Confessions Of A Fat Personal Trainer

It’s time to face it. I’ve been off the rails recently.

I’ve been eating crap, drinking way too much and not training anywhere near enough for normal life, let alone to counteract the effects of all the bad living.

So, how did I get to here and what am I going to do about it?

Well, I have always had a moderation problem…I either do something full on, or I don’t bother with it at all. I knew this and decided to give up drinking a while back as it was something I felt I was overdoing and would be better not to do at all. After a good few months of not drinking, I decided that having a glass of wine with dinner or a couple of beers at the end of the day was fine…then of course when going out I might as well have a few beers…next thing you know, I’m back to where I was before, drinking way too much and way too often.

At the same time I started a particularly hard training cycle, so convinced myself I needed extra calories to recover from the training. This may be true, but extra calories = good idea, extra calories mainly from pizza and eating pitta bread and cheese = bad idea. Coupled with this I was having some personal issues (which I will not go into as it would not be fair on other people) but the end result was that I was getting mentally down as well as eating and drinking wrongly.

Then the Christmas holidays came, and I had two weeks totally off work. Great, a time to rest! Maybe for some people, but it’s also a time where eating massive quantities of crap food and being drunk most of the time is overlooked and even encouraged. Let’s just say, I fit right in over this period. My personal issues went further downhill, as did my healthy lifestyle. I stopped training totally. I was lucky that despite all this abuse, my body just kept rolling on and I only put on about half a stone, and even got stronger during this time! However, I could see where the path I was on would take me, and it wasn’t a place I wanted to go.

The time soon came to go back to work, but I could not get back into the routine of health again. I knew I still had some issues in my head to sort out before I could concentrate on anything else. I felt like I just had to do my best and ride out the storm.

Recently, I have got on top of my issues, and have been able to really analyse the last few months and what I’ve been doing. I now feel I am ready to sort myself out and get back to the person I should be. Another effect of letting things slip in my head is that work, keeping the house tidy, making plans etc have all taken a back seat and I have basically sat watching things get worse and not felt the strength to control them. I am now ready. I have eaten healthy for the last few days, I decided (in somewhat of a masochistic way) to go and get absolutely hammered on Saturday in order to wake up Sunday and think “I am never drinking again”, and that is exactly what happened. I have a few things left to tidy up and organise, and then I will be back to a clear view of what I am doing. The only major impact on my body was a few pounds of fat and slightly elevated blood pressure, these will be rectified soon.

I am writing this in order to admit that yes, I have messed up, and I apologise to anyone who has found working with me/contacting me to be difficult recently, but I am now back on track and putting it out there. This, I hope, will strengthen my resolve to not let things slip back to where they have been.

Normal service will now be resumed!

Resources:
Here is the diet plan I will be following.
Here is the book I read to stop drinking originally, and will be re-reading!
Here is a book with great training plans for anyone inspired to join me in a fitness push.

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