20 Weeks

It’s been a long time since a ‘regular’ update but life has continued pretty much unabated. I’m fully in the home straight when it comes to my parental leave and have only got two weeks left. Let’s go with one of those big ‘state-of-the-union’ style updates where I keep a track on my big ticket items… Goals I didn’t want to waste my parental leave - to look back and think ‘where did the time go?’ Key things that I wanted to achieve included: Lose weight Keep writing Achieve ‘things’ Let’s take each of them in turn: Lose weight I was coming off of the back of 6 months of pretty unhealthy living. No exercise and lots of late night snacking and beer. I’d gone from a fairly muscular 68kg to a much less muscular 72kg. I managed to do a big bunch of weight loss early on with a diverticulitis-enforced diet, but have made much more progress on the ‘muscular’ thing with gym attendance. I was trying to go every other day and have managed 35 different gym sessions since I started on leave for an…