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RE: Alex's journal - Jan. 23 2008 13:15:07
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I never even realised there was a Pizza Express in the Rotunda. I live by the Pizza Express the other end of Kingston by the riverside.
Just always been a member of a David Lloyd Reading/Epsom/Kingston for the last six years...
During the week I always workout before work. Gym is empty, much better! Just have to get up at 0600/0615 shovel some food down, give it an hour to digest a bit and get down the gym.
A few years back I really struggled to wake up and eat anything considerable before a morning workout. I used to have a super strength coffee dunked with a MetRx choc chip/cookie dough protein bar and a banana. Moved on to OJ/banana/whey/flax smoothie with weetabix... fine balance between getting enough calories and feeling full in the gym!
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RE: Alex's journal - Jan. 29 2008 6:34:27
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Update
All weight and cardio sessions completed as planned
Measurements cold, upon waking this morning...
Chest (relaxed) 114 (cm)
Chest (expanded) 116.5
Waist (at button) 80
Hips 103
Legs 66
Calves 42
Arm 40
Weight 90.9 (kg)
Photo uploaded in a bit...
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RE: Alex's journal - Jan. 29 2008 17:55:34
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Photo...
Looking in the mirror I'm seeing more definition in my chest inbetween the pecs (esp when my arms are at my sides), also the sternum is peeking through, bottom line of abs just above belly button is also surfacing. Doesn't really come through on the photo's, I guess the phone camera may not help? 
Can still grab a cm of skin/fat between my fingers on my lower belly, hopefully when that shifts I'll have a nice vertical line running down from abs...
Looking forward to clean bulking again now... Don't know how much longer this fat will take to shift... 4 weeks maybe?? 
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RE: Alex's journal - Jan. 29 2008 19:50:11
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very good progress never follow journals that much, but yours is good, lots of pic's and pic's paint a 1000 words, well in your case 1001 
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RE: Alex's journal - Jan. 30 2008 0:09:07
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Thanks mate... gotta have photos eh?
As a beginner to this the things at the forefront of my mind are
- how much longer to shift the rest of this fat?
- how much more weight will I need to lose (didn't think it'd be this much)?
- how much do you automtaically put back on when you eat normal amounts, carbs etc. (water, glycogen or whatever)?
Hmmm... you live and you learn
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RE: Alex's journal - Feb. 5 2008 10:09:13
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Weighed myself upon waking as usual; down to 89.8kg. Lost another kg last week.
Got about 4 hours sleep last night before this morning's session, woke up and felt like loose stool water, just couldn't be arsed to do measurements 
On the plus side when I was doing stretching at the gym (under the extreme floodlight conditions) my tee-shirt rode up and their was a visible vertical line/groove running down from my belly button into my trackies. Still got some gut to lose but hopefully signs of an 8 pack
Proper measurements and photo next week!
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RE: Alex's journal - Feb. 12 2008 6:24:03
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Measurements cold, upon waking this morning...
Chest (relaxed) 113 (cm)
Chest (expanded) 115.5
Waist (at button) 78
Hips 103
Legs 65
Calves 41.5
Arm 39.5
Weight 89.4 (kg)
Photo will be uploaded later...
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RE: Alex's journal - Feb. 17 2008 22:45:44
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Cool, thanks!
Curry for breakfast was an exception, I was in a bad, bad state that morning! 
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RE: Alex's journal - Feb. 19 2008 6:34:45
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Measurements cold, upon waking this morning...
Chest (relaxed) 113 (cm)
Chest (expanded) 116
Waist (at button) 77
Hips 101.5
Legs 64
Calves 41
Arm 39
Weight 88.7 (kg)
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RE: Alex's journal - Feb. 26 2008 6:32:28
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Measurements cold, upon waking this morning...
Chest (relaxed) 110 (cm)
Chest (expanded) 114
Waist (at button) 76
Hips 101.5
Legs 63
Calves 41
Arm 38.5
Weight 87.3 (kg)
Started to take Biotest's Hotrox Extreme fat burner on Thursday. Had a half dose on Thursday and Friday (2 tablets), felt fine, have been taking 4 tablets a day since.
Haven't stated what supp's I've been using in this journal (so I may as well, if anyone is interested)...
Whey
Milk Protein Concentrate
Flaxseed Powder
Krill Oil
Omega 3
Udo's oil
Will post an update photo later today...
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RE: Alex's journal - Mar. 4 2008 6:52:50
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Measurements cold, upon waking this morning...
Chest (relaxed) 111 (cm)
Chest (expanded) 114
Waist (at button) 75
Hips 101
Legs 63
Calves 41
Arm 38
Weight 87.0 (kg)
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RE: Alex's journal - Mar. 6 2008 11:22:46
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Just having a read of this as Drew mentioned it. Good stuff
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RE: Alex's journal - Mar. 6 2008 19:25:44
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Thanks James.
Without wanting to sound like a sycophant it's been very good having Drew's food & training help (I probably would have lost faith in what I was doing by now if I had gone it alone).
Cheers!
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RE: Alex's journal - Mar. 11 2008 7:23:25
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Measurements cold, upon waking this morning...
Chest (relaxed) 112 (cm)
Chest (expanded) 113.5
Waist (at button) 75
Hips 99
Legs 62.5
Calves 42
Arm 38
Weight 85.2 (kg)
Lost nearly 2kg last week! Wasn't really expecting that.
Had a big cheat meal on Friday... the majority of a 2 person tandoori mixed grill, and a good helping of bhindi sabz and shai baygan. It was awesome! Anyone local to Kingston should try The Tandoor
Twice this week the cardio was slightly longer in duration than normal; Saturday I did 30 mins instead of 20 mins (after weights) as I was on the bike watching the end of Chelsea vs Barnsley  and Sunday morning I did 90 mins instead of 60 mins (watching the second half of Any Given Sunday - long film).
The Biotest Hotrox Extreme gets me pretty wired; good in the mornings because I am normally a total zombie, in the afternoon at my desk it sometimes after taking it I need to walk around a bit 
Photo to follow later.
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RE: Alex's journal - Mar. 11 2008 11:51:09
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I think the positioning or lighting or something masks the changes between the photo's a bit. The photo's are taken in my bedroom which is a mezzanine (sp?) over a living room will a full lenth (10m+) window... I think the light bounces around the place alot.
I took this photo in my bathroom - better I think.
Re the red socks - when I was painting over my face/pants I thought the socks looked really odd so I blanked them out, just looked back and seen that in alot of the photos I'm also wearing socks, couldn't be bothered to redo the paint skillz... just thought that warranted an explanation
(New phone/camera the photos are taken with - SE w890i bit of a pig when you have shakey hands!)
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