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Originally Posted by Bism

Ugh, if it did would it matter.

All those pointless tidbits (heh) they put in fat chick magazines are just a way to distract yourself from the harsh reality that exercise is a little bit challenging and you probably shouldn't eat cakes every day.

It's just not that complicated.

I've often considered giving up my day job to run some weight loss scam.


They seem to be endless ... and there's an endless amount of people who are suckered into them.

It's all snake oil.


Oh ... and exercise machines ... so many exercise machines!!

Epic post! Nice work Marshy!

Now if you could do one of those hourly then I'll be happy.

^yup. One of those posts per hour will potentially save ITM from becoming just a mug marketplace

Congrats Marshwire. All this talk about running is making me think I should probably start back on my morning jogs (although I used to start at 12pm those days... starting at 9am = getting up at 5:45 to squeeze it all in)

So...update?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCs8L...ature=youtu.be

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Originally Posted by Fangoriously

So...update?

Shh, he's busy.

http://www.inthemix.com.au/forum/sho...d.php?t=307926

wow. riveting stuff there

You know, now that Marshy's lost 10.5 kilos (as per his update via youtube last night), I think I'm going to start insisting on not just an update from some shitty website but actually see photographic evidence from the weight machine or something.

Maybe not every week, that'd be a pain in the arse. But for the last month, I reckon it's not too much of an ask to start getting a photo of you free-standing on the weight machine in a full body shot, so that we can really see the weigh in properly.

Especially as it will probably come down to the wire.

i have lost 2kg. do i get a prize..?

You can't introduce shit like this man, I'm happy to do it once between then and now, but living alone and actually taking a full-body shot with the scales reading being legible is harder than it sounds.

It's not going to come down to the wire, I'm going to fucking own this shit.

Like I owned the City2Surf, am going to own the Blackmore's Bridge Run, and then how I will fly down to Melbourne and own the City2Sea. (I've entered the latter two already).

Introducing bodyweight training next week and escalating the run program to accommodate the new aggressive schedule.

As Loopi said:

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Originally Posted by loopi

Don't "hope" for it, fucking work for it. You're an intelligent person Marshy, so don't let stupid food choices win. This time, make it a permanent lifestyle change so that there's no 4th try. Don't prove it to ITM, prove it to yourself.

EVERYDAY: eat clean food, train hard, sleep, and repeat.

Tick, tick, tick and motherfucking tick. I'm playing to win and am still two weeks away from the half-way mark. In fact, there's no excuses at all. The trick is there is no trick. I'm doing this for me now, and not some shitty bet - it's merely periphery on a steep staircase of awesome achievement.

You want this, but I got this.

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Originally Posted by Marshwah

You can't introduce shit like this man, I'm happy to do it once between then and now, but living alone and actually taking a full-body shot with the scales reading being legible is harder than it sounds.

It's not going to come down to the wire, I'm going to fucking own this shit.

Like I owned the City2Surf, am going to own the Blackmore's Bridge Run, and then how I will fly down to Melbourne and own the City2Sea. (I've entered the latter two already).

Introducing bodyweight training next week and escalating the run program to accommodate the new aggressive schedule.

As Loopi said:


Tick, tick, tick and motherfucking tick. I'm playing to win and am still two weeks away from the half-way mark. In fact, there's no excuses at all. The trick is there is no trick. I'm doing this for me now, and not some shitty bet - it's merely periphery on a steep staircase of awesome achievement.

You want this, but I got this.

Want me to come over and take pictures of you?

I'm happy to adjudicate the final weigh in.

I am happy for the ****, he's done well so far, but seeing him lose would be just as rewarding for me.

I am pleased with your progress.

The non weigh-in evidence other than a blog and you telling us is kind of dodgy but I can see the results and you're not going about this half cocked so shoot me the bank details because "you've got this!"

I'm not just introducing this now! In the thread that set this up, I asked for weekly weigh ins so that you wouldn't just pop up a few months later and say that you hadn't done it.

You didn't do that, because of a) you were on holiday mode and b) you provided the link to your site.

That's ok, no big issue with it - but we're getting closer, whose to really say that you've lost the full amount? If you were at 19.75 or something and were just off, then as if you wouldn't say 'yep, that's 20, fucking winrar' when, technically, it's not.

Huh. Reading through the quote below, I guess my intention was to say 'weekly weigh ins should be photographic' not just 'the weigh in'. I can see that I wasn't clear.

Still. Close to the date, a couple of photos couldn't hurt, could it? Surely you've got at least one mate who can take a photo of you?

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Originally Posted by Fangoriously
Yep, I'm in. $200 if you manage to do it.

Couple of things.

Got to be a weekly weight update - don't want to hear nothing at all for months on end and then you pop up and say 'no, didn't do it.'

Weigh in has to be at some sort of institution or something. Somewhere you can't fake the weight loss. If you're at 18.5kgs, temptation to cheat it will be pretty high, I reckon.

Good for you for taking this on. Have to say I didn't think you would.
Accepted. Will weighing at one of those pharmacist scales (with photo evidence) suffice? I'm not sure where scales elsewhere are.

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Originally Posted by Bism

I'm happy to adjudicate the final weigh in.

I am happy for the ****, he's done well so far, but seeing him lose would be just as rewarding for me.

youtube the weigh-in.

that way the scrutineers can be satisfied.

Yeah good one. I like that.

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Originally Posted by Fangoriously

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Well that was hard to read.

I'm pretty sure there's enough people that know me on here to prevent me from fucking you over. And believe me, I've entertained the notion of fucking over you in particular.

Fangoriously, why so bitter?

I probably can't stand Marshy more than anyone, but i'm actually happy for the dude.

Mofo is improving his life and entertaining us at the same time.

IMO Trase = the new Marshy (the one with no follow through) and Marshwah = someone better

*Prove us wrong Trase !

trAse is a raftless nobody

you said it mugluv.
at least marshy gives regular updates and actually delivers on progress.

Yeah, I was in a rush. I give 0 fucks, though.

@Peaker: Why so bitter? I'm not bitter! I wished the guy good luck, told him that he was doing well in this AND the other thread and said I was surprised that he was going to take it up.

I'm sceptical that he would achieve it and want proof.

@Marshy: I give 0 shits that you 'know plenty of people here', Marshy. How does that help me at all? I don't know them.

Shit, all I wanted was regular updates with you weighing in and reporting what your weight was. That, along with evidence you're not welshing or cheating. How's that too much to ask, given the controversy over the last thread?

And why are you keen to fuck me over in particular? Compared to the usual shit you cop in here, most of what I've said to you is pretty mild.

Now I'm keener than ever to get some sort of video evidence that you're losing weight and not cheating.

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Originally Posted by pEAkeR_hAT

Fangoriously, why so bitter?

lol...This bitterness stems from the time Marshy refused to let Fangoriously read his book while it was in the editing stages.

It's true, that's really genesis of it all.

It's where I went from 'this guy's occasionally amusing, but overshares a bit much' to 'this guy is a bit of a condescending dickhead'.

Time hasn't dulled the bitterness. And I can hold a grudge, I've got tough nipples.

That said, I'm not really very bitter, TBH. He's some guy on the intertubes - pretty rare these days that anything on the tubes really rustles my jimmies.

I propose all future weigh-ins be done via video, and completely in the “Your Majesty” voice.

But to keep it fresh it will need a Skillrex song playing over the top so viewers at home will know it's edgy internet tv.



(I'm just joking please don't do that)

Need a new looooooooooooooooooooong update in here please Marshy. Or at least a link to a loooooooooooooong blog post.

I know you're starting to stall on the weight loss but not the training which appears to be going better than ever. I'd like to hear all about how the last few weeks have gone.

I was going to request the same thing earlier this morning, but got tied up with clients.

sounds kinky.

What sounds kinky? Marshy losing weight?

Fuzzbow, Fuzzbow is kinky.

Par.

Alright, will do an update tonight. Just going to have a shower and do a check-in.

Well I guess I should start with the amount of weight I've lost, and currently I'm 12.9kg down since starting the bet.

I've got mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I've very pleased with my progress. On the other hand, I'm hungrier for more loss and feel I could be doing more.

I projected my weight loss on this public Google spreadsheet I shared from the get-go. But don't worry, I'm not going to make you look at a spreadsheet.



The blue line shows my projected weight loss over time up until the 29th November. The red line shows my progress thus far. As is painstakingly evident from the graph, the red line has started to plateau over the last three weeks. So it's pretty good timing for Zodiac to bump this thread, and I'm glad I'm being called on to do an analysis.

From the literature I've read, plateaus are not uncommon. But this isn't a textbook plateau.

Looking at my nutrition over the last few weeks tells a deceptive story.



As you can see from my red box, there's definitely been a drift toward some increased calorie intake. What you can't see from the graph is what I've been up to. I was in Singapore on a work trip for 10 days and as it was where I used to live, a lot of catching up and drinking took place. That drinking continued when I returned, and the only reason I haven't gone upwards again is because of one thing: training.

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Originally Posted by loopi

EVERYDAY: eat clean food, train hard, sleep, and repeat.

I don't know loopi tremendously well, but I have known her since the earlier ITM days and have witnessed her transformation. For some reason, the quote above rings in my head every fucking day. Perhaps because I've got through life being clever, I tend to overthink things, and repeating this mantra has been a boon. If you keep repeating it, it goes a long way towards annihilating all the bullshit that your mind chucks up at you - maybe I can eat a little bit, this doesn't count right?, just one more drink...

It can get doom and gloomy right?

The fuck no, cue up the victory lap. I'm the guy in the green t-shirt.

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Marshwah running the Blackmores Bridge Run 2012 (9km) - YouTube

That's right buddy. I've been training my fucking arse off. That's me running the Blackmore's Bridge Run, it's 9km and I ran it in 48:34 . That's pretty fast for someone that didn't run at all as little as four months ago.

The City2Surf? Nailed it. I did it in just over 88 minutes.

Here's me after crossing the finish line on the 12th August.


And here's me posing after crossing the line on the 16th September.


Improvement no? It should be, since considering I started this thing I've logged 31 runs and chalked up almost 200km of mileage.

Another thing to consider is that I was ambitious with my projections. Estimating a 5kg drop in the month of September was a bit on the ambitious side, so I'm not too concerned.

I've signed up for three more races to ensure the training continues. The Run4Fun, City2Sea, and the Central Coast Half-Marathon. That's 10km, 14km and 21km respectively in the month of November.

October and November are no-go for drinking, it's two months leading into the silly season, I'll survive. It really is the biggest stumbling block as I'm not eating much in the way of crap. A typical weekday lunch looks like this:


And dinners are salads.

I'm confident of achieving the goal, and am ready to blow this last 7.1kg out of the way. But as I think I said in the last big update, it's become much, much more than a bet. I'm changing my life for the better and those goalposts -they'll keep shifting.

I've got this.

Good on you mate - mucho respect.

$400.

Nice write-up and great efforts so far, but what the hell is in that bowl in the last pic?

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Originally Posted by Mickstah

Nice write-up and great efforts so far, but what the hell is in that bowl in the last pic?

An Indian chickpea soup. Gosh Mick, can't you see?

Is that before or after you ate it?

I think its time to do some curlz and get dench.

i will buy new shoes and two shirts

keep with it mang, not long to go now.

too much writing to read on a thursday but i like the pictures

Great work Marshall. The results of your hard work are evident just by looking at the photos. This sort of shit, you know... Marshy putting himself out there in the public domain like this with a huge chance of failing miserably again and facing more character assassination and ridicule should hopefully inspire a lot of other fat ****s to get off their asses and give this whole lifestyle change thing a red hot go. Stop hiding behind your keyboards eating your burgers and fries and hit the pavement. If this bleeding anus of a man can do it, then you sure as shit can to.

As a great man once said: "You've got this"!

Edit: I'm really looking forward to boozing it up with you once you win the bet. I know it goes against everything you're striving for but one night of celebrations wont derail them. Let's do this!

Marshy, if it's not too much trouble can we please get weekly updates in the final month. I want to feel like I'm living the last month with you watching you edge closer and closer to the target and then smashing through it by another 5kgs. I can't do that without your long posts filled with pretty pictures and graphs.

Yeah I'd be happy with weekly updates from now on too. They don't have to be as verbose as your previous efforts.

You're at 15kg right? Time to smash past that!!

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Originally Posted by Zodiac

Marshy, if it's not too much trouble can we please get weekly updates in the final month. I want to feel like I'm living the last month with you watching you edge closer and closer to the target and then smashing through it by another 5kgs. I can't do that without your long posts filled with pretty pictures and graphs.

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Originally Posted by Mickstah

Yeah I'd be happy with weekly updates from now on too. They don't have to be as verbose as your previous efforts.

You're at 15kg right? Time to smash past that!!

15.4kg lost now. Sitting on 95.8, goal weight is to get past 91.2 - as there'll be my jeans and t-shirt on (same clothes as before) in the official weigh-in (same weighing scales in Town Hall).

I'll update this thread every Thursday from here on in, it's a good idea as it will sustain me in the lead up to W-Day.

If I didn't think I would get arrested I'd try and livestream the actual weigh-in on that fateful day for extra drama.

Going back to my hometown this weekend, but will resist the lure of the beverage. It really has been the biggest hurdle to overcome.

Let's blow this out of the water.

Cheers brah, thought you would oblige. Good luck.