Welcome to my April Progress Report! Each month I publish a report with the aim of transparently showing how following a simple regular running plan is helping me lose weight and keep that weight off for good (as time will hopefully tell). April has been another record month for me. I am feeling more confident with very run and I am lucky enough to still be seeing some weight loss even though I have not yet made any substantial changes to my...

Welcome to my March Progress Report! Every month, I publish an update on my progress as I run to lose weight. By following my own advice and training ideas, I intend to make regular running a habit and lose the weight I have always wanted to shift, for good. By transparently reporting on my progress, you can judge for yourself whether running to lose weight works and if it’ll work for you too. To be honest, posting these is a huge...

At the start of February I decided to pick up again on my progress reports on the blog and own up to the pledge I made when I started out, back in October. That was to be transparent about my progress and let you all know how successful, or unsuccessful, I had been whilst I was following my own training plan. Back in the early days of the site, I took to posting regular updates whilst I completed the first 5 weeks of the training plan. This...

Hi Folks, Well I headed out on my first early morning run adventure yesterday, which went well, I enjoyed the run but held a few surprises for me. To set the scene, I’d been up at around 5am with the little guy giving him a feed. He’d settled back down at 6am which left me with that quandry. Back to bed for an hour? or stay up until I have to head out to work? then of course the idea of going for a run popped into my head. Now from...

Well I have just hit the end of week 5 of my plan. It feels great! Where on earth I am in ‘real weeks’ I don’t know, Seven maybe? I’ll have to work that out at some point. I suppose this is what I get for starting this off at the same time as a new baby and the usual desk job hours. I do hope that you are able to keep up sessions more regularly than I am managing, if you are following the beginners running plan. I...

… as my wife said when I arrived in after my session today. I can see why, it was a tough one but it was well worth it. There are two things going on here. Firstly, because of work, life, baby etc.. It has actually been 5 days since my last session! far to much of a break in my books, but I am so glad that I got out tonight and will be out again in two days to make up for the excessive rest period. I was a bit worried about how I would do...