Dry January!
Happy New Year one and all. I do hope that many of you are putting yourselves through the pain and anguish of Dry January with me. I don’t see the point of not drinking all month without eating healthily as well. I’m working on the principle that if I’m good for one month of the year then that means I can relax a little for the next eleven! However, I’m 36 now and it seems a lot harder to lose weight than it used to be. I use scales at home that track my weight and body fat percentage. According to my app, I started the month at 13st 4.2lbs peak post Christmas turkey couch potato weight and a whopping 26.7% of glorious mince pie fatness. Today I’m 12st 10.1 lb and I’m down to 24% fatness. When I worked at Bath rugby they used to call me fat boy slim with due to my uncanny ability to not look fat with my clothes on! Treating all the Rovers players doesn’t help as they are between 6% and 12% body fat. They laughed at me when I told them that over a quarter of my body weight was fat. It’s terrible. One of the lads has invited me on his stag do to Vegas…how could I say no? It’s in the summer and the thought of hanging about with them in the party pools of the Las Vegas strip as the only fat man is driving me on to get down to ultra rippedness. It helps that I go to the TRX exercise class at Next Step every week and I have just started to run again, maybe I’ll start doing spin again on a Monday evening. The TRX class have persuaded me to do a 5km assault course in Wales for a bit of fun and a target to aim at. It sounds horrendous to me but I guess it’s motivating not to look stupid in front of everyone. I keep hearing about people who have this fitness bug…what bug? I never seem to be able to catch it. It seems like the only useful bug that you can catch but it has eluded me so far. I’ll keep looking when I’m running round in circles around the King George V playing fields. ‘Hi’ to all the other runners and dog walkers that I see by the way. I’m the skinny fat man with a beanie hat on. Thank you for not letting your dogs bite me.
We have just started to see a number of skiing injuries in the clinic. The common ski injuries that we see are knee, shoulder, back and neck injuries. I even had a patient with a sprained thumb come to see me from a ski pole injury. I don’t want to put people off skiing and snowboarding as, on the whole, I have found it a relatively safe sport if done sensibly. The most common serious injuries are done when two people collide at speed and as with most car crashes they are normally avoidable accidents if more care had been taken. But if you find yourself in an icy encounter causing injury then we are here to treat you, strap you up and rehabilitate you to help get you back on your feet ready for the next big adventure.
Harry has made it to 6 weeks old despite Molly’s efforts to smother him, drown him and generally trample on him. It may sound like she’s a bit jealous but it seems more like over enthusiastic affection for him…we think.
