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Should I join a weight loss club?
So it has come to this. I am actively mulling over joining a weight loss club. But would it be an astute move or an admission of defeat? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit … Continue reading
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Tagged club, concept 2, diet, dieting, fat, Iain Pope, rowing machine, Scottish Slimmers, Shaun Milne, slim, slimming, thinning, Two Fat Laddies, weight loss, Weight Watchers
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The best laid schemes of mice and men
Two Scottish lads with one year to lose ten stones. That was the plan. But as Burns himself said, the best laid schemes o mice an men aft gang aft a-gley. Now that 2011 is nearly out I wonder if … Continue reading
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Tagged christmas, donegal, Earn Valley, family, France, hogmanay, Iain Pope, ireland, jean jacques, Morc Tod, New Year, perthshire, roast, Shaun Milne, slimming, Two Fat Laddies, veronica, vincent, weight
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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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Getting hot and sweaty with some Bikram Yoga
There was a point last night, as I lay there bathed in my own sweat, when I contemplated my impending heart attack. I looked pleadingly to the door – the door I had expressly been asked not to open. I … Continue reading
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Tagged bikram, Bikram Choudhury, blog, byres road, calcutta, fart, fat, fitness, glasgow, heart attack, Iain Pope, ibrahim, rubaiyat, Shaun Milne, slimming, toxins, Two Fat Laddies, weight loss, west end, yoga
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Today’s gym music..and THAT Archie Gemmill goal
Couple of oldies but goodies spewed forth from the iPod gym mix today as I took to the cross-trainer in the works gym. First up was Blondie‘s Atomic, a simply magical tune in any environment, whether it be the gym … Continue reading
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Tagged 1978, archie gemmill, argentina, atomic, beautiful stranger, blog, blondie, Diane, ewan mcgregor, fat, fitness, gym mix, holland, Iain Pope, ipod, itunes, Kelly Macdonald, madonna, Mark Renton, Shaun Milne, slimming, trainspotting, Two Fat Laddies, volcano, weight, weight loss
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Week 21 Weigh-in – Not So Bad As All That
We’re rapidly approaching the halfway point in our challenge and, dammit all, we’re not doing too shabby at all. So, even though I somehow managed to put a pound on last week despite a 10k and three or four long … Continue reading
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Tagged fat, fitness, Iain Pope, Shaun Milne, slimming, Two Fat Laddies, weigh in, weight, weight loss
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Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
It’s now just a week since The Two Fat Laddies did our first 10k in Holyrood Park. That week began for me sweating and cursing my way round 10 kilometres of snot and snivel in a frankly risible time, then … Continue reading
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Tagged 10k, fat, fitness, holyrood park, Iain Pope, Paul Lindsay, paul the trainer, Shaun Milne, slimming, Two Fat Laddies, weight, weight loss
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The Best Laid Plans And All That – Iain’s Week 18 Weigh-in
Standing on the scales for the weekly weigh-in has been a bit of a trial for both Shaun and I of late; something to be endured rather than celebrated the way it was in those heady early weeks of January. … Continue reading
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East to West
So I surprised myself yesterday and did something I never thought I could do – I cycled from Edinburgh to Glasgow. And not even the short way either. I did all 100k or so of it from Fountainbridge, just round … Continue reading
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Goodbye Veronica
The people that have borne the brunt of this whole project so far are not Shaun and I but our respective families. Hopefully it will be them too who see the benefit closest at hand when we’re all said and … Continue reading
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