Author: walkeveryday_e6wtle

Weight = 107.8 kgs

Steps Done = 12051

So this morning I woke up at 4:30 and couldn’t get back to sleep so I have been lying in bed contemplating how this year is going so far. I have been doing really well with my walking challenge but that is about it! My weight is back up to 107.8 kgs so I have only lost 0.6 kgs all year! I am getting really lazy again in the evenings so I am not cleaning anywhere near as much as I was last month and I am eating really badly so I am feeling pretty shitty and also spending way too much money so my no spend year is not going at all yet and I have been running up my credit cards again! The fact that I am spending more than I am earning again and the flat not being so tidy is causing my stress to increase again so it needs to be addressed ASAP!

I am going to focus on cutting out takeout and cooking proper food again from today and also get back to intermittent fasting too as I have not been doing that recently either!

I have just delete the food apps from my phone and I am going to start eating the rest of the food in the house from today so I should be able to last until Friday before having to go to the supermarket then I will do a shop for food for my son over the weekend.

My knee is still really unstable but feeling slightly less fuzzy today so I am going to walk into the office this morning a bit later instead of going for a walk this morning to rest the knee a bit.

I also need to start working from the office in the mornings as it makes it easier to intermittent fast and also I can eat fruit to break my fast as there is free fruit in the office so I can save money on buying fruit as well.

On the way home I will go into the supermarket and get a new Soda Stream gas bottle and start making my own fizzy water again. At lunch time I will clean the sodastream and water filter so that I can stop buying water and fizzy water again!

I have a lot of eggs, bacon and steak in the fridge to eat up so I will start having bacon and scrambled eggs when I get home from the office to start eating that then after work I will have steak and scrambled egg for tea.

At lunch time I will clean and hoover then after work I will mop the house then head to my parents to clean there too. I also have to pass by my friends house to pick up the connector for the gate so that I can get the timing system working at Friday lunch club 🙂 I don’t think that I can safely ride yet without hurting my knee so I will wait until next week to go on the bike again!

Saturday morning I plan to try and go for a Ruck 1st thing and Sunday I will go for a walk again and start to get back into the habit of walking first thing again before going for a Ruck first thing Monday again.

At the weekend I need to get as many of my bikes as possible on the internet to sell as I need to recoup my money as soon as possible to start chunking away at my credit cards to get my debt down.

I am planning on working on using the snowball method to pay my debts off faster so basically you pay the minimum off of all the cards then any left over money you pay off the card with the highest interest. Once that card is paid off you consntrate on the next one etc etc until all the cards are paid off. Once the cards are paid off I will then start saving to get my emergency fund up. Once I have an emergency fund I think that I will start to pay off a bit extra on my mortgage each month to try and get that paid off sooner then I will be able to live comfortably and still save money.

Looking at the small amount of disposable income I have at the moment and the fact that bike stuff is not selling very quickly at the moment it is looking more and more like I will need to get an evening job a couple times a week to get some extra money coming in but I will see how I am doing once I stop spending crazy amounts on takeout (about £850 a month at the moment!!!).

As its payday on Friday its the perfect time to start tracking what I am spending and start to figure out a menu and track my food spending until next pay day then I can really start to budget to get organised going forwards,

I have also noticed that I am wasting more and more time on my phone again so I will remove facebook and insta from it again and try and do something more useful again instead.

So my goals for this month are:

1. Cut out takeout and eat cheaply
2. Walk 12000 steps a day
3. Start paying off debts
4. Sell all unwanted bikes
5. Do a budget and start sticking to it!

It has got to the point now where I need to really focus on setting a budget and sticking to it so that I can start to work on getting healthier financially as well as physically to avoid all the stress of living paycheck to paycheck! I think with a couple of years hard work I can be in a place where I can live well and still be saving money so I think that I need to make this my main goal now that walking 12000 steps a day is pretty much a habit.

I have decided that I am definately going to not race BMX this year other than a few local races to save money to pay off my debts faster. I am also going to stop travelling to gates this year too to save more money!

So as planned I went to the supermarket on the way home and bought gas for the SodaStream and I also bought a bunch of filled taglatelle for quick easy meals. I managed to step off the cerb wrong and hyperextended my knee a bit more while walking from the office to the supermarket which was not ideal! When I got home I made one for breakfast as I hadn’t eaten all morning which was the plan. I then worked until 4 and had another box of taglatellie for my second meal and then chilled until 18:30 ehrn I headed to my friends house to grab the connector that I needed for the timing system and also my wrist brace that I left in his van when he drove me to Andover for gates and I left it in the van when I went home.

I then went ot my parents house until about 20:30 then I grabbed their wifi router and went home via the supermarket where I bought some more filled taglatellie, some tins of rice pudding and some mouthwash as I had finihed my mouthwash and I was starting to get a sore throat!

I then headed home and put the shopping away and as I got home and unlocked the door my FitBit starting buzzing to tell me that I had just reached 12000 steps 🙂 By the end of the day I was on 12051 steps!

Weight = 107.6 kgs

Steps Done =

So I woke up at 3:45 for some reason and then I went to the bathroom and tested my knee out and decided to rest it this morning so I set my alarm to 6 am and then went back to sleep.

I woke up with my alarm and went and did my weigh-in and i was down to 107.6 kgs this morning so not a lot of weight dropped but a bit at least.

The knee is feeling less painful but is in the fuzzy pain stage so it is better but nowhere near riding the bike better so I will stay off of bikes until Friday at the earliest!

I will go for a short walk at lunch time then I need to wash the Supercross and start taking it apart and building up the StayStrong. I found the axle for the 10 mm conversion I am just trying to find the correct size bearings for the wheel as the 15 mm axle needed different bearings.

The on sale Sinz bars that I bought for the Pro Dialled arrived yesterday so I will get that built up and up for sale today too. I also need to polish up the Supercross frame and get that on ebay too.

I have a set of StayStrong 20 mm cruiser forks to use with the Onyx Front wheel so I will fit these at the same time and get the Cult Race forks on ebay too.

I have just washed the Supercross and will take it apart and polish the frame and get some photo’s at lunch when I get home from my walk and then get it up for sale. I will then rebuild the StayStrong with the bb, cranks (chainring and pedals too) and front wheel from the SuperCross and leave the Original Profile Mini wheel on for now while I get bearings to put the rear 10 mm axle back in (need to get bearings first) then I can get that on the bike and sell the profile mini wheels too.

Weight = 107.9 kgs

Steps Done = 12868

So last night I went outside to put some recycling in the recycling bin and stepped out of the door and my left knee hyper extended and started to hurt 🙁 I was still able to limp to my 12000 steps on the treadmill but it hurt and was slow!

I still managed to get up this morning at 5 am and got up and did my weigh-in and I was shocked to see that I am back up to 107.9 kgs so I am 1.3 kgs heavier than I was this time last week. Even stranger I am feeling thinner as my trousers are falling down all the time at the moment! I guess that a week of not really walking first thing and doing the majority of steps on the treadmill has taken its toll on my weight loss 🙁 Combined with that I got back to riding BMX last week and got in 3 gates sessions so some of the weight may well be increased muscle mass from the BMX too.

Either way I need to make an effort to walk first thing EVERY day again going forwards to get my weight in check again!

As my knee was sore this morning still I decided that a Ruck would be a really bad idea so I put on a knee brace and hobbled my usual route where I do 1 mile of climbing followed by 2 ish miles of flat and downhill walking home. Strangely the uphill wasn’t too bad and the downhill hurt 10x more for some reason!

The knee hyper-extension is also a warning that I have not been doing my backwards walking again this week so I will start back on it today before I head to the track!

I was definitely a fair bit slower this morning with the walk taking 52.27 minutes when I usually do the same distance in about 48 minutes so I wasn’t breaking any speed records that’s for sure!

When I got home I turned the laptop on and then opened all the windows and did my Lüften while i did my morning work tasks. After 10 minutes I closed up the flat again and then carried on with my morning work tasks.

After the walk this morning I am now on 6460 steps so over half way to my 12000 steps so it should be pretty easy to get there today for the first time in over a week 🙂

I am now planning to crack on with work until 12ish when I will get on the backwards treadmill for 10 minutes then get into my BMX kit and then head to the track to see if I can get some sprints done and then have a play after. I also want to get the Supercross from the container so that I can take it apart and clean off the frame and get it photographed and on the internet to sell too.

I will also have a go at converting the rear wheel back to a 10 mm hub again and build up the StayStrong with all the parts from the Supercross then it is ready to use.

I am still mulling over if I will run it with a 24×1.6 tyre or leave it with the 24×2.1 tyre that it currently has. I am thinking leaving it as 24×2.1 like it is at the moment as it rides really well like that.

After an hour or so working my knee is hanging so I have decided not to ride today and instead I will go get the Supercross from the track and then come home and rebuild the StayStrong then rest the knee in bed with an ice pack on for the rest of the day. I will park the car in the cycle track car park and walk to the track to try and get my 12000 steps in early today then I can rest for the evening.

So at lunch time I drove to the track as planned and the walk to the container and back didn’t burn up as many steps as I had hoped so by 6 pm when I had to do some work out of hours I still had 3500 steps to go so I walked at 3.5 mph until I got to 12000 steps which made my knee a bit sore then I did 10 minutes backwards walking which helped a bit!

I finished the day on 12868 steps so not too bad for a bum knee!

Weight = 106.6 kgs

Steps =

So this morning I woke up at 5 and got up and did my weigh-in (106.6 kgs) so dropped 0.7 kgs from yesterday so that’s good. You can also see that my legs are way more defined this morning so that’s good too.

After my weigh in I went back to bed for a quick nap and woke up at 6 am! As it was too late do go for a walk before work when I woke up I got showered and started work a bit early instead!

I am going to the pump track to meet a friend at lunch time so I will make up the steps on the treadmill this afternoon and I will also go for a walk after work to get my steps in for the day!

Other than feeling tired I am feeling good from last night so I will definitely do this every Wednesday when I can!

So I went to the pump track and back and its 45 minutes there and back so it doesn’t leave much time for riding so that is out in my lunch hour but could well be a go for my afternoons off though as the pump track is really fun and it really builds skill! I didn’t get on with the Supercross on the pump track so I will deffo puck up the Curtis tomorrow and use that from now on!

Weight = 107.3 kgs

Steps Done = 16074

So this morning my alarm went off at 5:00 as normal but i went back to sleep until 5:30 so I decided to get my morning walk walking into the office so I got up and did my weigh-in and i was up to 107.3 kgs this morning which is a bit annoying but not surprising as I ate loads of crap yesterday again!

I then showered and got dressed then did my Lüften while I did my morning work tasks and then closed the flat up, packed my bag and walked into the office.

I did about and hour in the office then walked home along the river which was busy but it was nice walking in daylight for once!

By the time I got home I was on just under 8000 steps (7788 steps) so I am well on the way to my 12000 steps which is good because I’m going to gates tonight so have to get the steps done at lunch time to make sure that I get them done!

I got my 12000 steps in by 14:00 so I then made some roast beef to eat before going to gates.

I went to gates as planned and had a really good night and set some baseline times on the Supercross with a 41 x 18 gearing and flat pedals and my fastest time of the night was a 2.557 which is not fast (Fastest in my age group is 2.435 on a Cruiser) but its not too far off! I didn’t really push it after the first jumps which seems to work as my knee felt good all night and I didn’t have my knee support on so I think I will leave it off from now on!

I also got another 4000 steps in so I finished the day on 16074 for the day so pretty good.

I didn’t get home until 22:00 and didn’t get to sleep until 23:00 so I was super tired!

Weight = 106.8 Kgs

Steps Completed = 13122

So I woke up this morning at 5 am with my alarm and got out of bed and felt a bit sore and like I had been 10 rounds with Mile Tyson! So I decided that I would not Ruck this morning and just walk instead! I have decided to Ruck Monday, Wednesday and Friday for now and maybe add one Ruck at the weekend too then gradually add extra days from here.

I then did my weigh-in and I was up again to 106.8 kgs so my weight is going up not down 🙁 Although I have a feeling that the extra weight is muscle from the way my legs and stomach are aching this morning!

I then showered and got dressed and forced myself out for a walk! The walk was a bit of a struggle but it got easier once I was near the top of the hill so I was glad that I had gone walking as it got rid of most of the aches and pains! I was also glad that I decided not to wear the weight vest too 🙂

When I got home I turned on the laptop and then opened up all the windows and doors to air out the flat and got on with my morning work tasks while the house was airing.

After closing up the flat I did my 1/2 pull up which is now slightly more that half a pull up but not enough to call it 3/4 of a pull up yet so I am getting better but not a lot!

While walking I decided that I really need to work on my diet as it is being a hindrance not a help at the moment as it is basically take out crap and I need to start eating a lot cleaner than I have been or i will get caught in that exercise – get ill hell that I was in last year and I will get nothing done! I have decided not to go fully back on to the Carnivore diet just yet but I will cut out processed foods for now so I can still eat chips but just home made ones from real potatoes! I still have 24 cans of soup left so I will crack through them in the next couple of weeks and then start eating fully clean and see how that goes!

I have also decided that I really need to sort out my evening routine as it is way less productive than my morning routine and I need to start upping my steps a bit so an evening walk should get that done and also relax me for the rest of the evening! I also need to start using the rollers after my walk too so will clean the OS20 this lunch time and then put the long seat-post on it so it’s ready to use on the rollers when I get back from my parents this afternoon.

I have decided that my afternoon routine will be:

4-5 pm – Finish work and make food and eat

5-6 pm – Walk

6-7 pm – Rollers

7-7:30 – Cleaning 1/2 hour

7:30-9 pm – Chill

9-10 pm – Shower and then go to sleep

I will not add a learning hour into my routine until the walking and rollers are habits and are not stressful any more then I will add learning from 7:30-8:30 pm then I can still watch 30 minutes of tv before getting ready for bed.

Lunch times are going to be a mixture of things as I need to Rest on Mondays, go to my parents house on Tuesdays and get my walk in at lunch time on Wednesdays so that I can get my steps in at lunch as I am going to start doing gates at Andover again Wednesday nights so will not have time to get my steps done on Wednesdays. I am thinking that I will maybe go to my parents on Wednesday lunch time and work from their house Wednesday afternoons to make it easier to get to my friends house to get a lift to Andover and back. I can then walk the dog at lunch time which will be better than walking on my own too 🙂

Thursday and Friday I will ride up to the track and back to get used to riding there so when I start riding the BMX properly again I will be ready to ride to the track as a warmup.

After getting back from my Parents I still had 800 steps to go so I decided to get my steps in by getting my Son’s Supercross fixed as I brought it back from my parents house and I am going to ride it tomorrow at Andover.

I first took the cranks off of the StayStrong that I got back from the container and then fitted them to the Supercross when I checked the bottom bracket on the Supercross has seized so I swapped over the bottom bracket as well so its now smooth as butter 🙂 I then removed the back wheel as it had a puncture and I swapped the tube out for a new Tubolito and I also swapped the 16T cog for an 18T as it will be running 41 x 18 now not 38×16. I also removed the chain and fitted a new KMC K1 narrow chain to the bike! I will get a new half link chain at some point so I can slam the rear wheel more as its quite far back on the dropouts at the moment! It will do for now though!

I then put the bike back together and got it dialled in and fitted the transponder ready for gates. I then fitted the brake and cable on the Cult frame that I swapped for the dialled so that my friend can do gates on it tomorrow too.

I then fed the Axolotls and then went to bed.

By the time i finishes I was on 13122 steps so well over the 12000 target 🙂

Weight = 106.1 Kgs

Steps Completed = 12198

I woke up without an alarm at 6:45 and got up and did my weigh-in an I am up a little bit today to 106.1 kgs son nothing to worry about just yet but it shows that I need to keep doing all of my 12000 steps outside to keep the weight dropping!

After the weigh-in I messed about on my phone until 7:45 when I showered, got dresses and then went for a walk on the 2 tunnels on my usual summer loop! By the time that I got home I was on 4755 steps so a lot of walking left to do today still!

I am now chilling waiting to hear from my friend to see when he is heading to Bristol so I can go meet up and have a ride for the first time in ages!

I got to Patchway at about 12:30 and had a really good time there although I am still not feeling the OS20 so it was not as much fun as it would have been otherwise. After about an hour or so we went to Little Stoke pump track and again I had fund but it would have been better on the Curtis 🙂

I have decided that for now I will use the OS20 for my roller bike but I may break it down and sell it later in the year.

When I got home I ate and then chilled until about 19:30 when I went on the treadmill and got my steps in then I got the flat clean and then went to bed.

By the end of the day I was on 12198 steps only!

Weight = 106.6 Kgs

Steps Completed = 12298

So this morning I woke up at 5 am with my alarm and got up did my weigh-in and I am up to 106.6 kgs which will in part be due to the extra BMX muscles and partly becuse I had McDonalds for breakfast and tea so I was McDonalds fueled all day 🙁

I felt really good after BMX yesterday apart from my shoulder being a little sort where I pulled it a bit at the pump track! Luckily I stopped riding after that so it didn’t get any worse so I guess I am learning 🙂

After my weigh-in I got showered and dressed and put the weight vest and went for my morning Ruck which felt a bit more like a workout than just walking although it was much easier than it was the last time I did it so I guess the consistent walking has improved my fitness a fair bit 🙂

I also put my step counter on before the Ruck and when I got back i was on 6445 steps for just the walk and my Fitbit is reading only 6409 steps all morning and I was on 300+ steps before the ruck! I guess that this shows that the way that the Fitbit measures steps via arm swing it a bit less accurate than the old school attached to belt method! I am going to continue sing both this week and then I will get rid of the Fitbit soon!

When I got home i took off my coat and the Weight vest and changed out of my sweaty clothes and then opened up all of the doors and windows for 10 minutes while i wrote this post. I have just closed up the flat again and I am starting work.

At about 7 am I finished what I was doing and got packed up and then headed into the office on the ebike. I then worked in the office until about 11:30 ish and ebiked home again.

I then ate and watched TV all lunch time before working for the rest of the night.

I managed to get my 12000 steps in around the house doing my 30 minutes of cleaning and putting the washing away so at least I didn’t have to use the treadmill today!

Weight = 105.9 Kgs

Steps Completed = 12212

I woke up at about 7 am this morning and got up and did my weigh in and I was amazed that I had dropped 1.3 kgs this morning to 105.9 kgs which I guess highlights that getting my steps in outside is way better for weight loss than walking on the treadmill which i did a lot of this week due to my stomach bug! It also shows that going into the office in the mornings is better for me so I am going to start making an effort to get into the office in the mornings! I also went for a walk after eating in the evening so I burned off some of the food so I slept better too.

As it was almost time for it to get light I decided to chill and wait for the sun to come up this morning! While I was chilling I bought myself a digital step counter as I want to get rid of the fitbit if I can going forwards as I am not sure that it is really good for my health using it all the time. The step counter will also mean that my treadmill steps will automatically get counted so no need to stick my Fitbit in my sock any more!

I will use both together initially until I get used to using the step counter then ditch the Fitbit and just use it at night to map my sleep and use it as a silent alarm as well! I need to find a different way to wake myself up so I can ditch the Fitbit all together going forwards. I have just found THIS for £11 which should do the job!

After I got back from my walk I made some stickers and walked to the post box and posted them and when I got back I was at 6666 steps and I chilled and did some washing as I have run out of clean compression shorts so had to wear some compression tights as pants today!

I am getting the washing done then we will head over to my parents to see them and give my son some driving time as well. While there we will probably walk the dog for them so hopefully I can get to 12000 steps on that walk so I can chill for the rest of the day 🙂

So the new seat and post for my Son’s bike arrived jsut now so I will stick the seat on his bike today when I visit it and get the old seat and post off of it to go on the DK so that I can get it up for sale!

I am thinking that I may sell my Standard OS20 as well as I have too many bikes and can’t ride them all. I am not realistically going to race 20″ anyway so I may as well just keep the Curtis and my Son’s Supercross and get rid of the rest of the bikes!

My Friend has been looking for a steel OS20 bike for a while so I may sell it to him. I am meeting him tomorrow so I will see if he is interested.