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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Closer Together, Further Apart
So, three weeks into the new job with Shaun and so far so good. It is a little odd now sitting directly across from the cove. For a good chunk of each day we are face to face, involved in … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, cycling, diet, fat, fitness, gym, Iain Pope, rowing, Shaun Milne, thinning, Two Fat Laddies, weight, weight loss
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Four
Sunday morning, felt terrible. Actually much, much worse than that. Regardless, went to my swimming lesson with only a couple of Nurofen for company and while I learned to do a floating thingy, didn’t really do it much justice. Mooched … Continue reading
Posted in Shaun's Posts
Tagged basketball, diet, exercise, Iain Pope, loss, Shaun Milne, swimming, target, Two Fat Laddies, weight
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Thinning & Swimming – who’d have thought that a year ago?
Among the many things I’ve packed into these past 11-months, completing my first non stop length of a swimming pool is among the most special. It happened last Sunday, a week after failing my first attempt at Leith Academy, during … Continue reading
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Tagged Capability Scotland, children, Leith Academy, lessons, pool, Shaun Milne. Iain Pope, total swimming, Two Fat Laddies, Westerlea
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Thrashing out these last few weeks
Today as I thrashed the water with my hands, arms and legs I couldn’t help but feel out of my depth, both mentally as well as actually. Having gone so close the previous week I had high hopes that maybe, … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 stone, adult, diet, exercise, failure, fat, goals, Iain Pope, Leith Academy, length, lessons, Liam, pool, Shaun Milne, stroke, swimming, target, total swimming, Two Fat Laddies, water, weight
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Off The Record..Just Between You and Me..I’ve Got a New Job
Sunday morning. Proper coffee as a weekend treat, papers, kids watching the cartoons. Biggest dilemmas today are who is taking kid number 1 to the party to which they have been invited, and who is taking kid number 2 to … Continue reading
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Tagged career, central quay, Daily Mirror, Daily Record, Edinburgh, fat, fitness, glasgow, Iain Pope, job, london, loony dook, mankini, news editor, pacific quay, record pm, Shaun Milne, stv local, Trinity Mirror, Two Fat Laddies, weight loss
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Hair raising stuff
It is perhaps hard to explain the full extent of just how red-faced-I’ll-never-be-able-to-go-out-in-public-again embarrassing it was to launch Two Fat Laddies. Certainly that’s how I felt and, in spite of his gallus bravado, I’m pretty sure Iain had some similar … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, charity, diet, dieting, exercise, fat, fitness, health, Iain Pope, Movember, prostate, Shaun Milne, slimming, testicular, Two Fat Laddies, weight loss
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I’ll get my coat …
It’s not until you take a long, mournful look back that you can truly appreciate the scale of the obesity inflicted upon one’s self. What was there staring everyone in the face every day was compartmentalised in a tiny mental … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic connections, clothes, Debenhams, diet, dieting, Edinburgh, exercise, fat, fitness, George Street, glasgow, Iain Pope, overcoat, princes street, Rose Street, Shaun Milne, shopping, training, Two Fat Laddies, weight loss
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