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    Inspiring lean Lu, truly inspiring.

    Decent set of cycling legs there.

    Lets motivate Mendip!

    I'm in...


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    I'm sure TDs diet and fitness guru Dillinger wont mind this inspirational pic being posted while he's on his jollies.

    That's a small step for Dill, but a giant splash for Dillkind..



    #motivatemendip


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    Just you to go now, Katie.... :-)

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    The rower has gotta be the best piece of cardio apparatus in the gym. At the end of a successful 2km time trial your body should be so overun with lactic acid that you collapse next to the machine. Always a favourite with the other patrons of the gym.

    But seriously, start out nice and easy, add a few 30 second, one minute, two minute intervals, just to take you out of your comfort zone and get you acquainted with self induced suffering and watch your fitness levels blow the ruddy roof off the ship. You'll walk off that vessel with a Vo2 max of 80.

    I'm tempted to invest in a Concept 2 myself to while away the winter months. Can't be arsed with gyms in the current covid climate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by somtamslap View Post
    Can't be arsed with gyms in the current covid climate.
    I hear that, pre booking sessions on gym apps etc

    It's just not worth the hassle or risk.
    Cancelled my 10 year membership recently, it was a sad day.
    Miss the natural cortisone hit and endorphins.
    Compensate for it by cycling, when it's not ruddy raining.

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    Bladdy hell... I feel that I have to lose weight now after all this interest! Thanks for the motivation!

    Firstly... yes, I eat breakfast at the end of my night shift around 6:15am, then go to bed. This will be an easy meal to miss and I haven't been having it every day because it's pretty shite.

    Sorry Katie... but this is down to your fellow countrymen... and women. What on earth do they do to the bacon? And yesterday they replaced the stewed corned beef with stewed tinned mackerel... that was a first (and last) for me.



    So I will be on an (18:6) without even trying. Mind, if this was a UK boat with proper sausages, back bacon, black pudding etc it would be a problem.

    Not making excuses but in general it's very difficult to lose weight on these boats. After eight months of Isaan living I'm suddenly confronted with all the Western food I miss... just sitting there waiting to be eaten. Although no pies on a Norwegian boat.

    Tomorrow I will start on the Concept rowing machine... may name is already on the gym list! I'll start by just doing 15 minutes and see how far I go to give me some idea of what's what. Then I can start working towards a record time for 2km! I must admit though my arms and shoulders are killing me after my first go a couple of days ago.

    I should be on this boat until around 16th to 23rd September, so another month to sort meself out. I was 114kg at my medical in Bangkok on 24th July which shocked me... let' see what it is next month!

    As for my work commute... on it goes. After I get off this boat it looks as though I've secured a month's work in Haugesund with a company I used to work for. This is good news as I can't see it being easy to get back home next month unless Thailand starts to rapidly open up.

    It's looking as though the UK will go on Norway's 'red Covid list' this Friday (over 20 cases per 100,000 population), which will mean mandatory 10 day quarantine for anyone coming over from the UK for office work (offshore work has dispensation). This could be the first favour Covid has done me, cos I'm already in Norway and available!

    A month of hotel living, working in an office will be a test though... after work pints, takeaways etc etc. I'll just have to be strict with meself. No more of those kebab pizzas! I may even think about going to the gym in the evening after work, although that would just seem weird.

    After that, if Thailand is still pretty well closed I'll be sniffing around a project in the Black Sea over the winter. If I can't go home I may as well keep working...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post
    Good advice, will save a few quid for when the pie,chips,peas and Hong Thong diet resumes
    That's a thing of the past mate... but I'll hold off on burning my old clothes for a while yet.

    Besides, after all this work I may splash out on a bottle of Highland Park at duty free on me way home!


    Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
    I would disagree. Any fad eating is not good. Go with the old adage: breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper.
    Yeah... when I say 'miss breakfast' that's my evening meal before I go to bed because I'm on nights. My breakfast is the ship's evening meal... tonight it was baked salmon with potatoes, veg and parsley sauce.

    Lunch will be at midnight... when I'll eat like a prince!


    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
    I'll refrain from posting the Oiled down in me CR7 briefs pics for a while yet.


    But have lost and kept off 10kg+ by simply jogging or cycling every weekday morning, then some upperbody gym in the afternoon, diet naturally changed to mainly meat and veg, with little stodge. Weekends are beer and pizza gorgefests.

    No gimmicks/fasts/ratios needed.
    I don't even get the weekend gorgefests so I really can't see how I won't lose weight!

    If it all goes as planned I'll even post a pic up of the new me, once I get home... eventually...


    Quote Originally Posted by somtamslap View Post
    The rower has gotta be the best piece of cardio apparatus in the gym. At the end of a successful 2km time trial your body should be so overun with lactic acid that you collapse next to the machine. Always a favourite with the other patrons of the gym.

    But seriously, start out nice and easy, add a few 30 second, one minute, two minute intervals, just to take you out of your comfort zone and get you acquainted with self induced suffering and watch your fitness levels blow the ruddy roof off the ship. You'll walk off that vessel with a Vo2 max of 80.

    I'm tempted to invest in a Concept 2 myself to while away the winter months. Can't be arsed with gyms in the current covid climate.
    So the aim is 'self induced suffering'?

    But I'm on for it... starting tomorrow. It'll be a welcome break from the tedium of work to have something separate to aim for.

    The missus won't recognise me when I get home!

    I'll have to Google what a 'Vo2 max of 80' means though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    If I can't go home I may as well keep working...
    Good thinking.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    'Vo2 max of 80'



    Something to do with the Oxygen volume in your lungs for each breath. Maybe 80 cubic centimetres in a maximum lungful.

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    what about some nice smoked KIPPERS or smoked HADDOCK.

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    @mendip - I'm sorry for the ghastly condition of thise bacon strips! Patawad po! (mai pen rai or something...) In one of my former jobs, the husband of a colleague was a ship's cook. I didn't know if he was a good cook, but he was able to provide a good lifestyle for his family! The problem with many Filipino dishes is that it's either overcooked or super oily. (disclaimer: I don't overcook food & don't like super oily foods due to health issues).

    Re: getting fat when working on a ship - yes it tends to happen. I remember when the son of a neighbor came home after a 6 or 7-month OJT from an international ship - he gained loads of weight. He said there was lots of free food & he particularly liked Nutella during breakfast. (Nutella is $$$ here).

    @edmond - if you wanna see my legs, there are pics in my latest Malaysia thread (KL + Cameron Highlands). You'll see from the pics that I'm not overweight (have normal BMI), but am not slim either. I'm doing the weight loss/ exercise thing for health reasons and so that I don't have to buy a new set of clothes when I get the "return to office" order!

    Re: eating fads or diets, whether it's Atkins, Keto, Blood Group, Mayo clinic, low carb, eat like a pauper - my view on that is if it works for the person, then good on him/ her!

    Btw, nice legs Ed/ Lu & Chitty! Cheers!

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    Quote Originally Posted by katie23 View Post
    nice legs Ed/ Lu & Chitty!
    You neglected to mention the Dillster's carved physee, fisea, phis... body.

    Hiking's good, we head out to the hills of Rayong as a kind of chilled exercise day once every week or two.




    So all you have to do when back in Khorat, Mendy, is walk 200km to the nearest hill and off ya go.

    But in the hills we usually go mountain biking.



    Anyway, back to Mendy's fine thread, wherever it's gone to.

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    Any diversions are very welcome!

    But maybe less pics of guys in sporty poses and more of gals?



    Quote Originally Posted by headhunter View Post
    what about some nice smoked KIPPERS or smoked HADDOCK.
    No chance of the on a Norwegian boat...

    But we do have the Scandinavian equivalent I guess... there's always smoked salmon and crab available in the cold cuts fridge.

    Nice on a bit of toast... I would imagine.




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    didnt the chinese blame norwegian salmon for the corvid 19-virus.

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    ^ That looks a lot more like surimi than crab Mendip mate..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    No chance of the on a Norwegian boat...
    I am surprised. I'd have guessed they would be big into smoked fish in Norway. We live and learn.
    I have only been to Norway once. It was cold and we had reindeer for dinner. That is all I can remember.

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    ^^^ Yeah... but I think they were clutching at straws with that one.

    ^^ As Shutree says... you live and learn. I'd always assumed that crab sticks were made of crab... but after some research, yes, surimi it is!

    ^ Yes, they do love smoked fish but I guess kippers and smoked haddock are more expensive than the salmon. It's so abundant with all the fish farms it's as cheap as chips.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    I'd always assumed that crab sticks were made of crab.
    pollocks

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    ^ No need to be rude!

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    ^Speaking of fish, has anyone eaten Surstromming? I've seen YT vids of ppl eating it. Is it really as bad as they say?

    @edmond - if that's how you look like on post #311, I think I prefer that Luigi guy. He had more charisma. Can someone insert the gif of the 2 Italian guys?

    But, bcos Ed/Lu asked, here's a pic from a hike last January.

    My post-lockdown commute back to work-img_20200820_123510-jpg

    Btw, where's fit&fab Dillinger now? Still in ol' Blighty or back in Malaysia?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    I'd always assumed that crab sticks were made of crab..
    Think they had to change the name to imitation seafood sticks, for the legal reason of not actually containing any crab.

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    ^ It is a very misleading name.


    My first day of Concept 2 Rower training today...

    After a minute and a half I'd done around 500m, and I thought this was going to be easy.

    Then after 600m I was completely fukked... I think I started too quickly.

    I did the 2km in 9 minutes 3 seconds, and carried on to do 3293m in 15 minutes. Not bad for my first attempt, and unless I'm missing something I can't really see a problem with 2km in 7 minutes in a week or two. Should I be setting the resistance to make it harder?

    Mr Somtamslap... looks a cider in Somerset will be in order ...

    All I can put it down to is my rowing experience... some things you never forget.




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    ^ I can see that you have been storing that energy in your waist belt this past decade, like many here, including myself

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Should I be setting the resistance to make it harder?
    It should be on the maximum resistance aka 10!

    Maybe you're a natural born rower as your pics prove

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    What on earth do they do to the bacon
    Jeez looks like offshore food, has gone downhill, when i was on the rigs, it had to be to a good spec.

    Anyone that's worked on the Aussie rigs or mine sites will know what I'm talking about.

    Mendip stay healthy, get the flippers to make you porridge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    cheap as chips.
    Is there anything cheap in Norway?

    The hotel I stay has herrings for breakfast cured in three different ways, though all with sugar,what a waste.

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