I have been unwell with a rotten cold for more than a week now and though I am feeling a bit better today I am still nowhere near what I should be. The fact that I haven't been able to stomach my Iron or Nexium meds hasn't helped either.
This lovely weather that we have had over the last couple of days has got me wanting to get out there and enjoy a few bushwalks but I know that even if I talked Hubby into going somewhere I wouldn't be able to do any walking and breathing at the same time. And that's something that you do kinda need to be able to do.
I need to make a start somewhere so soon I will go for a bikeride. I don't have any thoughts that it will be fast or far but it will be a start.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Wednesday, Thursday.
Nothing yesterday even though I was home all day. I thought about it but just couldn't get moving. I did do a bit outside work but nothing extra.
Today though, up and out by 6am. I walked to the corner and back so 3km and it was within the 35minutes so not as bad as I was thinking it would be. It wasn't a fast walk and sometimes I thought I should rev it up a bit but *couldn't*.
Anyway, moving is over and done with.
There will be pruning, mowing, digging dirt and whatever else I do outside but the structured moving is done.
Today though, up and out by 6am. I walked to the corner and back so 3km and it was within the 35minutes so not as bad as I was thinking it would be. It wasn't a fast walk and sometimes I thought I should rev it up a bit but *couldn't*.
Anyway, moving is over and done with.
There will be pruning, mowing, digging dirt and whatever else I do outside but the structured moving is done.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
And I Did It...
Instead of just thinking about it I got up off me bum and went.
Only a short one, 2km's but it was something.
Hopefully I'll go for a longer one tomorrow, like all the way to the corner but I will have more time tomorrow so no excuse.
And once again...it wasn't that hard.
Only a short one, 2km's but it was something.
Hopefully I'll go for a longer one tomorrow, like all the way to the corner but I will have more time tomorrow so no excuse.
And once again...it wasn't that hard.
Lovely Walk.
I was away over the weekend. Early on Sunday morning I was up before everyone else so decided to go for a walk. It was dark so I took a torch but as I walked it got lighter so didn't need it. It seemed like I walked for a long time, I kinda thought I'd walk to the main road but got to a corner and looked back and thought how far it was so headed back. Nearly back to the house when I walked up a bush track with the intention of checking out the river but didn't get to it as there were dozens of kangaroos and I was scaring them.
I could see the house from here so flashed the torch to see if anyone was up and sure enough I heard the grandaughter yell out so I walked back, met them coming down the hill and turned around and went off with them. This was a slower walk but all up I covered quite a few k's and it felt good. I always walk when I am away and enjoy it but I think at home here I don't walk as there is nowhere to go. Nowhere that is fun anyway. I walk to the corner and back...Wow, yeah that's fun! Or around the block...that's better but there's not much to see and I worry about a couple of dogs that are on this route. When away it is all unexplored territory so much better.
Leaving on Sunday afternoon it turned out I was only a little way from the mainroad so I could have done it...And next time I will!
The walk though got me thinking about needing to start again. And I am sitting here at 5.45am, looking out the window and seeing that it is starting to get light and I am still thinking about starting again...
I could see the house from here so flashed the torch to see if anyone was up and sure enough I heard the grandaughter yell out so I walked back, met them coming down the hill and turned around and went off with them. This was a slower walk but all up I covered quite a few k's and it felt good. I always walk when I am away and enjoy it but I think at home here I don't walk as there is nowhere to go. Nowhere that is fun anyway. I walk to the corner and back...Wow, yeah that's fun! Or around the block...that's better but there's not much to see and I worry about a couple of dogs that are on this route. When away it is all unexplored territory so much better.
Leaving on Sunday afternoon it turned out I was only a little way from the mainroad so I could have done it...And next time I will!
The walk though got me thinking about needing to start again. And I am sitting here at 5.45am, looking out the window and seeing that it is starting to get light and I am still thinking about starting again...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
More Food Recording.
Tuesdays eating was much the same as Monday but there was a slice of toast with jam and cheese mid afternoon.
Wed:
Coffee.
1/2 tin Baked Beans. 7.20
Coffee.
Boiled egg and salad. 9am,
Coffee
2 DimSims 11.45 Lunch.
Salad.
Orange.
Bread with honey and cheese. 1 slice.
Bread with honey and cheese. 1 slice. Hmmm, OK, I do eat too much crap. Must have forgot about that! I should have had the rest of the BB or some salad or a chunk of meat, or... something different anyway.
Pork and vegetables. Tea. 6.45pm.
Coffee.
No moving again!! What is wrong with me...
Tomorrow will be oats for breakfast, eggs and salad for lunch, an orange, apple maybe. Some pork meat. I wont be home all day so will eat what I take.
Tea will probably be chicken and chips because husband is due home and said he'd pick something up. He will be home before me but I'm thinking I'll still have some salad or vegies left and will add that to mine.
I'll have to have a plan for Friday and will have to resist too much chicken, it will be fried, from Chicken treat.
And I need to start moving.
Wed:
Coffee.
1/2 tin Baked Beans. 7.20
Coffee.
Boiled egg and salad. 9am,
Coffee
2 DimSims 11.45 Lunch.
Salad.
Orange.
Bread with honey and cheese. 1 slice.
Bread with honey and cheese. 1 slice. Hmmm, OK, I do eat too much crap. Must have forgot about that! I should have had the rest of the BB or some salad or a chunk of meat, or... something different anyway.
Pork and vegetables. Tea. 6.45pm.
Coffee.
No moving again!! What is wrong with me...
Tomorrow will be oats for breakfast, eggs and salad for lunch, an orange, apple maybe. Some pork meat. I wont be home all day so will eat what I take.
Tea will probably be chicken and chips because husband is due home and said he'd pick something up. He will be home before me but I'm thinking I'll still have some salad or vegies left and will add that to mine.
I'll have to have a plan for Friday and will have to resist too much chicken, it will be fried, from Chicken treat.
And I need to start moving.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Today I Ate...
I'm home alone today. It is my pottering day, I do what I want, when I want. Like most of my days actually!
Anyway, I'm going to write down what I eat for a few days to show myself if I eat as well as I think I do. Or if I'm just kidding myslf. The weekend showing I eat Pikelets and sausages all day can't be right!
Monday.
6.30. Coffee.
7.30, Oatmix.
8am. Coffee.
9.40. Orange.
Lunch. Boiled egg
Salad of chopped up lettuce, silverbeet, spinach, grated beetroot, carrot. Bowl full.
More salad. Not as much, less that 1/2 bowl.
Coffee.
2.30. Slice of Pork.
Peas, picked while I was outside planting stuff. Maybe a dozen small ones, pod and all.
4pm. 2 passionfruit, 1/2 Indian Guava.
Tea. Pork.
Caulieflower, peas, corn, sweet potato. All up around 2 cups.
Coffee.
I measured out the amount of salad I had so I'd have some idea for next time. A bowl full was about 1 and 1/2 cups of chopped and grated salad veg.
This is probably a more typical day of eating when husband is not home. I grab something when I start to feel ill which kinda works out to be every few hours. What I grab depends on what I have prepared beforehand. If I have crap that is easy to grab then I do. If the better stuff is easier then I have that.
If the biscuits and chocolate are out in the shed freezer but the boiled eggs and meat are inside...eggs and pork win. If the biscuits were sitting open on the bench...that is what I would have.
Tomorrow will be kinda the same.
Oatmix for breakfast, eggs and salad for lunch, maybe with a bit of cheese. Tea will be pork and vegetables, same as tonight. There will be some fruit in there. There might be a bicky or 2 if there are some homemade ones at work...
There was no moving today apart from the day to day outside work. And there be the reason I am fat!!!
Any thoughts please?
Anyway, I'm going to write down what I eat for a few days to show myself if I eat as well as I think I do. Or if I'm just kidding myslf. The weekend showing I eat Pikelets and sausages all day can't be right!
Monday.
6.30. Coffee.
7.30, Oatmix.
8am. Coffee.
9.40. Orange.
Lunch. Boiled egg
Salad of chopped up lettuce, silverbeet, spinach, grated beetroot, carrot. Bowl full.
More salad. Not as much, less that 1/2 bowl.
Coffee.
2.30. Slice of Pork.
Peas, picked while I was outside planting stuff. Maybe a dozen small ones, pod and all.
4pm. 2 passionfruit, 1/2 Indian Guava.
Tea. Pork.
Caulieflower, peas, corn, sweet potato. All up around 2 cups.
Coffee.
I measured out the amount of salad I had so I'd have some idea for next time. A bowl full was about 1 and 1/2 cups of chopped and grated salad veg.
This is probably a more typical day of eating when husband is not home. I grab something when I start to feel ill which kinda works out to be every few hours. What I grab depends on what I have prepared beforehand. If I have crap that is easy to grab then I do. If the better stuff is easier then I have that.
If the biscuits and chocolate are out in the shed freezer but the boiled eggs and meat are inside...eggs and pork win. If the biscuits were sitting open on the bench...that is what I would have.
Tomorrow will be kinda the same.
Oatmix for breakfast, eggs and salad for lunch, maybe with a bit of cheese. Tea will be pork and vegetables, same as tonight. There will be some fruit in there. There might be a bicky or 2 if there are some homemade ones at work...
There was no moving today apart from the day to day outside work. And there be the reason I am fat!!!
Any thoughts please?
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Weekend. 27-28 August.
.
I'm going to write down what I eat over the weekend. In my head I mostly eat fresh unprocessed food but my body is telling me otherwise. We'll see what this tells me.
Saturday
It's now 8am so I'm off to have some oatmix for breakfast.
9.30 second coffee.
11am. Just had a boiled egg.
12.30. Lunch, salad of lettuce, carrots, caulieflower. Grated cheese on top, Choko pickle.
Orange.
Coffee.
Banana.
4pm. Mowed the grass, first session - 35min. I tell ya, that is so much harder than walking to the corner and back, not sure why I chose it!
Trouble is, I go outside and start something and forget that I have stuff cooking on the stove. It was meat this time... HoHum, it's nice and brown now anyway...
Tea. 2 sausages, egg, salad (lettuce, carrot, caulie)
Another sausage!!
Sunday.
Coffee.
Pikelets for breakfast. Grandaughter made these. They have fruit and oatmix added.
coffee.
10min dancing and jumping around to the Wiggles
10minjumping around dancing to the Fairy songs.
11am Pikelet.
20minutes mowing, 5min chook chasing.
Lunch. Salad (lettuce, carrot) egg. 2 sausage.
10min mowing. I wanted to do more but there was a loud POP! and it cut out.
30min digging, weeding, mulching...Everyday garden stuff.
Bugger! The pikelets are now gone. I knew I should have wrapped them tight and put them out in the shed freezer. Probably 5 or 6...Maybe 6 or 7...over the course of the day up to 2pm.
Orange.
Sausage. Thank goodness they are now all gone!
Spent most of the afternoon out there weeding, planting, digging...not a lot but small bits over a long time!
Coffee.
Tea. Plate of vegies - Carrot, caulieflower, peas, corn.
Bit of pork roast.
Coffee.
Simple roundup of what I ate each day.
Saturday.
oatmix
boiled egg.
salad of lettuce, carrots, caulieflower. Grated cheese on top, Choko pickle.
Orange.
Banana.
3 sausages,
egg,
salad (lettuce, carrot, caulie)
3 coffee over the day.
Sunday.
Coffee x 4 over the day.
Pikelets Maybe 7-9...
Salad (lettuce, carrot)
egg.
3 sausage.
Orange.
Plate of vegies - Carrot, caulieflower, peas, corn, spinach.
Bit of pork roast.
This lot of oatmix has oats, bran, nuts, pepitas, crushed linseed, milk. I have 1/3 cup then add hot water and let it soak.
Coffee has milk, no sugar.
I drink water, often throughout the day.
I'm going to write down what I eat over the weekend. In my head I mostly eat fresh unprocessed food but my body is telling me otherwise. We'll see what this tells me.
Saturday
It's now 8am so I'm off to have some oatmix for breakfast.
9.30 second coffee.
11am. Just had a boiled egg.
12.30. Lunch, salad of lettuce, carrots, caulieflower. Grated cheese on top, Choko pickle.
Orange.
Coffee.
Banana.
4pm. Mowed the grass, first session - 35min. I tell ya, that is so much harder than walking to the corner and back, not sure why I chose it!
Trouble is, I go outside and start something and forget that I have stuff cooking on the stove. It was meat this time... HoHum, it's nice and brown now anyway...
Tea. 2 sausages, egg, salad (lettuce, carrot, caulie)
Another sausage!!
Sunday.
Coffee.
Pikelets for breakfast. Grandaughter made these. They have fruit and oatmix added.
coffee.
10min dancing and jumping around to the Wiggles
10min
11am Pikelet.
20minutes mowing, 5min chook chasing.
Lunch. Salad (lettuce, carrot) egg. 2 sausage.
10min mowing. I wanted to do more but there was a loud POP! and it cut out.
30min digging, weeding, mulching...Everyday garden stuff.
Bugger! The pikelets are now gone. I knew I should have wrapped them tight and put them out in the shed freezer. Probably 5 or 6...Maybe 6 or 7...over the course of the day up to 2pm.
Orange.
Sausage. Thank goodness they are now all gone!
Spent most of the afternoon out there weeding, planting, digging...not a lot but small bits over a long time!
Coffee.
Tea. Plate of vegies - Carrot, caulieflower, peas, corn.
Bit of pork roast.
Coffee.
Simple roundup of what I ate each day.
Saturday.
oatmix
boiled egg.
salad of lettuce, carrots, caulieflower. Grated cheese on top, Choko pickle.
Orange.
Banana.
3 sausages,
egg,
salad (lettuce, carrot, caulie)
3 coffee over the day.
Sunday.
Coffee x 4 over the day.
Pikelets Maybe 7-9...
Salad (lettuce, carrot)
egg.
3 sausage.
Orange.
Plate of vegies - Carrot, caulieflower, peas, corn, spinach.
Bit of pork roast.
This lot of oatmix has oats, bran, nuts, pepitas, crushed linseed, milk. I have 1/3 cup then add hot water and let it soak.
Coffee has milk, no sugar.
I drink water, often throughout the day.
Friday, August 26, 2011
New Start, Today.
Decided to do some mowing this afternoon. I even search for and found my watch to make sure I did at least 30minutes. Went out to get the mower...and it's not there. I looked again, seached the yard, looked in the other shed...Na, no mower. Figured the son must have borrowed it so got the whipper snipper out and started that instead. Hadn't done 10 minutes when the daughter showed up so that was put on hold too. Well, I tried.
The same daughter brought out a pack of biscuits and got the grandaughter to offer them around. Then she went home and left the open packet sitting on the bench!!! They are now bagged up and out in the shed freezer but with a couple less than there was before.
So, Day 1 - No moving. Too many biscuits eaten. No liver. Gosh! I sound like a miserable failure. Tomorrow has to be better. Tomorrow will be better.
The same daughter brought out a pack of biscuits and got the grandaughter to offer them around. Then she went home and left the open packet sitting on the bench!!! They are now bagged up and out in the shed freezer but with a couple less than there was before.
So, Day 1 - No moving. Too many biscuits eaten. No liver. Gosh! I sound like a miserable failure. Tomorrow has to be better. Tomorrow will be better.
Time To Start. Again!.
It's been a long time since I wrote anything here and that's been because it's been a long time since I did anything to write about. But next week is the start of Spring. Not that that should matter, I should be moving regardless of the season but the warm weather is usually a time of lighter and fewer clothes so it seems to get some of us non-movers up and moving. I'm hoping it will work with me.
I have been very slapdash with taking my iron tablets, Hubby has been home way more often than is good for healthy eating, I have been more sore than usual, I am lazy and can't be bothered...There are way too many excuses.
I'm hoping that I will get back into it and that writing on here again will get me doing stuff. Some days I might just come in and tell you all that I did nothing but I know that writing here will mean that there are days that I will do something even if it's to let you know that I am still trying. (very trying, according to Hubby)
I'm thinking that mowing the lawn for half an hour 4 days a week will be better than nothing and it might get the grass back under control. So I will now count the *hard* stuff that I do around here as that way it will at least look like I am doing something and it might make me want to do more.
And I eat too much!
So to be *Fitter by Friday* I will do at least 3 lots of mowing and I will make up a pot of lentil and vegetable mush so as to get some extra goodness in me. And it will be liver for lunch today. There will be a bike ride around the block sometime between today and next Friday as well.
So now that it's *out there* I have to do it don't I? That's what I'm hoping for anyway.
I have been very slapdash with taking my iron tablets, Hubby has been home way more often than is good for healthy eating, I have been more sore than usual, I am lazy and can't be bothered...There are way too many excuses.
I'm hoping that I will get back into it and that writing on here again will get me doing stuff. Some days I might just come in and tell you all that I did nothing but I know that writing here will mean that there are days that I will do something even if it's to let you know that I am still trying. (very trying, according to Hubby)
I'm thinking that mowing the lawn for half an hour 4 days a week will be better than nothing and it might get the grass back under control. So I will now count the *hard* stuff that I do around here as that way it will at least look like I am doing something and it might make me want to do more.
And I eat too much!
So to be *Fitter by Friday* I will do at least 3 lots of mowing and I will make up a pot of lentil and vegetable mush so as to get some extra goodness in me. And it will be liver for lunch today. There will be a bike ride around the block sometime between today and next Friday as well.
So now that it's *out there* I have to do it don't I? That's what I'm hoping for anyway.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Why?
I'm home alone, having a pity party, all my friends are here...that's why I'm alone...HoHum.
Apart from a few walks I have done NOTHING. So I've been asking myself why.
Why do I want to stay unfit.
Why do I want to be fat.
Why don't I want to be healthy.
Why don't I want to go exploring.
Why Why Why...
And I don't know.
I would be healthier if I moved more. That's a fact.
I say I want to be fitter but maybe I don't really. I mean if I wanted to be fitter then why aren't I working at it. I know I can ride 20km and I like riding so why don't I? I like bushwalking so why don't I go on some? I like climbing rocks so why don't I go more often to places where I can climb them?
Why Why Why...
What benifits am I getting from being fat and unfit. There must be some but I don't know what they are.
I *think* it could be that I am not unhappy with it, maybe. I have clothes that fit, I can walk or ride when I need to, I'm still a nice person. What would be different if I was fitter?
If you know the answers then please let me know them.
I'm still going to keep trying because I know that one day things will jump in place and I will be all gung ho again. Hopefully it will be soon.
OK, positiveness...It Will Be Soon.
Apart from a few walks I have done NOTHING. So I've been asking myself why.
Why do I want to stay unfit.
Why do I want to be fat.
Why don't I want to be healthy.
Why don't I want to go exploring.
Why Why Why...
And I don't know.
I would be healthier if I moved more. That's a fact.
I say I want to be fitter but maybe I don't really. I mean if I wanted to be fitter then why aren't I working at it. I know I can ride 20km and I like riding so why don't I? I like bushwalking so why don't I go on some? I like climbing rocks so why don't I go more often to places where I can climb them?
Why Why Why...
What benifits am I getting from being fat and unfit. There must be some but I don't know what they are.
I *think* it could be that I am not unhappy with it, maybe. I have clothes that fit, I can walk or ride when I need to, I'm still a nice person. What would be different if I was fitter?
If you know the answers then please let me know them.
I'm still going to keep trying because I know that one day things will jump in place and I will be all gung ho again. Hopefully it will be soon.
OK, positiveness...It Will Be Soon.
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