Tag: weight

• Piling on the pounds

  

  I’ve put on a kilogram of weight over the past couple of months. I would like to say it’s extra muscle from doing Joe Wicks’s PE class every day – after all, muscle weighs more than fat – but I think that’s wishful thinking. Perhaps I just need to accept that I’m nearly 45 and […]

  Rachel M

  May 30, 2020

  Journal

  babka, diet, exercise, food, health, lockdown, magnum, Vegan, weight

• The best diet

  

  For about a month I tried skipping breakfast in order to lose a couple of kilos so I could zip up one of my favourite dresses again. I lost one kilo after about three weeks and nothing much happened after that except that I found myself starving all morning and sniffing marmite from the jar. […]

  Rachel M

  February 8, 2020

  Journal

  breakfast, chronobiology, diet, Dr Greger, dresses, fasting, weight

• Running

  I am hobbling around like an 80-year-old today. The reason for this is that I’ve started running. I hate running but it’s exercise and I no longer have Busby for that. But because I am not used to running I have sore muscles. My calves are sore, my hamstrings are sore and my thighs are […]

  Rachel M

  February 6, 2014

  Auckland

  calories, cycling, exercise, kindergarten, rabies, running, school, vaccination, Vegan, weight