WEIGHT-LOSS CHALLENGE

Weight gain happens slowly but surely when you're very busy. I exercise daily (sometimes twice a day), do intermittent fasting most evenings from 7pm to 10am, and am not a big eater. But I love my wine, and probably need to cut back on that if I want to lose the weight I've gained over the past year or so: 7.5kg.

The types of exercise that I do include: weight training (varied); HIIT (light weights, many reps), rebounding (cardio that doesn't hurt my knees), and splashing around in the pool/races most days with my son.

In the working year (my son's school term and when I'm not on leave from mid Dec to early Jan), I have coffee on waking up, coffee and a salad/something high protein around 10:30, run, drink water, fetch my son, do a rebounder session, and swim with my son in between work demands (predominantly writing/public relations tasks for a wide range of different clients and agencies). I have the second meal of the day in the early evening, say 6pm, which tends to be protein and veg based. You may comment that I couldn't possibly be more active or eat less (I generally just take in fluids during the afternoons - water, coke lite, occasionally a smoothie). But my age is a factor, as well as a low-dose of medication that I'm on.

White wine is one of the few things I really enjoy, so I'm not keen to cut it out completely. My aim is simply to drink a bit less of it. Then, food is becoming increasingly expensive; sometimes you simply have to eat what's in the house, which makes stocking up on things like tuna, eggs, cheese, salads ingredients very important.

Anyhow, I'm challenging myself from today, 3 January 2023, to lose the 7.5kg I've gained since my son was born by trying to make a few small, healthy changes. I'll write about these as I try them out and see which work for me.

Happy New Year to all of you also aiming to become your very best you in 2023!