Archive for August, 2009

Over the past few weeks donations and sponsorship has increased dramatically, to the point where we have broken through the $5,000 mark.

I’d love to get to double that figure and with 14 weeks to go hopefully we can get enough support to get there and beyond. When I set out I had hoped that we’d at least get to $5,000 so I am very grateful for all the support that has made this happen so quickly.

Over the past couple of weeks the company I work with held Health Week, which is a great initiative and included a range of activities including health checks, massages, cooking demonstrations and Yoga to mention a few. The most exciting thing they did was promote SavingAlan to all the staff and match their donations and sponsorship dollar for dollar, which is fantastic and has been a key to getting past the $5,000 mark.

But still a long way to go, so if you haven’t sponsored me yet, click on the Support Alan tab on the menu.

Thanks to my new sponsors – Geoff and Sandra, Sue, Leon, Joy Joyous, Dominik (I even let him win a game of Table Tennis before he heads overseas),  Sone, Andrew, Jodie, Vanessa, Matthew M, Cheyne, Jamie, Che, Jay, Michael, Kerry, Neil, Kevin H and Juan Esteban. It’s great to see so many of the crew from work getting on board, give the others a push along for me.

Thank you for your support, please spread the word to your contacts, let see just how far we take this from my small network and really raise some serious funds for Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute.

• Julie Long    $2 per kilo
• Mark & Marlene Fry     $1 per kilo
• Peter Applebaum    $5 per kilo
• Heather Albrecht    $100 donation
• Annie Sargood    $1 per kilo
• Peter Burley    $1 per kilo
• Larry Clark    $3 per kilo
• David Hamilton    $100 donation
• Chris Gray    $10 per kilo
• James Manolios    $1 per kilo
• Alan Long    $2 per kilo
• Marcus Lovett    $5 per kilo
• Martyn Thomas    $1 per kilo
• Jill Hennessy $3 per kilo
• Elizabeth Hoyle $1 per kilo
• Mark  Peaker $150 donation
• Amanda Daniel    $1 per kilo
• Leigh Oneill    $1 per kilo
• Declan Long    $1 per kilo
• Rob Manning    $2 per kilo
• David Chinn    $25 donation
• Craig Reardon    $1 per kilo
• Nik Kontoulas    $2 per kilo
• Simon Herd     $25 donation
• Clare Crawford   $0.50 per kilo
• Ben Cornwall    $2 per kilo
• Dani Carey    $100 donation
• Tony Hardy    $3 per kilo
• Jacqui Pinge    $1 per kilo
• Sam Stark   $1 per kilo
• Harley Giles $50 donation
• Gavin Appel  $100 donation
• Jamie Crick  $0.50 per kilo
• Rheika Tompkins    $50 donation
• Geoff and Sandra Denman    $1 per kilo
• Sue    Parker     $100 donation
• Leon DePettri    $2 per kilo
• Joy Joyous    $2 per kilo
• Dominik Gluchowski         $1 per kilo
• Sone Chen     $3 per kilo
• Andrew Aitken        $20 donation
• Jodie Fletchere    $10 donation
• Vanessa Yemm    $10 donation
• Matthew Michalowski    $100 donation
• Cheyne Winterton    $50 donation
• Jamie Mackintosh    $20    donation
• Che Carbis     $50 donation
• Jay Radici     $30     donation
• Michael Walmsley     $70     donation
• Kerry Fisher    $50 donation
• Neil Spark    $1 per kilo
• Kevin Hayes    $20 donation
• Juan Esteban Monsalve Tobon     $1 per kilo

So far based on my weight loss of 39.1 kilos we have raised $4,418.80 (up from $2,401.40) and we add another $68.00 for every additional kilo lost, up $16 per kilo from last update. Hopefully it will continue to grow towards the $10,000 mark by the end of November, so spread the word. On the basis of losing 60 kilos we currently raise $5,840, or $5,160 for a 50 kilo loss for Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute.

Thanks to everyone for your support, it’s awesome.

Have sponsored me yet, come on and head to the Support Alan page and join in.

You all know when I go quite I have either fallen off the program badly or am just damn busy at work and am forgetting to put myself first. The last couple of weeks have been a combination of both.

Here are the updates for the past three week, 2 good, one really bad – an abherration.

More detail coming up over the next few days

Week 30

Week 29

Weeek 28

It’s been a hard haul over the past 4 weeks and the results have shown that, and also the regularity of blogging always drops off when I am struggling, although this past week work has been the cause.

I really resoved to exercise hard this week and not to cheat myself with food during the week, and although I was poor with food over the weekend, I still managed to drop off 2.2 kilos last week. For the first time in probably 5-6 years I am below 120 kilograms. I am now just 12 kilograms away from my minimum target of 50 kilos and somewhere closer to 60 kilograms is looking more like a reasonable target .. imagine if I could get below 100 kilos by the end of November or even by Christmas .. what an amazing change that will be from last Christmas and from where I am right now.

I knew I had a good week in terms of results, I could feel it in my body shape, especially my stomach. An old belt now fits, I am now into my 4th suit in the progression down, jeans that were tight now fit but I still have a bunch of jeans to get back into in probably another 8-10 kilos time. It’s going to get expensive in regards to clothes – suits, jeans, shirts etc and the things I hadn’t thought of are shoe size is reduced so new shoes, underwear is starting to get baggy and uncomfortable – all good problems though.

Off to the footy tonight for the last time in the season to see the Bombers take on the Lions. Food choices may go out the window .. I’ll have to work extra hard over the week to minimise the collateral damage.

Took my 8 year old to Yoga this morning, he joined in for the floor exercises, I love having him there, he’s turned into an amazing support always on the look out for the food choices I make, questioning whether something is ok to eat or not. And oh for his flexibility!

So here’s this weeks results, I’ll post a Cooking with Al tomorrow, with my new invention test – Chicken and Vegetable Stew.

That's better!