Shit we probably won't do next year (the resolution thread)

[Guest]

 

someone changed the Hollywood sign to say Hollyweed so it already beats 2016

 

On the contrary, I'm done with 2017 already.

 

because somebody tampered with the Hollywood sign or otherwise?

[Surf Digby]

...I didn't a single photoshoot

Got contacted out of the blue last night from someone I used to work with to ask if I'm interested in shooting a calender.

 

It's a bit early/late in the year, but hey ho.

[Gus Mears]

I'm looking at houses in Bath later today, a positive step which may enable me to escape the cultural wasteland of Wiltshire. Just renting, so I'm going to attempt to get the hell out of dodge in the next fortnight.

[PunkStep]

BMI says I'm around 40lbs overweight, so I need to drop around 25-30lbs allowing for me still having a bit of muscle mass left over.

BMI is a bit of bollocks though isn't it? Well not bollocks, but it doesn't take into account the fact that muscle is heavier than fat. My BMI will probably say I need to be around 11 stone. If I were, I'd look like a bloody stick.

[GlennCullen]

I'm looking at houses in Bath later today, a positive step which may enable me to escape the cultural wasteland of Wiltshire. Just renting, so I'm going to attempt to get the hell out of dodge in the next fortnight.

 

Whereabouts in Bath are you looking to rent?

[Sergio Mendacious]

 

 

I'm looking at houses in Bath later today, a positive step which may enable me to escape the cultural wasteland of Wiltshire. Just renting, so I'm going to attempt to get the hell out of dodge in the next fortnight.

Whereabouts in Bath are you looking to rent?

Right by the plug hole! BOOM BOOM!

[Keith Houchen]

 

...I didn't a single photoshoot

Got contacted out of the blue last night from someone I used to work with to ask if I'm interested in shooting a calender.

It's a bit early/late in the year, but hey ho.

One hopes that Digby is the subject of the calendar again.

[Gus Mears]

 

 

I'm looking at houses in Bath later today, a positive step which may enable me to escape the cultural wasteland of Wiltshire. Just renting, so I'm going to attempt to get the hell out of dodge in the next fortnight.

Whereabouts in Bath are you looking to rent?

Widcombe/Kingsmead Square/Walcot. Basically near the station and not Twerton etc due to Swindon/London commute. Viewed one that was good and another that was awful, so 50/50 so far!

[Guest]

Gonna keep living my life like I have from July last year. Going to keep going to more shows, wrestling and otherwise. Has been really good for me mentally. Going back fitness wise to do running as well as cycling. Last couple of years I get to when it gets too dark at night to cycle and fitness just drops off a cliff. Wrote a list of things I have comIng up or planned, and it had far more on it than I had really thought of.

 

A small thing is that I am going to own my opinions more. Rather than say something is shit, I will say I didn't like it. Something that started to really bug me last year on Facebook was people just writing things off just because it wasn't for them, then i would watch it/hear it and I liked it. If anyone sees me do that on here feel free to pull me up

[Fog Dude]

 

BMI says I'm around 40lbs overweight, so I need to drop around 25-30lbs allowing for me still having a bit of muscle mass left over.

BMI is a bit of bollocks though isn't it? Well not bollocks, but it doesn't take into account the fact that muscle is heavier than fat. My BMI will probably say I need to be around 11 stone. If I were, I'd look like a bloody stick.

You're not wrong here. It's a ridiculously simple calculation that was 'invented' by a Belgian mathematician (notably not a medical doctor) in the first half of the 19th century. It bugs me that professionals who should know better use it as a foolproof measure for obesity statistics when there are so many other factors involved.

[GlennCullen]

 

 

 

I'm looking at houses in Bath later today, a positive step which may enable me to escape the cultural wasteland of Wiltshire. Just renting, so I'm going to attempt to get the hell out of dodge in the next fortnight.

Whereabouts in Bath are you looking to rent?

Widcombe/Kingsmead Square/Walcot. Basically near the station and not Twerton etc due to Swindon/London commute. Viewed one that was good and another that was awful, so 50/50 so far!

When I was commuting to London every day we lived on Brock Street, wouldn't recommend going much further away from the station than that. Have you gone the Rightmove route, or looked elsewhere? I can ask our old landlord if there's anything about if that helps?

[Onyx2]

I echo Surf's sentiments, I want to do more of stuff I used to, plus lose some weight.

 

I've almost completely cut out Coke which has helped me go to the smallest size on my belt, but I need to just not have ice cream sitting around the house, because an open pot is an empty pot. I have a free gym at the office (for now) so I need to make the most of that.

 

Paradoxically I want to do more with food, in terms of podcasting and / or videos. I've worked my way through just about every excuse not to do these now.

[Sergio Mendacious]

I need to get back to regularly cycling — I'm legitimately nervous about it, after my accident, so I need to suck it up and get that exercise back again, because I really miss it.

 

Need to either be online less, or take online stuff less seriously — if I'm in a bad mood, the slightest perceived slight will have me having some very bad thoughts, but I certainly can't stay off the internet, or I'd go nuts.

 

Really have to find a new job, feel very unchallenged in my current one.

[unfitfinlay]

Although helping people is a nice thing to do, I've had too many people coming to me this year with various problems. I know a trouble shared is a trouble halved, but so many halves mount up. Might sound like I'm being a bit of a cunt, but I can only take so much. Got to the point where yesterday I just ended it giving someone the phone number of the samaritans as I really cannot carry on like this.

 

I think I'm going to have to do the same. I've been absolutely fucked with depression for the past few weeks - to the point I've lost about a stone just because I haven't been eating - and I've realised that very little of the stuff that's stressing me out are actually my problems. It's either stuff that's been dropped on me or, like an idiot, that I've just picked up and started carrying about with me. I'm not going to be a total prick but I definitely need to concentrate on myself and my own happiness first and foremost.

 

Edit - Well that's off to a good start. My work phoned to ask if I could do another extra shift next week in addition to the one I'm already covering. I said no, because I have a mountain of college work to do and explained that I've been suffering from depression. Got a lecture and threatened with a disciplinary. Looks like I'm going to be looking for a new job now as well.

[WeeAl]

I have a few things I'd like to change this year, not resoltions as such that I want to quit or start but things I need to do differently/try harder at.

 

I need to make more of an effort to see my friends more. I've gotten so caught up this past while in work, the stress of it, and when i'm not with my girlfriend or in work I find myself wanting complete down time and shutting myself off from socialising with friends and I'll soon find myself without them if I don't try harder.

 

I also want to be in a better position to set up a home with my girlfriend and her daughter by the end of the year. Financially I want us to be able to comfortably transition to living together as well as knowing exactly where we want to live as that is a little bit complicated.

 

I want to get back to where I was in August with my training. After entering my first power meet in 2 years in May on short notice, I had gotten myself in a good spot pre-comp which surprised me with a late push and then it went disaster on the day. By August I was really happy with my fitness combined with my strength and was building up my recovery tolerance again with the hope that I could get more good, heavy days in and really make a push for the weight class I should be in rather than weight cutting.

 

Then I got injured one day while sprinting and it became the first proper injury that I've had that I couldn't work around and continue training (though I didn't realise this for a while). I ignored it obviously like a muppet and tried to continue on, all the while making it worse and getting weaker and weaker before going to the doctor and having him diagnose the injury as an inguinal hernia (which I've had before, so I thought that made sense). The problem with that was it doesn't heal unless it's fixed via surgery, which the nhs would take around two years or more in order to do, or else I had to pay privately. So I wrestled with this idea for a while due to the expense, while resting and going stir crazy all at the same time. So finally I decided to pay it, I paid to see the specialist and he diagnosed me differently, and said I had a muscle injury in my lower abdomen and hip and that if I rested long enough it would heal itself and to ease myself back in very gently when I was feeling better.

 

So I'm a few weeks back into the light, easy training sessions now and while it's good to get back at it and bloody great that I didn't need surgery, I'm in a weird place mentally. I really want to do what I could before and do a hell of a lot more on top of that, but I'm a bit nervous at the same time as when I got hurt I didn't even realise it that day. I'd had one of my best condtioning sessions I'd had in years. So now I find myself in that limbo land when I'm training of "am I being careful, or being lazy?" And not trying hard enough. It's still fairly early days though and I hope to, by the end of the month, be using somewhat meaningful weights again and start to feel positive about getting back in shape and packing some weight back on.