Dear site. It’s been 691200 seconds since my last post and I have a confession. I finally have a bit of quiet time to actually be able to write a post!
But first…a drink. Sparkling water. It’s not beer, but it’s the way I fly these days.
Now. Where was I? Ah yes. I read with some enthusiasm (I was in a rush, thus the enthusiasm to get it read) that fathers-to-be gain on average a stone in weight during the time that the Mrs is all sprogged up with nowhere to go. Of course, if you people of the non-English variety are confused by that, it’s 14lbs or 6.35Kg. If any of you still weigh in bananas…umm…it’s 29 I think. Oh, and it is time to move on to weighing with big boy toys.
I can see how this could happen. I for instance put on a lot of weight when my wife was pregnant. And when I say a lot, I mean effing loads. But my daughter is now 10 months old…and while Mrs Sy is looking all sexy, I am…well, I got even fatter.
Soooo. A month ago, I hurt myself in ways I could not believe existed went on a diet. Well, kind of. I stopped drinking beer and eating junk food….and started exercising. I wont lie, it’s hell. The sun comes out…I wanna beer. The sun goes in…I wanna beer. It’s morning time…I wanna…well, you get the idea. But I didn’t give in, and my beer is replaced with sparkling water (and no, there isn’t a vodka in it). And the exercise bike that has been sitting by the side of my bed (I honestly thought it was a clothes horse…) is now being abused on a daily basis.
So in a month of cycling and not eating anything I enjoy, I lost 2 stone. Or 28 lbs or…oh hell, just use a weight converter instead of making me type all this lot. But really, I have lost that much. I would post the before and current photos, but the before photo wont fit on the screen. But now, I am a not overly lean, definitely not keen but certainly a wobbly machine. Or in other words, the current picture STILL wont fit on the screen. You know, unless you have a widescreen monitor attached to your PC. Or maybe you have a projector and a wall the size of Switzerland to point it at.
I know you wanna see photos. By “wanna”, I mean “feel like a laugh”. But really…I am just not vain enough to take photos of me posing like the statue of David (although THIS link is pretty amusing). But hopefully these will help which are photos that are shrunk to fit the screen (they will open a new window with just the image so if you have a pop up blocker…I am happy for you!):
OK fine, so I stole both of them from Google Images, and if the owners see them and have a problem…I dunno..sue me for being so handsome or something?
Should you feel the need to read the news story about the blokes putting on weight which contains nuggets about a women buys more junk food when they are pregnant…and then say how men seem to drink more beer when the woman is pregnant (see any obvious flaw in their research there?), you can read about it HERE. Alternatively you could do something exciting with your life like drink a beer for me.


