Ooooo-eee.
I just hopped on the scales for the first time in a month.
110kgs.
Ouch.
Thursday, 2 July 2015
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
1 July 2015
Quietly entering the spectrum again to try, once more, to get my eating and weight under control, for the benefit of my health.
It's the same old excuses for the same old reasons. "I don't have time" and then I'm upset that "I don't fit my clothes".
Holidays this week. Today is a day for getting meals and exercise sorted.
Going to make a meal plan, go the shops and cook what I need & then freeze. I'm even willing to go a bit further out than my usual shopping centre, so I can buy fruit & vege from the discount barn.
A few weeks ago, I joined a gym, and have been having sessions once a week with a personal trainer. He's a super muscley, sunbed tan, protein-&-supplements, kind of guy. Dim, but friendly. I have already started to slack off from how much I thought I was going to use the gym, so I'm going this afternoon (or evening), for the first time in nearly a week. I've got a mix of cardio, weights and abs exercises to do.
When it comes to making progress on losing weight, I definitely do better when I am logging food into MFP. Weighing and logging food is so time consuming, but necessary. I just wish there was an easier way. Especially as I cook food in bulk, I'm always having to build the recipe - with no easy way to edit/adapt it. After nearly two years using MFP (on and off) I still don't know if I'm better off creating my recipes to be 'per 100g' or in bulk and then guessing how many portions I'll get out of it. :-S Both seem unnecessarily awkward and time consuming.
Right.
Time to stop whinging and do something about it.
Oh, and have lunch,. Before going grocery shopping.
Cheerio
It's the same old excuses for the same old reasons. "I don't have time" and then I'm upset that "I don't fit my clothes".
Holidays this week. Today is a day for getting meals and exercise sorted.
Going to make a meal plan, go the shops and cook what I need & then freeze. I'm even willing to go a bit further out than my usual shopping centre, so I can buy fruit & vege from the discount barn.
A few weeks ago, I joined a gym, and have been having sessions once a week with a personal trainer. He's a super muscley, sunbed tan, protein-&-supplements, kind of guy. Dim, but friendly. I have already started to slack off from how much I thought I was going to use the gym, so I'm going this afternoon (or evening), for the first time in nearly a week. I've got a mix of cardio, weights and abs exercises to do.
When it comes to making progress on losing weight, I definitely do better when I am logging food into MFP. Weighing and logging food is so time consuming, but necessary. I just wish there was an easier way. Especially as I cook food in bulk, I'm always having to build the recipe - with no easy way to edit/adapt it. After nearly two years using MFP (on and off) I still don't know if I'm better off creating my recipes to be 'per 100g' or in bulk and then guessing how many portions I'll get out of it. :-S Both seem unnecessarily awkward and time consuming.
Right.
Time to stop whinging and do something about it.
Oh, and have lunch,. Before going grocery shopping.
Cheerio
Saturday, 25 April 2015
25 April 2015
So I went to the doctor's and I was able to get a course of anitbiotics. My word, they helped a lot! I can breathe again!! Yay. I'm still coughing a fair bit, but it's a lot more manageable now. I think it's going to be one of those things that's going to hang around for a bit, so I'm going to keep on top of the change between hot and cold air.
Speaking of cold air, I think we're finally getting closer to autumn - finally! I love Autumn. Gotta be my favourite month, never mind that in Queensland there's very few places that have a real Autumn. We don't get that lovely falling leaves, chill in the air, faint scent of woodsmoke at dusk that most places would associate with an Autumn. Where I am, Brisbane, is just too tropical. Sad.
Back at work this week, although I'm still not at full health. Unfortunately, I have to save my sick days for looking after mum. That and I find it hard to walk away from my job. There are so many things and projects always going on that it just becomes difficult to wrap things up and leave work for a temporary contract. So I'm just going to have to try to take it easy and not say 'yes' to every extra project that comes along. That being said, I have 2 new projects that I'm picking up next month. I did sign up for them at the start of the year, and I'm really keen on them, so there's really no real way of getting out of them,
I received an email this morning reminding me that in 8 weeks, I'm going to participating in the 14km race that I do every June. Hmmm... I have not started training for that at all. And I need to get on that, because this year I want to better my last year's time. I am aiming for < 2 hours this year! Yeah! But in order to do that, I need to run part of the way. Last year, I didn't really run, unless it was a downhill stretch. It was after that race, that I started doing seriously (but never finished) Couch 2 5K. So I think I need to spend some time on that again in order to pick up the momentum of interval running. If I'm still somewhat unwell and coughing a lot, of course that's going to be a problem, so I will need to progress carefully.
Food? I'm still eating all over the place. When I was sick I stopped eating. Now that I'm on the mend again, my eating seems to have increased again. Urg, So annoying. I also need to go grocery shopping and buy food so I have something to cook with, and eat decently (running low on the fruit and veg!) but I didn't go last night, and today is a public holiday so everything is shut. So I have to wait until tomorrow. Tricky.
Lucky I have some pre-cooked meals in the freezer to get me through until then.
Speaking of cold air, I think we're finally getting closer to autumn - finally! I love Autumn. Gotta be my favourite month, never mind that in Queensland there's very few places that have a real Autumn. We don't get that lovely falling leaves, chill in the air, faint scent of woodsmoke at dusk that most places would associate with an Autumn. Where I am, Brisbane, is just too tropical. Sad.
Back at work this week, although I'm still not at full health. Unfortunately, I have to save my sick days for looking after mum. That and I find it hard to walk away from my job. There are so many things and projects always going on that it just becomes difficult to wrap things up and leave work for a temporary contract. So I'm just going to have to try to take it easy and not say 'yes' to every extra project that comes along. That being said, I have 2 new projects that I'm picking up next month. I did sign up for them at the start of the year, and I'm really keen on them, so there's really no real way of getting out of them,
I received an email this morning reminding me that in 8 weeks, I'm going to participating in the 14km race that I do every June. Hmmm... I have not started training for that at all. And I need to get on that, because this year I want to better my last year's time. I am aiming for < 2 hours this year! Yeah! But in order to do that, I need to run part of the way. Last year, I didn't really run, unless it was a downhill stretch. It was after that race, that I started doing seriously (but never finished) Couch 2 5K. So I think I need to spend some time on that again in order to pick up the momentum of interval running. If I'm still somewhat unwell and coughing a lot, of course that's going to be a problem, so I will need to progress carefully.
Food? I'm still eating all over the place. When I was sick I stopped eating. Now that I'm on the mend again, my eating seems to have increased again. Urg, So annoying. I also need to go grocery shopping and buy food so I have something to cook with, and eat decently (running low on the fruit and veg!) but I didn't go last night, and today is a public holiday so everything is shut. So I have to wait until tomorrow. Tricky.
Lucky I have some pre-cooked meals in the freezer to get me through until then.
Monday, 13 April 2015
Still sick
Urgh... I am still sick. This is so unusual for me.
I have a very set pattern for when I'm sick. 1 day of achy-tender skin, sore throat, fever, flu type symptoms. 1 day of coughing starting the day as a dry cough ending as a wet phlegm cough. 1 day of runny nose, that then ends up as a blocked nose and sinus build-up the next day, which just had me attached to a tissue box. 4 days, done and dusted.
This is different. I'm still coughing. Half choking. I don't seem to be able to cough up whatever it is that's sitting in my chest. So I have a sore throat from coughing, and pain in my chest from coughing.
I left the house today for the first time in days. I had promised two weeks ago that I would go op shopping with my best friend, and I didn't want to let her down. I'm known for cancelling on her all the time. Usually for no good reason at all. Just because I've had a freak-out and don't want to leave the house. So I didn't want to cancel on her because I thought she would think that I was just bailing without a legitimate reason.
I'm glad I went out today. I was able to pick up a nice stash of books to add to my collection - including what I swear must be the rarest book series possible to need to complete - The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. We had to read the first book 'Under Sea, Under Stone' as our year 8 English novel. I loved it, and years later I discovered there were more to the series. 5 books in total. Tracked down through various libraries. Nearly impossible to buy. But today I was able to buy the 5th book - the Silver on the Tree. Not only that, but I managed to pick up the whole series in an omnibus edition. It's fairly small print through, so I possibly won't get into it very often. But it's nice to know it's there to read the whole series.
I've got a doctor's appointment tomorrow about this being sick business. Hopefully I'll get definite feedback about whether it's something that can be treated with antibiotics or if it's just bed rest. To be honest, I I kind of want it to be bad enough that antibiotics are needed. I've had enough of chicken soup, tomato juice and tea with lemon honey. And I want to get something done in this last week of the holidays. Not just spend two weeks at home because I'm sick.
I have a very set pattern for when I'm sick. 1 day of achy-tender skin, sore throat, fever, flu type symptoms. 1 day of coughing starting the day as a dry cough ending as a wet phlegm cough. 1 day of runny nose, that then ends up as a blocked nose and sinus build-up the next day, which just had me attached to a tissue box. 4 days, done and dusted.
This is different. I'm still coughing. Half choking. I don't seem to be able to cough up whatever it is that's sitting in my chest. So I have a sore throat from coughing, and pain in my chest from coughing.
I left the house today for the first time in days. I had promised two weeks ago that I would go op shopping with my best friend, and I didn't want to let her down. I'm known for cancelling on her all the time. Usually for no good reason at all. Just because I've had a freak-out and don't want to leave the house. So I didn't want to cancel on her because I thought she would think that I was just bailing without a legitimate reason.
I'm glad I went out today. I was able to pick up a nice stash of books to add to my collection - including what I swear must be the rarest book series possible to need to complete - The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. We had to read the first book 'Under Sea, Under Stone' as our year 8 English novel. I loved it, and years later I discovered there were more to the series. 5 books in total. Tracked down through various libraries. Nearly impossible to buy. But today I was able to buy the 5th book - the Silver on the Tree. Not only that, but I managed to pick up the whole series in an omnibus edition. It's fairly small print through, so I possibly won't get into it very often. But it's nice to know it's there to read the whole series.
I've got a doctor's appointment tomorrow about this being sick business. Hopefully I'll get definite feedback about whether it's something that can be treated with antibiotics or if it's just bed rest. To be honest, I I kind of want it to be bad enough that antibiotics are needed. I've had enough of chicken soup, tomato juice and tea with lemon honey. And I want to get something done in this last week of the holidays. Not just spend two weeks at home because I'm sick.
Saturday, 11 April 2015
Gogglebox
I watched that (newish) show on Thursday night called Gogglebox. Hilarious! Going to be part of my regular weekly viewing, hands down!
Basically it's a reality TV show, where 10 households are filmed while they're watching television. They're all told what shows to watch, and the reactions to what they are watching are edited and shown. Priceless! There are families, couples and flatmates. It's really cool to see 1 - how other people watch telly and 2 - how other people talk and comment on what they've seen. I think it's great because I was watching it and thinking they are so Australian. The reactions they have to things are are brilliant. Unfortunately I'm trying to think of an example and I can't quite think of one. Most of the people featured swear a lot, which suits me. I'm a big fan of curse words; I use them fairly liberally myself. There's a swear jar at work just for me. :-/ But back to the show: it's those throw away comments and one-liners. It's the randomness. I need to get to somewhere with free wifi and catch up on the first 6 episodes I think!!
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I did end up going for that walk on Friday afternoon. 2.4km (1.5mi). I'm relatively happy with that. Although it did make me start coughing again. : S
I need to plan out food that I am going to make for the upcoming week, and workout my schedule/routine for the new few months until my next holidays, I'm always leaving everything until the holidays, and then when the holidays come around, I waste them. Like all this last week, I've been meaning to call the tax department. Have I though? Not a chance.
There's also organising a doctor's appointment, dentist appointment, plumber, fixing a bookcase (that I've been meaning to do since I moved in 2.5 years ago!), repainting, replanting, changing over clothes and bedding to a winter wardrobe. And maybe donate some things that I've been meaning to donate.
I also got it into my head that I want to buy some lino or vinyl to line my kitchen cupboards. It was exit-cleaning my best friend's rental over the New Year that gave me the idea. Her kitchen cupboards were lined and it made it so fantastically easy to clean. They weren't even her idea, they were already in the house when she moved in. I had been meaning to do it ever since then, but put it off because I knew it would be a tedious task to measure every cupboard to work out how much I would need. But when I got back on Tuesday, I opened a cupboard to discover a tin of fruit (that, to be fair, I'd had for a fair few number of years) must have rusted through because there was a dark syrupy type substance on the shelf. So I after I cleaned it up, I figured that it was no time like the present to organise and look for some lino/vinyl for my shelves.
In fact, I may as well do it for all the shelves in the house - my wardrobe shelf is not very smooth and occaisionally my clothes catch on in. I originally taped down some butchers' paper, but I think lino may go much nicer. I want to get some of a decent thickness that won't slide around. Otherwise there's no point is there?
Basically it's a reality TV show, where 10 households are filmed while they're watching television. They're all told what shows to watch, and the reactions to what they are watching are edited and shown. Priceless! There are families, couples and flatmates. It's really cool to see 1 - how other people watch telly and 2 - how other people talk and comment on what they've seen. I think it's great because I was watching it and thinking they are so Australian. The reactions they have to things are are brilliant. Unfortunately I'm trying to think of an example and I can't quite think of one. Most of the people featured swear a lot, which suits me. I'm a big fan of curse words; I use them fairly liberally myself. There's a swear jar at work just for me. :-/ But back to the show: it's those throw away comments and one-liners. It's the randomness. I need to get to somewhere with free wifi and catch up on the first 6 episodes I think!!
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I did end up going for that walk on Friday afternoon. 2.4km (1.5mi). I'm relatively happy with that. Although it did make me start coughing again. : S
I need to plan out food that I am going to make for the upcoming week, and workout my schedule/routine for the new few months until my next holidays, I'm always leaving everything until the holidays, and then when the holidays come around, I waste them. Like all this last week, I've been meaning to call the tax department. Have I though? Not a chance.
There's also organising a doctor's appointment, dentist appointment, plumber, fixing a bookcase (that I've been meaning to do since I moved in 2.5 years ago!), repainting, replanting, changing over clothes and bedding to a winter wardrobe. And maybe donate some things that I've been meaning to donate.
I also got it into my head that I want to buy some lino or vinyl to line my kitchen cupboards. It was exit-cleaning my best friend's rental over the New Year that gave me the idea. Her kitchen cupboards were lined and it made it so fantastically easy to clean. They weren't even her idea, they were already in the house when she moved in. I had been meaning to do it ever since then, but put it off because I knew it would be a tedious task to measure every cupboard to work out how much I would need. But when I got back on Tuesday, I opened a cupboard to discover a tin of fruit (that, to be fair, I'd had for a fair few number of years) must have rusted through because there was a dark syrupy type substance on the shelf. So I after I cleaned it up, I figured that it was no time like the present to organise and look for some lino/vinyl for my shelves.
In fact, I may as well do it for all the shelves in the house - my wardrobe shelf is not very smooth and occaisionally my clothes catch on in. I originally taped down some butchers' paper, but I think lino may go much nicer. I want to get some of a decent thickness that won't slide around. Otherwise there's no point is there?
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