Day 101. Ownage & Peer Pressure!

One of the highlights of today was playing in a volleyball match for the first time in years. Our Bangor University team vs Wrexham University. When we arrived (2 Hours later) the campus was really nice, they have awesome sport facilities too :o)

VB Player 2 VB Player side note: inside the sports hall they had sprung wooden floors :oP Now players of the game know and appreciate that when you go from playing on hard synthetic surfaces to sprung wooden floors, it's like sweets to a low carber and hence why am talking about it. It was very nice to play there on such a surface, (softer on the knees and helps increase the vertical jump a tad).

Anyhow, basically we played 7 sets over two hours, so it was an awesome workout... but boy did we get owned (pwned) we lost straight sets. We went with a mixed team and with high hopes, but the team we faced had four Polish International volleyball players plus it was an all men’s team. So as you could imagine we got kained... Nonetheless I still had loads of fun...

Afterwards came the trouble though. As we drove back home, team members wanted to stop off at McDonalds... and you know what this would mean...! Basically everybody was getting food and eating around me, and me being one not wanting to be left out... ended up joining in too... doh! But actually I enjoyed myself as I slowly spooned down some ice cream. Yep the Toffee Oreo Mc Flurry ooooh so good :oD I mean bad :oS lol! We also had a few social drinks in the pub, but I was good here just by drinking diet Cokes.

Day 100. My 100th Atkins Anniversary Day

Woowho! Look at Me, I've reached my 100th Day Anniversary on the Atkins Diet :o) It doesn't feel like I started that long ago, doesn't time fly ;o)

Day 99. Water Retention & Results Day 14.

Woowho another week of weight loss, down .5 kg (Which brings me to 86 kg | 13.6 Stones | 189.6 lbs in weight), some would say am on a roll but without the bun :o) bum bum….I know, I know bad pun intended.

Actually I wanted to talk about water retention today. Mid week I actually lost a whole kilogram, it was rather bizarre. I weighed myself Sunday morning and found myself to be 85 kg, I then went to volleyball practice and since then I found my weight up to 86 kg for the rest of the week, but this is where something weird happened.

After today’s body measurements I could hardly believe my eyes. In fact it prompted me to re-measure myself several times, just to make sure…. and to my astonishment I found major losses in inches around my waist, hip and thighs. Tallying up my weight loss being only 0.5kg loss in comparison to last week results, you would think, how can I lose so many inches in these areas? So I’ve kind of come to the conclusion it has to do with water retention this week not truly reflecting my real weight.

I’ve lost .75 inches in my Hip area, 1 inch in my thigh area and 1.5 inches in my waist, incredible don’t you think?!?! I guess not, after all I am doing the low carb lifestyle ;o) hehehe!

That’s all I really wanted to report for today. I hope you all are equally having the same success.

Ps. I also had a buzzcut, arrrrr much better ;o)

Pss. Plus I had my first McDonalds Toffee & Oreo Mc Flurry.. oh my gosh.. tastes so good!

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Day 97.

Day 96. I've Made A Promise :o)

Hey Yo, wassup ;o)

Am feeling great today, and in half an hours time, I'm off to volleyball practice. I cannot wait to absolute pound the ball. Anyhow before I go, I just wanted to update you all on another video I have created. It's only a 18 second clip.

Bit of background: I was approached by a website called "Promise Aid". They asked if I would do a short clip for them, just saying something on the lines of... I promise to do... "This is where I had to fill in the gaps!"

See my video below for more details. Apparently Yau, the website owner is going to snip and compose a video for his homepage with people's promises. Wow, so I could be appearing on his website soon ;o)



Anyway talk to you laters :o) Keep going all you low carbers ;o)

Exercise over, and one shower later and here I am! Not many people turned upto volleyball, but still plenty of fun and running about, so just as good :o)

I wanted to Add, I've ran out of my Atkins bars.... only One Instone Pudding to go and then its mayhem.... How am I going to cope without CHOCOLATE, Arrrgggh! I guess it's time to face my daemon and resist the urge a little, or at least til desperation sets in, so I might put off buying any more bars for a while... maybe :oD

Anyhow I hope you kiddies are ok... ttyl (or for those who are not familiar with this nerdie acroynm, it means Talk To You Later).

Day 95. Update & My Progress

Hey blog-followers, today I want to show you my progress thus far, but not via stats but actual photos. Am just under half way now on my weightloss plan, and when I look back 13 weeks from now, its amazing to see the differences in my body shape to date.

Although this is extremely embarrassing to show, I've come to the conclusion, what the hell. I do look hideous in these photographs too... but my point is, you can see I have lost weight :o) I mainly took these pictures first thing every morning, hence if your wondering why I look half asleep, or have bed face, then there you go...hahaha!

You maybe able to spot the difference ;o) hehehe!

and I don't think I need to say that the picture on the Left was taken at Day One of Atkins, and the one on the Right is the picture of me to date do I ;o)

Anyways, I highly recommend anybody on a weightloss journey to take self pictures like this. One because you can see what you've achieved and Two, because it can spur/inspire you in times of need :o) Just thirteen weeks from now you can achieve the same or even better results, its not an aweful lot of time in the great scheme of things.

I've now uploaded pictures of me for every weigh-in date so far. So feel free to retroflect on my past Atkins ordeal.

Here's to our future successes.