The Low Down Skinny

It’s been a long time since I posted on my blog, but I have very much been keeping to my original goals of keeping fit, getting healthy and loosing weight in a sustainable way i.e no diets or fads but rather good lifestyle choices…

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Thankfully this past week I managed to loose 1.9KGs – mainly I think because I managed my eating much better than the week before.
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I am not sure what happen this last week, but somehow I managed to put on 1.3KGs and this despite me training like a Trojan. I have resided myself to the idea that maybe I have added some muscle, because I know for a fact there is no way I could have put on that much weight any other way.
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So 300 grams off might not be the best result for this weeks effort, but hey I’ll take it. Right now the most important thing is that I have my midset in the right direction which is getting me out of bed (even on a rainy morning) and going for a walk around the block and getting me into the pool daily to do my training for the up and coming open water swimming season.
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Last week was a really bad week for me, despite the best intentions I skipped out on training twice and I also over indulged in my snacking more than I would have cared to, however I keep saying that these things need to be used as lessons, and again I am trying to find that happy balance between listening to my body and being tricked by my mind into being lazy… oddly enough this week my motivation has come from a very special place.

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After what can only be described as the coldest winter I have ever experienced, sickness after sickness and an extended layoff, I am finally back into the swing of things are ready to tackle the last hurdle of my weight loss. Did I think it would take me 340 days to get just over half way… surely not, but then again I have chosen to do this for the long term, a lifestyle adjustment as apposed to the quick fix instant crash diet methods we’ve all become accustomed to.
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Over the years I’ve discovered that working against the natural flow of something is not always the most logical route to go, one of my sports coaches had a brilliant expression which is so relevant to this point, which is “never put a left handed person in to bat right handed” and this leads me to our body’s natural rhythms or the practice of Chronotherapy.
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After 28 days of umm **cough** rest, I feel like I am back from the dead or at least a very long dark coma. So besides not going to gym and really discovering how much I hate winter, I am glad to report that I have only put on half a kilogram and more than anything I’ve learnt a few important lessons about excess and body rhythms.
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So yesterday I had a fitness test with my local Biokinetist including a range of body measurements, which is the first test I have done since I started this weight loss journey 200 days ago and there are some amazing results.

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On my way to swimming the morning at 5am the outside temperature was a staggering 9 degrees centigrade and it took some serious will power to get in and do my 60 laps, but thankfully I did and I went right onto a 45 minute spinning session. So so far the pan to get my training our of the way early is working.

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