301k in debt and morbidly obese - things aren't great!

MrBloater

And the good times keep on rolling. Will definitely need reminding of page 100 (or 50 if you're one of custardy's techie crew) when things get colder. As an added bonus, today was the first time I was able to vent my disdain for cyclists in a long while - in the wake of the Olympic gold run for Wiggins and co, it looked like the pedallers were in the ascendancy and had public opinion on their side. Not being one to go against the grain, I had to keep my animosity towards them private. But now, bathing in the glow of Lance Armstrong darkening the name of the 'sport' once more, I had no moral problem mouthing the word 'Junkie' to the first lyrca-clad 40something I saw on my run today. Which was a 3k blast. And was a blast. Aside from my potential stalker. Without going into brain-numbing detail of the geographical features of my local area, suffice it to say that my running route makes no sense to anyone other than me, so the likelihood of someone walking past me on road A and then 25 minutes later walking past me on road B is highly unlikely. Especially as this someone was clad in a combination of 70s pastel raincoat and glasses that surely came from Carlos the Jackal. And was pulling one of those old lady (no offence meant to any old ladies out there) shopping cart things. Now either she was from the old style boards and was out collecting the corpses of foxes to make a lovely soup, or else had some sophisticated tracking device in the trolley. Either way, I'm changing my route tomorrow.

ali-t

She's maybe just waiting for her chance to jump your (ever decreasing) bones Mr B.

chevalier

Wow a year. Really. That flew by!!! I am trying to eat less and move more, to lose some lard. Will see how it goes.

That said OH has just gone out for fish and chips oops.

Well done on the running though, you are ahead of me there
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gallygirl

MrBloater wrote: »

And was pulling one of those old lady (no offence meant to any old ladies out there) shopping cart things. Now either she was from the old style boards and was out collecting the corpses of foxes to make a lovely soup, or else had some sophisticated tracking device in the trolley. Either way, I'm changing my route tomorrow.

ali-t wrote: »

She's maybe just waiting for her chance to jump your (ever decreasing) bones Mr B.

Or waiting till you've shrunk enough to stick in the trolley and take home to be her man-pet :eek:.

smarties84

You do make me laugh Mr Bloater Keep up the good work and i take my hat off to you getting up that early and going for a run x

custardy

right Mr B,get up!

MrBloater

Yesterday, as I kinda predicted, was the wall. Whilst I kept under my calorie limit they were mainly bad calories - Mrs B does a nice line in gluten-free cinnamon rolls, and the boy Bloater wanted pizza for dinner which he then didn't eat. Etc, etc. I felt the hunger like never before and was a thoroughly grumpy toad all day long - and had a daylong hankering for a giant plate of pie and chips. Thankfully I didn't sink into a bottle of plonk in the evening because this thing is too important to let drift so early on. Spending a sleepless night listening to the rain lash down (and cursing myself for yet again missing a free listing time on eBay) didn't help my plans for the morning run. Although, in a rare moment of sleep I did dream that perhaps as part of the deal when MSE got sold, Hollywood production companies might have got their hands on the rights to the forums, and somewhere in pre-production was Bloater: The Movie, and that Audrey Tautou (who does gorgeous and cheery psycho like nobody else - and hence an inspired cast for the role of Mrs might have been doing some action research dressed in charity shop clothes and thick sunglasses and a whole stack of recording equipment in her old lady shopping trolley. This was not the case. Saw my stalker again today, this time on road A and road C (which is a more normal journey) and she had ditched the trolley in favour of one of those scratchy beige supermarket bags for life that always for some reason remind me of childhood vomit, and had also ditched the shades. Much more Audrey Roberts than Audrey Tautou. But at least I did another run despite all the feelings of self-loathing and sabotage that we all get from time to time on these journeys. The weight did go up slightly but then I know that daily weigh-ins are insane. But then so is stalking a fat jogger. Each to their own.

Igamogam

MrBloater wrote: »

[SIZE=2 But then so is stalking a fat jogger. Each to their own.[/SIZE]

Maybe your stalker is a 'chubby chaser'....as you drop the lard she may well back off:D

Font? Arial size 2???

Cranny44

MrBloater wrote: »

Bloater: The Movie, .

I pay to watch that one :rotfl:

MrBloater

Full moon fever at the Bloaters yesterday with everyone in various states of distress from time to time. Once again however I resisted the urge to comfort-(over)eat or bliss-drink(anything other than pigging water and coffee) and happily trundled off for an incident-free 3.7k blast this morning. Weight (in old money) is down to 22st 4 which by my reckoning having looked at the various exercise spreadsheets I've made over the years, is my lowest weight since December 2008.
Massive decluttering operation in the kids' rooms yesterday has rendered my shed utterly full again - from not having enough for a car boot sale we now appear to have enough to start a small chain of charity shops. There is now not even standing room in there - but the shed isn't top of my list of priorities - it's a small price to pay for a house that is looking considerably larger - although of course that could just be that everything is looking bigger compared to my reduced scale. There's a twitchy end of month feeling around regarding the finances - once my pay comes in on Friday I need to sit down with Mrs B and plan the next month out properly - but at the current moment it isn't top of my list of priorities.

And here, for no other reason that I have never sat down and written them out before - is my list of priorities

1. Being the best Dad, Husband and Son that I can
2. Keeping my job
3. Getting body weight down to normal proportions and keeping it there
4. Upping current income (marketing my existing books, writing new better ones)
5. Building a safety net (updated CV, alternative incomes) in case no. 2 fails
6. Living in a clutter-free environment
7. Being able to do the foxtrot in my shed