After a brief interstate interlude, weigh day is back. Yes it's that special 2011 Saturday ritual I know you've all come to know and love. The day we all find whether Santa would class me as naughty or nice for the past week. Well the votes (or kilos) have been counted, the official tape measure has made a return to the love handle region so it's time to reveal the numbers at the conclusion of week 27.
So the numbers are.
Actually before I get to that I need to remind everyone that is was only about 4 days ago I posted the last set of official numbers due to my recent travel schedule. Due to the disappointing figures that greeted me upon my return from the nether regions, I decided to give the fat bastard diet an old fashioned jump start. I'm very keen to have a really good July so I consulted some literature, spoke to some professionals and non-professionals (cheers Mutty) and came to the conclusion I needed to shock the old system back into line. The result was, that I committed to dropping both carbs and added sugar from the diet for the week in the hope I could kick start the old metabolism once again. In addition I also committed to a minimum of an hours' exercise each day, although I admit I failed yesterday. Together I hoped this approach would remind the somewhat stagnant body how hard I've been trying to reshape it. I plan to return to a more balanced approach next week but I'll now reveal the result of the more or less "Atkins" approach.
Previous weight: 109kg Current Weight: 105kg A loss of 4kg
Previous Gut: 110cm Current Gut: 107cm A loss of 3cm
Great result all round but I have to say I'd struggle to keep it up even if it was the best way to go. Fortunately, it's not a healthy long term option but has achieved it's aim so I'm happy with that. Having said that I will be cutting down significantly on both sugar and refined wheat/grain products going forward. I'll freely admit I'm going to have a Vegemite toasted sanga on Monday and I can't wait.
As for the rest of my life, well insanity reins next week. Naomi returns from her school holidays jaunt to sunny Vietnam and it's straight back to school. In my uniquely stupid way I've managed to coincide her return and 1st school week with my own 7-day intern work schedule. So I'll going to have to find a way to be a parent while working Monday-Friday at Nine News, Friday night at the Broncos and Saturday and Sunday at Ten News. I'm praying this insane commitment to intern work leads to a job soon because it's beginning to do my head in.
I'll be back at Uni at the end of July to complete the final 3 units of my degree. It's going to be another tough semester though because of all the other commitments in the schedule. I'm really looking forward to a week at the ABC in a few weeks though as that's where I'd really like to work at some stage.
For the sports fans out there I'm doing four days work over the next couple of months with the QLD Bulls. They're playing Twenty20 practice matches at Allan Border Field each Thursday for the next two months and as part of the program, new coach Darren Lehmann is trying to get his young squad more media savvy at the same time. During the matches, myself and a few other journo students work with a camera man to mimic the conditions players will find during the Fox Sports coverage of the KFC Big Bash. We interview players as they leave the field after being dismissed and bail up players on the bench for interviews while the match is in progress. It's good practice for both the players and the prospective broadcasters and at yesterdays game I did a pre-match interview with BOOF (Lehmann) which was a lot of fun.
So as you can see it's a pretty full on existence at the moment in the the Fat Bastard world. Busy but enjoyable I reckon. Anyway, time to push on, I haven't done my exercise for the day so if I want to go to the pub tonight to watch Richmond I better hit the exercise bike for a bit.
So until next we meet.
P
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