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I've talked before about the D-Plan diet ("Eat less food, take more exercise") and its astonishingly beneficial effects upon general health and fitness when applied in sensible moderation. However, in the past some people have disagreed with it as an effective diet plan. So, by way of a scientific experiment,* I've spent the last few weeks practising the anti-D-Plan diet: namely "Take no exercise whatsoever whilst stuffing your face until the button flies off your trousers".
By rights, if the D-plan diet is a poor way of gaining health and losing weight, then the anti-D-plan diet should be a lousy way to gain weight and lose fitness, right?
Ha.
Needless to say, I've put on a bit of weight, so it's back to the exercise regime after a few weeks off and by golly it was hard work. Just how hard was summed up whilst kickboxing on Monday night when I distinctly felt something go *boing* where something shouldn't go *boing*, and realised that a trip to see a professional medico was in order.

So it was that last night I found myself in St Thomas' Hospital, being prodded and poked in an intimate, undignified and embarassing fashion by trained medical practitioners. Being asked if something hurts by a man wearing medical gloves isn't something I'd normally put at the top of my list of ways to spend an enjoyable evening**, but eventually the doctor turned to me and told me I'd got a severe strain in the muscles of my groin.
Hilarity ensued.
I would mind less if I'd been doing something that could possibly make this less undignified. If I'd been able to say; "Yes, Doc, I've got a queue of supple honeyz outside my bedroom door, and servicing them all has obviously taken its toll. Heigh ho, I suppose it's the price one pays for being a love god, isn't it?" or something along those lines it would have been better than having to own up to guzzling grub and booze like there's no tomorrow and I'm wearing an elasticated waistband on my trousers before flinging myself back in the deep end and trying to boot that irritating Green belt upside the head.
Why can't I have a cool sporting injury, eh? A duelling scar, perhaps, or a limp like Herr Flick of the Gestapo? Why do I have to get an injury which, if it happened to anyone but me, I'd be rolling on the floor hooting with merriment? It's a real Terry and June injury. You can almost see Terry Scott struggling with a deckchair before clutching himself and falling to the ground, and that's the sporting injury I get.
I bet Jackie Chan never has this trouble. He gets cool injuries like a fractured skull and severe spinal damage. I just have to walk in a funny way for a while.

Bloody real life.

*And not because I'm bloody lazy and a greedy pig or anything like that, oh no.

** Unlike [livejournal.com profile] token_limey, who positively thrives upon that sort of thing.

Date: 2004-10-28 04:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mooncadet.livejournal.com
that picture..

holy shit..

Date: 2004-10-28 04:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
Ding Dong?

Date: 2004-10-28 04:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twicedead.livejournal.com
Hmm, the D-Plan sounds suspiciously like the highly effective B-Plan.

Date: 2004-10-28 04:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] riksowden.livejournal.com
eat less foods (cos you're allergic) and walk everywhere (cos the tube is nasty)?

Date: 2004-10-28 04:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
The d-plan is the original. "Eat less food. take more exercise. The D Stands for 'Duh'"

Date: 2004-10-28 04:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] secretzandliez.livejournal.com
Hehe. Poor injured man...

Date: 2004-10-28 04:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
Why, if I were in any fit state, I'd undoubtedly carry out an awful revenge for your mockery. But I can't.

Someone pass me my zimmer.

Date: 2004-10-28 04:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] secretzandliez.livejournal.com
I was trying to be sympathetic. Honestly.....

Date: 2004-10-28 04:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
Fret not...I'm never serious about such things :)

Date: 2004-10-28 04:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] secretzandliez.livejournal.com
Oooo goody.....

Date: 2004-10-28 04:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fried-chicken.livejournal.com
That was the reason I walked everywhere in London.

Date: 2004-10-28 05:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-boog351.livejournal.com
I haven't been to the gym for a couple of weeks and its starting to show. What I have found is that its incredibly hard to lose weight, especially as I refuse to starve myself, but its really easy to put it back on. Bit of a bugger, eh.

Get well soon

Date: 2004-10-28 05:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
No clubbing for me next month, I'm afraid.

Date: 2004-10-28 05:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rosamicula.livejournal.com
I knew that voodooo doll would work eventually.

Date: 2004-10-28 05:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
The one where you keep shoving food into its mouth?

Date: 2004-10-28 05:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twicedead.livejournal.com
It can be remarkably hard to explain to some people, though.

Date: 2004-10-28 05:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rosamicula.livejournal.com
Nope, the one where I keep sticking needles in its brain groin.

Date: 2004-10-28 05:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
Tell me about it - I had a right old ding-dong with [livejournal.com profile] bataleur about it a year or so ago.

Date: 2004-10-28 06:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mooncadet.livejournal.com
ummm... maybe not old bean
but will be happy to help with the exercise and things?

Date: 2004-10-28 06:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
You're offering to help me exercise my groin? I say!

Date: 2004-10-28 07:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puddingcat.livejournal.com
Serves you right for picking up so many fat chicks :p

Date: 2004-10-28 07:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
Serves me right for going to genCon.

Date: 2004-10-28 08:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puddingcat.livejournal.com
And, of course, you never say anything to discourage them.

Perhaps you exude fur seal pheromones?

Date: 2004-10-28 08:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hiromasaki.livejournal.com
Apparently all that weight also changed your horomones a good bit. Looking more than a tad feminine there, Dave. Man Boobs those ain't.

Date: 2004-10-28 08:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mooncadet.livejournal.com
now hold up.. oh

i did just say that didnt i.

oh well in for a penny in for a few hundred lbs...
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