I want to fit in a rugby shirt

CYCLING TO GET FIT - THE EARLY WEEKS To recap - I'm 41, severely unfit and overweight and had recently decided to enter a 5km bubble run and had two and a half months to try and get in some sort of shape. After all my 12 year old son was taking part with me and I didn't want to show him up by collapsing part way around!!! I am using the run as motivation to get myself fit and lose weight for reasons mentioned on my previous post. I also had another reason for wanting to shed some timber. Now dear reader, I'm a simple bloke ('Bloke' was my nickname at college). I go to work and work hard (I think), I come home and spend time with my wife and son. I enjoy watching sports my favourite is rugby union. I'm a Bristol Rugby fan and season ticket holder. At the game on boxing day (a home victory to Worcester) I purchased the home shirt and got my surname and the number '76' (my year of birth) put on it. Lets be fair when I tried it on it looked like I'd ...

So I've recently (about 3 months ago) started taking regular exercise. Lots of people do so it's not really anything ground breaking to blog about. So let me introduce myself and try and make it more interesting. My name is Pete, I'm 41 years old, married to a wife who has end stage kidney failure and has to hook up to a dialysis machine 4 times a week and we have a 12 year old son called Harrison. When I started I weighed in at just over 26 stone (conversions are available online) which if I was over 8ft tall would probably be my ideal weight but I'm only about 6ft 3. I've wanted (and needed) to lose weight for years - I figure with a wife that has the health issues mine does I need to try and do what I can to remain healthy for her and our son. Discipline has always been a problem for me when it comes to losing weight. I love food and (according to Mrs Byrom) I eat like a puppy. She's not wrong - I eat until I feel full rather than stopping before. I can...