6 ways walking to and from work has improved my life

I know, I know, a bit of a hyperbolic title, but it is true. Anyway, it has been mentioned a few times on the blog, but I have started to walk into and from work every day for the past few weeks for a variety of reasons and I thought I would share with you...

Weight loss journey: How being less hard on myself became a positive

Last time out I broached the topic of how I am finally making a bit of progress on my weight loss and a lot of it was to do with the fact that I was able to structure myself better and that I was being less hard on myself if I did have that snack...

Weight loss journey: finally making progress

I have chatted for a million years about how stop-start my weight loss has been these past two years. 7 months into 2019 I can finally say progress is being made. It may not be much, but July has been kind to my weight loss and I felt like I should talk about it! I...

Exercising while on holiday in New York and Toronto

WHAT! Are you stupid Gilliland!? Enjoy the holiday and relax, eat well and just calm yourself down son. These are the responses I am figuring I might get from the title of this post and they may be true, but I don’t like just chilling and doing nothing all day. I like being active. I...

Walking Challenge 2018 part 2

Welcome back to part 2 of my 3 parter on the walking challenge this year! The next part will be about the results and ceremony and some final thoughts. But this week I will go through what happened throughout the challenge. For the first part check it out here! Week 2 I won week 2!...

Getting back that motivation to keep running

Hello! I recently asked a group of runners on a bi-weekly chat on twitter hosted by UKrunchat and asked them a simple question. Have you ever just lost motivation to run and if so, how did you get it back? It is a question that runs through my mind when I hear people talk about losing the...

Walking challenge 2018

If you remember from last year, I participated in a walking challenge in work (a lot of people work there) and came a respectable third and actually got a voucher for best improvement, because I went all out for it in the final week. Well, the time has come around again and I have set...

Aims for 2018: Part 2 Exercise

Welcome to Part 2! Yesterday I chatted about what my aims are for 2018, today we venture more into what I hope to do in 2018 exercise wise. Let's get to it! 1,2,3,4! RUNNING I want to break this down pretty simple. 2017 was pretty much a loss of a year running wise, I still...

Weight loss to Christmas challenge: 10th – 12th November

Welcome back to my little series about as you can guess from the title... Losing weight before Christmas! To catch up on why I am doing this have a little read here... it's okay, I'll wait. So the gist of the challenge is that I want to lose around 30lbs before December 25th. It is a...

Walking challenge part 4: the end

This week is the last week of the walking challenge and the results! Check out the part 1, part 2 and part 3 here. 80,000 steps, that is how many I was short of first place when I logged in to see the updates. I was devastated, I had put in a mammoth amount of steps...