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How I used apps and devices as tools to manage my goals – Part one

How I used apps and devices as tools to manage my goals – Part one

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…

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My first month on the weight loss journey

My first month on the weight loss journey

  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…

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Let’s talk diet

Let’s talk diet

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…

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