Dermot <\/a>told RSVP Magazine. “I used to say to myself, I need to do 8,000 steps or 10,000 steps today and I\u2019d try to but it takes ages! What I do now is a 15-minute walk in the morning, another 15-minute walk at lunchtime and then I\u2019ll do half an hour in the evening. Then it\u2019s done, it doesn\u2019t take anything out of me and it\u2019s made a massive difference.<\/p>\n“I\u2019ve lost nearly seven kilos in weight and I\u2019m fitter and healthier. It was all through tiny things, no big diets. It was just 8-10k steps a day and I go to the gym two nights of the week to a class. I go to the class because it\u2019s good craic and we have a bit of banter. Lads Lifting it\u2019s called, at the Edge in Clontarf.”<\/p>\n
The big difference that helped him nail down his routine was looking at exercise as a social hobby and something to enjoy.<\/p>\n
“It has changed my life, because I now go to the gym to meet up with people and do something social and we have a bit of craic,” he said. “It\u2019s just consistency. That\u2019s the one thing I\u2019ve learned in the last year; if you put in the tiniest little bit of effort and just do it, get up off your backside and do 10 minutes of it, it\u2019s far better off than thinking about all the big walks you need to go on tomorrow, that you won\u2019t do.<\/p>\n
“Do something right now, no matter how tiny. If you can keep doing that and do something consistently, things do change. There\u2019s nothing like the feeling of being down a new belt notch, or the clothes that I bought five years ago fit me again. It might take a couple of months, but it will happen.”<\/p>\n
We are still at the beginning of the year, but Dermot doesn’t do New Year’s resolutions anymore.<\/p>\n
“No, I used to do all that because that\u2019s the kind of person I am, and I wouldn\u2019t do any of them or I\u2019d have failed by the third week of January and then I\u2019d actually get really angry with myself,” he recalled. “Now, when I want to do something I start it right now.<\/p>\n
“For the last few years, I\u2019ve had a philosophy; instead of saying, in the new year I\u2019ll get fit, I start something small right away. If I want to do something now, I just do a tiny bit of it. That\u2019s how I design, and I brought the design work ethic into the rest of my life. If you want to make changes, make tiny changes all the time.”<\/p>\n
Read the full interview in February’s issue of RSVP Magazine, on shelves now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year the celebrity architect made it his mission to get fit and through a few healthy lifestyle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[60404,499,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-291366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-dermot-bannon","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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