March Running update

With everything going on around us at the minute, there is a fair chance that this blog is going to be pretty fitness related for the next few weeks. Any film or TV stuff will be directed over to my film/TV blog if you care to have a click over there! But, as I had...

Getting a grip of my weight in December

Last time out I spoke about how 2019 was on a weight loss side. Spoiler the first 10 months weren’t good… But from October onwards I was able to get a grip of things, but I was concerned December was coming and everyone gets that holiday weight and seeing as I was entering my second...

Weight loss journey: How being less hard on myself became a positive

Last time out I broached the topic of how I am finally making a bit of progress on my weight loss and a lot of it was to do with the fact that I was able to structure myself better and that I was being less hard on myself if I did have that snack...

Weight loss Journey: Why I regained weight

If you have been following my posts about weight loss (here, here and oh here) then you will know that I got down from 26 stone (365 lbs or 165 kg) to a respectable 13 and a half stone (189 lbs or 86 kg). After getting down to the lovely low number (for me anyway)...

Having a go at kickboxing for the first time.

A little while ago Victoria and I decided that we would take up a class together for the giggle and she saw an opening for a class on Thursday nights for six weeks. All sounded great until I was informed that it was kickboxing... I won't lie, I had a big gulp, but it was...

Intermittent fasting and getting it together

As documented in many posts, I am a heavy guy. How heavy? 260 lbs of heavy, which isn’t handy for a guy who is only 5 ft 9” (on a yoga day). I spiraled upwards and finally caught the weight at this point a few months ago and I have been yo-yoing since. Some good...

Can an overweight guy do yoga? My first class

Yoga hasn't really ever been on my to-do list other than some DDP Yoga and P90x stuff at home and definitely no yoga in front of anyone and my TV. But should it be? Should I venture out more to yoga classes and get my downward facing dog on with others? Well a few Thursdays ago,...

5 tips for running if an overweight beginner

I was/am overweight, I was seriously overweight. I have spoken a few times about it here and here and maybe even here. I started my journey by doing some workouts at home and at the gym, but where I saw serious progress was when I started running. Running was the trigger that got me addicted...

Weight loss to Christmas challenge: 13th – 16th November

Welcome back to my little series about as you can guess from the title… Losing weight before Christmas! To catch up on why I am doing this have a little read here and how my first 3 days went here... it’s okay, I’ll wait. So the gist of the challenge is that I want to lose around 30lbs...

Weight loss to Christmas challenge: 10th – 12th November

Welcome back to my little series about as you can guess from the title... Losing weight before Christmas! To catch up on why I am doing this have a little read here... it's okay, I'll wait. So the gist of the challenge is that I want to lose around 30lbs before December 25th. It is a...