Getting Your Vitamins. Pill or Potion.

Over the last couple of weeks I have eaten too much.  If I think about it, and I did, there has probably been more cruddy food than the good stuff and I have noticed that over that time I have had a few nights that come 8.30pm I have been so sore and stiff it was a painful effort to move from this chair to the bed.  Not good.    Could the soreness be connected to the crappy food.  Well of course it could and more than likely it is...I get more done, feel better and more energetic when the body is free of crap food...Connected?  You join the dots.  I did and my answer was *at least 5*   So even though I am up around 5.00 most mornings I feel kind of blah by 8ish.   Maybe I need to start taking vitamins...So I did.

No set recipe, I add what I have here.

1 cup water. 
1 orange
2 cups mixed salad, leafy lettuce, carrot, apple, spinach
1 carrot
Handful of spinach and comphrey
1 and a half cups broccoli
Put in the Vitamix, blend, drink eat with a spoon.

Or...add the brussel sprouts that husband brought home from work and said were chook food.    Add a 1/4 cup of dried nettles with the orange to get the iron and vitamin C, add the not yet eaten boysonberries or the too soft strawberries...Each *drink* is different, each has a variety of different fruit and veg, each drink is scoffed at by husband and others that I offer it to...

This mornings potion had an orange, 1/2 an apple, dried nettles, brocolli, a couple small carrots, 3 brussel sprouts, some comphrey.    It makes me feel better about the slice of pavlova I had for breakfast...

Not as easy as just popping a pill but much better for me and will be a daily thing until I run out of vegies in the garden.  Or at least for this week.

How do you get your vitamins?

It's nearly next year...

Hmmm, maybe 2014 will be the year that I get fit and healthy 'cause this year sure wasn't the year for it.  But then, if I don't actually get up and make a move towards it it's not gunna happen is it...

Weight this week is the same that it has been for the last 5 or so years, give or take a kilo or two.   Fitness is down, fatness is up...What does that say to you?   To some it might say that I need to either give up or get serious.  To me it says that I don't care enough about my health or the things that I think I want to do.  Not enough to do anything about it all anyway...

Last week I brought the ex bike inside and over that week I used it, quite a bit.  Husband gets home and I haven't been on it since...Daughter L was here last weekend and we went for a walk.  A close to 8 km, 2 hour walk....and I haven't walked anywhere since...Had a short ride to a neighbours house yesterday...and of course back again but that will probably be the end of that too...Unless it's not...Lets hope it's not...

Let's all be fitter by Friday...