Dear friends,
A couple of months before Elin and I got married we decided to lose some weight. Said and done, I lost about 5 kgs (11 lbs) and Elin did a good job too.
After that it has all been downhill and I have since become a lard ass. So extreme circumstances call for extreme methods. And extreme over weight call for The Pig Race!
Starting today I am a pig racing towards health. I will blog about eating habits, the aerobics class, ten-beers-or-not-ten-beers, my weight, my waist-line and outdoors activities such as hiking, running and walking to the mail box.
Perhaps a few of you will even be inspired to grab yourself by the waist-line and start hunting that hog.
Goal:
a) To lose 15 kgs (33 lbs) before my birthday on 1 July.
b) To have 90% of my t-shirts fit instead of 10%
Terms:
a) I will bring updates at least once every week.
b) All my friends are allowed to bully/mock me here on the blog.
c) You may also cheer on if you feel like it.
Stats: Day 1
Weight: 88,2 kg (194,3 lbs)
Waist: 102 cm (40,8″)
BMI: 26,1 (“over weight”)
Comment: “It feels good to sit after walking up the stairs.”
With those numbers the Race is on!
And the joke is on me.
Stats: Day 6
Weight: 86,4 kg (190,5 lbs)
Waist: 100 cm (29,4″)
BMI: 25 (still ”over weight”)
The Pig on “working out”: No doubt about it, after almost one full week I’m off to a slow start. I have lost almost 2 kgs (4,4 lbs) though just by walking a lot. (Got a flat tire on the bicycle on my way to a bar actually – I intend to fix the tire but more than so I need to exercise properly.
The Pig on “food”: Since work started again after the holidays I do watch what I eat. Lots of salads, some low calorie shakes, cooking without too much oil etc. This will give heavy effect soon.
The Pig on “friends”: Well, the mocking is off to a good start. The lot of you took the chance at sucker punching. Good for me coz I need the daily fisting. Also, I must say that I have inspired some. No less than three friends have signed up to join in or compete with me but before all that I’m off to work.
If you can’t be good, be bad, baby!
Stats: Day 12
Weight: 84,6 kg (186,5 lbs)
Waist: 99 cm (38,9″)
BMI: 25 (still ”over weight”)
My only exercise so far has been walking which is a shame. To my defense I can say that I have a bad cold and that I have been walking an aweful lot. So the 3,6 kgs (7,9 lbs) I have lost so far is an effect of better eating routines.
I eat stuff like the above and it’s not fair but it’s healthy. I also make sure I eat something every 2-3 hours. Fat-free stuff, no candy, no soda, no nothing.
The good old bad habits. While cleaning out a room we are renovating I found a picture of me from years and years ago. Though partially staged it says something about which lifestyle lead to this pig form of mine.
Now I’m walking out to do some work.
Might as well lose some weight while at it.
Stats: Day 14
Weight: 83,2 kg (183,4 lbs)
Waist: 97 cm (38,2″)
BMI: 24,6 (”normal weight”)
This is going all to well. Piece of cake! Without the cake. It’s been easy: I can’t have the cake and I can’t eat it. Period. I’m down 5 kgs (11 lbs). It’s almost like I’m losing weight too fast! I’ll end upp looking like that skin-stealin’ alien from Men In Black.
I have inspired quite a few people allready: One friend has written down “life rules” and Sandor is bloggingabout the very same things as me. He was even in local paper about it two days ago. Then there is Jo. He was joking when he said: “I should join the pig race”.
Two seconds later he was drafted.
Stats: Day 30
Weight: 82,2 kg (181,2 lbs)
Waist: 97 cm (38,2″)
BMI: 24,3 (”normal weight”)
Down by 6 kgs (13,2 lbs). Sandor has his own diet blog called Fat Donation and he’s raving about losing weight through just eating fat; kind of what they call Atkin’s Diet. I’ve been toying with it a bit and I haven’t gained anything at least.
Me and Elin are considering going to Israel together some time this year. I was there almost three years ago. Don’t know if going there made me thin but the above show’s evidence of my not-quite-so-piggy self.
(19)
Good luck :-D
:)
Ha ha ha!!!
You’re a little piggy, oink oink oink!
That was the mocking part.
Now the cheering:
GO ANDERS! GO ANDERS! YOU CAN DO IT! YES YOU CAN!
PIECE OF CAKE! (well, you can’t have cakes actually…)
Cheers Dude!
damn that’s tough.. 15 kg in 6 months! i think i could do only 5kg in 6 months! haha
in fact, i’m a piggy too (miss piggy? geez!) and i should be doing a pig race soon too (gym, diet, etc). the thing is, I HATE GYM. that fucks up everything because dieting doesnt work so well without exercising.
well, as i said before, you’re swedish so you can make it haha
:)
YO FATSO!
Mitt nyårslöfte har med venaspåret att göra… Satsar på att fixa milen två ggr i veckan. I challenge you! Förloraren bjuder på grisbuffé!
Artiom: There’s a small pig in us all. Well, not so small in some cases.
Annie: You need to find a fun way to exercise. You like walking, right? Walk to a bar.
Mr C: Challenge accepted! Hör av dig för tid! Grisbuffén får du dock behålla för dig själv!
Dear Swedish Fatty,
This comes as a shock. Isn’t Swedish fatty a vegetarian? How does a vegetarian become a fatty?
I am also a fatty, but not so fatty as you, but still a fatty. I should also lose about 10Kg but that would require giving up beer and meats which this fatty loves. Also this fatty is a middle aged American fatty so I fit right in, and I needs to keep my stores of fatty up so I can survive in upcoming economic depression.
If Swedish fatty want to lose fat, then this American fatty wish Swedish fatty lots of luck and enjoyment eating salads and walking up and down stairs.
It doesn’t matter how much weight you lose – you will still be one of the ugliest people I know :)
Hey Piggy!
Good luck with your race.. I just lost 8 kilos in 4 months.. Didn’t do anything really.. Except falling of the stairs in our house, taking a lot of pills for the pain and lying down for a couple of weeks. Kinda painfull, but you can keep eating whatever you want ;)
Say hello to you wife for me!
x
Jag har då aldrig ens drömt om att tänka tanken att du skulle vara fet. Så 15 kg ner på dig = heroinfigur (vilket iofs kan vara ball det med).
/Döderhultaren
Hej fetto! ;-) Jag har precis tappat ca 10 kilo (har inte vägt mej..) på bara några dagar :-D Hur är d möjligt?? Jo, på Nyårsdagen fick vi en liten gutt som ska heta Benjamin! Lycka till med viktnedgång och annat!! Klem!
Butter your bacon boy….
Skämt å sido, mkt bra initiativ, skippa kolhydraterna så klarar du det lätt !!!
Lets Race! I challenge you! The loser will be a fläskesvålar! OK?
You go girl!
I laughed really hard at Greg’s “Swedish fatty” tirade.
But then I felt bad.
Good luck! <3
Shelly Says:
“I laughed really hard at Greg’s “Swedish fatty” tirade.”
Yes, how about that Greg? Always, the funny one. I bet he is laughing himself, all day long in his couch in front of the TV, watching Family Guy with a big bowl of potatoe chips, guacamole and cheese dip and a six back of local brew.
So Greg, you just laugh it up, fat of New England!
Good luck!
Lucky you!
If you lose weight, you’re not a loser.
Love Mum
You’re way off Anders.
I don’t like guacamole.
Well.. actually, I do like it.. but not on potatoe chips!
Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig