Back From My Honeymoon
I arrived back in the UK from my wonderful wedding and honeymoon in Orlando Florida. I had an absolutely fantastic time and a good time was had by everyone. Fourteen of our closest family and friends went and everyone agreed that it was a a fantastic holiday. Because I was only getting married at the end of the first week I really watched what I ate. Because having tried on my 34 inch waist trousers a few weeks earlier I know that I needed to keep my weight down if I was to fit in them comfortably. You don’t want to be wearing trousers that are too tight on your wedding day do you.
The wedding went fantastic and afterwards we went for a fantastic meal at the Capital Grille on International drive, I had the 22 oz steak which tasted delicious. We arrived back in the UK at 8am yesterday morning and I was feeling a little tired having had no sleep on the plane. But before I could go to bed I had to pick up my wife’s mothers dog from the local kennel. Its a boxer and its a little on the wild side, once it got in the car it went a little crazy and was really excited to be back on its way home. The back seat is now full of dog hair, so I will need to hover it out once I fell up to the job.
When we got the dog home, it was time to get a few hours sleep before we went off to see UFC 106 at Manchester. The event went really well with both Michael Bisping and Dan Hardy doing really well. At one point I really thought Bisping was going to get beat, but he did a fantastic job in the end and pounded out a referees stoppage.
My favorite fight of the night was Mike Swick vs Dan Hardy, almost everyone thought that Swick was going to beat Hardy easily. But what a lot of people don’t realise is Hardy is a lot more experienced than people think, hes only had a few fights in the UFC, but hes had lots of fights in other organisations. Hardy was just too strong in the end, and had Swick hurt on a few occasions. Hes now got a title shot at Georges St Pierre, which will be a very hard fight. If he can keep the fight standing he will win, but its highly likely that hes going to be taken down because St Pierre is such a fantastic wrestler.
My least favorite fight of the night was the main event Randy Couture vs Brandon Vera, its time to call it a day randy. You won the fight, but boy was it boring. It was a good game plan, but its not the type of style of fight that people want to see as a main event.
Now that I’ m back I’m going to get back in the gym today, and start eating a little bit healthier again,. The second week in Orlando I ate lots of junk, but I was on honeymoon so I’ve got a good excuse. I did exercise every other morning which I was very happy about. The hotel did have a gym but it was all cardio machines with just a few very light dumbbells. Which at this stage on my body fat loss journey is not for me. Its all about building lean muscle mass and losing fat. Which over the last few weeks I’ve been able to achieve. It’s time to knuckle down and start lowering my body fat percentage again.
My First Three Days In Orlando
The first three days in Orlando have been fantastic so far and I’m really pleased with the way I’m eating food. We have been going mostly to all you can eat buffet meals. But so far I’ve resisted all temptations and not had anything that is laden in calories. To be perfectly honest with you I think I’ve losing weight, so I may need to up my calorie intake. All I had to eat yesterday was a good size breakfast consisting of eggs, beans , omelette and fruit. I had two protein bars in the afternoon and at around 7 pm I had chicken, steak and rice. Not a lot of food, but I’m so scared of undoing all the good work I’ve put in over the last 8 weeks.
So far we been to two shopping malls, and we went to the wonderful seaworld yesterday. We rode on the mantra and the kraken which was really good, but the best part of the day was the killer whale show it was fabulous. It was so good it almost made me cry. What a job those guys have got, beats getting up and fixing machines at an heinz factory for a living. Here are a few pictures I took of the killer whale show that I took yesterday.
Got a busy day planned for today, going viewing the wedding chapel were me and my beautiful girlfriend are getting married in on Thursday 5th November, then we are going into downtown Orlando to get our marriage license, which we are told is the easiest part of the whole thing. Then its off to the shopping malls again to finally get all our shopping over and done with. I didn’t go all the way here to shop, I went here to get married and have fun.
Exercise wise I’ve been 500 push ups every other morning using the excellent perfect push ups machines, this device is fantastic at giving your body a total body workout. I think if I carry on eating the way I have been and completing my push ups every other morning I should be able to keep my body fat percentage under the 20% mark till I get home. If I can achieve that I will be a very happy man, because I know that I can then knuckle down and get near my target of 10% body fat.
