All is going well. Eating in the morning is a plus at the moment

I seem to have got into a routine that is working. I’ve only deviated slightly from the plan once in 3 weeks so I think I’m doing ok.

Current weight is X minus 9lbs which i didn’t think would be possible in 3 weeks!!

I’m gonna keep going although I have a stag weekend in a couple of weeks which means that I can’t afford to be to fussy for food during that.

I guess we’ll see as time goes on if my willpower can hold the course of this rough ride!

I’ve been spending a lot of time round my mates house (he has 2 young kids) and I realised that Kid’s can be very loud and have the attention span of a demented goldfish!

I’m not saying I hate kids… quite the opposite I think kids are great and can often be entertaining… especially when they vomm all over their parents… lol

Anyway the fact is that I’m sure that every parent feels a moment where they NEED to silence them. Coincidentally I’ve recently been asked to review a set of children’s books as part of my work.

Now I personally don’t have kids but the fact that I used to be one and am not far off how I used to behave 20 odd years ago means I can have some appreciation of what a kid likes and how they think!

The range are from a company called “Bayard Presse” from the land of frogs (France) and seem to tackle the problem of hyperactive children in an innovative way.. and before you ask NO IT DOESN’T INVOLVE HORSE TRANQUILLIZERS!!

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The range of books are called StoryBox, AdventureBox and DiscoveryBox! (please click on the links and make me look awesome!). They each cater for a different age group and provide children’s comics and activities that have an educational message that is in line with the national curriculum (apparently).

Now I’ve always been a fan of the horse tranquillizer method as it shuts the kids up but once I’d sorted my mate and his kids out with these books I soon noticed a few bonuses.

1.) They are safe to leave around the house.

2.) They benefit your children by teaching them something (instead of lowering their cognitive ability)

3.) The likelihood of your children getting a chemical addiction to them is unlikely

4.) They cost significantly less

So peeps do me a favour and check them out… you never know you might actually learn something yourself at the same time!!

Right so far i’ve been good. It’s gotta all be about diet and discipline!

I’m now on Gin & Slimline instead of Beer! :*(

I’m now eating a high fibre breakfast cereal to start the day, soup for lunch and a healthy meal in the evening!!!

Go me!!

Lets see how long it lasts lol!

Oh and since my last post my weight it X minus 2.1 Lbs!

Yesterday was a bit of an interesting one for me! I was working in Soho for the day and when I’d finished I called up my brother and his housemate to see what they were up to. Turns out they were in London too so I met up with them for a few in the bars around Soho.

Long story short - they were in London cos they had tickets to the Lost Prophets who were playing a gig at the Astoria!…. one visit to a tout later (who says they are bad :)) and i had a ticket! It was an awesome gig too!!!

Ok… so it dawned on me today that I’m not the picture of fitness I was 2 years ago!

With this in mind and the recent improvement in my working situation i’ve decided to knuckle down and “improve” my health. My trusty housemate Ryan has agreed to drag me to the gym more often than the standard 2 times a week I’m managing.

Rule #1 - No Beer!

OK so I have some beer in the fridge and as of today I’m not allowed any more until I’ve lost a reasonable amount of weight to put me back in the the clothes I was wearing 2 years ago.

If i must have a tipple it’ll be a Gin (good stuff obviously) and tonic (slimline :S )

Rule #2 - More Gym

I’m only managing 2 trips a week at the moment which is pretty shit!… I’m going to aim for at least 4 trips a week and a 5th of just swimming! I might throw in some freeweights we have at home also!

Rule #3 - No Eating Crap Food

This means no sausages.. burgers… chips… etc…. Only salad.. chicken.. and low fat foods…! (If i have any of the above in the fridge/freezer they are fair game but i’m not buying any more junk. Also cut down on the high carb food.

Rule #3 - No Sugary Drinks

No sugary Cola…. no Lemonade…. no Red bull or Coffee with 8 sugars….

Try and take in more water daily!

HOW

I’m going to do a regular update on this blog detailing what I’ve done… I feel it will help me record stuff and help me be motivated and save myself looking like a lazy biatch!

I’ll start by saying my weight is “X” and each time I do a review I’ll say how much + or - the value of “X” I am.

Feel free to throw words of encouragement at me too!

GO ME!

So I was out in London a few nights ago catching up with some mates I haven’t seen in ages! The usual few pints and then a club routine. Having consumed enough booze to fog up reality we headed off to a local club recommended by the our helpful ‘Irish barman’…. with a few special blagging tricks I’ve learnt over the years I got us in without paying….(my services are available for hire )

So I’m standing at the bar filled with the usual smugness that goes with having once again blagged my way into a club. Usual form takes over and we start chatting to a couple of severely hot girls (from my point of view i saw this as karma rewarding me for being so awesome).

Now, I’d generally describe myself as very quick on the uptake, but the cocktail of beer and direct exposure to a group of hot women meant it took me a while to realize something wasn’t quite right. I was in a pretty posh looking club, standing at the bar listening to some pretty loud and repetitive music. Nothing strange there….infact that’s a good discription of an average day, but looking around, I couldn’t help notice that the ratio of hot girls to guys was astonishingly high.

Ok, so the easy answer that hit me was “this is just a posh strip club” and I shouldn’t order champagne without a lot of spare cash on my credit card….I was thinking it and I’m sure you probably are, right?…….Wrong!

Somehow using my “jedi like” reasoning skills I’d managed to drunkenly blag us into an exclusive event run by a fairly massive broadcasting company. We were at a TelevisionX party! The group of girls we were talking to turned out to be adult movie stars/fetish models!

The party ended up as an amazing night-out. The girls were all awesome to talk to, and really down-to-earth (and very hot…)!

That’s another fine mess my drunk mind has got me into!


*picture provided by RichardKnightly

Man every time I watch this it makes me crack up!

I finished watching the last 2 episodes of season 4 of Lost this weekend! Man they were good. They always give you answers and then add a new huuuge question on the end, and this was no exception.

Who get’s off the Island we knew.. but it answered the big one of how do they do it? It’s all explained… but there is much more that needs answering as a consequence including a big “SURPRISE” as a footnote….. lets hope that in the final two seasons they answer them.

I’m a little peeved that the next season is not due for almost a year. But then i guess good things come to those who wait!

At least we can take solace in knowing they’ve kept strong characters like Ben… he’s the unknown in the series that seems to have given it new dynamic… he does things both good and bad… but all are justified from a narrow perspective! He’s the type of character everyone loves to hate!

Another little titbit for you! A friend of mine told me that Jack’s dad will play a pivitol part in the next few series… he’s been popping out of thin air recently which doesn’t seem to be too much of an issue considering he’s been dead since before the first episode… i guess we’ll see

Ok … so i saw Indy 4 on the 22nd and i must say I came out of the cinema feeling both pleased and cheated!!

It was good to see Indy back and Harrison Ford brought back the character flawlessly. The whip cracking and banter and general Indy feel was there from the very beginning.

As far as the casting went Ray Winstone’s character had way more potential and was under used. There was also the character of Marion Ravenwood from Raiders (played by Karen Allen), she brought the same chemistry she had with Indy to the film but was sadly also under used.

Shia LeBouf’s character provided good sidekick action for Indy and raised a few laughs on occasion….. it’s even been insinuated that the Indy legacy be passed to him although if it does I’ll have to hunt down everyone responsible and mummify them alive!

My problem with Indy 4 was that the first 80% of the film was everything I expected of the newest installment and the last 20% went against the whole Indy concept.

Spielberg promised that he was going to make this one for the fans and was going to film it oldschool stylee with minimal special effects. This was done for 80% of the movie and then it seemed that they let George Lucas turn the “special effects handle”.

The last 20% - the whole origin of the crystal skull plus the end special effect sequence (people who have seen the film will know what i mean) completely ruined it for me… maybe it will grow on me… I feel i need to see it again as I was dumbfounded towards the end.. WHAT DID THEY DO!!!

I’ll check it out again… maybe it wasn’t that bad. I can’t bring myself to hate Indy! Hopefully on the DVD where there is an alternative ending on the DVD where Indy makes George Lucas eat the crystal skull and then whips him to death before dropping him in a lava pit.

Ever since I saw the movie “Demolition Man”, I’ve felt like there was something missing from my life.

No, not glow rods… though you’ve gotta admit, that’d be a GREAT item to have at parties. Who wouldn’t want to use a stun baton on their friends for some hearty laughs? Also, I’ve always wanted to have a car with “security foam” in it should I ever get in an accident. I think the only reason they haven’t made that stuff a reality yet is because people would crash their cars on purpose just to experience the joys of security foam.

Still, putting the glow rods, security foam and even fancy Taco Bells aside, there was one unanswered question from Demolition Man that has continued to haunt me for years. The mystery of the Three Seashells. For the uninformed, Demolition Man takes place in the future and, in addition to the aforementioned technological advancements, toilet paper has become a thing of the past. Instead, people in the future use three seashells. Don’t feel bad if this confuses you, Stallone never figured out how to use them in the movie either.

Thankfully, in a recent interview, Stallone says one of the writers explained to him the general gist of how one was supposed to use the three seashells when taking a dump. With this newfound knowledge, the guys at i-mockery.com have created this handy illustrated instructional guide which clearly explains how to use the three seashells. Yes indeed, all of your questions are finally about to be answered!

Now then, don’t you feel better knowing that when you visit a restroom in the future you won’t have to deal with the embarrassment of not understanding how to use the three seashells? Of course you do!

Thanks to “i-mockery.com” for the pic