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To the Around Fifteen Percent blog. A place where I intend to document my post-covid journey from fat-f**k to a significantly healthier body composition of Around Fifteen Percent adipose tissue.

My Latest Posts

  • Easy Like Sunday Morning
    I wanted to have a relatively chill Sunday and thought I could do a quick post linking to something positive and helpful. Turned out to be harder than I thought. Should maybe go searching in the week if I intend to do this again. The problem is filtering through the bullsh!t, the posts that areContinue reading “Easy Like Sunday Morning”
  • A Word on Diet
    Notice I said diet, not diets. That’s because I’m not talking about a temporary change to what I eat, where I turn everything upside down for a relatively short period before going back to my old patterns. That way madness lies. Its not a solution, it’s a cycle. Going round and round without end. SisyphusContinue reading “A Word on Diet”
  • Biting the Bullet
    I’ve been eating less, and better, for nearly a week now. But, I haven’t been tracking anything. Of course, “we never weigh ourselves at our heaviest”. I don’t remember who I heard say it, but it’s not mine. I’m borrowing it with this half arsed attribution. Enough procrastination, today is the day. I already gotContinue reading “Biting the Bullet”
  • By Any Other Name
    So, what’s the deal with the name? What’s Around Fifteen Percent? Why fifteen? Why so inexact? Well, Around Fifteen Percent is the amount of body fat I am aiming for. That was easy. The other two questions are gonna require a little more effort though… Fifteen is a nice round number that is in theContinue reading “By Any Other Name”
  • Everything must have a beginning
    I’ve always been a chunky monkey. When I was a child they called it puppy fat. Then, when I was a teenager, I burnt through quite alot of it, what with all the growing and keeping fairly activity. But, still, I was never exactly thin. And then, I went to uni, where I managed toContinue reading “Everything must have a beginning”