So i've decided in order lose my beer belly i really need to start stepping up my game and really go for it now. Its seems that i'm going to have to start really looking at what i'm eating and i need to get on my bike (quite literally) and put in some serious cardio work. This is even more important now that i've started doing some weights to try to get the rest of my body in some sort of shape too.

So to start my food. I'm going to start doing a food diary and see how many calories i am eating a day, however i really need to find a calorie counter where i can tot up my daily total. (any help would be appricated).

So aims:

1) try to lose at least a few inches off my belly
2) Increase my arm size

I'll probably post my sizes as in waist and arm sizes tomorrow as well so i can see how well i progress over the coming months

well the new year is well and truly under way and we are 19 days into 2008. I've started the year near on 15 stone however my beer belly isn't so predominate now a days. Its been a long while since I've wrote on here so i thought on this boring wet Saturday afternoon I'd do a quick update on my life.

I've finally moved out and i am now living with a mate which is cool, however its kinda expensive! i seem to be constantly struggling for money but i don't regret it at all as i love it!!

I've all but decided that I'm going to step down as the youth team manager, I've just not got the time for it. I'd rather concentrate on my uni work and going out, after all I'm at the age where i am meant to.

I've started eating a bit better now and also I've begun doing weights so hopefully my arms will start to look a bit better soon instead of being the weak stick like things they are now!

any way that's enough for right now, but i hope to start writing again regularly now.

well it was my first day of independance yesterday and what a day! i dont think i'll be able to keep that up too long though! Its freshers week now in cheltenham so me and my housemate decided to check to see what new students were out last night, needless to say we got wasted and i think i might still be a little drunk now! the fact i'm sat here munching on toffee at like 9:45 confirms that!

we woke up this morning to find the fridge magnets all over the place and the door window cracked which is quite impressive! especially as neither of us remember either! it must have been a good night.

I also woke up this morning to be greeted with a opened full can of lager which i though was just a waste, so i'll probably drink that tonight! i think we will be going out again tonight to meet some more students, after all freshers week only happens but once a year!

Ugh work is hard this morning, roll on lunch time!

So it was my first coaching session i've taken since the end of july due to the summer break and it went really well. The kids are under 10 now which means its their last season playing 'mini-soccer'.

It went well i think, we changed our approach slightly by using my idea of splitting the kids down between the coaches which meant the kids got more time with the ball and more of our time.

What made my night though was some one came up to us at the end (shes a training teacher who has never watched us train before as her kids turned up to the wrong session but we let them join in any way) she told us that if PE lessons were like how we ran our coaching sessions that she thinks the kids would have more fun at school and they would be more likely to do more exercise away from school. It was just a nice comment, she didnt have to say any thing like that so it was nice to hear. Things like that remind you of why you give up your time for it!

well what can i say, its been a long time since i last blogged! I've gotta say i've had an eventful couple of weeks too! Some good news and some bad.

First of all i started my new job this month, unsure if i blogged about this but i'm not really in the mood to check! Its ok, alot more professional than my last place, hell i even have to wear a shirt and tie! i'm not really sure on much i'm doing at the moment and i spend alot of my time just sat round doing nothing as i dont know what i am meant to be doing but i'm sure i'll start to pick up what i am meant to be doing a bit more soon.

I'm not longer going to be a best man, not because me and my best mate have fallen out or anything its just the wedding has been cancelled. Many people may see this as a bad thing but she really wasnt the girl for him! she proved this on monday night but thats a story for a blog of its own!

I'm finally 21, i had a great birthday weekend, where i dont remember anything after 10pm on the sat night and then i saw many of my family i havent seen in like over a year on the sunday which was really nice. On my actual birthday i made the four and a half trip to newcastle with one of my mates. This was a good night out, better than just having a tuesday night out in cheltenham any way! didnt manage to pull but hey thats my luck at the moment!

I've managed to mess up another potential relationship too in less than three weeks and just four dates! worst thing is, is that we never even got into the bedroom! we are still gonna be friends though so at least i've got another mate.

Finally the biggest piece of news is that i am going to move out of my parents house, while this will mean less internet access, less money for myself (as more will be spent on bills) but i think it will be really good for me. I'll have to learn to cook, do household stuff such as washing and ironing but i'll also have that little bit more independance. I think it'll help me grow as a person and i'm almost looknig at it like a challenge. I'll probs post more on this another time.

Oh and i've put on more weight

I cannot believe it i got stood up! its kinda dented my last bit of confidence i had left. It was meant to be my 1st date in a good few months and she didnt even bother to turn up. The worst thing is, is that she didnt know wot i looked like or even what i'm like as a guy! she wasnt even that willing to give me a chance!

Needless to say i've spent the whole night drinking now and i'm a little worst for wear! i need to go to bed now so good night every one! lets hope everyone else did better than me!

so in ust ten mins i'll be setting off for my blind date today. I've got to admit i'm kinda nervous, i'm also thinking fuck it i'm nt gonna go. I always think that though before a date i think its just nerves, so i'm still gonna go. I've got to keep telling myself "whats the worst that could happen?! it goes crap so i get pissed, nothing lost!

so wish me luck!...

so tomorrow is my first day starting at my new job, they offered me some more days off if i already had stuff planned but i kinda just wanna get in there and get started you know? my last job didnt go so well so i kinda feel like i've got summat to prove at this place. The people i have met (ok only 2 of them!) seem real nice and hopefully i'll get on with most people there but we shall see. I am slightly nervous but then i suppose every one is when they start a new job!

The water finally came back on this afternoon too which is great news, which i celebrated with a nice long hot shower! you dont realise just how much you miss it until its gone!

Hopefully my knee and my muscles which are playing up will recover in the next few days. i just bought some deep heat and i am putting a ton on every so often to see if it will help, i suppose only time will tell.

so after moaning about money in a previous blog entry gill36 told me to try ms money (see here). Well i have got my hands on a copy and its seems quite good. Its a little bit confusing at the moment and seems very easy to get lost in but i'm sure i'll be able to pick it up.

There is a great feature where you can anaylse everying you spend i just dread to think what the socialising category is gonna come out with :S But will be good to see just how much i am spending and where! maybe it'll be a wake up call and i wont spend so much on beer if i can see ust how much i peeing away on the stuff.

Any way thats my first impressions of it probably talk more about it after i've used it for a few months

well i seem to be finding any excuse not to do exercise at the moment and its started to bug me. That sounds silly i know as i'm the only one who can do any thing about it but hey! i need to really get my will power working in over drive now so hopefully i i'll start to improve.

I should be doing exercise nearly every day without fail but at the moment an ant could die and i'd use it as an excuse just to say sat on the sofa instead of doing the exercise i really need to be doing! its like i want the weight to drop off but i'm not willing to put the work in.

On a bad note i think i may have done some thing to my ligaments in my left knee as its killing me, i tried to jog down the road last night and i only got about six yards before it was too painful and i had to stop. So thats kinda put a dent on me starting me exercising seriously again for a little while!