Day 0 - The Big Weigh in

Not much rambling in this post, short and sharp, these are the stats as of 9/9/2012, Doomsday Eve, measured by my gorgeous Wife (poor girl was retching all the way through):

Weight - 95.0kg

Neck – 41.5cm

Shoulder (outer-outer) – 124.5cm

Bicep (left, flexed – the shame) – 36.5cm

Chest (breathing out) – 109.0cm

Waist – 104.5cm

Hips – 106.0cm

Thigh (right) – 67.7cm (eyes like a hawk my missus)

Calf - 44.8cm

Anyways, those are my stats and now all there is to do is fucking change them.........a lot. Tally ho!

I’ve got a set of Tanita bodyfat scales (bio-impedance) but I didn’t take a measurement as basically these machines are a piece of shit , more sensitive than Vanessa Feltz with the painters in. Seriously, every fucking thing alters the readout, food, drink, exercise, hydration level etc so I have a rule that I only take a measurement under specific circumstances otherwise it means the reading means absolutely jackshit. For anybody that is interested those conditions are fasted and fully hydrated but not over-hydrated, typically done by drinking around 3-3.5litres within the first two hours after waking. I then proceed to piss like a racehorse and around 2.5 hours later take a reading. It sounds like a pain in the arse and that’s exactly what it is, so I don’t take a reading very often (how fucking depressingly anal do I sound?)! I will aim to do one this week some time.

Anyways I’ve just returned back from a trip to the UK and had a blowout weekend (pre-Doomsday weekend plus the missus’ Birthday) and I am gauging it to be around 20-22%. It was around 16.5% a month ago when I’d been training and eating well prior to the trip home.