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Day Thirteen - competitive weight loss
Dieting in a pack is supposedly motivating. Not sure however that the evidence supports this. Definitely not on the basis of the recent...

Trig50ish
Jan 10, 2024
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Day Twelve - wearing a child every day
What weighs 25 kilograms? If you type that into the internet you come up with 2 gold bars, a bulldog, a 50 inch flat screen tv, 3 full...

Trig50ish
Jan 9, 2024
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Day Eleven - first milestone
When you work from 8am to 7:30pm and then have to rush home to put the three year old to bed, it doesn't leave a lot of time to keep up...

Trig50ish
Jan 8, 2024
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Day Ten - playing catch up today
Life is getting in the way of this cartoon a day objective. Having to draw them in one take now in order to get them done on time. So it...

Trig50ish
Jan 7, 2024
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Day Nine - staying the distance
It's been a few days on the diet now and it's around about now that my brain usually says 'well done Trig, nice try, but bloody hell this...

Trig50ish
Jan 6, 2024
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Day Eight - clocking up the metres
It may surprise some, but the truth is I'm not much of a runner. I've always found running as an activity to be utterly pointless unless...

Trig50ish
Jan 5, 2024
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Day Seven - contemplating exercise
One of the advantages of being an indolent slob in your early fifties is that a lifetime of experience being inert has prevented any form...

Trig50ish
Jan 5, 2024
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Day Six - not a lot to report yet
The first week of dieting is mainly a period of mourning. Mourning the good times, the self-indulgence, and the friends you've left...

Trig50ish
Jan 3, 2024
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Day Five - going public
Committed to the diet challenge publicly today by posting the objective on LinkedIn. Received a few positive messages encouraging support...

Trig50ish
Jan 2, 2024
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Day Four - the dreaded scales
Standing on the scales on the first day of your diet is a sobering experience. And even worse if you can't actually see what the scales...

Trig50ish
Jan 1, 2024
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Day Three - morbid obesity
Being described as morbidly obese really hammers home the message of 'you are a dangerously fat blob and you're going to die soon'. I can...

Trig50ish
Dec 31, 2023
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Day Two - only 25 kilos to go
They say the hardest step to take is the first one. But whoever 'they' are, (and I bet they're self-righteously skinny) they're talking...

Trig50ish
Dec 30, 2023
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Day One - fattest I've ever been.
I've been very fat for about 8 years. Morbidly obese. When the doctor told me this 8 years ago, I stopped going to see him because I...

Trig50ish
Dec 29, 2023
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