Bringing much needed clarity to the hot new fitness trend.
This holiday time, this wondrous season, puts joy in all of our hearts, smiles on all of our faces, food in all of our bellies. No matter our traditions, Christian or Jewish, Hindu or Jain, eat and drink are part of the equation. Some handle the increased calorie load better than others and, according to well-respected medical journal The Sun, surfers handle best of all as our chosen pastime melts away the pounds, kilograms, stone.
Don’t believe?
Me either but let us examine the case of reality television star Lucie Donlan who might or might not be a professional surfer from Corwall.
The 22-year-old reality star showed off her incredible figure in sexy snaps while holidaying in Bali this week.
Despite always being trim, Lucie’s weight has fluctuated before and after the villa.
She lost a whopping two stone before signing up for the ITV2 dating show, going from a size 12 to six.
And although she has faced temptation at boozy parties and free dinners, Lucie has managed to keep losing weight ever since.
She puts it down to a healthy diet and keeping herself fit with her beloved sporting hobbies.
Before going in the villa Lucie described herself as “more into sports as well as being glam” – and that’s still true today.
As a keen surfer from Cornwall, Lucie has been riding the waves, skiing and pushing herself to go to the gym to keep herself in tip-top shape.
In her spare time she helps teach anxious children how to surf as part of her work with surf therapy charity The Wave Project .
She is qualified as a life coach and now an ambassador for the charity.
So there we have it, I suppose. I have always marveled at surfing’s ability to do absolutely nothing except make me paddle for a very long time without tiring. My arms don’t get bigger, shoulders don’t get broader, I can just paddle, at a slow steady pace, all day long. But that’s it. No weight loss. No weight gain.
You?
Are you like Lucie Donlan just melting away those pounds, kilograms, stone while out ripping cutbacks?
More as the story develops.
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JJF sure wiped the floor with him in their R32 heat. So good!
Git with a Rig
She’s not lying. Surf near a rivermouth after the first rain of the season in California. You’ll lose a lot of weight over the next week or so. Your asshole will also fall off but they have a surgery to fix that now.
I can verify this is exactly true, although I got it from somewhere other than the ocean last week. I’m svelte though!
Tis the season!
I don’t think she’s heard of Jimbo P…
Surfing makes me not be fatter than I already am, so there’s that.
Comments gone tits up for anyone else?
I’d love to see JJF paddle over to Z offer his hand then blow him a raspberry.
Lot of increasingly dullard, yet perennially opinionated, middle aged whitish men lurking around on BG it would seem. Myself very included. We stand poised and ready to crush any unsubstantiated claims to winning life from the junior ranks.
Ok ok, when I was in my mid-twenties and actually surfing / skating all the hours god gave me, sure, I could eat what I wanted and still develop a six pack that got me laid-as-hell in the gloom of the UK.
I was actually rather good looking, with a tan and chin. Fast forward a bit: age/office work / etc and I appear closer to Mr Toad’s brother.
Let’s see her smug wittle face in 20 years and some life experiences not related to lounging around displaying her breeding feathers.
I find If I don’t surf much, I get fatter. Not sure if it supports the argument around surfing being a great form of weight loss.
Im inspired to have a wank
…which burns calories, so there’s that. Oh, for a moment I thought surfing inspires you to have wank.
She is rather nice. Yum!
A qualified LIFE COACH?
How the fuck did she qualify, through the QS Blonde Division?
Qualified by triggering “boomers”.
I can drink heaps guilt free after a good surf.
Back in my day “teaching anxious children to surf” was just called “surfing”
And they likely taught themselves.
We sure did!
Crikey! I see she brings her own inflation vest(s) when she surfs