Filed under: Fitness, Health, Life | Tags: Diet, Dieting, exercise, Fat, fatty, Fitness, football, Gain, gridion, Loss, triathlon, Weight
Part 1 can be found here.
I started riding, running, and eating right in the weeks leading up to my departure. I had even started practicing Australian Rules Football, as there was a league in the US that a friend played in and when he invited us to join I didn’t want to embarrass my country at its’ national sport.
In the 10 days before I left for the US – I lost over 7kgs. I know this is probably not very healthy, but it worked. I was exercising 2-3 times a day and all I would eat was veggie soup and yoghurt. All I would drink is water and milk. At my going away party a lot of people expressed shock on their faces when I came running up to them, their jaws were hanging open! I had gone from 98kgs to 90.3kgs in less then 2 weeks.
I was happy and confident with my body on the trip, (more…)
Filed under: News | Tags: 2008, close, closure, coffee, house, Howard Shultz, July 1, Morgan, News, Starbucks, stores, Terry
Starbucks, largest coffee house chain in the world, announced today it will close nearly 600 stores that were underperforming. It wasn’t long ago that nearly every street corner contained one or two Starbucks. In most cases, if you were to cross street from one, you would find yourself at another. The main reason for the collapse it seems is the US economy, (more…)
