Here’s something I learned today – always double check labels, just because something is ‘OK’ in one brand doesn’t mean it will be in another. I eat pickled onions (6 to be exact) every day with my sandwich. A few days ago my fiance ate one and commented on how salty they were – I [...]

It’s been a while since I last blogged, how naughty of me. As I mentioned in my last post I did count my calories obsessively for about a week just to get an idea of what I was eating and making sure nothing had slipped – I checked the packages of everything, even the things [...]

After many complaints and much wrangling I managed to get my elliptical replaced, the new one arrived today and I can’t wait to get it up and used! I am going to build it tomorrow, this will be about the 4th one I have done now and I know from experience that building it is [...]

Well yesterday I had my first failure at Couch to 5k, I have also somehow gained 4 pounds – although actually you’ll notice I have not ‘logged’ the gain or updated my stats because I don’t actually believe it to be accurate. I think I am just retaining water due to that time of the [...]

One thing I have quickly realised is how hard it is to keep making these Couch to 5k podcasts, the first few are easy to find the tracks for but as you make more you see it’s harder and harder to find really good running songs that are the right sort of speed and are [...]

I am still on with my couch to 5k plan, yesterday I completed W3D2. I still dislike going out and having to do it in ‘public’, but I have discovered wearing a cap is a life saver – whenever there’s a bunch of people or cars or anything I don’t like I can just hide [...]