30th January 2009

Weight: 14st 11lb (94.3kg)
Height: 5'6.4" (1.69m)

BMI: 33

Body Fat: 37.4%
Body Fat Mass: 35.2kg

Well... This is the starting point. 4th January 2009 Weigh In.

Weight: 14st 12lbs (94.5kg)
Height: 5'6.4" (1.69m)

BMI: 33.1 (obese)

"You are in the range that is classified as obese and your health would greatly benefit from a life-long reduction in weight." Courtesy of the bbc.co.uk/health

Recommended BMI Chart

Underweight: BMI less than 18.5
Ideal: BMI 18.5-25
Overweight: BMI 25-30
Obese - should lose weight: BMI 30-40
Very obese - lose weight now: BMI greater than 40



Body Fat: 34%
Body Fat Mass: 32.1kg

Excellent: 12.8%
Good: 19.5%
Average: 23.3%
Poor: 30.4%



My Ideal & Target
Weight: 8st 4lb (52.8kg) TO 11st 3lb (71.4kg) Target 10st 7lb (70kg)
BMI: 18.5 to 25 Target 23
Body Fat Target of 19.5%

So... This is my first post to my first blog. Why? I'm not too sure. I just feel like this may help me to get back into surfing if I am writing a little about surfing.

I grew up in Warrington. A pretty large industrial town smack bang between Manchester and Liverpool in the north of England... No surf there!!! But I did love swimming. I would try to swim pretty much everyday.

I moved to Uni in Portsmouth at when I was 18 and the pool here was nasty. Dirty locker room, scanky showers, the pool wasn't too bad I suppose. This kind of put me off going and at around the same time I bumped into the Uni Surf Club and got well into my surfing. I was not brilliant, in-fact I could only just stand up. But I loved it and it was great exercise. Any way 3 1/2 years ago I left uni and have only been surfing a hand full of times since.

I now spend all day either sat on my arse in the office or driving as part of my job. Needless to say after nearly 4 years of doing this and eating tasteless calorie filled Tesco sandwiches I've put on loads of weight.

Since Christmas I have tried to go for a swim twice a week and only managed to lose 1lb in a month :( Lent is here and seems like a great time to revamp what I am doing to loose more weight for the summer.

I want to surf at least once a month and hope to get within my bmi within the year if not make a huge dent on it.

I'll be back later as I need to nip out but hope to give you all an interesting account of the fat mans struggle to surf better and live a more healthy life.

I will also try to get rid of this minging template asap :)

catch you all later.