• The Health Benefits

    Posted on 18 May 2025

    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... [Read More]
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  • I Run

    Posted on 16 May 2025

    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... [Read More]
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  • Zwift And Garmin Connect Intensity Minutes

    Posted on 30 April 2025

    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. [Read More]
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  • Food Noise

    Posted on 26 April 2025

    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... [Read More]
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  • It's Not A Journey

    Posted on 25 April 2025

    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. [Read More]
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  • 1,000 Kilometres

    Posted on 24 April 2025

    This evening I climbed off my Zwift Ride and grinned. Since it arrived at the end of January, I’d cycled over 1,000 kilometres on it. [Read More]
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  • Finally Overweight

    Posted on 20 April 2025

    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... [Read More]
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  • Counting The Cost

    Posted on 26 March 2025

    In my previous blog post I included a table of purchases related to some lifestyle changes I have been making. As a typical software developer it would have been far too easy to use a calculator to add the amounts up. It would have been too easy to paste the... [Read More]
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  • How Much Is My Health Worth?

    Posted on 26 March 2025

    At the end of my last blog post I said that I would talk about the costs involved in the fitness journey I am going on. Before I even look at the figures properly I know that it has not been cheap and that I have more expenses ahead. [Read More]
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