Earlier today I received an email telling me that Mozilla was shutting down Pocket, a service which allowed you to save links to web pages you wanted to read later.
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I very rarely eat breakfast. I might if I am in a hotel but then it has tended to be a Full English just because it feels like a treat. But I never really feel hungry first thing so I spend the morning drinking a few cups of (terrible, instant)...
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Before I started changing my lifestyle I had heard that weight-loss and exercise are meant to help increase your energy levels and help improve your mental health. It’s now been four months since I changed what I eat and almost as long since I started doing regular exercise. I’ve lost...
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Five weeks ago I wrote about my first couple of weeks of doing the NHS Couch to 5K running plan. When I published the post I had just completed running blocks of 90 seconds and was looking forward to starting week three and three minute runs. At the back of...
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Garmin Connect tracks, amongst an awful lot of other things, intensity minutes. These are useful as a guideline about how much activity you are doing per week, particularly if you want to make sure you are hitting the recommended guidelines.
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One of the YouTube channels I have started watching recently is Mark Lewis’s. He is generally very fit and healthy but he has a non-visible problem which is something I also have, and so do a lot of other people. It’s the problem of food addiction or, as he also...
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I sat down to start drafting a blog post about the personal changes I’ve made over the last few months and realised I’ve been thinking about it, and calling it, a journey. It’s not.
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This morning I did my weekly weigh-in and I was down to 89.5 KG. Apart from being below 90 KG (I was by a whisker last week) it also means, according to the NHS BMI calculator, that my BMI is now 29.9… I am no longer obese and have just...
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Two weeks ago I did something I’ve never done before. I voluntarily, for pleasure and exercise, went for a (kind of) run. I started Couch To 5K.
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