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  • 7 Days of Protein Packed Breakfast Smoothies

    7 Days of Protein Packed Breakfast Smoothies

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    If there’s one thing I learned from my Breakfast experiment last year, it was that a protein packed breakfast will keep you full much longer than anything else. For a long time I wasn’t a breakfast eater as I found I got hungry quicker if I ate first thing, but recently I’ve discovered that eating…

  • Another Week in Food

    Another Week in Food

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    Back in October I posted my food diary for the week. The idea was to get an idea where my diet was falling down, and where it could be improved to help me with my fitness goals, and with my weight loss goals. I felt I ate far too much processed food, and set myself…

  • 4 Fitness Habits You’ll Never Catch Me Doing (and 3 I Plan to Try)

    4 Fitness Habits You’ll Never Catch Me Doing (and 3 I Plan to Try)

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    Yeah I know, never say never, I mean just 2 years ago I’d have laughed in your face if you’d told me I’d be running a Half Marathon at all, let alone gearing up to start training for my second, and if you’d told me in April last year that I’d be spending a large…

  • The Big Breakfast Challenge

    The Big Breakfast Challenge

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    One of my biggest challenges eating properly is still going away a lot and staying in hotels. It’s not only the struggle to eat well while you’re away, but also the limited time at home making it very difficult to get organised for meals at home. I’m working on it, and eventually I’ll find the…

  • A Week in Food

    A Week in Food

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    Well, I promised to keep a record of what I ate for a week, and come back and share. So here I am! In some ways this was a very atypical week for me. It featured no travel, and a couple of events so my diet was correspondingly a little random. I can spot things…

  • Dear Diary – June, Do You Care What You Weigh, and a Salter Scales Giveaway

    Dear Diary – June, Do You Care What You Weigh, and a Salter Scales Giveaway

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    Start Weight: 11st 6 lb Weight Now: ?? Total loss: 12lb Waist: 29.5″ Miles Run: 18.2 Average Distance per run: 1.7 miles Normally I start each month with a reflection on how the previous month went, but as last month was Juneathon I’ve done an awful lot of reflecting on a daily basis. However, here is my running…

  • Dear Diary: March – The month of the new scales

    Dear Diary: March – The month of the new scales

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    March Stats… Start Weight: 11st 3lb Weight Now: 11 st 3.8lb Monthly Gain: .8lb Total loss: 14.2lb Waist: 29.25″ Miles Run: 28.8 Average Distance per run: 4.8 miles In March I bought new scales. I found I was having problems with my Wii Fit where it would weight massively different at different points on my…

  • Dear Diary – January

    Dear Diary – January

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    January Stats… Start Weight: 11st 9lb Weight Now: 11 st 6lb Monthly Loss: 3lb Total loss: 12lb Waist: 29.75″ Miles Run: 45.1 Average Distance per run:1.4 Well, Janathon is over, but of course, it’s not all about the running of a mile a day. I have weight to lose and January has been a difficult…

  • Review: Trek Bars – Breakfast on the Go

    Review: Trek Bars – Breakfast on the Go

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    One of my main issues with eating healthily is that I travel quite a bit. I’ve written before about the secret art of Hotel room cooking, and how to make the healthiest choices at hotel breakfast buffets. But for those days when you’re actually travelling at breakfast time, whether that’s on the train, in a…