Well coughed up some green crap this morning. I'm not coughing and wheezing all the time or anything, but I'm going to try and go to the docs this afternoon and get some antibiotics to knock the bastard on the head.
Always the way hey.
In the meantime, going to make a real effort to bring my own food to work this week: NO CRAP.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Day 28: Four weeks
Four weeks alcohol free, although I had a dream about having a little last night and being in a panic. Must be on my mind for some reason.....
I'm keen for results now. I'm about to go on the big Cootha walk again, which will mean I have done it 4 times this week, which is great. That will be about 9 hours around hills in 7 days.
I'm a little worried I'm getting sick. That always happens doesn't it, just when you think you are reaching your stride. Still, I'm not sure of that yet.
But back to results. Like most people on a health drive, I want it now, I want it now, I want it now. Of course, it doesn't work like that. Just because Fat Albert lays of the paddle pops for a few weeks doesn't mean that he looks like the skinny guy.
No, Fat Albert has to exercise his arse off for years for that.
One clear area I can improve is the food. I just need to make my own lunch more. It is food from other people (including take away shops....) rather than food from me, which is doing me damage I think.
I can taste it when I've eaten 'bad fats' the day before. I wake up feeling a bit disgusting. That's how I felt this morning after going to an 80th birthday yesterday and dinner at night.
Christ, they were on the piss at the 80th let me tell you. Shabby food. But buckloads of piss.
Even the dog was named after a brand of rum, which the adults were drinking out of pint glasses by the way. And the kids were all drinking their flavourless, Carona clone crappy beers with a durry out of the side of their mouths.
Pretty disgusting all round.
What does it say about me that I got on better with the 79 year old bloke than I did with the 19 year old?
Anyway, this week:
1. real food, preferably prepared by me;
2. ramp cootha up from 4 to 5 times in the week.
I'd like to see Cootha get to 6 in the next 2 weeks. You can't fuck with that, as I've said. Progress is guaranteed.
I'm keen for results now. I'm about to go on the big Cootha walk again, which will mean I have done it 4 times this week, which is great. That will be about 9 hours around hills in 7 days.
I'm a little worried I'm getting sick. That always happens doesn't it, just when you think you are reaching your stride. Still, I'm not sure of that yet.
But back to results. Like most people on a health drive, I want it now, I want it now, I want it now. Of course, it doesn't work like that. Just because Fat Albert lays of the paddle pops for a few weeks doesn't mean that he looks like the skinny guy.
No, Fat Albert has to exercise his arse off for years for that.
One clear area I can improve is the food. I just need to make my own lunch more. It is food from other people (including take away shops....) rather than food from me, which is doing me damage I think.
I can taste it when I've eaten 'bad fats' the day before. I wake up feeling a bit disgusting. That's how I felt this morning after going to an 80th birthday yesterday and dinner at night.
Christ, they were on the piss at the 80th let me tell you. Shabby food. But buckloads of piss.
Even the dog was named after a brand of rum, which the adults were drinking out of pint glasses by the way. And the kids were all drinking their flavourless, Carona clone crappy beers with a durry out of the side of their mouths.
Pretty disgusting all round.
What does it say about me that I got on better with the 79 year old bloke than I did with the 19 year old?
Anyway, this week:
1. real food, preferably prepared by me;
2. ramp cootha up from 4 to 5 times in the week.
I'd like to see Cootha get to 6 in the next 2 weeks. You can't fuck with that, as I've said. Progress is guaranteed.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Day 27: Clothes fit that didn't
I had a good moment yesterday in that I was poking around looking for something to wear after work, and tried some shorts, shirt and a jacket that I've worn (or tried to wear) before. They all fitted fine. I could do the jacket up. I swear a month ago I wouldn't have been able to fit in the shorts, and the jacket would not have been able to be done up.
I'm not kidding myself that I'm a normal weight, or look anything but unfit, but that's the sort of tangible progress and results that motivates you to keep on the straight and narrow.
To continue to stay off the grog.
To continue to exercise, and to keep building on it.
To continue to improve the quality of the food I eat.
I had an egg on a nice salad and toasted turkish bread last night. The egg was poached in olive oil, the salad was dressed with olive oil, red wine vinegar and salt. The turkish bread was toasted under the grill with olive oil and a little salt. I was a little peckish later on so I had two slices of bruschetta wiped with garlic and topped with finely chopped rosemary, salt and olive oil.
Very nice, and certainly not low fat. The 'diet' I'm trying to follow in my life is just to eat real food and avoid crap eg the hot chips I had for lunch yesterday. That combined with exercise and no piss, allows me to live like a king while eating beautiful real food and making progress (I know I'm making progress - the clothes, and I should say, belt, do not lie).
One thing I'm trying to do is ramp up the veges. I roasted an eggplant the other day and it was a cracker. Just sliced, salted for a few minutes, then baked at 200 degrees for about half an hour tossed with olive oil. I'd like to have a single vege as the main or at least significant part of my meal every night eg eggplant one night, cauliflower another, broccoli another, and so on.
Nothing fancy, but certainly delicious.
Certainly not steamed, low fat crap.
No, fat and salt is what is needed to make vegetables tasty. Just ask any traditional food culture.
Do not make the mistake of asking a nutritionalist.
I'd also like to eat more fish. I'm thinking about making Saturday night fish night. It isn't something I eat much of. It's hard - or at least I think it's hard - for me to source the good stuff. But I'm going to try.
Today, in an hour or so, I want to walk around Cootha - long or short it does not matter. Tomorrow I want to do the long walk though. I think it's really important I do that. I reckon I lose half a kilo whenever I do it (although I haven't measured). The longer walk is almost 4 hours up and down hills.
Your body can't ignore that no matter how stubborn it is.
I'm not kidding myself that I'm a normal weight, or look anything but unfit, but that's the sort of tangible progress and results that motivates you to keep on the straight and narrow.
To continue to stay off the grog.
To continue to exercise, and to keep building on it.
To continue to improve the quality of the food I eat.
I had an egg on a nice salad and toasted turkish bread last night. The egg was poached in olive oil, the salad was dressed with olive oil, red wine vinegar and salt. The turkish bread was toasted under the grill with olive oil and a little salt. I was a little peckish later on so I had two slices of bruschetta wiped with garlic and topped with finely chopped rosemary, salt and olive oil.
Very nice, and certainly not low fat. The 'diet' I'm trying to follow in my life is just to eat real food and avoid crap eg the hot chips I had for lunch yesterday. That combined with exercise and no piss, allows me to live like a king while eating beautiful real food and making progress (I know I'm making progress - the clothes, and I should say, belt, do not lie).
One thing I'm trying to do is ramp up the veges. I roasted an eggplant the other day and it was a cracker. Just sliced, salted for a few minutes, then baked at 200 degrees for about half an hour tossed with olive oil. I'd like to have a single vege as the main or at least significant part of my meal every night eg eggplant one night, cauliflower another, broccoli another, and so on.
Nothing fancy, but certainly delicious.
Certainly not steamed, low fat crap.
No, fat and salt is what is needed to make vegetables tasty. Just ask any traditional food culture.
Do not make the mistake of asking a nutritionalist.
I'd also like to eat more fish. I'm thinking about making Saturday night fish night. It isn't something I eat much of. It's hard - or at least I think it's hard - for me to source the good stuff. But I'm going to try.
Today, in an hour or so, I want to walk around Cootha - long or short it does not matter. Tomorrow I want to do the long walk though. I think it's really important I do that. I reckon I lose half a kilo whenever I do it (although I haven't measured). The longer walk is almost 4 hours up and down hills.
Your body can't ignore that no matter how stubborn it is.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Day 25: Cootha
Walked Cootha for 1 hour 50 mins this morning. Over 1 hour in the dark. Was rewarded with a stick scratching my leg.
Legs were hurting like a bastard yesterday, from the walking I think.
All good now.
Legs were hurting like a bastard yesterday, from the walking I think.
All good now.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Day 24: Must improve food
I'm not doing Cootha today. I'm just not sure it's clever because I think the body needs to rest after doing something difficult. At the moment, I think 3 or 4 times a week is enough. That isn't to say I shouldn't try and walk on the flat on the other days. I'll try and do that this afternoon.
Need to get back into making my lunches. I had work served food crap sandwiches today - toasted - and what a nightmare they are.
Got someone visiting in 6 weeks so want to try and knock some weight off between now and then. Haven't seen them in 10 years.
Need to get back into making my lunches. I had work served food crap sandwiches today - toasted - and what a nightmare they are.
Got someone visiting in 6 weeks so want to try and knock some weight off between now and then. Haven't seen them in 10 years.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Day 23: Feeling skinnier
You know how you feel when you're getting smaller? That's how I feel today. You wake up, certain that you're moving in the right direction, and, invariably, you are.
I haven't felt that way for years.
I walked off with my mother in the dark at 5.10. Our walk took 1 hour and 50 minutes. Around the mountain. The sun didn't rise for an hour or more, but the moonlight was strong and it wasn't too cold.
Very enjoyable, and now I feel as though I'm on even more of a roll.
I want to do it again tomorrow morning by myself for the first time.
I'm also going to buy some batteries for the scales in the hope that's the problem.
I haven't felt that way for years.
I walked off with my mother in the dark at 5.10. Our walk took 1 hour and 50 minutes. Around the mountain. The sun didn't rise for an hour or more, but the moonlight was strong and it wasn't too cold.
Very enjoyable, and now I feel as though I'm on even more of a roll.
I want to do it again tomorrow morning by myself for the first time.
I'm also going to buy some batteries for the scales in the hope that's the problem.
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