Healthy May

Ryan and I are going for an uber-healthy month, starting tomorrow May 1^st. We figure that a whole month of hard work will be enough to change lifestyle, and get us on the road to buffness for summer. Here's the list of shit I'm gonna do:

• Quit smoking again.. This pack should last me 'til the end of today, and I have some nicotine replacement things lined up for tomorrow.


• Cycling. I have a 2.5 mile route that I've been trying to ride regularly. Plenty of hills of varying gradient. Nice.


• More cycling. The back-road ride from my parents to town is 5.5 miles (clicky clicky!) with plenty of hills. While I can't cycle to work (no shower facilities and it'll take too long to start with), I can get a lift in and cycle home from work. Also, cycling into town and back on the weekends is a possibility.


• Eat less crap. I've already been fruiting the hell out of my stomach, and my ev-en-ink meals have been smaller and contained more veg that I used to eat. I'm gonna keep this up, but also try to cut out my one-a-day pack of crisps, and stop theiving biscuits from the stash here at work.


• More weights. More muscle mass means meaner metabolism. Shitty alliteration aside, having bigger / firmer muscles means your body works harder, so you burn fat. Simple!

With this, I should be feeling way healthier in time for my birthday (23^rd in case you were wondering), and we'll both be totally fucking buff for summer. Awesome-O!

I'll try to keep a diary of my amazing awesomeness here, including my weight (as recorded by some really shitty scales), cycling times (must order a cycling computer today), an account of how totally fucked I feel, and I might even use one of them camerawhatsits to see if there's a visible change over the month.