Accumulative Effect

I can't beleive how excited I am about the new bike.  So as a tribute to my ever increasing impatience, I thought I would post this tribute:

The last year has really been the hardest of my life.   My healthy life goals serriously handicapped by a semi-recent diagnosis of Atypical Depression.  After talking to some people who have previously dealt with the illness themselves, and after going and seeing my GP - I am happy to say that life is starting to get its colour back.

Being the end of a year which has been particularly difficult for me I thought that it would be an ideal time to renew some old commitments which have fallen by the wayside.

Thanks to a kind heart, and great generosity, my wife's grandmother has given me $100 to buy something for myself for Christmas.  So, instead of getting an electric shaver or a DVD Boxset or something, I bought a Mountain Bike.  I found a bargain at Target, and while I was initally prepared to pay the extra $100 - $150 for the bike, the checkout girl only charged $130 for it (hehe.)

I didn't correct her.

So my plan is to bike to the train station nearest me (Home > Kuraby Station about 6.5Kms) and train to one near work (Yerongpilly Station > Work about 4.5Kms) each day.  Later I hope to just go the whole distance.

I don't want to be overweight and unhappy anymore.

Its been 3 months yesterday(ish) since my new fantastic 2 stage diet plan began. It's really hard. Seriously - really hard. But rewarding. I've been very careful to reward myself and not make this whole thing as painful as it could be - although I still feel guilty that I could be doing more.

I am still boxing as regularly as I can, and in 15 minute chunks sparkpeople.com tells me that I burn about 100 calories each time. Being a serial entrepreneur, it dawns on me that living the life of an internet startup founder doesn't lend itself to helping with weightloss.

I also find mslef being very conscous about excercising in front of my kids (7 and 4). The only reason I can think of for this, is that I am simply extremely embarrassed that I allowed myslef to get like this in the first place. Shame is a very powerful demotivator. If I didnt have Julie helping me, I dare say I would have bailed by now, which seems quite counter-productive given that I seem to be making good results.

I am looking forward to breaking the 100kg mark (not there yet) - but I think I might have to reward myself with something cool.

I've learned something today...

When you're a fat bastard, and you exercise before breakfast, you feel so sick afterwards, you don't want to eat anything!