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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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A week off due to illness, but now firmly back on track
After my flu bug and mysterious fainting spells were resolved, I’ve been gradually recovering. That meant not only letting my flu bug run it’s course but nore importantly, giving my blood pressure a chance to adapt to the lower dose of my main BP medication. As I previously reported, the ‘mysterious’ fainting was actually a…
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The 10% Milestone: Why being “too healthy” is not for the faint-hearted! 馃槒
So – I finally got to see my GP this evening. I鈥檒l admit, I was feeling a bit down in the dumps after those recent fainting spells, but it turns out the news is actually all good! I鈥檝e mentioned before that a major clinical target for diabetics is to lose 10% of their body weight.…
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Stop! Fast! Lessons in electrolytes and limits
Well鈥攖hat escalated quickly! I thought I was just fighting a scratchy throat, but this evening took a serious turn. After a series of coughing fits, I actually fainted on the sofa during a particularly strong cough! For some context, my type 2 diabetes was originally “announced” two years ago by serious hypertension. At its worst,…
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36 hour fasted and a 1.25km swim: refuelling the machine
Woke up this morning to find the scratchy throat I’d been ignoring has not just miraculously disappeared overnight, so as much as I鈥檓 fueling for muscle recovery, I鈥檓 now fueling to fight off a potential cold. I suspect Tuesday鈥檚 run in the damp cold air caught up with me, so today鈥檚 meals are pulling double…
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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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