Six tasks in and every one is having some benefits. It is a long journey ahead for our hero. The Good Paddock has had suck awesome feedback from not only big men, but health professionals and partners of overweight people, we are are adding a mid week episode for derek to report on his tasks and personal journey without boring the crap out of his guests and audience. AS OF WEEK 7...... STARTING WEIGHT: 127 KG CURRENT WEIGHT: 123.1 KG Noticeable Differences: Possibly a little more energy and less breathlessness on very short stair climbs etc. DEREK'S TASKS week1: 16/8 fasting - Still Going well. Less than 5% blowout rate and that is with more awareness than in the past week 2: Bob's Water Bottle - easy, but big gains in keystone habit forming. Definitely now a part of my everyday habits. Must add to the weekend now. week 3: Josh's instagram food diary - I am tasked with taking a picture of every thing that enters my mouth. This is meant to increase awareness (and I suspect it would) rather than shame. This task has all but stopped. It is not necessarily a direct health benefit but served a great purpose (of making us both very moindful of every thing we ate for a few weeks). The team work was interesting, having us share an instagram account helped keep it up longer. week 4: Philip Beattie says go shopping - preparation. make sure you go shopping and have healthy choices in the fridge for when you are hungry - Derek will shop every Sunday and Thursday specifically for healthy snack options. So far this has been difficult. Still not perfect. Have achieved it a bit and it was great to have healthy snacks handy at work. Will need to start with non-perishables and not over-think the health benefits. Habits first. week 5: Derek has added 5000steps per day to the challenge. This will be easy to achieve BUT the point is to add the routing of checking to each day AND while doing so learn what type of day increases or decreases steps. Well not as easy as I thought. While I pass 5000 naturally on most days I need to check the app more and begin learning which days are sedentary. So far Thursday and Saturday. week 6: Mike Dunbar has tasked Derek with planning and shopping for dinner on Tuesdays and Thursday. These are the days that Derek cooks exclusively for the kids and himself with plenty of time for cooking and prep, so should be a good habit changing task without too much hassle. This has been a great task, with a long way to go to get it right. The benefits in parenting are also huge and should help break some multigenerational cycles. So far the pre-planning has been left too late and needs work, but the cooking is going well and we all enjoy it and take pride in our creations. One example of 'habit first, details second' is the pizzas we made. First one was using frozen base. The second we made spelt dough from scratch. Small steps. Week 7: The Challenge this week will be to do some fine tuning on the existing tasks. As I spoke about with Mike, sense of failure is a big problem, especially when falling behind in a previously successful system. There is a danger of assuming something does not work and not revisiting it ever again because of a small lapse. I plan to allocate a lot of my resources into looking at whet makes each challenge easy or difficult. Short lived or sustainable.

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