About 7 years ago, I reached the heaviest weight of my life.  99kgs (or 218lbs).  That’s about 10kg (22lbs) heavier than I am now.  I was drinking at least two litres (over half a gallon) (from now on, I’m sticking to Kilos and Litres) of coke a day while at the same time, doing no physical activity.  I felt like crap.

For 7 months I walked between 4 and 12 Kilometres (2.5 and 7.5 miles) a day around a 4 km park path near my home.  It took around 30 mins to do a lap.  The first few times, I nearly died.  I worked up a sweat, my legs killed me and I got out of breath very quickly but I kept it up.

It would have been lucky if I lost 2 kgs in that 7 months.  It became very easy quite quickly though.  I was soon walking as fast as I could, even powering up each hill I came to.  I began to enjoy those walks and look forward to them.  I was becoming fit!

After 7 months of walking, I did a couple of Swedish massage courses and lost interest in the walking.  Every day for 2 hours after work, I’d massage someone.  I soon built a large clientelle.  Well, I wasn’t charging.

Because every night after work I’d have to rush home, shower, change and either get ready to massage or pack every up and go out to massage, I never had an evening meal.

In three months I lost 20 kgs.  I put this down to all the walking I had done for 7 months, the two hours of massage I did a day and the no eating, most nights, of an evening meal.

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