Now it’s time to renovate the kitchen. This has been in the pipeline for a while, and I’ve spent the week ripping out everything and installing the electrical system…. lots of electricity, and my old electricity-telecoms training came in handy. It’s been some workout - my body is crying out for rest which I haven’t given it. First 8 hours at jalbum.net and then 8 hours at home.
I’ll end up looking like Tarzan, and the scales aren’t lying: I’m down 2 kg. A building site and children is not a happy combination, so I’m trying to get it all finished in record time. You can expect new pictures in about a week. 
Exercise: 7 days of solid hard labour - rip out the kitchen, install spotlights and sort out the electrical supply.
Food: Lots - but this is probably less of a problem when working 16 hours a day, twice what you put in when working full time.
Result: 32.1 kg
95.3 kg (127.4 kg) Total weight
26.3 kg (42.0 kg) Fat
52.8 kg (44.0 kg) Water
40.0 kg (34.8 kg) Muscle
Add comment June 17, 2008
Have enjoyed an extended lunch at the Swedish Hamburger Championships. Tried lots of hamburgers, and am now suffering from stomach ache. My favourite was the Health Burger. But in the end, the winner was Salami Green & Fresh - which also tasted great!
Congratulations to all the finalists and their fantastic burgers!
But I am not at all sure how healthy all that Crème Fraiche is.
Add comment June 12, 2008
Minimizeme a long time ago…
It’s now ages since I wrote anything on the blog. I simply haven’t felt motivated, and things have been a bit so-so at home. My Dad has been in hospital, but he’s better now, and he’s gone to Italy. Damn, I’ve forgotten to feed his fish. I was at Sweden Rock last week, and it completely slipped my mind. Oooops!
Sweden Rock is a fantastic event. I missed it last year, but you can’t have more fun than this. Check out the pictures - they are X-rated since we went in fancy dress. I was dressed as Pimp and my brother as Slicky Dick.
Exercise and diet: How many people lose weight on a diet of great food and beer? Well, Johan did! I went easy on the drink, ate well and rocked my socks off for 4 days. To say that I’m aching is putting it mildly. Only went to Max twice this week, and stopped off at Max in Värnamo on the way home. Is this the cleanest Max outlet in Sweden? Extremely neat and tidy, but what happened to the soap in the cloakroom?
Don’t click on this link if you are faint-hearted! Rock on brothers and sisters!
Result: 30 kg
97.4 kg (127.4 kg) Total weight
26.4 kg (42.0 kg) Fat
51.3 kg (44.0 kg) Water
39.2 kg (34.8 kg) Muscle
Add comment June 10, 2008
It really feels like time is running away from me. 3 children and parents in full-time work is supposed to be the model family, but I simply can’t understand how you’re supposed to find enough time. Finally, everyone is back to full health and looking forward to a week without illness, but we’ll have to see what happens. My poor leg isn’t doing too well. The stitches caused an infection and once a cupful of pus had been squeezed out, I ended up with a taped wound instead of stitches. The nurse said that wounds on the shin take ages to heal - sigh, give me a break, please!
Short working week and everyone stays healthy. Alone at home with the kids while Pia is on a trip to the Baltic island of Gotland. Emma played football last Saturday, and we had grilled hamburgers in the evening. To my great delight, Max has started selling its hamburger buns in the shops, at Willy’s, in fact. But where are the GI buns, which are much tastier?
Exercise - Mostly limping around but walks on Monday-Wednesday. 1 x workout. Then left alone at home with the children = great exercise!
Meals have been a bit weird. The penicillin has left me very tired, and the scales have gone crazy! Almost 100 kg… 
I swore I would never again weigh 100 kg… I feel so annoyed since I don’t feel that I’ve been sloppy with my diet, but the weight diagram isn’t pointing in the right direction. Boo-hoo, what am I to do now?
Result: 28 kg
99.4 kg (127.4 kg) Total weight
- (42.0 kg) Fat (the scales are refusing to give these values. :()
- (44.0 kg) Water
- (34.8 kg) Muscle
Add comment May 8, 2008
All these illnesses are taking it out of me. It feels like I’ve hardly been to work in April. Now my wife, oldest daughter Emma and our youngest, Tilda, are feeling lousy too. For a while there, we were contemplating taking Tilda to hospital, since she couldn’t even keep down water. Feeding a one-year old daughter water by the teaspoonful isn’t exactly one of life’s highlights. To cap it all, I was helping a lady friend to move house, fell of a stool and broke the skin on my leg so badly that it required 6 stitches, penicillin and an anti-tetanus jab. I really should just have stayed in bed the whole week.
Exercise - I’ve been such a victim of bad luck that I’ve hardly exercised at all this week. It wasn’t really the leg that was causing the problem, but my right arm which went completely numb from the anti-tetanus jab! 1 x workout. Walks, well sort of, with a gammy leg!
I’ve continued to eat ordinary, everyday home cooking, but without second helpings.
Result: 30.3 kg
97.1 kg (127.4 kg) Total weight
26.0 kg (42.0 kg) Fat
52.9 kg (44.0 kg) Water
40.2 kg (34.8 kg) Muscle
Add comment May 5, 2008
The Golden Egg ceremony was great fun, and the win for Minimize Me made it even better. When I read the last blog post, I realised I hadn’t said who the winner was - it was, of course, the hamburger bloke! Check out these films if you want to see a very nervous and rather unwell Johan, suffering from a fever and generally feeling rotten.
Winner interviewed by Fredrik Virtanen in the green room
Inspiring film from the gala, great music (we take to the stage at 1.56 into the film)
ZILCH exercise, but a few short walks to and from school. You can’t exercise when you’re ill.
I’m eating ordinary, everyday home cooking, but am passing on a second helping. Slightly smaller portions and healthier breakfasts is the theme for this week.
Result: 29.1 kg
98.3 kg (127.4 kg) Total weight
26.0 kg (42.0 kg) Fat
53.2 kg (44.0 kg) Water
40.1 kg (34.8 kg) Muscle
Add comment April 23, 2008
Day 276
1 April and an April Fools joke, of course. The Swedish tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet wrote about UEFA’s demands that Max should close its doors to visitors during the Junior European Football Championships.Bearing in mind what date it is, I thought it was an April Fools joke, but it is, in fact, completely true!
You don’t have to be a PR guru to realize that Max is rubbing its hands in delight.
Wow, finally some light at the end of the tunnel. You may remember that MinimizeMe was nominated for the Golden Egg award, and after swallowing a box of Panodil, Pia and I travelled to the Stockholm Concert Hall venue. Met Max and their PR agency, GCI, who have been nominated for the Golden Egg. The whole Golden Egg event is organised by people in the PR industry for people in the PR industry, and was rather boring for the uninitiated. But after the break, it was time for Minimize Me’s category, PR. The excitement was tangible, and I was convinced that Medicins Sans Frontieres would win their “SMS away a coffin” entry, which was one of the few entries I even recognised.
I wonder if there will soon be a YouTube video of Erik & Mårten from GCI going wild with delight?
Add comment April 4, 2008
Day 275
There is no end to my misery - I was fine for 5 days, and then was struck down by fever, a sore throat and a cold…
I just can’t function with a fever. I feel ready to faint, and seem to lose all control over my body. It feels like I’m watching the world through a goldfish bowl. Have to keep taking Panodil for another day yet.
I dragged myself out, to drop off the kids at school and the nursery, but that finished me off completely. Tilda’s acclimatisation period is now finished, and she has started to realise that we leave her and sneak off in the morning. She is a bit teary, and I fell like a rotten parent.
No exercise whatsoever, except short walks to drop the kids off at school and the nursery.So things can really only get better next week!
Result: 29.1 kg
98.3 kg (127.4 kg) Total weight
25.8 kg (42.0 kg) Fat
51.6 kg (44.0 kg) Water
39.4 kg (34.8 kg) Muscle
Add comment April 3, 2008
Day 266
Have been feeling under the weather and running a temperature throughout the Easter weekend. My temperature went up to 39.6°C, and I stayed in bed and didn’t get anything done.
Tilda’s introduction to the nursery started a couple of weeks earlier than expected. This was great news, but really poor planning on the part of the City of Stockholm, since it transpired that there were spaces available from 1 March! We had been turning our lives upside down in an attempt to extend our parental leave, and now it feels like all of this could have been avoided if only the City authorities had got their act in order. We have fallen between the rules of the current and past governments and, as usual, it’s all ended up as a bit of a mess. The Solkatten nursery has a wonderful staff and will be moving into more suitable premises in mid-April - premises which are a bit closer to the school the older kids attend. Kerstin helped us out so that we could get the acclimatisation phase started a couple of weeks earlier than expected, despite the best efforts of brain-dead bureaucrats. Tilda, the happiest little girl in the world, has taken to it like a fish to water. Thank you, Kerstin, for your help during the first week of the acclimatisation phase!
The exercise regime has suffered due to my being ill for half of the week. I only had time for one weight-training session and a couple of long walks before I was floored by the bug.
I didn’t eat much rubbish over the holiday, since a temperature of 39°C tends to put a dampener on the appetite. But the scales can’t be right….. The weight hasn’t increased, but has the fat percentage really risen by 1% during the long weekend while my muscles have wasted away? I really can’t believe it.
Result: 29.9 kg
97.5 kg (127.4 kg) Total weight
25.6 kg (42.0 kg) Fat
51.4 kg (44.0 kg) Water
39.1 kg (34.8 kg) Muscle
Add comment March 26, 2008
Day 259
So the ice hockey finals are here, at last…. But after only 5 games, it was all over. Djurgården was beaten by a better team, and all praise must go to Linköping, who put in a clearly superior performance. At least I had the chance to enjoy a sell-out game at the Hovet stadium. The spectators were great - just like in the great days of yore when the derbys beetween the two Stockholm rivals, Djurgården and AIK, filled the Hovet stadium and, later, the Stockholm Globe Arena. I really, really miss those…I can only hope that my daughter, Emma, continues to win at football, so that her mad parents can shout themselves hoarse cheering on their little girl!
The Topphälsa magazine turned me into a photo model for a morning, and the result is now featured in the April issue of the magazine. OK, so I was renamed Anders on the cover. :) The Golden Egg is a fun award which minimizeme.se has been nominated for. My wife and I will be going to the Stockholm Concert Hall to find out whether I may have won the PR category. Yes, I know I wasn’t responsible for the PR, but it was me who ate the hamburgers and it was soooooo hard for me! Take a look at what Måns at GCI has written!
Tilda, my 14-month old daughter has eaten her first hamburger. Only the bun and the burger, but even so - it was a great success, so much tastier than the jars of baby food!
Exercise: 2 weightlifting sessions and 5 long walks. Pia came along and counted the number of strides. It was around 4,000 in total, which is clearly not enough. 10,000-12,000 steps a day is is the target. Just as well I usually walk home, too.
Result: 29.9 kg
97.5 kg (127.4 kg) Total weight
24.4 kg (42.0 kg) Fat
53.0 kg (44.0 kg) Water
39.9 kg (34.8 kg) Muscle
Add comment March 19, 2008
