Kat & Tshepi

Hello there,

Welcome back to K&T blog, how are you?

We hope you had a good week, a good start to the second term of 2025, how did you do on your weight loss progress this week? On our side, the week was fairly good as we maintained a stable diet and exercise schedule, it was a good start to the second term. We are always happy when we maintain anything stable with regards to weight loss because it is CONSISTENCY that achieves the goal at the end of the day, you have to repeatedly perform what you committed to do.

Fitness is like marriage, you cant cheat on it and expect it to work – Bonnie Phester.

In our post last week we gave a tip from lessons learned of the first quarter, we said ” If you still have baked goods and confectionaries on your menu, it will still be hard to lose weight in the second quarter.” , this week we decided to walk the talk and challenged ourselves to leave-out bread from our menu. We always knew (theoretically & now practically) that the combination of flour and sugar is a nemesis to losing weight , baked goods are innocent but deadly, and unfortunately they are a staple for majority of people. We like baked goods, especially freshly baked bread, but we are aware that when you like and enjoy something you turn to play ignorance to its negative ramifications, It is only by facing it squarely in the eyes that you start to make progress, let’s see how this one goes.

“The best way out is always through” – Robert Frost.

Talking about “walking the talk”, we recently purchased fitness watches, the last pair we owned died on us about 2 years back and we have been reluctant to replacing them . When we had them the first time around they were very useful in tracking the number of steps we took each day, we had set a target of 10 000 steps per day and the watches encouraged us to walk a little bit more throughout the day to make target. Fitness watches were one of the many helpful tools we used to improve our activity levels and to succeed at losing weight, getting fit and healthy.

Walking is a basic form of exercise, it is a low hanging fruit if you would like to lose weight but don’t have the motivation and time to work out, you can do it anytime and anywhere. Walking helps with burning more calories, improving cardio vascular health, improving mental health and increasing energy levels. Walking 10 000 steps per day is a popular recommendation in fitness circles, it is a good challenge to take to improve one’s health status because our sedentary lifestyle holds nothing good for us. Someone said “Sitting is the new smoking“, if this is the case then it is time to walk the walk and lose some weight.

A device that is used to count the number of steps that a person take is called a Pedometer. If you want to start counting your steps, you can use a pedometer app (or any fitness app) on your phone , or purchase an activity tracker watch (these are fairly cheap) or you can get a fitness watch(prices ranges from reasonable to outrageous) . But hey, if you would rather not use technology and opt for simplicity, 10 000 steps equates to 1 hour & 45 minutes of walking time, if you break these into manageable timeslots of walking throughout the day, you can make it happen.

That’s it for this week, our recent re-use of fitness watches feels like regaining a useful artillery to combating weight loss, these watches also reminded us of the ideals that were developed during the period of Covid-19 pandemic. In the wake of the perils of unhealthy living, walking was one of the first antidotes that many adopted to improve health and their overall wellbeing but now it appears that the farther we steer away from the pandemic the faster we lose that ideal of healthy living that we started to pursue in those days . How quickly we forget and revert to our old ways.

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”- André Gide.

Until next week, keep working on your weight loss journey, and stay blessed.

Kat & Tshepi