head for 14st by 30 August (my birthday).

I consider 15 st to be my fighting weight and I really intend to maintain it when I get there. I figured the bet would give me incentive, but then allow a little so called "bounce" so that I can steady around 15st.

I have always been a "big lad", but i have to say I felt uncomfortable at 16st 13, so Im delighted I started. I also dont like the cliche of a new year diet, hence not waiting till Jan. I too am feeling the benefits of weight loss including more energy (huh - seriously daft these bodies of ours), more focus, more alert, and general well being.

Ill let you know when I make 15st

Regards

2 bags 

[Bongo]

It seems that even guerilla militias can't avoid Christmas nowadays!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12025086

[kinboshi]

I bet tikay started this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12056504

[TRIP5]

And the smoking...

Whatever......Liike everything else...you may or may not start stopping in the new year!!!!

p.s. i'm in the 1.3 bag range

p.p.s. if i don't see you before i hopeyou have a lovely christmas 

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

xx

[RED-DOG]

And the smoking...

Whatever......Liike everything else...you may or may not start stopping in the new year!!!!

p.s. i'm in the 1.3 bag range

p.p.s. if i don't see you before i hopeyou have a lovely christmas 

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

xx

I'm 2 of cement, less 5 of sugar.

[RED-DOG]

BTW Tony, you can't get cement in hundredweight bags these days (Health & safety) only half-hundredweight. i.e, 4 stone, or 25kg.

[RED-DOG]

So I'm actually 4 of cement less 5 of sugar.

[tikay]

And the smoking...

Whatever......Liike everything else...you may or may not start stopping in the new year!!!!

p.s. i'm in the 1.3 bag range

p.p.s. if i don't see you before i hopeyou have a lovely christmas 

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

xx

I'm 2 of cement, less 5 of sugar.

You have the idea perfectly.

Measuring/comparision units in the mind include bags of sugar (2lb), packs of butter (half a lb), sacks of spuds, as well as those I outlined yesterday.

I think you are being a little economical with the numbers though. In real money you must be 17st, surely? That'd be 2 bags + 7 sugar, right?

[tikay]

BTW Tony, you can't get cement in hundredweight bags these days (Health & safety) only half-hundredweight. i.e, 4 stone, or 25kg.

No! That's bloody ridiculous.

I used to run a builders merchant ("Heavy Side", thats bricks & stuff, as opposed to "Light Side" which is poncy plumbing fittings, screws, etc), & I did everything - served the punters, took the orders, loaded the lorries, drove the lorry, everything.

In those days - mid-sixties I'd guess - D-I-Y was in it's infancy, but booming, & everyone was buying sand & cement to tart up their gardens & drives. Sand & ballast ("aggregate) was loose (not in girlie pre-packs) in those days, & was sold by the cubic yard.

So a punter would order 2 yards of 3/4" ballast, & 8 bags of dust. "Dust" was the slang for cement, & the rule of thumb was 4 bags of dust to every yard of aggregate.

So all that had to be loaded onto the lorry. A yard of aggregate was 160 shovelfulls, so I'd count the shovelfulls as I toiled away like a metronome, sovel, shovel, shovel. I alowed myself 3 seconds "per shovel", & so 1 cubic yard took 160 x 3 = 480 seconds = 8 minutes, & so 2 yards took 16 minutes.  After that, I'd pick up the bags of dust - 1cwt each - off the floor, by hand (legs bent...) 1 at a time & sling them onto the high backed dropside Bedford TK.

Next up, jump in the cab & drive wherever, then came the fun bit - offloading - by hand again, but so much easier, like cycling downhill & downwind.

I did that for a few years, but in those days, many men did it all their life, all day every day, forklift trucks & pallets had not been invented afaik.

And the damage to our health? I never had a single day's "sick" in my entire working career, & that's just coming up to 50 years now, minus the 2 years when I retired.

Health & Safety, my arsae. Try "common-sense", it's amazingly useful.

[RED-DOG]

I was watching a Travis Perkins delivery driver and his mate the other day. The mate unloaded some 1.5in 18x18 pavers, (No 2in 3x2 these days) meanwhile, the driver sat in his cab and read the paper.

He was a driver, not an unloader, see.

[RED-DOG]

I used to lift car engines on to the back of a truck by hand. If I couldn't lift em, I used to roll or slide them up a plank. Like a little Egyptian I was.

I trapped a few fingers in those days.

[tikay]

Jeez, another day mostly gone.

I promised myself - & 20+ people - that I'd catch up on my PM's today.

Guess I'd better start. Some of them are incredibly delicate, or "awkward". Why do I end up with all these frigging dilemmas?

[RED-DOG]

It's like that TV programme, "Dilemma for Murder" 

[MrDickie]

What on earth!!
"Fast food chain Burger King is offering a special Whopper with sprouts in the run up to Christmas.
The limited edition burger, called the Sprout Surprise Whopper, will be available from Monday up until Christmas Eve.
Based on the chain's famous Whopper, it will feature a Brussels sprout puree and Emmental cheese coated in a herb crumb"



http://www.fadedtribune.com/2010/12/the-burger-is-sprout-of-order-at-burger-king/