Year-end review :)

Been nearly a year since I decided to improve my lifestyle and must confess I am pleasantly surprised and proud of what I have managed over the past year. Highlights:

Before

After

1. Lost 25 Kgs; Waist is down 6-8 inches!
2. Played soccer in an amateur league last year. Picked up racquetball and tennis. Playing badminton regularly these days.
3. Climbed Mt. Kenya
4. Completed Insanity

And to be honest, it has been surprisingly easy - all it took was one moment of saying let's do it. The first couple of weeks of Insanity were the only ones where it took a great amount of mental perseverance to keep going but after that it's really been fun.

Easy lifestyle changes that helped me (I didn't make all of them at once and have been slowly incorporating them):
1. Cut down on alcohol - Plan to completely quit drinking now. Have been completely sober for sometime now.
2. Dinner is evil - try to finish a light dinner before 1930 hrs most days.
3. Workout - Any type, any time that suits me. If I don't feel like working out, I don't but that rarely happens.
4. Try to avoid junk food - doesn't always happen but sometime during the year the cravings have vanished. I crave salads and fruits now... weird but true...

Next challenges - Devils Circuit (my upper body strength is still worse than a newborns but I am working on it) & the North Face Endurance Challenge :)

There is a LVG rant coming soon... he has killed the spirit of the team :(