Today’s the day I placed my mother into care. Into the hands of strangers. Professionals to trust with a precious burden, but those who follow their educatio...

It is easy when faced with a 101 year-old athlete to forget that her son, who has been competing for many years will be 80 next year, and is still training h...

WEIGHTLINE 100: 83.5Kg   (WEIGHTLINE 001: 95.5Kg) - 12Kg drop This is it! The end of a 100 day, change my life, lift off my weight, public jaunt. It has bee...

WEIGHTLINE 099: 84Kg Here it is! This is me! After 99 days of dietary change & good exercise, I've lost 12Kg and my body shape has changed. I've been taking ...

WEIGHTLINE 098: 84Kg Tomorrow I will take the final picture of myself on my 100 day journey & publish a before and after, so today I thought I would give you...

WEIGHTLINE 097: 84Kg World Masters Games 2017. Most of the sports will boil down to two opponents waiting to see who will blink first. It's about fitness (so...

WEIGHTLINE 096: 84Kg I wrote yesterday about mental focus. Easy to say, much more difficult to achieve. I'm lucky; I do a job I love & there is probably noth...

WEIGHTLINE 095: 84Kg Determination. Stamina. Mental focus. Losing weight is about nothing else. So is competitive sport. In both arenas you can do all the pr...

WEIGHTLINE 094: 84Kg Ever seen an overweight beach volleyball competitor? I haven't, and it's probably because it is a gruelling sport. Mairangi Bay is playi...

WEIGHTLINE 093: 84Kg "Eat your veg, you'll grow up fit and strong!" Kids will never listen, well perhaps not until they have kids of their own! There were a ...

WEIGHTLINE 092: 84Kg When does the fuelling of your body start? We know that we sleep at nighttime to regenerate the cells, so is it after this that the cycl...

WEIGHTLINE 091: 84Kg The final countdown has started - just 10 days to go! A few of you have enquired about before and after photos? Well, I have been photog...

WEIGHTLINE 090: 84Kg A momentum is now building that is too strong & persistent to ignore. It is movement away from dairy. The evidence, the belief adoption,...

WEIGHTLINE 089: 84Kg Browsing through the Ian Potter Centre of Australian art, part of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne on our recent trip, I fo...

WEIGHTLINE 088: 84Kg Meet Jack. Jack is an African Grey parrot, more accurately a Congo African Grey. His feathers are ruffled because he's been encouraged t...

WEIGHTLINE 087: 84Kg Just because it's on your plate, does not mean you have to finish it! This is a crucial lesson I am trying to learn, but boy, is it diff...

WEIGHTLINE 086: 84Kg I talked yesterday about weight being more directly related to food than to exercise. The NZ Herald this morning highlighted a study tha...

WEIGHTLINE 085: 84Kg It took a day longer than I'd hoped, but I cracked another kilo this morning! So, 12Kg down with only just over 2 weeks to go. My target...

WEIGHTLINE 084: 85Kg I was rather poetically hoping that I could record 84Kg against Day 84, but didn't quite make it. Nearly. At my morning weigh in I was 8...

WEIGHTLINE 083: 85Kg They say timing is everything. Well, it certainly is in a sport like badminton. I was having a debate today & I wasn't believed when I s...