Fat Norwegian Flat.

I learnt alot today. It's my weigh-in day and I decided that I was going to walk to the scales - 4 miles away - and then walk back again. That was an 8 mile round trip (roughly 12km) I hadn't thought through...

First of all I hadn't thought through the choice of shoes, something the blisters on my feet are proof of. It seems that cheap WallMart (ASDA) trainers can't take the 20 stone plus weight bearing down on then for a significant length of time. I am actually so fat that I POPPED one of the air bags in the sole of one of the shoes. Yup. I got a flat shoe. You know you're fat when you manage to actually POP the airbags in your trainers just walking in them. Not quite as embarassing as breaking two camping chairs in one week. Brand new camping chairs. never been used before. Never been sat in before. But then I remembered that no one could see that I poped it, and I remembered it's George. And let's face it, if George made Computer Operating systems they would have invented Windows Vista.

I should have worn my hiking boots, which are seriously high tech and very very comfortable. A lesson worth remembering; NorthWest Territory Hunters. I wore them when I went to the rink this evening and it was actually really comfortable to walk.

I can't think of any other reason NOT to do the walk. It didn't rain. It wasn't too hot. Or too cold and best of all according to my trip counter thing on my phone I burnt around 1800 calories doing that walk. I had to have a chocolate bar to even out the count to about 1500 though.

Oh, and if you're going to walk 8 miles in bad shoes to get massive blisters.... carpets are better than hardwood floors! (I am regretting "laminating" the floors!)

So let me just get on with the meat of this weeks update. There was a point to my walk you see - I weigh myself in a shop in Portchester and as Thomas and I walked home from there one time, I knew how long it was so I had no hesitation doing the round trip.

and as you can see from the video that I made while I walked back, I lost weight.

It's not alot because all I did was being careful with what I ate and cut out snacking. I also have a pretty protein rich and carb low breakfast followed by a normal lunch sandwich and fruit and if I get hungry before tea time I have a protein shake just to tide me over.

I basically try to cut down on sugary foods, bread, cheese and replace it with fruit veg and white meat or fish. There is a pretty strict plan that I should follow, but it is rather complicated to sort it all out in time, plus there's 3 of us that eats dinner. So I watch my portions sizes by trying to eat dinner on a smaller plate.

Exercise. I had my walk and ice hockey training as the two main sources of exercise this last week and if my blisters heal OK I will go swimming before work a couple of times this week as well. I also try to do 20 minutes of stick handling drills 3-4 times a week. I'm so unfit that it gives me a pretty decent workout.

And I end up looking less like a tool when I train. Because apparently I skate badly enough for one of my team mates to comment that my backwards skating was "stylish". I think he was being sarcastic! But the problem with stick handling on a wooden floor with a wooden ball? It's noisy! Must be the reason why my missus who is literally DYING to score a goal this year, flatly refuses to practice her stickhandling.

So anyone have any suggestions what other exercising I could try? It needs to be free/cheap and easy to do.