Category: TRANSFORMATIONS
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Amazing t-shirt, decent office too
“Monster Thursday” is a 13-hour round trip to campus, with meetings and classes sandwiched between long drives. It’s exhausting, having to snap out of bed at 5am is certainly no help either. I’m getting used to it though, I felt vaguely human for portions of the Halloween week visit. 🎃 Style is wasted on business…
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Try, try again
Irrespective of whether you “fall off the wagon” due to choice or circumstances, all you can do is dust yourself off and climb back on. Back to basics, back to the grind, winning your health and fitness back one meal or workout at a time. So here we go….
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Weigh-in week #9
I skipped weigh-in last week, having had a highly turbulent Friday 10th July. I try to standardise the 2 days prior to weigh-in so as to ensure that results are not skewed by something abnormal. It is basic scientific practice to isolate and control variables other than that you are interested in. The result for…
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Diet dashboard week #7
The changes week to week are small and incremental but over the course of several weeks they’re significant. Of the weight loss charted in the dashboard over 8lbs of the total loss has been body fat, I’ve gone from around 49lbs to 40lbs in seven weeks. The good news is the boring bit is done,…
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Results are in!: Diet week #7
In a chat with a friend yesterday I observed that the changes in my body are racing ahead of the changes in my weight. My waist in particular is shrinking rapidly whilst my biceps seem bigger, filling my shirt sleeves. Maybe this is wishful thinking but I’m seeing rewards and feeling progress and this is…
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June 2020 in review
It’s easy to set macho targets, it’s less easy to achieve them. At the beginning of June I clarified 5 core objectives for the month. 3 out of 5 ended up as resounding successes (see photo montage), 1 of 5 was a narrow miss and the final target was 9% off (see “resource management” below).…
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Overview: diet week #6
As can be seen from the picture montage I had a great week. Extra retained water – probably due to the mini heat wave – stopped exceptional underlying change directly translating into equally exceptional overall loses. Most remarkably I lost 4.5lbs of body fat and gained 1lbs of muscle in a single week! These are…
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Diet reflections #3
After 3 weeks of slow losses (1.8lbs, 1.8lbs, 1.6lbs) I have to accept that the current formula is under performing. It’s not rocket science it’s pretty simple: in the last three weeks my calorie burn has been seriously curtailed. My target is 32,000kcals burned per week whilst my actual has been 27,900, 29,400 and 28,100.…
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Results are in!: diet week #5
Exactly 1 stone lost in 5 weeks! If you had have offered me that at the beginning of the journey I would have snapped your hand off, so it’s paradoxical that I feel a little disappointed week to week. 1.8 + 1.8 + 1.6 lbs losses (the last 3 weigh-ins) isn’t much to be excited…
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Backing myself: I WILL hit my weight loss goal by MID-SEPTEMBER
After 4 weeks of dieting and experimentation I’m calling time on the “test and learn” phase. Here’s a summary of key developments. After this length of time I don’t think about dieting (asides analytically), I just do it. It is now clear that I can live with 1,700 calories on a standard day. Note: My…
Dr Martin James 