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воскресенье, 15 января 2017 г.

WildFit Challenge – Week 11 & 12 – A Small Break

Still in Spring, still enjoying it, still losing weight! All good so far. The only change really during this period is that for Week 12 we came out of Spring together as a group. Now that doesn’t mean going wild, cheating and eating all kinds of junk (still no sugar, dairy etc).


But it does mean you can eat some fruits in the morning (preferably start with berries) and towards the end of the week indulge in some complex carbs (sweet potato and brown rice for example).


Week 11


The shopping began at this point! I’d lost so much weight I couldn’t comfortably wear my old clothes anymore – they looked ridiculous and were just tremendously lose.


You can see my process of getting rid of my old stuff here:



Shopping at FOS






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May not look the best in this at this point, but it’s an XL in a regular store (FOS) AND it’s muscle fit. So yah, progress for sure. I can actually shop in high street stores now like H&M, Uniqlo, Old Navy and FOS.


Amazingly I’m only an L in H&M, not even an XL!


And I got my first item ever from Uniqlo, a pair of jeans – quite a monumental moment for me.


Uniqlo Jeans


Happy days!


We managed to squeeze another meal in at ChimiChurri Jaya One too, probably our favourite place to eat on diet. Totally sugar free, a great selection of proteins and cauli rice!


ChimiChurri Jaya One


Week 12


So this week we were supposed to go out of Spring, but honestly for us we’d been kind of in and out anyway and as we were in December and we knew we were very likely to go way off the rails over the Christmas period we decided just to stay in (pretty) deep Spring.


I had a 2 day company meeting off-site, so that was a bit of a challenge. But as with anything, a bit of effort and planning can mitigate against less than ideal circumstances in most cases.


Hotel Buffet Lunch


The one thing I do appreciate more now is hotel buffets, because it allows you to select what you want, what is on diet and you can try a small amount of a few things to see if they are sweet/not suitable etc. This is what I had for lunch basically, loads of steak and prawns and sparkling water – and it was delicious.


We also went our for dinner too, and I managed that on diet with rotisserie chicken and rattatouie – it came with potatoes so I just asked them to swap that for more vegetables. It was delicious!


Dinner Out






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Yah I’m also that weirdo that brings their own tea to events now haha. Rooibos ftw!


Rooibos Tea


I also did a bit of cooking this week, a typical Summer type dinner – Spatchcock chicken with a lemon mayonnaise, sweet potato wedges and some stir fried spinach in coconut amino’s.


Spatchcock Chicken


We did have some summer meals during the week, just not all the time and we chose not to have any fruit at all.


Week 11 & 12 Summary


Pretty interesting times for us as it felt more like we were learning how to live with a WildFit type diet for the long term, what was below our line of acceptability (things that you absolutely wont eat) and what we thought we’d keep in our lives even knowing it was bad for our health (butter!).


Excercise wise, I’m still keeping up my Couch to 5k, although week 4 got REAL tough, I’ve had to retry it a few times. And I’m doing my daily pushups, I’m up to 14 a day now – from the beginning when I couldn’t even really do 2 pushups properly. Quite a lot of progress.


We will keep going, living mostly in Spring and cycling in and out when we feel the need (or desire) to, but eating as much veges as we can at every meal, drinking plenty of water and keeping the bad stuff to a minimum.


Up to date, I’ve lost about 15kg (around 33lbs) on WildFit and in total since June I’ve lost around 22kg (around 49lbs) including losing 5% body fat on WildFit and 11% since June (still a long way to go).






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My ideal weight according to the ‘charts’ is around 95kg and my current target for Body Fat % is to get below 24% which would put me back in the normal range. Although my long term goal is to get to 18% or below, ideally around 15%.


I started WildFit at 125kg and 32% Body Fat, right now I’m at 110kg and 27% Body Fat (In June I was 132kg and 38% Body Fat).


If you’re interested in measuring your Body Fat (which is a way more relevant measure than weight) the most accurate way at home is with the Accu-Measure Body Fat Calipers.


You can also get a scale that measures pretty accurately and is much easier (and less painful) like the Tanita BF680W Body Fat Monitor or what I use which is the Fitbit Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale.


To summarise:


– Drink more water (at least 6-8 large glasses a day)

– Drink the Alkagizer Prime every day (no fruits)

– Add an EXTRA portion of vegetables at every meal

– Continue removing refined sugars

– Continue removing all grains (rice, wheat etc) and white potato

– Continue removing dairy (and all byproducts)

– Continue to remove Food additives, Nicotine, Alcohol and Caffeine

– Continue to Remove fruits, sweet vegetables, beans and honey


Food wise, no changes, apart from having a bit of Summer in Week 12. Remember the tips if you are struggling with the switch and energy (more good fats, plenty of salt, aerobic exercise etc) and keep on in WildFit Spring!


All my WildFit posts are here:


WildFit Challenge – Week 1 – Inner Dialogue

WildFit Challenge – Week 2 – Alkagizer Mild

WildFit Challenge – Week 3 – NO SUGAR!

WildFit Challenge – Week 4 – NO CARBS Or Dairy

WildFit Challenge – Week 5 – No Alcohol or Caffeine

WildFit Challenge – Week 6 – Entering Ketosis AKA Spring

WildFit Challenge – Week 7 & 8 – Staying In Spring

WildFit Challenge – Week 9 & 10 – Yah Still Spring


And you can find out more and buy WildFit here: Join the WildFit 90 Day Challenge


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понедельник, 5 декабря 2016 г.

VLOG001 – Easy Paleo Mayonnaise Recipe (Whole30 Compliant)

I started Vlogging (yay) and here’s my first video an easy Paleo Mayonnaise recipe which is also Whole30 compliant and of course SUGAR FREE.


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WildFit has changed me so much (totally changed our lives in fact) and I had a bit of a milestone today – I managed to buy a pair of Uniqlo jeans – which means I no longer have to wear ‘fat man’ clothes (which my wife calls choosing between ugly shirt A or ugly shirt B) and I can wear things I want to wear as I can fit in regular sizes on normal shops now – so I’m SUPER happy about that.


Anyway, I decided to try something else new as well, which is vlogging – many people asked about how to make Mayonnaise so that’s my first video, if you are interested in this kinda thing and more WildFit/Paleo/Whole30 compliant tips and recipes (nut butter, pickles, pancakes, deep fried oysters etc) tune in.


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I’ll also be vlogging about other random other stuff as I’ll just be recording my life with my family and what I get up to (so expect to see some Liam too).


So please subscribe, share the videos if you find them useful and give me feedback!


If you have any questions, ask them below or on the video.


Here are my WildFit posts:


WildFit Challenge – Week 1 – Inner Dialogue

WildFit Challenge – Week 2 – Alkagizer Mild

WildFit Challenge – Week 3 – NO SUGAR!

WildFit Challenge – Week 4 – NO CARBS Or Dairy

WildFit Challenge – Week 5 – No Alcohol or Caffeine

WildFit Challenge – Week 6 – Entering Ketosis AKA Spring

WildFit Challenge – Week 7 & 8 – Staying In Spring

WildFit Challenge – Week 9 & 10 – Yah Still Spring

WildFit Challenge – Week 11 & 12 – A Small Break


And you can find out more and buy WildFit here: Why WildFit – a 3 Part Video Series


And remember to subscribe to my VLOG: http://bit.ly/2h7PmVu


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пятница, 2 декабря 2016 г.

WildFit Challenge – Week 7 & 8 – Staying In Spring

Into WildFit Challenge week 7 we go (and week 8 really as they are pretty much the same). Honestly being in Spring gets easier and easier and week 7 is significantly better than week 6 (which is by FAR the hardest week of all) and then 8 is better than 7 and so on.


So yeah, things were going well – during week 7 I was down to about 119kg which is around 6kg down from the start of WildFit when I was 125kg.


Week 7


Spring is actually not too difficult, especially for us as we both enjoy cooking, we have the equipment, the tools and the skills to cook tasty food within the constraints of Spring.


The only really danger in Spring is boredom, I don’t really feel hungry, my energy is stabilised and I find eating much more salt helps (ketosis is diuretic and fat stores a lot of water and mineral content) so 3-5 grams a day is good (high quality pink Himalayan salt or unprocessed sea salt).


We had some amazing meals nevertheless.


Paleo Ikan Bakar (yes you can find chili boh and sambal with no sugar).


Paleo Ikan Bakar






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Served with cauliflower and broccoli rice of course (our go-to for Asian food).


Yah I was in a spicy, Asian food mood haha – one of my favourites – Petai Prawns!


Paleo Petai Prawns


We also found a great and completely compliant place to eat out – Chimichurri Jaya One. They have 2 really nice dressings without sugar and you can assemble your meal to be completely spring/paleo compliant.


Chimichurri Jaya One


More Asian food haha, this is something we have every week now seen as though we shop at NSK every Sunday night we grab a lovely fresh Siakap and steam it or oven bake it with ginger, garlic, chilis and some coconut aminos or Bragg’s aminos.


Paleo Steamed Fish


Week 8






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We had another go at eating out at a place called Goodness Greens Cafe in TTDI, not even gonna talk about that as I had a bad experience and won’t be going back. Basically, a place that’s pretending to be healthy-ish – but really isn’t and has NO Dressings on the menu without some form of sugar (apart from plain olive oil, which I ended up having to have).


Bah Kuh Teh with konyaku noodles. If you have noodle cravings, these will be your saviour. In the US they sold as Miracle noodles or something like that, basically carb free, zero calorie noodles. 97% water and some undigestible fibre.


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There’s no real secret to this phase, or staying in Spring other than to keep yourself fed well, make the effort to shop – learn to cook better and be creative.


Google whatever you want to eat + Paleo and then adapt it to fit in Spring.


Honestly don’t have a whole lot of meal pictures after this point as it stopped being a novelty and just started being how we eat every day, we don’t feel hungry, we have amazing energy, we sleep great and even when we don’t sleep that long we don’t feel tired all day.


Cravings are 99% gone (the odd devil conversation does pop-up now and then).


Pretty amazing really.


Buying some Ketostix – Ketone Measurement Sticks


This is also the stage when you want to know if you are entering Ketosis. So I bought some Ketostix aka Ketone sticks to test how I was doing, apparently, I was doing great (or not depending on how much you read..).


Ketone Sticks Malaysia


I bought the Sensatest Ketone Urine Reagent Strips 100 Strips from Lazada.


So yah, definitely in Ketosis, in optional nutritional ketosis? Probably not – but on the way for sure! It’s good to have a sign that we were doing the right thing. Now you have to understand Ketone urine reagent strips and that they measure what equates to excess ketones and also don’t measure the type of ketones you produce when you are fully keto or fat adapted.


So they are a very blunt tool. If you want an accurate measurement you need to do a blood test with something like the Precision Xtra NFR Blood Glucose Monitoring System – but that’s a step too far for me.


You can read this to understand more:



Week 7 & 8 Summary






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This is the time to buckle down, get into a rhythm and commit to doing this for as long as you need to. We surprisingly didn’t struggle too much, of course, cravings hit us hard sometimes – and we succumbed to some compliant as possible treats from time to time (almond coconut cookies and similar).


We ate a lot, made sure we had plenty of variety and still ate out at least once a week (our weekly Nando’s outing – a whole chicken with 4 portions of grilled vegetables, no carrots).


With the odd other meal at Paleolicious, ChimiChurri or sometimes we had to make do with whatever was available that was most supportive of our health (Subway salad is an option).


This is also a great time to start working out with a little more intention, which is why I started back up my Couch to 5k training.


And if you want to go a little deeper, here are some great books to read on the subject:


– The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living

– Keto Clarity: Your Definitive Guide to the Benefits of a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet

– The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance

– Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

– Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

– Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar–Your Brain’s Silent Killers

– New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Diet for Shedding Weight and Feeling Great.

– The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss

– Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

– The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted


Read all of the above and you’ll be in an educated position to take complete control of your health. It’s a powerful position to be in.


If you are struggling to switch into ketosis, remember the following tips:


– Up your salt intake (my preference is Himalayan pink salt as it’s very mineral rich and pretty cheap and easily available here)

– Eat plenty of healthy fats (Coconut oil, fatty fish, avocados)

– Even more water than usual

– At minimum some moderate exercise (brisk walking for 20-30 minutes every day is enough, especially when you feel low energy)


To summarise:


– Drink more water (at least 6-8 large glasses a day)

– Drink the Alkagizer Prime every day (no fruits)

– Add an EXTRA portion of vegetables at every meal

– Continue removing refined sugars

– Continue removing all grains (rice, wheat etc) and white potato

– Continue removing dairy (and all byproducts)

– Continue to remove Food additives, Nicotine, Alcohol and Caffeine

– Continue to Remove fruits, sweet vegetables, beans and honey


Yup, so no change – keep on in WildFit Spring!


All my WildFit posts are here:


WildFit Challenge – Week 1 – Inner Dialogue

WildFit Challenge – Week 2 – Alkagizer Mild

WildFit Challenge – Week 3 – NO SUGAR!

WildFit Challenge – Week 4 – NO CARBS Or Dairy

WildFit Challenge – Week 5 – No Alcohol or Caffeine

WildFit Challenge – Week 6 – Entering Ketosis AKA Spring

WildFit Challenge – Week 9 & 10 – Yah Still Spring

WildFit Challenge – Week 11 & 12 – A Small Break


And you can find out more and buy WildFit here: Join the WildFit 90 Day Challenge


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