Day 74 (10 to go)

March 25, 2011

Made To Order Many years ago I used to work for a guy, who besides being a corporate psychopath, taught me some very important lessons in life – one of which was “Everything is Negotiable”.  This, as it turns out, also applies to Take-Away food and our ability to order anything we want that isn’t on [...]

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Day 73 (11 to go)

March 24, 2011

Protein Shake Down! So, yesterday someone rightly pointed out “What on earth is a Protein Shake?” – okay, so not in those exact words, or anything like that actually, but the comment was a great one, because until now I’ve never explained a thing to do with why one of my regular snacks is “Protein [...]

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Day 72 (12 to go)

March 23, 2011

The Mystery of Sleep In the 21st Century, our lives are so jam packed full of activity, stimulation and unending obligation that it becomes ridiculously easy for us to curtail the time we spend sleeping; yet, the purposes and mechanisms of sleep are only partially understood by science. One of the great mysteries is that [...]

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Day 71 (13 to go)

March 22, 2011

The Energy Myth It’s a well-known fact that eating super healthy food, taking care of your body (like getting the right amount of sleep) and exercising, will give your more Energy; and these are all things that you do during the 84 Day Body Challenge. My own energy levels are getting better all the time, [...]

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Day 70 (14 to go)

March 21, 2011

Sunday Soup Well, it has been 10 complete weeks now and one of the habits that has been forming has been the making of a Sunday Soup. When we get to this time of the week, we find our fridge is looking quite sparse, but there are plenty of left-over veggies so they end up [...]

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Day 69 (15 to go)

March 20, 2011

Movie Food My Wife managed to win two free tickets to see the Movie called I Am Number Four and so on Day 69 we organised the baby-sitters for the afternoon and enjoyed some time to ourselves.  Going to the Movies is such a treat not only for the big screen experience of the Movie itself, [...]

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Day 68 (16 to go)

March 19, 2011

Stress Free Weight Loss One of the most overlooked aspects of successful weight loss, I believe, is the role that Stress plays; and in the theory of maintaining Alkalinity in the body to promote fat loss, it is believed that Stress can literally cause Acidity in the body. I’ve been so fortunate while doing the [...]

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Day 67 (17 to go)

March 18, 2011

DEXA Body Scan On Day 67, I visited Dr. Matthew Shaw at Body Scan and had a DEXA Body Scan which is a very low-radiation x-ray that provides a gram accurate method of calculating Fat Mass, Bone Mass and Lean (Muscle) Mass. Have a look at my scan image posted here and note that YELLOW [...]

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Day 66 (18 to go)

March 17, 2011

Day 66 – it’s time to pick up sticks – and get ON it! No More Wishy-washy Habits When I started the 84 Day Body Challenge on Day 1, I thought that the hardest part would be the 80% in the middle (if you recall, I wrote about The Dip on Day 5).  As it [...]

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Day 65 (19 to go)

March 16, 2011

Setting Benchmarks It doesn’t matter how much your body weighs, or how far you can run 1km today – what matters is how much those measurements change tomorrow compared with today! See my new Results page to see the progress in the 84 Day Body Challenge so far. Setting benchmarks is really important, but it’s [...]

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