A couple of months ago I wrote about magnesium. This is a mineral that is essential to life but is also frequently missing from the diet of modern humans. Since I wrote my previous article Chris and I have both been taking Epsom Salt baths 2-3 times each week and have found ways to build [...]
I’ve had quite a few questions from people since my post about the lifestyle changes that I’m making asking how I fit it all in. Honestly I didn’t know and, out of interest, I kept a very detailed timetable of my life for 5 weeks a couple of months ago to find out. How to [...]
I’m halfway through that type 2 diabetes article, but it’s 21.17 on Thursday evening and with the exception of a links post that I had written but forgot to schedule, I have never had a post go out late. I’m not starting down that line if I can help it so I’m writing about something [...]
The other week I alluded that there were lots of things going on in my life. This was impacting on the time I had available for the things I wanted to do, such as writing blog posts, researching technical material for the blog, getting my workouts in and so on. At the time I said [...]
Last week I went through the basics of type 1 diabetes including what is going on to cause elevated blood glucose levels in a type 1 diabetic, diagnosis, treatments and how being a type 1 diabetic can impact on exercise and training decisions. This week I’m going to look at something far more controversial – [...]
Tags:Diabetes·Paleo diet·Recovery
Apologies if this post comes across as being a little miserable. I’m not in a great place mentally right now. I am working to get back up to speed post holiday but it really isn’t proving easy. I think that most of my problems have been caused by my diet. Adjusting back after the fortnight [...]
I had my first vegetable plot when I was about six or seven. I had been given a vegetable seed kit with lettuce, carrot, radish seeds and a few other bits as a present. My Dad separated off a small section of his enormous vegetable plot where I’d previously pottered about helping (or hindering) him, [...]
Last week I wrote about the powerful reaction that both Chris and I had to reading The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf. While we’ve eaten well over the last few years, we still find there is value to clearing out the kitchen cupboards every so often. Using your kitchen cupboards to best effect Our kitchen [...]
I’ve been on “holiday” this week. We were walking through the Lake District, following Wainwright’s Coast to Coast route from St Bee’s on the east coast as far as Kirkby Stephen on the west side of the Yorkshire Dales. We did the rest of the route (Kirkby Stephen to Robin Hood’s Bay on the east [...]
Tags:barefoot·Diet·Figure·Goals·Psychology·Pudding·Recovery·Self-massage·Vibrams
Some people seem to have the luck of the gods and can get away with never doing soft tissue work, other than when they are damaged or injured. I must confess that I envy these people, perhaps because I am so bad at doing my soft tissue work. However, I’ve had a recent wake-up call, [...]
Tags:Injury·Recovery·Self-massage
