I'm becoming a teenager again

I've just looked at myself in the mirror and there's a few changes I would like to share with you - it's like I'm becoming a teenager again:

- I've lost quite a bit of weight, I haven't looked like this in years
- I can get back into my old jeans
- I need to sleep a lot
- I've got spots
- I fart a lot

Ha - and just when you thought I couldn't get any more immature.

Seriously though, can't do the chest dips. I have no chairs with arms. I've looked around the house for a substitute but can find nothing. I might have to go to the gym (which for some reason I still pay for, even though I never used to go before PCP) or do something else.

Everything else is good, apart from the amount of time that I spend at work which makes it difficult to do all of the exercises some days. But there's some kind of life lesson in there....

Peace

Because I live on the 40th floor....

Because I live on the 40th floor of a tower block, does that mean I'm training in thin air and will build up my blood's ability to carry oxygen, a bit like an athlete training on Mount Everest, so that when I get back down to sea level I'll be like Superman?

I've lost 5% of my bodyweight

I've gone from 89.5Kgs to85.1Kgs snce starting the PCP.

This morning first time to get up early and do jumprope.

Nuff said.

Got to run to work.

My trousers are falling off!

So I've lost quite a bit of weight already - and I love it.

Losing weight is main aim of the PCP for me, and it is working! People are saying how I look different, and I certainly am beginning to lose my beerchops! - there is lots of other good and interesting stuff in the PCP too (not to be sycophantic) but this new body thing is very motivational.

Now it's working you start to think:

"Oh yeah baby. I wonder how far I can take this? Can I get a sixpack? How long would it take?"

Do you know what I mean?

The diet is going very well  - I have a great helper who cooks most of my meals, with no salt etc., everything is weighed after cooking (she really is a Godsend) and I take them to work in tupperware boxes.
Plus porridge for breakfast (80gm bowl - no honey) and fruit pots for snacks from Pret A Manger (they measure the milk for me - skimmed of course).

The exercises are cool as well - apart from when I work very late, but that is coming to an end.
I have to be in the office late this week to go through stuff that my team is publishing - but I've already agreed with them that as of this week I'll go home around 7.00pm, eat and workout, and then go back in at around 9.30pm to help them finish off.

Need to stretch though - or my legs will fall off after the jumprope.

My computer is really slow and annoying so I've been crap about blogging - BUT NO MORE!
I'll blog that sh*t every day!

I'll weigh myself and let you know what it says tomorrow.

xx

I've got some mates over from London...

The upside is they're doing the 1,050 jump rope (need to streach so I can walk properly afterwards) and the workout with me (the workout sure goes quicker with two or more in a group).

The downside is that they're trying to persuade me to go out and drink and party and have a good time like a mentalist! I'll see what I can do to resist....

BAD BAD BAD BAD MATTY

So I'm back from travelling in China - been to Shenyang, Anshan and Yinkou in Liaoning Province.

Most people have never heard of these places - and neither had I! But over 1 billion people live in third tier China - and I'm glad I'm not one of them!

OK, it's confession time I've been bad. BUT IT WASN'T MY FAULT!

The diet was OK, as China serves up lots of veggies - and steamed veggies at that - although I'm sure I went over the portion sizes at dinner with my colleagues.

The bad news is I have hardly done any exercises at all. Like none. The days at work were long - starting at 7.00am, and then travelling after work to the next destination, reaching the next hotel between midnight and 2.00am.

I'm back in HK and working out - and liking it.

No sarky comments please.

So that's two weeks

And I can do 150 jumps without stopping - but I do tend to spend a bit of time between sets!

Night night

120 Jumps

Relaxing day today. Stayed in watched TV, ate my rations, worked out. Can do 120 jumps at a time.

Back on the horse

I'm back - don't dought me team.

I'm finding the diet part easy in week one of the PCP proper - thanks to my great helper Goldie (she's looking for extra work if there's anybody in Hong Kong reading this) who prepares steamed lunchboxes for work and dinner for me every day, plus the salads (with no dressing), fruit boxes and porridge (with skimmed milk, and they have the weight of the carbs on the bowl) from Pret a Manger.

Lost 3 KG already, and my pants are starting to get looser.

BUT completely fell down on the exercise this week. I've been working crazy hours - from 7am to past midnight - and I've missed out on three days exercise.

Oh well, it's good to publicly confess. Anyway, back on the horse today with a set of exercise and a walk up the Peak.

I'm actually getting to into the skipping, like enjoying it!

Peace,

Matt

500 jumps

OK so I did the 500 jump ropes in my suit.

Not all in one go but I got there.

I am as high as a kite right now! This natural endorphine exercise sh*t is something else!

Tomorrow it's on to a new level with the diet and exercise - not even any coke zero!

Bet with Boss

Had a very quiet weekend, didn't go out or drink at all!

But I was pressganged into going out with work on Thursday. During which I told my office chums about the PCP and ended up making a bet with the boss of the firm to see who could lose the most weight in 60 days (he wouldn't go for 90 days). The bet is to buy dinner for the whole office (about 100 people)!

We had the weigh in on Friday. We both weigh exactly 89.5kg in our socks.

Still keeping at the exercises. Still taking way too long.

Matt

Day 5 - Ah Ah Ah Ah Stayin Alive!

Thank God for the weekend.

Got a good sleep today, watched a movie, nice and chill.

I'm taking about an hour to get through the exercise set. That's more than twice as long as it should take. Any tips anybody?

The skipping's cool though.

I also have a confession. I missed out the leg ups on day 4 - I was too shagged out and went to bed last night. But I did them as well as the sit ups today. Phew, it feels better to get my guilty secret off my chest.

Definitely going out tonight - but only going to get spangled half as much as I normally do - according to the rules of the PCP.

Peace.

Matt

Day 4

Well I'm still here
Doing the exercises after midnight when I get home from work.

Must organise myself so I do them at lunchtime!

Matt

Day 2, it's still not poo

So finding the only eating half normal food thing easy - probably because I used to eat loads!

Worked late again, got home and did the workout at 10.30 in my underpants.

Skipping gets ya doesn't it?

Day 1. That skipping thing mde me feel a bit ropey Ha Ha

So Day 1. Finished work late, go home and did the workout, started at midnight though.
That skipping thing mde me feel a bit ropey Ha Ha, but it gets easier faster.

I feel great after the exercise.

Eating thing OK too. I was afraid that is was going to be steamed vegies from day one. Only half normal crap easy to deal with.

Peace

Matt