There’s a balance to be struck though. My mental health suffered massively from WFH and I know that I’m not alone in that. I get that for some people the opposite is true so we need to move towards a more flexible approach all round to accommodate everyone
Agreed.
My mental & physical health has dramatically increased, but then I’ve always been someone who enjoys his solitude.
What I’d like to see is true hybrid working rolled out as universally as possible; be in the office when you want to be. All these roles being advertised that claim to be hybrid, but then force the candidate to work from the office for 4 days per week can get in the sea. (Unless there’s a good reason; like national security, which is something that can impact the roles that I see).
I love WFH. Makes life easier.
Boots have told their head office workers that from Sept 1st it will be 5 days a week in the office. Apparently 3000 head office workers have now set their linkedin status to open to work
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My place is like this, and it does just work.
If we want to go into an office, book a desk and in we go. If we need to for client meetings etc same applies although generally they will be on a client site.
Same, we can choose anywhere between 1 and 5 days in the office, any more than 3 and you get your own space, under 3 and you hotdesk.
I count my time in the office in days per month, and so far it hasn’t gone above 2. But that’s more to due with me living 100 miles away.
Just from a Yoga class… it was better than I expected and likely to become a regular event for us.
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I’m 3 weeks away from going from 5 days a week in the office (my choice) to 3/4 days a month, mainly as it’s 122 miles away.
Feels like back to lockdown, but I’m looking forward to this as one of the challenges of the new role.
The amount of additional time I’ve found myself with has genuinely been life-changing. Not only in a fitness perspective, but also from a study/development perspective too, but also from just feeling less stressed overall and sleeping better.
As above, I know that this doesn’t happen for everyone, but it’s been great for me. I’m now just trying to find the exact right balance between solitude and sociability.
Early start this morning and loved it. I wasn’t even wearing my fast shoes this morning - 16 miles in around 2½ hours with a good level of energy throughout.
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The 2 hardest weeks are the next fortnight. 18 miles on Saturday coming, followed by 22 miles the Saturday afterwards.
It’s then a 3-week taper into race day on the 21st April.
This is image was taken a few weeks ago, but it’s my training plan. I start Week 12 on Monday.
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My new flat is on the third floor, with a parking space as far from the door to the building as possible.
Today I went up and down the stairs over 40 times, most times fully laden with bags and boxes. I’m now feeling it in my legs, but should hopefully have been a good workout for them.
Time to test out the new bath with a beer or two.
I’m finding this current period weird from a diet perspective.
Whilst I never really had a target weight, I’m comfortable with where my weight now sits; the fact that I’ve bought an XS sized shirt that fits over lunch today shows that I should probably not lose anymore.
But I’m now struggling to shift my mindset from a weight-loss mindset to a weight-maintenance one. I find myself still waiting to do 16:8 fasts and keep a calorie deficit, even after hard training sessions. I’m having to force myself to eat some kind of breakfast because I’ve become used to not doing so.
There were many problems that I expected to encounter over this weight loss timeframe and was thus able to plan appropriately for them, but this isn’t one I expected to experience.
Might be worth seeing a nutritionist to reset your diet properly. Give yourself some external system to follow that keeps you closer to maintenance calories for your MBR.
Ive just started my Invisalign yesterday - what a way to force yourself to stop snacking 
Its going to be a long 39 weeks
out of interest, how did you start the weight loss program? Slowly reducing portion sizes until breakfast was cut out entirely or cold turkey?
if the former, that might be a proven route to starting up again. starting slowly until you have reached the meal size you feel is appropriate?
Possibly, but I went with the latter. The time suddenly felt right, so I went with it cold turkey (which, conveniently, is also one of the things I eat on this diet).
Overnight I dropped my calories to 1,800 (and later to 1,600), started keto and introduced a fixed 10:00 - 18:00 feeding window.
I’ve already stopped tracking calories, as that’s no longer necessary. I’ll be sticking to keto until at least my marathon, as changing so close to the date could lead to complications that could affect the race. I’m now trying to be more flexible with my feeding window and not focus so much on maintaining a 16+ hour fast each day.
The weight is actually doing what I want it to and being pretty stable (except after a long run, but that’s mostly dehydration), it’s just the mindset I’m noticing.
Getting nervous now, boys and girls.
I’m entering “Peak Week” on the marathon training. Between tomorrow and next Saturday I’ll be running for a minimum of 9½ hours, including 2 runs at 3+ hours each.
The next 8 days make or break the entire marathon effort! 
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