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  • Life being predictably un-predictable

    Life being predictably un-predictable

    A picture speaks a thousand words as they say. In diet week #2 Vs week #3 I lost 4,200 calories less. The reason for this was that I found out last Tuesday that I had a job assessment this Monday (8th June). I wasn’t planning on twiddling my thumbs Wednesday to Sunday waiting for something…

    martinjamesphd

    8th Jun 2020
    REFLECTIONS
  • Results are in!: Diet week #3

    Results are in!: Diet week #3

    This week concluded with a modest loss: 1.8lbs. Although that’s below target I crossed a key psychological threshold of moving out of the 15 stone bracket. I’ve been over 15 stone four times in my life and it generally corresponded with things going wrong. Within the 14 stone bracket – given my large body structure…

    martinjamesphd

    6th Jun 2020
    TRANSFORMATIONS, Weekly weigh-in
  • Last day of Diet Week #3

    Last day of Diet Week #3

    Running comfortably ahead of target for the week. Fingers crossed I will see the back of the 15 stone bracket tomorrow.

    martinjamesphd

    5th Jun 2020
    Traffic lights, TRANSFORMATIONS
  • Diet reflections #2

    Diet reflections #2

    I haven’t weighed myself so far this week, I’m planning to do so tomorrow so that I know where I am likely to land on my official weigh-in day – Saturday. I have mixed emotions presently, on the one hand I feel lighter on my feet but on the other I am concerned. My calorie…

    martinjamesphd

    4th Jun 2020
    REFLECTIONS, TRANSFORMATIONS
  • June’s mission: slow, steady, meaningful progress

    June’s mission: slow, steady, meaningful progress

    martinjamesphd

    3rd Jun 2020
    REFLECTIONS, TRANSFORMATIONS
  • Month of May: in retrospect

    Month of May: in retrospect

    May is always a huge month, in part because the weather turns warm (if we’re lucky, which we have been) and the garden explodes into life. This imposes a core theme (“gardening month”) which comprises reseeding the lawn and refreshing the borders and shrubbery. Typically there are a fair few things that need to be…

    martinjamesphd

    2nd Jun 2020
    REFLECTIONS
  • Garden makeover weekend #2

    Garden makeover weekend #2

    Another super busy gardening weekend. The most substantial task was to put down 20 bags of blue slate over the tired pebbles that came with the house. I also made it to a recycling centre to dispose of my garden waste (no small accomplishment these days!), fixed my shed and sorted out the gap between…

    martinjamesphd

    31st May 2020
    HOME & GARDEN
  • Results are in!: Diet week #2

    Results are in!: Diet week #2

    On the US TV show “The Biggest Loser” (a wildly over-the-top but thoroughly entertaining weight loss contest), I remember week 2 as always being the sticky week. Contestants would lose half a stone or more in week 1 and then lose 2 pounds or less in week 2. In the show it was normally explained…

    martinjamesphd

    30th May 2020
    TRANSFORMATIONS, Weekly weigh-in
  • Last day of diet week #2

    Last day of diet week #2

    As mentioned in earlier posts I set myself tough new calorie deficit targets this week. Three days in I thought I might fail to hit them but I have pulled through towards the end of the week. Yesterday sealed it with a massive 3,367 deficit! That leaves me requiring a mere 1,203 deficit today to…

    martinjamesphd

    29th May 2020
    Traffic lights, TRANSFORMATIONS
  • Diet week #2: half way point

    Diet week #2: half way point

    For reasons beyond my control my diet isn’t running Monday-Sunday right now. In diet week #2 I’m doing six “drive days” (Sat 23rd + Monday-Friday), with my weekly weigh-in on Saturday 30th. Tomorrow I will do my first weekly weigh-in to get my bearings. At worst I hope to have held my losses from week…

    martinjamesphd

    27th May 2020
    TRANSFORMATIONS
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Dr Martin James

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