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sounds like you're beginning to convert fat to muscle, that's good!I have noticed some changes in my body shape but my weight hasn't changed.
Hope you get better mateWell done you chaps for all the efforts including the 'still drinking clan'. Cognac is a big weakness here.
Know how you feel @Badger410
I was recently diagnosed as being pre-pre diabetic whatever the buggery hell that means and put on to the NHS diabetes prevention plan. Now lost a couple of stone, 2 inches on my waistline and getting much fitter out of it all. Cycling 10 to 20+ miles every day (when not on my working week) and arsing about with gardens has made me stronger.
Presently 6ft 2.5" and 14stone 7lbs. 36 waist
I have seen similar recommendations on moving about from other authors as well, but I find that while it is helpful in preventing me from getting "crusty," none of the usual activities I can reasonably do daily gets me the intensity of exercise, and without doing full body workouts + running three times a week, the activities don't amount to much, other than partially offsetting or preventing the worst effects of inactivity/sitting.While adhering to paleo a good while ago, when it came time to softening the somewhat rigid sustinance and exercise regime I found 'The Primal Blueprint' to be really useful ... not least written by a former athlete who realised that his professional career had both made and ruined his body, and he still had the rest of his life which should not revolve around routine eating and exercise.
One of the biggest takeaways for me was his take exercise < no ... activity. Activity, not exercise.
Move around a lot. Pick things up, put things down. Bend and stretch. Every day ensure that you get the heartrate really moving and once a week push yourself so that you are completely out of breath.
... a daily walk is where it's at, which by the sounds of it is exactly what you're doing. That is something you can continue to do even when goals are reached or you are happy with where you get to. Find a good incline and use that for your daily heartrate increase. You get your sun-delivered vitamin D on a walk as well. Fun to stop and sungaze, too - some guidance: https://www.allaboutvision.com/eye-care/eye-health/sun-gazing/ < some science behind it cleansing your pineal gland, which you can look into yourselves. I find closed eyes (not tightly) to be more comfortable.
Sleep is actually the one thing most of these authors put very little emphasis on, but getting the right amount and quality of sleep can hardly be overstated. Annoyingly, I've been struggling with that in the last few years and it shows.
For me, it's also not eating too late, having a window open and making sure to brush my teeth before going to bed.Indeed ... and actually, something that 'The Primal Blueprint' touches upon. Removing all "tech" from your bedroom is recommended. Blackout curtains, too. Wind down for an hour before bed. That said, the biggest impact upon sleep for me as an adult was gained once I had decided to give up drink. Within a couple of days, I realised I lay down, shut my eyes and went to sleep. Waking up, I felt like I had slept. I have had maybe two restless nights since, both down to things on my mind.
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