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So I woke up at 5 am and dod my weigh in and I was down 0.1 kgs to 106.9 kgs so mot a great deal of weight loss but its weight loss none the less! I was really tired so I went back to bed until 6:30 then got up and started work before heading into the office on the ebike for 7:30. I did what I needed to do at the office then headed home as I was expecting a delivery at 11 am. By the time I got home I was on only 3681 steps so I plan to walk on the treadmill this afternoon while I’m working!

At lunch time I decided not to go for a walk and instead did my tidying 30 minutes and did the washing up, put the washing away, did some more washing and then hoovered through the flat as well!

Weight = 107

Steps = 13669

So I woke up with my alarm again and dragged myself out of bed and did my weigh-in and I was the same weight as yesterday (107 kgs) even though I am feeling much tighter today so I have deffo burnt fat at a minimum. I then got dressed put the weight vest on and went for my morning ruck on my uphill route.

This morning walk I slowed it down a bit but it was so much easier to climb the hall than it was yesterday so that’s a good sign that I a need to keep it up 🙂

By the time I got home I was on 6589 steps so well over 1/2 way to my 12000 steps goal and its only 6:20 🙂

When I finish work just before lunch time I will drag my son on a bike ride along the two tunnels and back then we are going for a drive to my parents then I have to hoover and mop there before we drive home again.

We didn’t have time to go for a ride but did go for a drive to my parents and then I hoovered through their house and mopped the floors and got some logs in then we walked the dog as well as my parents hadn’t had time to take her out before we got there!

I then drove us home and dropped my son off at his mums and then headed home. I then had to wait for my shopping to be delivered which was almost 22:30 before that arrived and I had put it all away! I then went to bed but struggled to get to sleep.

By the end of the day I was on 13669 steps.

Weight = 107 kgs

Steps = 12483

So this morning I woke up with my alarm at 5 am and I dragged myself out of bed and did my weigh-in and I was up 0.5 kgs to 107 kgs this morning.

I then got dressed, put on the weight vest and my coat and went out for a morning walk:

I rucked 2.71 miles in 52:19 and did 6212 steps according to Strava!

When I got home I opened all the doors and windows and did my 10 minutes Lüften while I was doing my morning tasks for work then I got ready and rode the ebike into the office. I then worked until 11:30 ish and then rode home and woke my son up and at just after 12 we went for a bike ride along the 2 tunnels to Midford and back:

The rear break on the mtb was rubbing a lot so it felt like someone was pulling me backwards most of the ride but it was fun and we rode 7.37 mikes in 29:47 and averaged 14.9 mph so leasurely at best! I think when I was fitter and did this ride a lot on my road bike I averaged over 20 mph so a long way off that pace!

Apart from the rubbing break the mtb felt much better with the new 29 x 1.75 tyres on it! It felt way less tractor like and almost like a road bike so I am happy that I bought the tyres! I checked the size of the disk and its a 160mm disk so I have loads of them in the parts bin so I will swap it out at some point!

When we got back from the ride I was on 11126 steps so I will definately get my 12000 steps in today!

I will do my backwards walking and chin ups later and then I have ticked off all of my exercise things to do other then my rollers but I wasn’t planning to do them today anyway and will start them tomorrow.

So I didn’t do backwards walking as once I was in my break my legs were sore so I decided to take it a bit easy. I did get over 30 minutes of cleaning though and managed to hoover through the flat, get the washing up done and do a load of washing and get it dry so not a bad use of my evening. I also got a load of work done so a good day all round!

By the end of the day I was on 12483 steps.

Weight = 106.6 kgs

Steps = 12274

This morning I woke up at 5:15 without an alarm and got up and went and did my weigh-in and I was down to 106.6 kgs so happy with that seeing 8000 of my steps were on the treadmill yesterday! 🙁

I then went back to bed until about 9:30 when I woke up my son and get dressed and while he was getting dressed I put the washing away that I did last night.

I then gave my son a lesson on pumping up the car tyres (and where to find the correct pressures on the door frame)so that he knows how to do this now! We then went for a drive to my parents via the track where I dropped off some stuff to get the kettle working.

When we got to my parents we had some lunch and then we took the dog for a walk through the woods which was fun but a bit wet. I was on just over 10000 steps by yhr time we got home.

We then washed the dog and then headed to my ex wife’s house and picked up some clothes for my son as he has none at my house at the moment! We parked the car a bit down the road so we had to walk there and back which got me to just over 11400 steps when I got in the house.

I then got the rest of my steps in on the treadmiull which took no time at all and I am now chilling on the computer in bed!

Tomorrow first thing I plan to walk in the weight vest to start rucking again to start dropping weight again! I am also planning to drag my son for a ride down the 2 tunnels at lunch time before getting my 10 minutes backwards waking in!

By the end of the day I had got to 12274 steps

Weight = 107.1 kgs

Steps = 12323

So today I woke up without an alarm about 5:30 and got up and did my morning weigh-in and I am back up a bit to 107.1 kgs again today as I had a fry up and chicken burger and chips yesterday again so its my own fault!

As my knee was still sore I decided to chill in bed for a bit and went down an investing rabbit hole and I have spent all morning signing up to trading 212 and adding money and buying my first months stocks too 🙂

After this month I am going to use the investing to invest some of the money that I wasted on deliveroo so I will invest £5 a day every day going forwards to see how I get on! My thinking is that for now it will mean that I can’t afford to buy takeout all the time so I will have to start cooking every day and start to stick to a budget going forwards.

To get a realistic figure for my budget I have also started keeping my monthly expense tracker so that next month I will go through how much I spent and make a budget from there and then keep doing it an keep updating the budget as I go!

I have also decided to actually go to the supermarket every evening and buy my food for the next day so that I don’t have too much food to waste in the house and also I get an evening walk out of it too 🙂

This month I have loads of food left over to eat up so I should spend less than I normally would but we will see I guess! I have set an initial budget of £50 a week and I am planning to start taking my food budget out in cash then I can make sure that I do not overspend and if I do I will have to live with the consequences at the end of the week!

This should save me about £600 a month that I was wasting on takeout and delivery charges so even with the £150 that I am investing a month I should be spending £450 a month less on food which should help me get my debt under control pretty quickly.

Next month I will start back on the carnivore diet but with eggs, cheese and fruit as well as meat as I felt so much better when I was on the carnivore diet last year. I am not sure if the budget will allow too much meat though but I can try it and maybe increase the budget if necessary I guess! It will definately be way less than the deliveroo diet has been costing so it will still be a win 🙂

Exercise wise I am going to rest the knee until next week then I will start back on the morning walks and rucking as well as start on the rollers and backwards walking too!

By the time that I got home from the track I was only on 4000 steps so I got my shorts on and then got the treadmill out and walked until I got to 12000 steps which took well over an hour but I got it done!

I finished the day on 12323 steps.

So this morning I woke up at 5:15 and my knee was too sore to go for a walk today so I got up and did my weigh-in and was surprised that I am down to 106.8 kgs so that shows that not eating crap and intermittent fasting really works 🙂

I am also pleased with myself as I had my first spend free day in ages! This is a good thing and I think that I can cut my food budget to about £35 a week if I just eat 2 boxes of filled tagleatellie and a can of rice pudding all day! Plus some fruit from work as well 🙂

I am in bed chilling now as I am off today and I will get ready and go for a walk when its light about 7 am.

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!