The Movable Beast

I believe it was back day here, and perhaps bad hair day too! It's a bugger trying to use your dog's electric clippers to cut the back of your head, but I am getting better at it! (I wear the mask all the time at the gym by the way, except for this quick selfie, as you can see I am socially distanced, well, alone.)... http://movablebeast.ca//glad-tidings-motivation-and-high-/

A Christmas colour meal...

A work in progress that has finally hit its stride! I had spent some privileged childhood Christmases on the beautiful island of Barbados. During one of those stays a lovely woman, the wife of a Bajan politician, Sir Theodore Brancker, introduced me to Christmas rum cake at their Boxing day party. I’ll never forget her giving me a cake of my own to bring back to Canada, where I very carefully sliced off rations to make it last as long as possible through the Canadian winter.... http://movablebeast.ca//the-vegan-barbados-christmas-rum-/

(I was going to call this the "minefield" but for obvious reasons I won't.) I want to share some recent insights into the "task" of weight-loss since the whole procedure can be pretty difficult if you are someone like me who doesn't spend much time in his left brain. When people start talking calories or points my tinnitus kicks in, my heart beats hard, and I look for an escape route (this all being said by me, a trainer and nutritionist) and I go into a temporary deaf and panic mode.... http://movablebeast.ca/2020/12/16/the-obstacle-course/

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