Let me tell you a story about progress, and how progress can change over time. It all started with a Facebook memory. This photo of my mum and myself was taken ten years ago. It honestly doesn’t feel like ten years have passed, but it has. I look at this photo and I’m like “Wow […]
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Everyone owns a set of scales sometime during their lifetime. When I first was on my weight loss journey a decade ago, my scales were everything. I would measure all my food, and I would weigh myself every few days. How else would I know if I was losing weight without the scales? That is
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On the 21st of June 2014 I set a challenge to walk, run, hike, jump, hop, or any other type of movement to get me to 1 Million Steps in 100 days. That means moving 10,000 steps for 100 days. 25% of adults walk for no more than one hour each week, with a further 43%
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Every Month Jill Conyers does an Ultimate Coffee date. It’s a great way to check in and recap everything that has happened over the last month. I thought I would combined my ultimate coffee date check in with my running stats check in. So grab a hot drink (or cold), sit down and relax. If
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Days Ran: 10Average Pace: 5:56Longest Run: 22.6kmJune Distance: 84.88km Let’s check in with how my running (and of course stats) went down in June. June started off with me sick as a dog. I was aiming to run for that elusive 100km in a month goal. But alas, as you can see and it’s safe
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That’s right people, I’ve completed an entire week of Whole30. Are you proud of me? I’m proud of me! Woohoo, go me! I have 3 more weeks to go (21 more days), but I know I can do this. Melissa and Dallas kindly gave me some homework to do. So here is Worksheet #2 Food
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When I was fat, I pretty much got rid of all my thin clothes. The reason I didn’t keep any was that I got pregnant, and I was no longer working, so didn’t really see the need to keep any or my work/thin clothes. So I got rid of them. I honestly didn’t see the point of holding
(High Five Friday, before it was cool) It’s been a bit of a topsy turvy week for me. I guess what threw the scales off balance was having the SAAC club run on a Sunday. See I do my long runs on a Monday. But because I had an 8km on Sunday, I didn’t exactly
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Fifty percent of the year is done, 50% people! Wow is all I can say. Therefore I should be 50% done with my running goal of Run 100okm in 2013. First, let’s have a look at how things went in June. 106.4km, even I am impressed over that effort. If you are thinking why, well
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Wow, April is done and dusted. That’s 1/3 of the year gone. This year really is flying by, and May will be over before I know it. I must say though that I have quite enjoyed the month of April. I’m not sure if it’s because the run club has started for the seasons (yay),
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