Weight: same as last week - I'm not complaining though.
Measurements: lost two and a half inches from various places!
Life is (still) good :))))))
Friday, 27 February 2009
What's in a name?
This gave me a good laugh this morning http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7909561.stm - although it's probably not so funny for the people who have to go through life with those names :)
Thursday, 26 February 2009
An uneventful week, but I've still got that happy feeling :)
Apologies for lack of posts, I just haven't really had much inspiration to blog, although I'm still walking around on air and have reached an almost unbearable level of hyper-ness to the annoyance of everyone around me :)))) Of course reality eventually bites as the MasterCard bill dropped through the letterbox today!
Two things this week:
1) Spring is, um, springing, as a group of daffodil shoots are beginning to peek out of a little area at the side of my house.
2) Fitness levels rising and I am now at peace with the mini-stepper. On the down side, I was out at my favourite local Cantonese eatery last night - bad girl! I am not expecting any weight loss this week but am getting measured so fingers crossed.
Two things this week:
1) Spring is, um, springing, as a group of daffodil shoots are beginning to peek out of a little area at the side of my house.
2) Fitness levels rising and I am now at peace with the mini-stepper. On the down side, I was out at my favourite local Cantonese eatery last night - bad girl! I am not expecting any weight loss this week but am getting measured so fingers crossed.
Friday, 20 February 2009
Today I am officially the happiest person alive.
1. Eight weeks from today I am going to Sweden (more details at EuropeCrazy and Planet Salem as if you need ask)
2. I've lost 2lbs this week - in spite of a big dinner, a big lunch and a back injury which stopped me exercising after Tuesday.
Life is good :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
2. I've lost 2lbs this week - in spite of a big dinner, a big lunch and a back injury which stopped me exercising after Tuesday.
Life is good :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
"Ruinair" by Paul Kilduff
When my interest in blogging took off a couple of years ago, the one thing which seemed to suffer was my interest in reading. I've got some well-stocked bookshelves with lots of great books - almost exclusively in the humorous travel writing genre which Bill Bryson pioneered back in the day - but most of them are still begging to be read.
On the first of my two trips to Dublin last year, I spotted "Ruinair" by Irish writer Paul Kilduff, which is yet another one of those funny travel-related books, this time about the writer's experiences of travelling on a certain well-known airline. I didn't buy it at the time and looked for it during my second trip but couldn't find it.
It's now been published in the UK though and faithful travelling companion came to the rescue and bought it for me as part of my Valentine's Day presents. (Awww) anyway I started reading it the other night - great book, full of cheeky sarcastic wit and if you've ever flown on that airline you'll nod your head in agreement, that's when you're not laughing out loud.
So as part of my 2009 campaign for a healthy body and healthy mind - which involves 'lights out' at midnight during the week (yep. boring), I'm heading off now to read another chapter before bedtime.
On the first of my two trips to Dublin last year, I spotted "Ruinair" by Irish writer Paul Kilduff, which is yet another one of those funny travel-related books, this time about the writer's experiences of travelling on a certain well-known airline. I didn't buy it at the time and looked for it during my second trip but couldn't find it.
It's now been published in the UK though and faithful travelling companion came to the rescue and bought it for me as part of my Valentine's Day presents. (Awww) anyway I started reading it the other night - great book, full of cheeky sarcastic wit and if you've ever flown on that airline you'll nod your head in agreement, that's when you're not laughing out loud.
So as part of my 2009 campaign for a healthy body and healthy mind - which involves 'lights out' at midnight during the week (yep. boring), I'm heading off now to read another chapter before bedtime.
No pain, no gain
This blog seems to have turned into the diary of my dieting rollercoaster.
After a week of three-big-dinners-and-a-1lb-gain, the hard work restarted, this time with added water drinking and throwing myself back into aerobics and bending and toning and trying to knock my body into some kind of shape. I don't know what kind of shape, but some kind.....!
I've bust my knee, so I can't pound the mini-stepper any more, and my enthusiastic waist-moulding side-bending has now resulted in two rather painful injuries and a body which is now screaming at me, begging to make it stop.
A night off tomorrow, I think.
The one thing I don't have a problem with is walking to and from work, I have to climb up a steep hill in the morning but it's a pleasure going downhill. Need to choose my walking-music more carefully though and not leave me at the mercy of iPod on shuffle. DO NOT walk down a hill, or up a hill for that matter, to "Rusty Halo" by The Script, which now rivals Girls Aloud's "Something Kinda Oooh" as the world's fastest walking-song.
The best? "Maneater" by Nelly Furtado takes some beating. Perfect beats per minute to walk to.
So between a body in pain, excessive PMT, work stress and still no news about my Gothenburg concert tickets, it was not the best of days.
However I'm glad to say, touch wood, that I don't really let these things get me down for too long. Tomorrow will be a better day, I know it will. :))
After a week of three-big-dinners-and-a-1lb-gain, the hard work restarted, this time with added water drinking and throwing myself back into aerobics and bending and toning and trying to knock my body into some kind of shape. I don't know what kind of shape, but some kind.....!
I've bust my knee, so I can't pound the mini-stepper any more, and my enthusiastic waist-moulding side-bending has now resulted in two rather painful injuries and a body which is now screaming at me, begging to make it stop.
A night off tomorrow, I think.
The one thing I don't have a problem with is walking to and from work, I have to climb up a steep hill in the morning but it's a pleasure going downhill. Need to choose my walking-music more carefully though and not leave me at the mercy of iPod on shuffle. DO NOT walk down a hill, or up a hill for that matter, to "Rusty Halo" by The Script, which now rivals Girls Aloud's "Something Kinda Oooh" as the world's fastest walking-song.
The best? "Maneater" by Nelly Furtado takes some beating. Perfect beats per minute to walk to.
So between a body in pain, excessive PMT, work stress and still no news about my Gothenburg concert tickets, it was not the best of days.
However I'm glad to say, touch wood, that I don't really let these things get me down for too long. Tomorrow will be a better day, I know it will. :))
Saturday, 14 February 2009
Happy days.
Took faithful travelling companion out tonight for dinner to our favourite local Indian restaurant to celebrate his birthday earlier this week. Very enjoyable night for both of us!
Like I said before, it's not the best week of the year to diet :))
Like I said before, it's not the best week of the year to diet :))
Friday, 13 February 2009
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
The diet revival: week 3
After my good result two weeks ago, I was hit with an outbreak of that fatigue-thing (which I get from time to time) last week, affecting my dieting/exercise regime last week.
Happily it passed and this week I'm back on form, getting lots of exercise...all good so far.
But being me, there is a "but" coming...
It's one of the most challenging weeks of the year - the week-long celebration of faithful travelling companion's birthday meant a) a day off work for me today, which involved a nice big lunch, and b) the birthday dinner this Friday. Me not expecting any weight loss this week ha ha :)))
I'll work double-hard next week, promise.
Happily it passed and this week I'm back on form, getting lots of exercise...all good so far.
But being me, there is a "but" coming...
It's one of the most challenging weeks of the year - the week-long celebration of faithful travelling companion's birthday meant a) a day off work for me today, which involved a nice big lunch, and b) the birthday dinner this Friday. Me not expecting any weight loss this week ha ha :)))
I'll work double-hard next week, promise.
Mid-life crisis / I think you call that karma
It was faithful travelling companion's birthday yesterday and he would appear to be hurtling towards a mid-life crisis, not helped by my jibes that he's getting old and it's a few months to go till I reach his age...
And then tonight whilst looking in the mirror I spotted....grey eyebrow hairs.
I think you call that karma or something.
(Although I may just be having a little crisis of my own, judging by the amount of Boots Protect and Perfect products in my make-up bag these days :))
And then tonight whilst looking in the mirror I spotted....grey eyebrow hairs.
I think you call that karma or something.
(Although I may just be having a little crisis of my own, judging by the amount of Boots Protect and Perfect products in my make-up bag these days :))
Monday, 2 February 2009
You call that snow?
A few ickle snowflakes, and it's a national emergency. Britain grinds to a halt again.
And then people wonder why the British are obsessed with the weather? As I said in a previous post, there's no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes.
And then people wonder why the British are obsessed with the weather? As I said in a previous post, there's no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes.
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