Over time I collect together quite a lot of links in my Google Reader, stored up because I think they would be worth sharing with people who read the blog. Last weekend I thought I’d play a bit of a game, starting with my oldest link and then playing a form of word association with [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Diet·Fat·Figure·Intermittent fasting·Sleep
It has been a few years since I moved to a more Paleo diet, slightly longer that I have been low carb. In comparison it has only been about six months that I have been trying daily fasting. One meal a day makes life so much less complicated. Unfortunately two weeks, instead of one, in [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Endurance·Fat adaption·Intermittent fasting·Paleo diet
I can be as serious as I like about meeting national qualifying standards in powerlifting and wanting to compete at some point in the future, but it doesn’t mean I don’t go away sometimes. Unfortunately for my powerlifting a trip away is rarely anything other than a thoroughly active time, usually involving some sort of [...]
On Monday I wrote the following about my “holiday”: The reason for the inverted commas is that I was walking over half of the UK’s coast-to-coast. This is a 192 mile (307km) walk from St Bees on the west cost to Robin Hoods Bay on the east coast, crossing several of our National Parks enroute [...]
Weight loss – part 5 This is the fifth part in a series about weight loss including diet, exercise, measuring your success and keeping the weight off when you stop. So far we’ve looked at the principles behind calorie deficits and some specific foods that should ideally be avoided in order to improve weight loss [...]
There have been a lot of articles about intermittent fasting recently. For years we’ve had staunch instruction from some of the greatest minds in the fitness industry that to succeed in both fat loss and strength gains we should eat several small meals a day. We should aim to eat 5 meals a day, perhaps [...]
