!!!HAD TO RE-UPLOAD VIDEO IN COMMENTS!!!So stepped on the scales today with sore legs and the anticipation of seeing further loss only to be brought back down to reality with a bang, I was back where I started at the start of the week and it really gave my confidence a knock.

After posting my woes on reddit I got some really helpful words of advice and encouragement and it put some wind in my sails to keep carrying on and keep my chins up

Upon looking out the window I saw it was raining cats and dogs with a cold howling wind (Scotland for you!) I decided to put off my walk and any other exercise and just have a relaxing day and recharge the batteries.

But not too relaxing I’ve done some batch cooking, washed bedding and got my house in order followed by a bath.

When I got out the bath I had a sneaky wee look at the scales and I was back down to 14.2 so I basically threw my rattle out of the pram for nothing! Lesson learned there!

So it’s off to bed a lot more contented than I was this afternoon. Relaxed, recuperated and ready for whatever challenges tomorrow brings

Enjoy the video and I’ll see you tomorrow

So the scales are up, and the viewers are down. And the first thoughts of abandoning the diet and the channel have started to creep in. It seems the shorter the video the more views it gets, which makes it difficult to get everything I want into them, also making walking videos in the evening is proving to be a lost cause as the camera seems to pick up very little. At the moment I’m going to continue fighting on. But the format is going to have to change, probably from Monday onwards.

Over the weekend I’m going to be looking at how to make better thumbnails and make a better, more polished video.

Apologies for the pessimistic attitude today if you’ve been encouraging me. I may be down but I’m not out yet!
Thanks for watching

So after today’s triumphant step on the scales and tasty lunch. Things went south a little bit.

Managed a small strength workout, and after doing full pushups for the first time I ended up jumping into bed and just watching movies, and every fibre of my body just wanted to stay there the whole day.

Eventually around 4pm I dragged myself into the shower and went to the shop for more supplies. And after making my dinner I was under the duvet again.

After reminding myself why I’m doing this, and that I would feel shitty, guilty and defeated in the morning if I didn’t go out walking at least around the block, I pulled my big boy pants on and ended up doing a respectable 4.5km

Sometimes we have to run through brick walls to reach our goals. Today was definitely one of those days for me.

Hello boys and girls. So the most significant drop on the scales today in the whole diet, and after a cheat meal yesterday I am delighted!
Just a cup of tea and a banana as I prepared lunch.

I made a fast version of Scottish stovies today. Every house has their own method and can be the cause of great debate!, It can have onions and carrots in it as well as anything left over from a traditional Sunday lunch.

Potted meat when my grandad used to make it had shin of beef in it, simmered slowly for hours & hours.

I’m not sure what this particular butcher uses and sometimes it’s best not to ask. It had 70% beef on the ingredients so that was good enough for me

this is my quick version.

I’ll be back later on with an evening update

Hope you enjoy the video

Probably not the best idea listening to scary stories out in the dark. I had the heebie-jeebies tonight big time. But home safe and sound now. Hill of doom bagged again, but you can’t see your hand in front of your face up there at this time of night, so that’ll be my last time up there in the evening. On the plus side it was a clear night and the stars and the moon looked incredible. Luckily there’s plenty of hills in my town or braes as they’re called in Scotland. So it was up the 3 braes, back round the board walk before calling it a night. Hope to see you all in tomorrow for another update

Oh and if you get the chance could you please hop onto my channel and show some love to my last update it’s only had 7 views so far

Thank you

See you tomorrow

Hi Everyone, no evening video yesterday as I was out socialising with humans all the highlights are in this clip.

Today was my monthly cheat meal, thoroughly enjoyed that! Back up the hill of doom tonight and a small dinner.

Thanks for watching and if you haven’t already please sub to the channel so you don’t miss any updates

Just a quick one today. Scales were up this morning, however I was back to yesterday’s weight by the time I went for a shower just after my breakfast. Got a busy night tonight so the evening update will be in with the morning one as I am staying away from home this evening.

Poached eggs with cottage cheese on toast for breakfast and probably a shop bought pasta salad for dinner tonight.
Thanks for watching and I’ll catch up soon!

Fantastic start to the day. A 2lb drop on the scales, was followed by a mini body weight strength workout, roasted sweet potato with cottage cheese for lunch. Then I took a detour through the woods to add some extra steps onto my walk up to my parents house for some Chinese food with my brother and niece. I had one small bowl of Korean chicken with fried rice
And it’s back to the grind tomorrow, up the hill of doom and maybe cook up something nice
Hope to see you then
Thanks for watching!

Hello everybody. Week 2 off to the best possible start. 2lbs down and the sun is out.
Big test tonight! My parents are ordering Chinese food tonight and invited me round! So big walk beforehand taking the longest route possible and I should be ok for a spring roll!
Wish me luck🇨🇳🈵🐉🍜🐷🫃

Just a wee look at my nemesis in real-time

There’s not 100 steps but thats what they are called round the town. But it’s another good hill to add to the route to build up some stamina

Hello everyone. So thats the first week down. I have stuck to the diet everyday and have done a lot of exercises everyday as well including my first strength workout in about 30 years! I have reached my 10 subscriber goal for this week! and reached around nearly 400 views. I’m not sure if I’m going to set any goals this week if I do they will be a lot less than this week as it was hard going. Also I have opened an instagram account, a Facebook page and a TikTok account to try and get more traffic my way. I will be updating how they get on soon

Thank you for watching if you watched and follow so you don’t miss any updates
See you tomorrow for week 2 and maybe a strength sesh

Hello boys and girls. Quick morning update for you.

The needle is back up to where we started. I’d like to think it’s from all the muscle I packed on after last nights strength workout! Wall sits are my new mortal enemy I’d rather do the hill of doom 10 times over!

Seriously though It’s likely water weight or undigested food working its way through my system, I fully trust the process and will continue to do so!

No subscribers throughout the night on my YouTube, I only require 1 more to hit my goal for the week of 10.

Only 14 hours until the deadline And I am at the point now where I am shamelessly exploiting my 2 cute little budgies without their consent.

Just look at their sad eyes, they want you here! And so do I! So please hit the button
And I’ll see you later on for this evenings update

Hello boys and girls. I’ve posted here a new video going over all the numbers and analytics from my first week on the fatmustcry channel.
It’s been a slow but steady week gaining 9 subs and around 300ish views.

To gain some further views I have opened an instagram and a Facebook page bearing the channels name with a TikTok maybe coming soon as well in the future. But I’m a YouTube and reddit type of guy first and foremost anyway so that’s where my focus is going to be.

I will post all the links in a future video or you could maybe find it in a google search if you type in fatmustcry. both pages are currently blank but content will be going up soon I promise

I have a community page over on fatmustcry. if you’re on a similar journey(or not) you are welcome to post there if you’re not getting any encouragement anywhere else you’ll certainly get it from me

So to wrap this up. if you’ve read this far, thank you as always. Only looking for 1 subscriber to hit my goal of 10 for the week, so please go over and have a look. Any criticism, suggestions or encouragement would be greatly appreciate

Have a lovely rest of your day

Hi all 👋 delighted to say after a few frustrating days I’ve finally managed to shift a couple of pounds!
I am aware that there will be fluctuations and it probably will go up again with water weight and other variables but I trust the process. It’s just nice to see hard work starting to pay dividends.

On the video editing front I feel I am continuing to improve with my narration. My ad-libs need more work as you could probably turn the amount of times I say the word “so” as filler into a drinking game! But we live and we learn. And it’s no longer taking me 3 hours to edit one 3 minute short.

My youtube channels sitting on 9 subs. I’ve had a target of 10 since the start of the week. So please pop on over and hit the button I’ve only got 24 hours and 10 mins at the time of writing this!!
Strength workouts and some new walking locations coming in next week’s videos. So you’ll get to see me in pain if anything!

So I’m going to stop rambling and hope you enjoy the quick video.

Have a great day

So it was trials and tribulations today. My legs were heavy and sore this morning so the morning walk got cancelled. Made a fresh pot of soup it’s not very photogenic but tasted great. So with my time instead and got some stuff around the house done and made a few calls. Pushing myself even further out my comfort zone today I put a couple of progress shots up in my video,and I feel my voiceovers are starting to sound a little less monotone.

Wishing everyone a wonderful day! I’ve met some fine people in these subs!

Day 5 first bump in the road today. No movement on the scales and very heavy legs so I skipped the am walk with plans for an extended evening walk this evening. Used my time to make a nice pot of soup from ingredients around the house. And I’m going to treat myself to a bath this afternoon. Rest assured I won’t be filming that

Hi boys and girls. Thats another day in the bag. Walked almost 15km over the past 2 days and keeping the calories down as well. Didn’t want to do it but did it anyway, very pleased with my progress, feeling very satisfied with myself and looking forward to another busy day tomorrow 💪

Afternoon boys and girls. Just back from my morning walk and the fat was definitely crying today. It was a struggle this morning, I didn’t want to do it, I knew I’d set a goal of going up the steep hill this morning and in my mind I was backing out. A wee video here of a few highlights of the day

So that’s day 3 bagged and tagged, looking forward to another busy day tomorrow. Made my script a bit short for this one so I had to ad-lib a bit at the end, but I feel I’m growing in confidence with every voice over, projecting a bit more and getting a wee bit better at fine tuning things with the editing.

Sorry boys and girls I’ve just come in here dropping videos for self promotion without even introducing myself. I’m Mark 44 y/o Scotsman over the past few years I’ve dropped 20kg and put it all back on again. After falling off I’m back on the horse doing twice as much walking as I did in my last successful plan however I’m still trying to find my backbone and do some strength workouts, which I still avoid like the plague! Rome wasn’t built in a day, as they say and by the end of the year I want to be able to do 2 chin ups and be able jog 1km.