Losing weight is a war. Choose your weapons, because losing weight is a war and when you go to war you go prepared and you go with an objective to win. Exercise as a weight loss tool. On previous blogs I discussed how you need to have your tools in place. Exercise is an essential part of the process to lose weight and is one of the tools you will use on your weight loss journey. In choosing our preferred…
Whatever your thoughts on banting, there is sufficient evidence that it works and that it improves people’s quality of life. There is however also some justified criticism. So let me give my opinion based on my own experience. Banting is expensive and this is probably due to the hype generated around it. Also because of the special recipes that have been created. These recipes include ingredients that are sometimes almost impossible to get your hands on. In my personal experience…
In yesterday’s blog on the first month on my weight loss journey, I mentioned that I switched from an Excel spreadsheet to the Tomtom Mysport app to record my progress. The decision to switch to this app happened as a result of my purchase of the Tomtom Spark 3 with heart rate monitor. Part of the benefits of buying such a device is that it also provides you with tools that would normally cost you money. At first I was…
At the beginning of this journey I had very little experience and very little available in terms of tools, so I started off with what I had available and what I had experience with. I had a mountain bike that my brother gave me as a gift, a cycle computer that I purchased and a borrowed scale and of course my computer with Excel on. With the diet that my brother and I discussed and agreed on and the…
When mentioning the word diet, most people think about how little they can eat and how much food they will need to exclude from their diet. Most diets also leave you hungry and depleted of energy and most of all is not sustainable. The truth is when you go on a diet where you can only eat fruit or soup, you are going to come back with a vengeance when you stop your diet and worst of all you are…
The moment of truth or Damascus moment. There is a definite moment when a person makes the decision to lose weight. I call it the Damascus moment, when you are confronted with a set of circumstances that makes you realise that there is no more hiding, no more delaying. You may have been aware of the fact that your weight is a problem and you may even have entertained the idea to do something about it. You may even have…