Health & Fitness
A lifelong battle to be fit and healthy, mostly focussed on my weight.
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Busy doing a life
Short versionLife is good, parenting is exhausting but wonderful, not much else is happening. Longer versionJack is almost one year old and thriving. So many parenting cliches are true, the time does pass too quickly and I feel very blessed and lucky that I’ve been working at home this entire time and been able to…
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Thoughts from my sickbed
I’m on the mend but last week saw me struggle with some food poisoning/a tummy bug that left me in bed from Friday evening through to this morning. A few slices of toast, some isotonic drinks, were all I could stomach. I slept a lot too, as I am prone to do when ill, but…
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Life continues
We are having a baby. It’s not the ONLY thing we talk about but it’s a constant, an ever-growing reminder that our lives are about to change in a wonderful, scary, exciting way. There are maternity clothes being bought, nursery furniture to build, baby clothes are being provided (all the neutral stuff we can get…
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n+1
As with most of my hobbies, I tend to fling myself into them wholeheartedly from the get go. I’m the guy who signs up to the forums, does copious research on the internet, takes notes as he goes, learns as much as he can as fast as possible, and then goes and buys the gear.…
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6 weeks later
6 weeks = 42 days = 1,008 hours = 60,480 minutes = 3,628,800 seconds. That’s how long it was from the 18th of January to the 28th of February. I mention this with purpose as I set myself a little challenge which lasted for – can you guess? – 6 weeks, but I confess it…
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Another New Year
The new year rolls around and as the Weightwatchers adverts start appearing I find myself looking back over my aims from 2020 and wondering what to do next. I try not to fall into the ‘New Year New Me’ thinking but I think it’s natural to have a sense of looking ahead. That said given…