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**UPDATE** Couldnt praise Tom from Avid enough getting the issue sorted. I've received the fixed bivvy now. The issue with some of the first batch was that the 2 front poles were made slightly too long which was putting alot of tension on the main fabric. They're fitting shorter front arms in house to solve the issue. The bivvy now goes up and down absolutely fine with no issues.

Il be well happy with a healthy new year and finding more time to go fishing … hope the same for all the members 🤞

All the very best guys. I hope you all have have a healthy, enjoyable year ahead.🍻

Well done guys, glad you all doing well, 🎉🎉 Christmas wasn't the excess of old this year, first Christmas since I was a kid when I didn't drink at all, i did eat quite a lot of cheese based buffets and chocolates though, we had a little finance check up over Christmas and worked out where we were spending too much money, we were eating quite a lot of takeaways was quite an eye opener I can tell you 👀 we have now banned ourselves from them, luckily I had already boycotted papa John's, dominos, McDonald's, KFC already but the kebab man, Chinese and curry house are going to feel the pinch 😢 but we're going to be healthier this year, as a family we Are taking back control. I am going to go back to intermittent fasting soon as that seems to work for me. I am starting the year feeling ready for another go, I have just bought a new fishing mobile and a load of car cleaning products too I am becoming that guy, you know the one Sunday morning bright and early getting that jetwash blasting and the suds a singing. I've got snowfoam and I am not afraid to use it 🤣 I am looking forward to it already 😂👌 Have a good new year guys.

I skipped breakfast, when I got hungry I had a banana around 9-10am with a small handful of nuts and raisins for lunch I had Weetabix with an apple , banana later when I got hungry again. sipping water all day would help. Main and only meal around 5 ish maybe a handful of mixed nuts and raisins while chilling out early evening. No food after 8 ish pm Only had coffee when I went fishing with treats so that wasn’t often 😏 it took about 2 wks to get used to the different times I ate had headaches and was a bit irritable think that was the lack of caffeine …Without realising it I was fasting for 12 hrs, now I couldn’t eat a big full meal if I wanted to… I wonder if our stomach shrinks with less food intake 🤔

At the moment I'm eating alot of red meat in all my meals... Breakfast consists of Museli and 1 Coffee. Snacks are Nuts or a Protein Shake/Bar Lunch consists of Steak/Mince/Vegetables and Rice. Tea is more or less the same. Plenty fluids also during the day... I do have a cheat every other day and a Sunday is always a roast.... Exercise is walking the dog, Biking to work and Daily Stretching for about 30mins. So far since November, I've lost just over a Stone.

I read this with interest, although I am that horrible freak that eats what he wants, although that is mostly healthy, I do have a soft spot for packets of Jaffa Cakes or all 4 Chocolate Rice Crispies bars... When I played American football I was around 85kg, and spent time in the gym most days. I retired from playing sport back in 2009, the weekly aches that used to be gone by Monday in my early years lasted until Thursday... I promised myself I'd never go back into the gym to keep fit. Exercise would be walking or cycling. I'm now down to 72kg, and avoid the takeaways, and MaccyD's unless I am on a trip involving a motorway or dual carriageway stop. I frequently batch cook for myself, usually having 5 or 6 tubs of 'ready meals' in the freezer. I've stopped using the supermarket to buy vegetables and meat, going to my local greengrocer and butchers instead. The quality is much higher, and it works out as cheap, even cheaper.

Back last year in early September I was painting a customers bedroom and had to change my T-shirt looking across to a full length mirror i was a bit shocked but not how exceptional good looking I was but the size of my gut. Iv had an easier time in work and had put a bit of weight on almost a stone 😳 The customer bathroom scales didn’t lie … so nipped back into the bedroom took a pic in the mirror as a reference points for the future… I would post the pic but it wouldn’t get past the mods….. the good news is Iv lost the stone but god it was hard going.

Getting a fed up with all this wind and rain it’s never ending 🙄

Carping can be as expensive or as cheap as you want it from a tackle and bait perspective... however... from a Day ticket/ Syndi angle, owners mightily take the pee A syndi I joined one year for £250, the following year went up to £400 because the owner stocked 2 x 30's... its now over £500 a year for an irrigation pool with very little in the way of "Facilities" I fish club waters now, as they provide much better value for money...👍😎🎣

After spending the day trying to tidy our house and reorganise/declutter all of our toot and adding to the loft collection, we had a pizza, I'm hoping fasting and dog walking will counteract that lil blip I might go visit the gymnasium later but we still have a lot of work to do, I dream of an organised house but we haven't got there yet. Just having a black earl grey then I'm gonna crack on, I'm learning I don't need milk and sugar. 124.5kg this morning so going the right way 💪