A Fatboy Slims Blog

Apologies for not posting for a while. I have been deciding what to do about the Lighter Life diet. And I’ve decided I dont like it! To be honest, it’s no fun whatsoever and I really missed the preparation of food and eating of food and having to act like a social outcast.

So I’ve bought myself a copy of Mens Health and have decided to join the gym this week. This is how I’ve stayed trim in the past - I just think I went a bit wayward.

To be fair to Lighterlife it really does work for some people, but just not for me. I have a keen interest in nutrition anyway and exercise and working out but I’ve just become extremely lazy. I’m also under the impression that it might be a bit extreme and I want to just change my whole lifestyle but I still want to enjoy it.

Basically the whole thing was just too boring for me. Here goes the hard way! Wish me luck.

Well I’ve lost 6.5 pounds in my first week. I’m neither pleased nor displeased! I’m going to up my running to try and get a bit more off I think. The posts for tonight and last night have been lame. I promise to write something decent and worthwhile every day next week.

The other bloke in my lighterlife group has lost 21 pounds in his first 10 days. Thats phenomenal.

I started running again today as I feel so good. It felt amazing. Although it was only for 10 minutes I felt lighter on my feet than I had for ages. Maybe its this “feel good” factor of going into ketosis (did I mention that yesterday? - I pee’d on a stick and it went pink - this means im in ketosis).

Well I’m well chuffed with that as the main reason I am doing this is so that I can do the things that I love and have neglected.

Anyway thats it for tonight, I’m that pleased with myself I’m rewarding myself with a short post.

Well a bit annoyed actually. I’ve kept to the diet strictly but I drank 12 pints of water again. I got weighed and I’ve only lost 2.5pounds in the first four days. The counseller said this is probably down to the amount of water I drank and was still carrying. This means that I’ve got to go this Thursday for another weigh in.

There was only 2 of us men that stayed for the session, the other guy that was there has lost 17 pounds in his first week which is pretty amazing. He’s got more to lose than me and has an active job whereas I sit on me bum all day. I think I’m going to start running again.

So I only lost 2.5 pounds in the first 4 days but I feel like a different person. I had lost 2inches from my chest and 1 from my hips and waist. That part was pretty impressive.

The session itself after was also pretty good and its good to start recognising some of the reasons why we over eat and drink. I think they could be very worthwhile indeed.

I’m just hoping I drop more weight for my next weigh in on Thursday otherwise its a bit demotivating. I’m definitely not drinking more than 6 pints tomorrow.

Well today I felt fantastic. Only 3 days in and I’m jumping out of bed earlier at the weekend without being dragged out by my girlfriend. I think its the amount of water I’m drinking and the amount of beer I’m not drinking. My skin looks better and I’ve lost the bloated look on my face.

I’ve not had a weekend day feel this long for ages. It feels so long that this morning feels like yesterday.

Today was a breeze and starting to feel less hungry. I think I might be overdoing it on the water. I think I had about 12pints today and your only supposed to have 3 litres. Bloody metric versus imperial!

Ooh yeah, I just did a quick conversion in google and thats nearly 7 litres. Better chill out on the waters tomorrow.

Well after recovering from my hangover yesterday today has been a lot better. I actually feel great from drinking all that water and my skins looking the best it has for ages. I will be writing some reviews of the Lighterlife foodpacks as some are good, some are excellent and some are just atrocious. Strong words Fatboy, strong words.

The hunger has been slightly better and I’m not looking to snack as much as I was yesterday.

I am definitely not getting a Thai Chilli one again. If you are planning on doing this diet I would say try to avoid the thai chilli. You are allowed as much Tobasco Sauce as you like so I’m going to buy some of that tomorrow and going to add it to the Chicken Soup foodpack.

The shakes again have been excellent, I’ve not had time to buy a blender today with work being very busy so I’m going to go tomorrow.

First day on the Lighterlife diet and to be honest its been rubbish. I’m hoping I can put it down to the incredible hangover over I am feeling after a bottle of wine and a few beers for my last hurrah! Heres a picture of my final beer.

Ah how sweet it was, I shall miss you my good friend. Anyway, I’ve felt hungry all day and the Lighterlife Thai Chilli soup foodback, quite frankly, tasted like melted cardboard. But to fair the shakes are AWESOME. I love milkshakes anyway so thats a bonus. I think I can make them even better by using a proper blender and adding some ice so I’m going to buy a blender.

I only managed three of the packs today and was pretty hungry throughout. I’m going to go bed early now as I’m hungry! The first time I’ve gone bed before my girlfriend for a long time. I’m hoping tomorrow will be better.

I was kind of dreading the doctors check up that your required before going on the lighterlife diet. This is because last year I had a check up at the doctors and she took my blood pressure 3 times and said it was very high for my age (I was 26 at the time). This was my final check up with this doctor as I was moving house so she just fobbed me off with a “get it checked at your new doctors”.

Obviously being a bloke I never did this and its been in the back of my mind ever since. Well I went today and my blood pressure was perfectly normal. I was well chuffed as I’d been worrying for the past 15 months about it. So that made my day. Well I got my form signed in the morning (£15 for a signature - nice work doc!) which meant I could go and meet my Lighterlife counseller in the afternoon for my foodpacks.

I got weighed (108kg/17stone eek!) and measured up. They measure you around your belly rather than under it so I was 45 inches around my waist! This was a definite shock to the system as I’ve never been over 36inches until pretty recently. Well I hope this thing works I want to fit in my 34 jeans again which I have promised myself I will. I got a few of the foodpacks (Chicken soup, Thai Chilli soup, Banana/Strawberry/Vanilla/Chocolate/Raspberry shakes) - so I’ve got them to look forward to tomorrow :(.

Tonight I am off for my final meal for some time and a few beers. I am going to really, really enjoy it.

So I have just returned from the Lighterlife introduction session. It was just me and two women there. The counseller was very nice and also used to be a chunk, which she isn’t now so that was a bit of a motivator.

We had to sit in a room and watch a DVD. I was slightly worried that it would brainwash us and I’d end up in a cult or something. Anyway it didn’t. It also wasn’t too cheesy a DVD and showed some good fat loss stories.

The diet seems ideal for me and I’m going to go with it. I need to go to the doctors before I begin as the weight loss is so quick and its a VLCD (Very Low Calorie Diet) consisting of 550 calories a day, so you need some kind of medical supervision.

I have never been on a proper diet before. I’d always watched what I ate until a couple of years ago. I’ve been planning on doing something about getting fit for ages but with work and everything I’ve been putting it off.

The missus for some reason bought a magazine called Lighterlife (shes under 9 stone wet through) and I got reading on the toilet as it was the only thing available apart from Heat. The stories seem like you can lose weight really quickly and thats what I’m after.

So I jumped on their website and found a “counseller” near me so I could sign up to Fat Club. So I’ve got a meeting at the end of the week to check everything out.