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I’ll get my coat …

It’s not until you take a long, mournful look back that you can truly appreciate the scale of the obesity inflicted upon one’s self. What was there staring everyone in the face every day was compartmentalised in a tiny mental … Continue reading

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Bupa Great Edinburgh Run

Ten minutes. Pretty insignificant to most, I’m sure. On Sunday morning past it may have been the time it took to boil an egg, take a dog for a walk, or crawl back under the covers just as the rain … Continue reading

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Just 265 days to go ….

Two Fat Laddies, then, is 100 days old. That means Iain and myself now have less than 265 days left to lose a little over five stone between us. By this time our target was to have lost 36.5lbs. In … Continue reading

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Climbing up on Calton Hill with Paul the Trainer

Doubtless when this year is done and dusted there will be things I look back on fondly. The camaraderie, the growth in self-confidence, the better fitness, hell…who knows, maybe even the weight loss. But it may take me a while … Continue reading

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I want to ride my bicycle

Well that’s that then, my first proper, not to-the-shops-and-back jaunt on a bike in years. If not quite Land’s End to John O’Groats it was still enough to be going on with – 12.3 miles along the East Lothian coast … Continue reading

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