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Blood pressure results signal success
Despite my slight weight gain blip, it’s great to see that my blood pressure is doing just fine! I accidentally let myself run out of one of my blood pressure medications this week. It was a simple enough error, and a knock-on effect from the reduction in my BP meds I spoke about previously. I…
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The birthday blip! “Life gets in the way”
Last week was not only my birthday, but also that of my partner. We had planned a quiet celebration dinner at a local steakhouse, and I had further plans at the weekend with friends and family. I knew going into that week that I was not going to lose weight, and had budgeted for it…
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Another one (point 5) bites the dust! 馃
Post-36hr weigh-in this morning, and I’m now at 16 stone 11.9 lbs (235.9 lbs / 107.2 kg). That’s another 1.5 lbs lost in just the last three days since my Saturday weigh-in! That’s now 22 lbs (9.98 kg) lost – almost 10kg in less than 10 weeks! We should really discount the two weeks when…
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Is fasting hard?
That鈥檚 the first thing people ask when I tell them I don鈥檛 eat for 36 hours at a time. My answer is always: “It depends.” If you鈥檝e followed my “reboot” since December, you know it鈥檚 not always a walk in the park. I view fasting like a muscle. If you don’t exercise it, it withers.…
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Two milestones – 10% body weight and now into the 16 stone range!
I’ve finally done it鈥擨鈥檝e shot past my initial target of losing 10% of my body weight since my Type 2 diabetes diagnosis. Actually, I鈥檓 at 10.58%! This is a huge win. Endocrinologists and diabetes experts everywhere point to the 10% mark as a major physiological turning point for glucose handling. It鈥檚 often the ‘tipping point’…
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Keto(ish!) Korean air fried chicken!馃い馃構
I had to share this recipe; it was incredibly tasty and ready in about 15 minutes using the air fryer. I spotted the Schwartz ‘Air-Fry Spicy Korean BBQ Seasoning’ in my local Tesco, and since Korean fried chicken is something I鈥檝e really missed, I had to give it a go. It鈥檚 worth noting that the…
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An amazing week for weight loss!
Weighed in again this morning after my third 36hr fast of the week, and another 1.25km swim last night. I’m now down to 17 stone 1.1 lbs (239.1lbs / 108.7kg), which is another 0.6lbs (0.27kg) lost just in the last two days since my cheeky mid-week weigh-in. I’m so close now to being back in…
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Another 1.7lbs lost in just 2 days!
Another 36-hour fast done, another swim鈥攁nd I felt much stronger in the pool last night, managing 1.25km pretty comfortably. I weighed in this morning and in just those two days, I’ve lost 1.7 lbs. Again, some of this will be water weight due to fasting and exercising, but a significant amount will be body fat.…
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Back on track with another 2.8lbs week!
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, which usually means I haven’t made much progress. That is both true and not. During the flu bug and blood pressure issues I reported, I was unable to exercise or fast. I did try to get back to fasting, but a natural side effect of a fast is…
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Self-medicating – managing the downturns
In my last post, I was riding high on hitting the 10% clinical weight loss milestone and finishing my first 36-hour fast since the flu. I thought I was back on track. But as it turns out, the ‘Machine’ had one more lesson for me this weekend. While my flu was gone, the fainting spells…
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