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  Check-in for Maxine's Challenge begins tomorrow.  I need to go find a bathing suit and enlist my poor suffering daughter to take the "before" shots.  I'll post one here soon.  I'm looking forward to setting up my new nutrition and training plans.  Lockdown has meant swinging between the gym and home for workouts, I must say, I'm getting quite good at finding different exercises to replace those I would have done in the gym.  I think my most used search phrase this past week has been "home alternative exercise to...." I've just had a really yummy protein shake!  I've been trying to be consistent with my increased protein intake these past couple of months.  I must say, it really does make a difference when trying to lose weight and gain muscle.  I try to take in 2g per kilo bodyweight, at the moment that is 156g per day.  I find meeting my protein requirements to be the most tricky thing about nutrition.  I really struggle to take ...

Photo by Alexas_Fotos on Unsplash  It has been nearly a month since I last posted.  The reason- there was not much change to report!  Actually, this isn't true.. I've lost nearly 10% of my body weight, but you can only just tell and I didn't want to post a whole lot of pics of myself looking the same.  Also, I've been so busy being a "Mum's taxi" and going to the gym 4 or 5 days a week.  Unfortunately, we're back in lockdown at the moment, and suddenly I have much more free time!   I suppose the other news is that I've signed up for Maxine's Challenge again.  This is something I do several times a year, though I've not finished one yet.  I keep joining because as a return challenger, I get a generous discount.  I'm quite positive I'll finish this challenge though, mainly because they've changed from a 12 week challenge to a 6 week.  I had my most successful challenge back in 2017, I didn't finish that one either because I w...