The Fat Hippo Diaries
Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 9:02 am
Mornin' y'all,
What a month Not only did I get a new job, which happens to be bang smack in the middle of one of Germanies most spectacular mountain resorts, I also managed to re-establish some tentative contact with my long estranged mother. So in a moment of reflection I decided that, now that things are going rather well, after a couple of rather rotten years, I might just as well do it right. What happened?
Back in January 2006 I was diagnosed with Burnout syndrome and depression. At the time my weight at 1.73m of height was 66kg (145 lbs). After 6 months of heavy medication with Mirtazapine, I was still 1.73m (but by then circumference) and 109 kg (240 lbs). Since then I tend to refer to myself as 'the fat hippo'. If I walk by a house, the radio skips and I buy my clothes is size 6, which is the number of acres of material required to make them
So, finding myself in a mountainous region with lots of mountain trails, I decided to go on a hefty training scheme to try to lose a few tons of weight. This thread is meant to be my own little diary - a continuus motivation, so to say.
These are the trails I'm using:
This is my training schedule :
Monday to Friday
0600am: Jogging - 1 lap of the easy trail (1)
Length : 3.2 km (2 miles), height difference 60m (196ft)
1800 (6pm): walking (stiff pace) - 1 lap of the medium trail (1+5)
Length: 9.2km (5.6 miles), height difference 80m (270ft)
Saturday
1400 (2pm): walking (stiff pace) - 2 laps of the hard trail (1+6)
length: 10.6km (6,2miles) per lap, height difference : 340m (1115ft) per lap
Sunday
1000: walking (normal pace) from Lenzkirch to Feldberg (10km/6miles)
after arrival:
walking (stiff pace) 1 lap Feldberg Spießhorn-Trail
length: 12,1km (7.4 miles), height difference 493m (1620 ft)
walking (normal pace) Feldberg - Lenzkirch (10km/6 miles)
After the first complete week of training. The stats are:
Distance covered: 115 km (71.5 miles)
Weight lost: 5kg (11 lbs)
5 kilos down, 35 to go...
Edit: Here's the "mountain" on the evening lap (snapped with old phone yesterday)
What a month Not only did I get a new job, which happens to be bang smack in the middle of one of Germanies most spectacular mountain resorts, I also managed to re-establish some tentative contact with my long estranged mother. So in a moment of reflection I decided that, now that things are going rather well, after a couple of rather rotten years, I might just as well do it right. What happened?
Back in January 2006 I was diagnosed with Burnout syndrome and depression. At the time my weight at 1.73m of height was 66kg (145 lbs). After 6 months of heavy medication with Mirtazapine, I was still 1.73m (but by then circumference) and 109 kg (240 lbs). Since then I tend to refer to myself as 'the fat hippo'. If I walk by a house, the radio skips and I buy my clothes is size 6, which is the number of acres of material required to make them
So, finding myself in a mountainous region with lots of mountain trails, I decided to go on a hefty training scheme to try to lose a few tons of weight. This thread is meant to be my own little diary - a continuus motivation, so to say.
These are the trails I'm using:
This is my training schedule :
Monday to Friday
0600am: Jogging - 1 lap of the easy trail (1)
Length : 3.2 km (2 miles), height difference 60m (196ft)
1800 (6pm): walking (stiff pace) - 1 lap of the medium trail (1+5)
Length: 9.2km (5.6 miles), height difference 80m (270ft)
Saturday
1400 (2pm): walking (stiff pace) - 2 laps of the hard trail (1+6)
length: 10.6km (6,2miles) per lap, height difference : 340m (1115ft) per lap
Sunday
1000: walking (normal pace) from Lenzkirch to Feldberg (10km/6miles)
after arrival:
walking (stiff pace) 1 lap Feldberg Spießhorn-Trail
length: 12,1km (7.4 miles), height difference 493m (1620 ft)
walking (normal pace) Feldberg - Lenzkirch (10km/6 miles)
After the first complete week of training. The stats are:
Distance covered: 115 km (71.5 miles)
Weight lost: 5kg (11 lbs)
5 kilos down, 35 to go...
Edit: Here's the "mountain" on the evening lap (snapped with old phone yesterday)