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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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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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Tough swim!
So last night I did my usual swim, but it felt nothing like usual. The difference was stark and not in a good way. This is my first week on the Alternate Day Fasting (ADF) protocol鈥攂asically three 36-hour fasts back-to-back. Fast Monday, eat Tuesday, fast Wednesday, eat Thursday, fast Friday, eat Saturday. Because of the…
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Another blip, but still good progress
I was busy over the weekend and neglected to post about my weigh-in. Being very honest, mainly because my weight had gone up since my mid-week weigh-in, effectively erasing this week’s weight loss almost entirely. I was back to 17 St 5 / 243lbs (110.5kg), just 0.1lb lighter than my previous week’s weigh-in. There are…
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Swimming vs running
As I reported recently, I had a definite breakthrough in my pool swimming last time, comfortably extending from my usual 1km swim to 1.25km, an extra 10 lengths over my usual 40 lengths of the pool. At the same time I had been bilateral breathing – breathing to alternate sides, only every third stroke, which…
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Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming…
Back to swimming last night after a little bit of a break, and feeling really good about my progress. I’ve been swimming at the pool for a month now, and frankly not particularly enjoying it. After the freedom of a nice cool (ok, borderline freezing!) lake, being confined to a 25m pool with the temperature…
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Hitting the ground running (and swimming!)
I’m very excited to start 2026 with a bang! Having lost over 12lbs in December, I took a bit of a break from my strict diet to enjoy Christmas and the New Year. I did so entirely guilt-free, certain in the knowledge that I now have all the tools I need to get back on…
