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I’ve Lost 7lbs (1/2 stone) in 11 Days, How’s Your Christmas Mince Pie Flab Doing?

14 January 2012
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What a good start to the New Year’s efforts to loose the Christmas flab! This morning saw me break the 1/2 stone (7 lbs / 3 kg) loss mark, since I started being good again on Tuesday 3rd Jan, which is 11 days ago at the time of writing. What’s even better is that includes [...]

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How I Lost My Beer Belly, It’s Easier Than You Think

1 January 2012

Whilst it is a shocking affront to my delicate English sensibilities to post pictures of myself in my pants onto the net, in the circumstances, it seems like the right thing to do. For your reference, these series of photos were taken 3 months apart each, and so chart what’s possible over a 6 month [...]

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The Calorie Values on most Food Labels are Wrong

9 December 2011
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Further to my very popular recent article on why calorie counting is flawed, I just received this link by email from a friend, which exposes the fact that the calorie values on food are all wrong, because they’re based on the raw ingredients of food. Whereas in fact as soon as you cook / process [...]

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A Calorie, is not a Calorie, is not a Calorie!

22 November 2011
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Diet programs on TV depress me. They depress me because 90% of them continue to trot out the same old advice, which can be summed up as: Weight Change = Calories In – Calories Burned That statement was disproved 55 years ago Oh I wish it were so. I wish that you could reduce the [...]

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Down 5lbs in 7 days – New Year’s Diet Update

8 January 2011

Whilst I know the first week is always the fastest in terms of weight loss, I’m pleased with losing 5lbs in the first week of the new year, dropping from 193lbs to 188 (13st11 to 13st6). If my Tanita scales are to be believed, my body fat percentage has dropped from 20.0% to 19.4%, which [...]

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Paleo Diet Explained in a Simple Video

6 January 2011

I just saw this video over at Mads Jacobsen’s blog which does a great job of explaining the Paleo diet approach: WPvideo 1.10 Personally I mostly follow the Paleo diet where possible (in Zone Diet proportions), but I do add milk and dairy. The reason is, we did evolve to drink milk, your mum’s milk. [...]

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“Oi Colin, I’m trying your diet”

15 July 2010

“Oi Colin, I’m trying your diet” – So started the conversation I had with one of my work colleagues yesterday. “Oh really?” I replied. “And what diet are you trying exactly?” Long story short, one of the guys I work with, who I’ve been sporadically talking to about Crossfit and weight lifting and the zone [...]

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Fatness Leads To Inactivity, But Inactivity Does Not Lead To Fatness

8 July 2010

An interesting British study following 202 kids for 3 years has announced that “fatness leads to inactivity, but inactivity does not lead to fatness”. Whilst there is no suggestion that exercise isn’t good for children, they have determined that activity levels are not a predictor of Body Mass Index (BMI). Rather the reverse is true, [...]

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My response to the “Eat a High Carb” diet argument

31 January 2010

Whilst on Facebook recently, I came across a friend who has just started Crossfit and was being advised by his mates to start taking supplements, e.g. creatine, and eating plenty of carbs, specifically bananas were mentioned. I couldn’t help but give a balancing point of view and quoted the Crossfit 1 sentence diet of: “Eat [...]

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1 Month’s Paleo Diet Experiment

1 September 2009

Today marks the start of a one month dietary experiment with the Paleo Diet. In short, you could call this the Stone Age Diet, or Caveman Diet if you will. It’s allegedly the diet that evolution has designed us to eat, that the evolving human has been eating over the last few million years, but [...]

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