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OK - so the headline is a bit cheesy but my new watchword is ’sustainable fitness’. I wanted to register the domain name sustainablefitness.com but it seems there is a bootcamp in the states using this name - shame! That could have been the name for my new company in Australia.

I’m really beginning to have some success with my fitness and weight goals - It has been just over 2 months since starting and I feel like a different person (lots of energy, MUCH better body, stonger, more confident). Sounds like a sales pitch but it isn’t - I don’t have anything to sell except my personal story

But the most amazing thing about it is that I feel like everything I am doing now is sustainable - it isn’t just a blast for a couple of month to lose a bit of weight - then slowly let myself get fat again - then another blast next Spring. I could carry on doing what I am doing for the rest of my life and not feel like I am sacrificing anything. When you do have treats you really enjoy them - I went to the pub last Wednesday and drank 6 pints of lager and had chicken pakora on the way home - not exactly ideal for the body beautiful but I know I ma working bloody hard for the rest of the week and that it shouldn’t really affect me. The key is being able to control it so I don’t do that every night.

I had my body fat percentage measured last week and it was down from 20% to 18.3% over a month. That is great progress I think. I have not lost any weight during that time so have obviously put on muscle mass and stripped fat, which is exactly what I;m supposed to be doing. A sustainable and realistic goal for body fat percentage for me would be 10-12%. That will give me the full six pack without having to devote my life to my body (getting below that is cover model territory and I’m not sure I will be going down that route).

This week I am training 6 days out of 7. One extra personal training session to replace a missed one when I was injured plus one good run. I’ve done 3 days so far and am feeling the difference (not in a good way - I am really tired). But I put that down to not getting enough sleep. I’ve only had 6 hours sleep a night for the last 3 nights and I should be getting 8 hours when I’m training hard. I’ll go to bed early tonight and see where that takes me.