Well welcome all to the cart fishing podcast Christmas special. And we are sat out by lake,

even though we're not fishing this time, Mike, are we? We're sat watching a bit of water,

which is lovely. Yep. And getting ready for the festive, well, the craziness is about to embark on

us over the festive period, which i for one sort of look forward to

and don't look forward to in equal measure i think yeah i look forward to the eating mark um but

it just gets a bit too much doesn't it like you just eat and eat and eat because it's there in front

of you and uh you end up feeling incredibly spawnbound come january yeah i'm just bursting at the bursting at the seams, although I'm bursting at the seams now, and I've only,

I've made a conscious decision in the last month to get back to the gym.

Yeah, good.

Do you know why?

Go on.

Because I haven't got any cartfish in waters that I got my head into, so I've got time to do other things.

Crikes, you're going to come back from the Christmas period like ripped. Uh mate this is the problem this is where I'm going with it you know I did

used to enjoy going to the gym and uh I still enjoy going to the gym but that a that old added

where people say oh mate once you get past 40 you try getting rid of that that that tire around your

belly mate never a true of word said i i never had any issues dropping weight or at least

taking a few pounds off when i was back in the gym um but i've gone back recently man i still

look like a christmas pudding i still i still like a christmas pudding it's just i can't get

rid of this i mean it's only been it's only been a few weeks which I know full well that it takes longer than that and this is where when people exercise their first failing is they give up too quick.

Yeah definitely yeah.

So you have to stick with it and I know I know that and there's an old saying isn't there you know after one month

you'll notice a difference after two months you know your closest friends and family will notice a

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