Behind the Fatboy
A few years ago, at my last job, we ran a Fatboy Challenge. The idea was simple, loose weight, win cash.
The Challenge took part amongst the IT department of a large company in Sheffield, UK, where most people sit on their backsides all day and get very little excersise. You could use any method you wanted to loose weight, although Anorexia and lipo-suction were frowned upon. It was a pretty good success, with only one guy actually gaining weight over the period of the Challenge, and most people lost weight.
A lot of the guys that took part in that challenge also work with me at my new company, and seeing as the last challenge didn't transform us into a group of Adonis' (Adonii?) we thought it might be a good idea to have another go.
We have 11 contestants, Stu (me), Andy, Neg, Ado, Adam, New Adam, Pete, Simon, Tony, Karen (not strictly a "boy" I know, but the Fatboy Challenge is not sexist), Tim
The initial weigh in is Tomorrow, Friday 5th August and the challenge runs for 2 months ....
Saturday, August 06, 2005
First day at the gym and first rabbit food argh
Thought I would take it easy on the running machine. As I had ran for the tram a month ago (about 200 yards) and nearly killed myself doing it :-) got a strange look from the conductor as I lay gasping on the seat hee hee. So when I started on the running machine I decide to start with a 3 minute run. First minute was fine a gentle run I think it said 6 Kph woo woo ;-) then it stepped up and I stopped reading the dam flashy screen and paid attention to keeping on the dam machine, my belly kept jumping around and quite off putting, was glad when the second minute finished and it started to slow down.
All in all I really enjoyed the Gym and look forward to going tomorrow for my CV thing.
Now we come to rabbit food argh this has to be the worst part of the whole thing I hate lettuce and all that crap and I have a small phobia of tomatos the though of biting into one just sends shivers up my spine, but I know that I will have to change my diet or at least add to my diet, I don't actually have a bad diet if you get rid of the pasty wagon and the odd Curry (very infrequent) I do eat reasonable healthy no Tv dinners for example mostly you will find ingredients that have to be put together in my kitchen. Well I bought my frist salad today tuna and letuce, man I though all salads were the same but because we are doing the fat-boy challange I decide to look at the fat content I saw a nice looking pasta salad that had 8g of fat and though err how much fat is too much so started look at the products available and found some pre packaged salads one of which I got the first I looked at was a chicken ceaser salad 18g of fat the second was the tuna salad 5.5g of fat, Have I told you yet I don't like fish either :-(, but all in all when I started eating it I hated it with every fiber in my being but then suddenly the hate disappeared and I actually enjoyed it argh I don't want to eat lettuce I want to bite into a perfectly cooked steak.
I will be checking out the following web site http://www.obesity-support.co.uk, Jason was a very overweight person and I think he would admit to it (hes a friend of a friend), didn't see him for about 3 months but I knew he was dieting and that he was setting up this website, man you should see him now at least half the size he was and looking a lot better for it. He doesn't put him self or his site across as definitive guide to the information its just info that he gathered while researching his own deitary needs and decided to put it together to help others to use to loose weight like me, looking to lose 2-3 Stone or others looking to loose 5-8 stone or more. Hes not a doctor or anything like that its just a information site.
