I was on the Leo again last night for the first time in twelve days, I got through a few cigarettes too. This morning I feel okay, but I didn't sleep as well as recently and for most of the day I will feel as I have done for most of my adult life which is okay, but compared to how I have been feeling the past twelve days - it's pretty shit, I just notice now how crap feeling 'normal' actually was.
My previous experiences in signing up at a gym in 1998 and 2005 were both failures. 1998 was a non starter and 2005 was very short lived, but this time I realized that I was starting to look like a balding, beer bellied ginger bastard and even getting piles on my face from drinking too much so I went to my local gym which is very nice and new, and got on the treadmill.
It was whilst on the treadmill that one of the staff, oddly enough a Frenchman, introduced himself and pointed out that I would be better off with a 2.5 incline at a speed of 8 kmh for 10 minutes, and since that day he has been my personal trainer six days a week.
After each session at the gym, I repair to the olympic sized pool where I swim around and stuff followed by a sunbathe. I eat sensibly and with regularity - lots of protien and less carbs, and none of that weight gain powder, I don't want to look like a bodybuilder, just lose the beer belly and tone up and look a bit more athletic.
So far?
There is a significant difference already, the beer belly hasn't gone but it is going and is more solid. I have noticed muscles I never knew I had and when I put my hand on my shoulder I can't feel the bone anymore, I also have shape and a chest mildly resembling an action figure.
I am more confident and have started to attract girls again and have also found that I can last longer in bed, much longer - though it still takes me a while to get an erection when I'm nervous and I did sprain my hamstring during an all night romp in a hotel on saturday night with a cute little fox who's off to Japan on business tonight. I can also sleep like a baby now without needing Xanax.
So, my message to Norton and all you other people out there that say it's better to live fast and die young or drink as much as you want as you could get hit by a bus or sucked inside out by a particle accellerator in Europe are just being lazy and it's a cop out really, just a lazy excuse to get old quickly.
I get a better high from this new lifestyle than I do from drinking a shitload of Leo, smoking until my brain dries up and feeling crap the next day.
You don't have to quit beer, or even smoking if you can't - (which I can't but I have cut down considerably) - but everything in life should be in moderation, be it beer, chocolate, the internet or even excercise itself.
You may not all agree with me, but I am feeling better than I ever have done before so who's the cnut?