Fatboys

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 ....

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

The fatboy is dead! Long live the fatboy

After 2 months of gruelling fitness regimes, self imposed fasts and plummeting profits for the pasty van it's over. The fatboy has been been crowned.

At a glittering ceremony over lunch one Friday lunch time, Tim was crowned the 2005 eBuyer Fatboy.

I think next year we'll do it on actual weight lost, as Tim actually GAINED weight over the 2 months of the challenge, but lost the greatest percentage of body fat.


1 Tim Haynes              -2.7
2 Adrian Sweeney          -1.5
- Stuart Grimshaw         -1.5
3 Tony Dobson             -0.4
4 Karen Lawson            -0.2
5 Adam Ashmore            -0.1
- Arul                    -0.1
6 Pete Kelly               0.7
7 Neg Patel                0.9
- Andy Davidson            0.9
8 Simon Beaver             1.8
9 Adam Mcauley             2.1

Unfortunatly, we didn't record the actual weight on a week to week basis, so we can't compare with those figures.

# posted by Stuart Grimshaw @ 14:47 3 comments

Friday, September 30, 2005

One week to go

Only did a run on tuesday and played 5 a side on wednesday this week. so quite surprised that I have done so well specialy since I've not been eating healthly, pizza and vodka & cider though not all together.

Weight loss and Fat loss per week
Week	Stone	Lbs	Total (Lbs)	Total (KG)	% of Fat	Fat (Lbs)	Fat (Kg)
1	15	8	218	98.97	26.8	58.42	26.52
2	14	12	208	94.43	27.2	56.58	25.69
3	14	10	206	94.52	27.87*	57.41*	26.06*
4	15	0	210	95.34	28.53*	59.92*	27.2*
5	15	0.8	210.8	95.7	29.2	61.55	27.95
6	15	3.8	213.8	97.07	26.5	56.66	25.72
7	15	2.8	212.8	96.61	27.8	59.16	26.86
8	15	2.2	212.2	96.43	25.6	54.32	24.66
Total Lost			5.8	2.63	1.2	4.1	1.86
recorded by Aldur Fatboy

# posted by Adrian Sweeney @ 09:40 0 comments

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Current Fatboy position Chart as of Friday

Tables

Every one above the line is current loosing Fat content, but its still all to play for.

Tim Haynes
-1.4

Pete Kelly
-1

Adrian Sweeney
-0.3

Adam Ashmore
0.2

Adam Mcauley
0.7

Neg Patel
1.1

Arul
1.4

Andy Davidson
1.6

Tony Dobson
2.2

Simon Beaver
2.4

Karen Lawson
2.5

Stuart Grimshaw
2.8

# posted by Adrian Sweeney @ 13:46 0 comments

Friday, September 16, 2005

Back on track

Wooo Wooo, todays weight in was good for me ;-) finally started going in the right direction and last weeks 29.2% was a good swift kick to the head. now if I can staaart getting the weigth down as well it will be great. This envolved rubgy training and going to the gym. have to get back into the salads today.

Weight loss and Fat loss per week
Week	Stone	Lbs	Total (Lbs)	Total (KG)	% of Fat	Fat (Lbs)	Fat (Kg)
1	15	8	218	98.97	26.8	58.42	26.52
2	14	12	208	94.43	27.2	56.58	25.69
3	14	10	206	94.52	27.87*	57.41*	26.06*
4	15	0	210	95.34	28.53*	59.92*	27.2*
5	15	0.8	210.8	95.7	29.2	61.55	27.95
6	15	3.8	213.8	97.07	26.5	56.66	25.72
Total Lost			4.2	1.91	0.3	1.77	0.8
recorded by Aldur Fatboy

# posted by Adrian Sweeney @ 07:38 1 comments

Friday, September 09, 2005

Got the wrong end of the stick

Current weight loss/gain by me, and as you can see I have gotten the wrong end of the stick with this diet. This is of course because I was not going to the gym for the past couple of weeks week 2 saw me at rubgy partice and week 3 & 4 & 5 I did nothing.

Weight loss and Fat loss per week
Week	Stone	Lbs	Total (Lbs)	Total (KG)	% of Fat	Fat (Lbs)	Fat (Kg)
1	15	8	218	98.97	26.8	58.42	26.52
2	14	12	208	94.43	27.2	56.58	25.69
3	14	10	206	94.52	27.87*	57.41*	26.06*
4	15	0	210	95.34	28.53*	59.92*	27.2*
5	15	0.8	210.8	95.7	29.2	61.55	27.95
Total Lost			7.2	3.27	-2.4	-3.13	-1.42
recorded by Aldur Fatboy

* These percenatages are generated (stepping between the last official weight and the latest official weight in)

# posted by Adrian Sweeney @ 09:40 0 comments

Friday, August 26, 2005

Falling off the Blog

Didn't really do much this week had 2 salads one of which was a KFC salad with ceaser dressing :-( KFC nutrion info stats that a KFC zinger salad is 17g of fat and I though yes that will do me then I noticed that the sauce was 20g of fat as well. ;-(

had 2 not one but two bacon and cheese turnovers, and I'm heading on my holidays today .

Last week I started rugby training and while every inch of me hurt I must say that I really enjoyed it. Its the giving up my weekends that I have a problem with as I want to be able to go and visit my brother and his family once in a while. I'm hoping that last weeks work will have lost me some more weight and that the percentage of fat will have reduced more. I will weight my self tonight on normal scales and do an estimate on the % of fat lose based on the last measurement. As I am on holiday next week it will be three weeks for me between proper measurements.

# posted by Adrian Sweeney @ 13:05 2 comments

Monday, August 22, 2005

No weigh in for 2 weeks

There was no weigh in last Friday, and there won't be one this week either, the weigh master is on his jollies so we don't have the special scales he brings.

# posted by Stuart Grimshaw @ 10:49 0 comments