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I’ve been neglectful with posting lately. I have no clue how many pounds I’m down. I’m seeing differences in my body and feeling differences in my clothes and my workouts. I’ve increased my deadlift by 40 lbs and I’m doing 3 personal training sessions a week.

Feeling strong. Feeling good.

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Amazing!

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Climbing on the Isle of Skye

After cruising our way through the NW Highlands we found ourselves on the fabled Isle of Skye. As usual the weather provided contrasts, varying between bluebird days and torrential rain with little apparent ability of forecasters to keep track(!) However, we managed to achieve several days climbing and camping in the Cuillin mountains and on the low-lying sea cliffs.

The Cuillin gives Britain its roughest rock and also its only routes of alpine stature, with stacked buttresses providing hundreds of metres of continuous climbing of all grades. On this rock the plum line of the crag is as likely to be a 5.4 as a 5.9. And on top of it all is the famous ridge traverse, a two-day outing from one end of the Cuillin to the other.

Not only does this rock provide routes in quantity, but it provides them in quality too. Amazing lines abound, whether they run through huge expanses of blank slab, up continuous corners, or follow arrow-straight crack through roofs and corners up the most unlikely-looking crags and on the most solid of rock. No peak is easy of access, and the Cuillin are renowned for providing the hardest mountains in the British Isles, with climbing and scrambling in abundance a necessity.

As always in the fabled Atlantic Northwest (aka the islands and the northwest highlands) the light is beautiful and the days long, providing endless arctic pastels, double rainbows and golden hours that last half the day. Skye is the perfect island for a rock climber or a traveller alike.

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Rock Climbing in North Wales

Staying in the Climbers’ Club Cwm Glas Mawr hut in Llanberis Pass, we spent six remarkably rain-free days climbing relentlessly. On mountain routes and roadside crags, but always on multi-pitch climbs hard enough to be a challenge for us, the week totally exhausted us! The rhyolite rock here can make for juggy and well protected routes, in an area of great historical significance for British climbing. New ground in terms of difficulty has been broken here many many times over the years.

Today Ogwen and Llanberis remain popular areas for British climbers looking for classic routes of all grades in beautiful surroundings. If you can put up with the weather it’s an amazing place to be. If you’re not particularly social then come midweek!

Route list for the week: Pinky VS 4c ** 58m (2 pitches) Phantom Rib VS 4c *** 74m (4 pitches) Kirkus’s Route VS 4c *** 97m (4 pitches) Lorraine VS 4c ** 79m (4 pitches) Grim Wall VS 4c ** 54m (2 pitches) The Brothers VS 4c ** 57m (2 pitches) One Step in the Clouds VS 4c *** 69m (3 pitches) Merlin VS 4c ** 48m (3 pitches) Western Slabs VS 4c ** 60m (3 pitches)

Total: 9 routes, 21 stars, 27 pitches, 596 metres (1966 ft)!

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Waw!

25lb dropped!

3lb off this week! 2lb to go till the +12 from xmas is gone….a little later than expected but I’m getting there!

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2.5lb off this week. Half off last & 4lb off the week before. Right direction!! And I e walked 36 mile over 3 days in 3 weekends.

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Some views from yesterday's '9 miler in the mud'! Was a hard slog but I burned 1300 calories!! Happy days! Oh, we think the driveway pic is to Rod Stewart's house. MASSIVE!!!😱

4lb aff last night. Ka ching 😉

5 weeks to put it on 5 weeks to get it off!!

I put on 12.5 lb in 5 weeks over the holidays. On the one hand, I’m truly disappointed in myself. On the other….I had a great time! Was it worth it? Right now I'd have to say fuck no. Well maybe in parts.

Anyway, I have to get it back to where I was early December and I’m giving myself 5 weeks to do it from today. Wish me luck!

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The Secret Howff

A four day tramp across the Cairngorms with the aim of finding the legendary secret Slugain Howff of the Fairy Glen. Built in 1952 to hide climbers and walkers from the factors and gamekeepers of the estate on which it was hidden, it was described by Tom Patey as one of the wonders of the Cairngorms, while today it is considered one of its worst kept secrets!

Located only metres from a major path it is all but invisible unless you can climb above it. I managed to find it after a short search (I was pretty sure I knew where to look) and spent the night enjoying the historic ambience.

The walk there was the real highlight, crossing the Braeriach plateau in a whiteout and enduring snow, frost, freezing winds and one beautiful blue-sky day as I traversed the Lairig Ghru. Britain is a tiny country with plenty of adventures crammed into it!

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My home country💙

That's the shortbread nearly finished

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My advice to anyone starting the new year out with weight loss goals:

Don’t be so hard on yourself. There will be set backs. There will be plateaus. There will be times where you won’t have the motivation. But hating yourself and being miserable while trying to get healthy will only make it harder. Don’t let the number on the scale determine your happiness. Love your body now. Be happy now but keep striving for the changes you want to see. Attitude affects everything.

-95 lbs (so far)

Happy then. Happy AND Healthy now.