Morning all,
How goes it on this sunny (and so far cool) Sunday? You all sound remarkably chipper.
I forgot to mention that my version of fasting is not an entire day thing. My version of fasting may be to eat only when absolutely starving and the water thing no longer works, or it may be only to eat breakfast and dinner. It just means that at least one meal per day gets skipped. I'll keep the no food at all for medical reasons that only makes me headachey and grumpy. Anyway so far it seems to be working.
Yesterday was big day at the gym. I dragged myself along and did an hour on weights and abs and an hour at Body Balance. I'll take myself along again today and do an hour on cardio. That'll be two down for the week. Stupid part about it is that the abs thing is working. I can feel strong abs developing once I get through the inch or more of absolute flab in the gut. Even though I can find the abs, I can still pick up a handful of the flab. Wonder if it will ever disappear.
Yesterday was a garden day. I dug over the vege patch and fertilised and put in water granules and covered it with newspaper and sugar cane mulch. It will be watered and left for a month or so and in can go the tomatoes and lettuces, spinach etc. Looking forward to good fresh produce again. It's hard to believe we are at the end of January already. And the days are drawing in, especially in the mornings. No longer daylight at 4.00am.
Today, in fact in a few short minutes I'll go out and start on the Rose garden and give them a haircut and feed - they badly need it to.
DS2 came and took away my edge trimmer. I took a look at it again yesterday and have decided the fuel had gone off. He thinks that water has gotten into the fuel somehow - perhaps from the jerrycan as that looks a bit sus as well. So no doubt I will get my trimmer back all bright and shiney later today or maybe tomorrow or the next day.
Meadow, I see you have snuck in between my reading and starting to write here. Morning - dirt covered blokes only appeal when they have actually finished the job which made them dirt covered. Too many of them leave it half FLAMING finished.
Way to go on wearing those britches. See exercise does have it's benefits and once they become obvious you don't want to stop because you know what will happen. I only focus on the scales because medical opinion dictates I should be somewhere in the sixties and not in the 70's and if I ever want to (heaven forbid) take out medical insurance, I will be slammed hard for being the weight that I am. Never tried kickboxing or fencing. Jason the torturer talked about boxing at one point and then moved on. Maybe he saw my impressive developing muscles?
I have been thinking about going to a trainer for a session, however have been putting it off as an unneccesary expense for the time being. I'm fairly sure (but not positive) my problem is food related and not exercise related.
Okay, I'll bite, who is Tasha Tudor and what is Take Joy all about?
Mel - the DIY is going along. I put in at least a couple of hours per day. That ceiling is really bothering me at the moment. I sanded it the day before yesterday and added plaster as required. Yesterday I had such a stiff neck and back - gym helped a lot I must say. Today will see a return to 'up the ladder' and I will resand the bits and try a coat of paint to see what happens this time. I'll be over the moon when that is done. It is still fighting me.
At least you have an excuse for the stomach. Sitting all the time does that. It must be painful at times. Sounds like me when I come off a plane from a long distance trip. Full of water and gas. Explosive combination!
At least you have been getting your exercise in. It stands to reason that a body will not be at it's best after a week of poking and prodding by a medical person. Take care now.
Madcat - Driving in the desert with Thelma? Hullo, think I have missed something here.
I hear you on taking time off from the exercising. I take my two days off together - seems like a weekend then. I've changed my routine somewhat as well to try to mix up the body a bit. But as said before, really need a trip to the trainer to get a new routine. I figured that Feb might be a good time to up the weights a bit and reduce the number of reps. Have a couple of days to ponder on that.
The only Serenity program Mel is working on is the one that ends "God grant me the wisdom to know where to bury the bodies of those I have had to kill because they really p*ssed me right off".
Holly - a very happy birthday to Grandma. 96 is incredible. May she enjoy a few more yet. Live long enough for a telegram from the Queen hey?
I hope hats and balloons are the order of the day and bouquets and not brickbats as well.
Hiya Tig - nice to see you posting. I am being careful about this. Thanks for sharing the experiences. I sometimes think I am already paranoic about food anyway, so I will try this for a while and see what happens. I'm not going to fast for entire days so maybe.......
SME's are amazing people. Yes they (mostly anyway) know their jobs and their business - however most of the ones I have spoken to tend to tell me of all that they have learnt of the business over the entire 30 years of their being there in the next 6 minutes. Sleep inducing. And never, ever let them loose on a class as they tell them about all they have learned about the new system in the last six months over the next 6 minutes. Can't shut them up when they get going. SME SME's
Nice one Madcat.
Linus - glad to know that you are at last getting some sleep. Beware the mattress monster. I wait to see the before pics of the garden and later the afters - after the garden has been Linus 'Ground Force'. Please tell me you won't go bra-less a la Charlie Dimmock style.
Happy - Hiya. Sounds like you need a decent holiday and not a few days off here and there. The SAP monster will do this to you, you know. Time comes when you simply have to step back from it and take another look elsewhere. Feast the eyes on some beauty and tranquility. Take heart my friend, in another twenty years we can retire and live out our lives quietly in the ga-ga place.
Hope the rheumatologist has some good news for you soon.
And cheer up, summer is coming your way. Soon you will be able to add the pool to your exercise routine and have time outdoors once more. The sun is shifting. I can see it at my place. You may not have noticed it yet.
Ceejay - congratulations on dropping two pounds. Wonderful stuff.
Gotta go. Work to do, gym to get to (gotta love early Sunday - there is only me and one other guy there at 8.00. We get to fight over one machine in our routines - except today I'm doing cardio). Better get some washing done as well and go back to that #$%^@# ceiling.
Dirt covered fellows appeal? 
I NEVER SANDED THEM, ONLY PAINTED THEM BUT I HAVE A NEWCK THAT DOES NOT LIKE LOOKING UP!!! NOW IT DOESN'T LIKE TALL PEOPLE! 
DIFFERENT WEEKEND TO BE SURE. THIS FAMILY IS BIG AND BOISTEROUS (SP) PHEW!!! MY EARS CAN STILL HEAR THE CHATTER.
HAPPY SUNDAY CHICKLETTES! 
What's with this forum? Keeps dropping my login, I re-sign in (yet AGAIN) and it tells me I'm trying to go to an invalid thread. 
At one point it was really pouring - just after DH had taken a shower. Told him he should have just stepped off the patio. But it was a 
thanks. 
and went through a cabinet and tossed stuff that I really didn't need to keep or was close to expiring. Overall, it doesn't seem like I did much but I know I did so I feel better. Today is a nice, sunny spring day. The birds are singing and as hard as it is for me to fathom, the spring blossoms are waking up underground. 
Told DH he was lucky in that respect 
I think you hit the nail on the head - I do need a new hobby or something - stuck in a rut. I am also disappointed that it is so hard to make new friends here. I do enjoy getting out with other people once in a while. I keep reminding myself that life is what you make it - if you don't like it - change it. Thanks for the suggestions. 
