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That’s More Like It

January 24th, 2009

Week 3 of the Wednesday WeighIn at the Weekend and great news: I’m down to 14st 13lb. It’s a drop of 3lb which is probably not a huge amount but psychologically it’s mega because the stones part has gone down. To ensure we’re comparing like for like, I’m ensuring that I always wear roughly the same clothes when I step on the scales. For the record it means that I empty my pockets and get rid of the hoodie or jumper but I do keep the shoes on. The shoes only add a couple of pounds but keeping them on means no one sees the holes in my socks.

I really had to go down this week because I’ve been quite sensible about what I eat. While I haven’t starved myself I have however been drinking more fluids and trying to stick to only eating at meal times. I also made it back to the gym and rather than repeating the mistakes of last year I had an easy start to the gym campaign with just 35 mins of cardio.

It’s a fortnight until the next WW@W because I’m away next weekend at a murder mystery event. A group of us are going to a hotel out by Loch Lomond for the night and part of the deal is this murder mystery evening. I’ve never been to anything like this before so don’t know what to expect but I’m pretty sure it’ll be a laugh.

by Ali
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2 Days to Go…

January 19th, 2009

… till the Wednesday Weigh In that is!


Last week as you know barry lost some weight, while I stayed the same in our station wide campaign (well, Ali is playing along but Kevin, Ian & Diane all seem to be happy with their waistlines!) to shed some of the pounds we all put on over Christmas. Since last Wednesday I like to think that I have been generally ‘good’! By that I mean I haven’t eaten too much chocolate and junk food. Or should I say I hadn’t until the weekend when I fell off the wagon a bit.


I’m still living in hope that this Wedneday I’ll have lost a pound or two. I suppose we’ll find out together at 5.15pm! 

by Darren
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The Wednesday Weigh In

January 7th, 2009

Today on Overdrive, as promised, we began the Wednesday Weigh In!



Barry and I decided that we needed to shed a few extra pounds for 2009 so in a spirit of sharing we decided to begin a series of weekly Wednesday Weigh Ins.


If you’re planning on joining in with us on our post-festive pound removal, then we wish you the best of luck. Feel free to comment on the Blogs to share your experiences with everyone else or email us to let us know how you’re getting on. If you don’t want us to broadcast your weight, don’t worry, we’ll not do anything you don’t want us to, but we’d love to hear from you regardless.


We’re not planning on sticking to any particular diet or weight loss regime; just cutting down on junk food and heading to the gym more regularly so hopefully it’ll make some difference over the coming weeks. Of course, you’ll be able to see how we’re getting on as we post our weekly weights here on the Blog.



This is week 1….and the results make for scary reading!

Darren - 13st 11lbs

Barry - 16st 04lbs

As they say…. things can only get better!

by Darren
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New Year….Old Resolution

January 6th, 2009

How many times have you made a hasty New Year Resolution, only to have no intention of seeing it through? If you’re anything like me, the answer to that question is ‘too many times’! Resolutions can be a good thing though; a launchpad for making changes in your life. After the excesses of the Festive period, often the resolution has to do with weight and fitness… and I’m no exception!Yesterday on the show, just before Barry started his Kingdom Evening’s show at 7 o’clock, we agreed that we should try to lose some weight over the next few weeks. Playing the theme tune to the Rocky film helped put us in the right frame of mind!So, here’s the plan… from now until March (which I think is when my gym membership expires) we’ll do a weekly “Wednesday Weigh In” on Overdrive and every week we’ll both put our bodyweight up here on the website Blog. That way there can be no getting away from the facts! You can track our progress, and you are more than welcome to join in with the Overdrive Fitness Kick! Feel free to post comments about your progress if you want to share your tales of weight loss and if you’ve managed to find a secret method (that still allows me to eat chocolate and still lose weight!) then please don’t keep that to yourself!

by Darren
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