Battle of the beer belly

Well its still in its development and i'm sure as the weeks progress i will add more to it and develop it futher but so far i am thinking i'll do as follows:

Monday - Football coaching. Not too much exercise here for me but i can join in the warm up and the match at the end so there is some.

Tuesday - Football Training. If i do the outfield players training session this is really hard work and will get me fit in no time!

Wednesday - The couch to 5k run

Thursday - 5-a-side Football, again not much exercise for me here as its only 40 mins and i play in goal but theres a bit in there.

Friday - Day of rest. well not really as i work 17hours on a friday so i just dont have the time to do any thing!

Saturaday - Football. I get a bit of exercise here in the 90 minutes, but once again i am in goal. Its just a good job i dont have a defence in front of me so i get a good work out!

Sunday - The couch to 5k run

Every day i will also do 25 sit ups and 25 reps with some arm weights just to add a bit more in.

The couch to 5k run

This looks really good and i advise any one trying to get fit to have a look at it! Clicky

When your trying to give up or cut down on some thing that you are addicted to or even just like to have often (as I’m not sure if being addicted to crisps can actually happen!) it seems as if you spend your whole day thinking about that thing.

I've spent the last week thinking just one bag of crisps wont hurt, and I agree with myself one bag a day probably wont, however with me once I’ve had that one bag I think "hmmmm could do with another bag of them they were lush!".

It seems as if when you’re making a real effort to do some thing it is that much harder to do! I wish there was some way you could get crisp patches like you do if you’re giving up the fags!

One quote I got from traineo has helped me though:

Do not exchange what you want most for what you want at the moment

I think it’s a great quote and is an inspiration, as while I really want those crisps what I want most is to be slimmer so I just have to control my urges.

I’m finding it a real effort already not to give in but surely it’s gotta get easier hasn’t it?

I've weighed myself after a week as well and I only lost a pound. I’m slightly gutted if I’m honest; I thought I might get a better result than that. However I’ve just got to redouble my efforts now to try to do better next week. I'm need more exercise so I’m going to come up with an exercise plan for the week later today.

Well its day six of my challenge so I knew it was going to come one day! Today was my one day a week I have to go to college and I knew it was always going to be hard to find summat I liked and what was healthy.

I've managed to eat a sausage bap, a cheese s'wich a packet of crisps and had a pint. With the fact I’m going to the pub for a meal tonight as well I might as well give up on today lol!

I strangely feel guilty about it though so I think I’m gonna go for a run just before I go out so maybe I can work off some of the fat I’ve consumed today!

On a side note I cannot wait for my new mp3 player to arrive, its 4GB big so should store all my music and I feel I’ll be more enthusiastic about running if I can listen to some tunes!

First things first the background, who am i? what am i doing? and why am i doing it is a good a place to start as any i suppose.

I'm known pretty much every where on the internet as b_carpet or bcarpet depending on the place.  An average 20 year old lad who drinks, plays footie, gambles and chases the ladies in his spare time.  Seems normal right? and i am, however i got a slight beer belly which is a bit of a bugger to be honest and while i have mixed feelings on it i have finally taken the step to get rid of it! 

I've always seen my beer belly as a sort of badge of honour, proof to the fact that i have a good social life with lots of mates, it just so happens all my mates like to meet me for a drink so in an average week i can find myself ending up in the pub four nights a week and still having a heavy session or two on the weekend.  Not only did this get me into debt at one point (which i have already addressed and here i am now broke but debt free!) but its also got me to the point of being the heaviest i have ever been.

I cannot blame it all on the breweries door for making the lager so damn tasty however! no, some blame must go to the fact i'm a crispaholic and a cheeseaholic!  Crisps are my second sin behind lager, i can have up to five packets a day some times! even i can see this is over doing it but they are so ruddy nice.  

So i have a problem, i visit pubs alot where they serve lager and crisps for as long as i can afford and i'll eat and drink them for as long as i can afford!  This however will not help me get rid of the belly.  

So whats the exact details of my challenge then i hear you ask? well i have set myself the task of getting down to my ideal weight according to my BMI of 13 st 5 lbs by the time i go on holiday at the end of may.   Easy you think? maybe, maybe not it means losing over a stone in just about four months, to me thats a challenge and a half!

Why am i doing it?  Well its quite simple, i dont wanna be the fat one on the beach in Turkey at my sisters wedding.  i dont want people saying my god thats one hell of a gut mate, or you fat bastard! to me when i have my top off.  While all these comments have not been made in a nasty manner to me more fun teasing and jeast by my mates it'll still be nice to be able to not have that hanging over me, or hanging over my trousers as i should say! 

To finish basically i have a crap diet, the worst place to spend most of my free time and i'm quite lazy; this is certainly gonna be a steep challenge, but am i man enough to meet it? Who knows but i'm sure we shall find out in the next four months!