How I feel about stepping on a scale is a sure way to tell if I’m living or or dieting, balanced or unbalanced. When I’m sane and balanced and taking care of myself, I can step on a scale and think, hmmmm, interesting. I feel like a scientist gathering a little more information about an [...]
29Oct09
The Teetotal Experience
I love wine. Yes I do. But recently a lot of things have conspired to make me realise that maybe it doesn’t love me back. Over the years, and especially lately, I’ve tried to quit drinking for all sorts of reasons. I’ve been worried about: my liver how often I use wine as a stress-buster [...]
28Oct09
Rhythm of (Middle) Life
I’m sailing on a calm pool this week. The perimenoapausal hormones and accumulated minor anxieties which combined to send me round the bend last week are at a standstill today and I feel like a completely different person. This is how I know that I have finally made it past the half-way mark in life. [...]
27Oct09
Move to Eat or Eat to Move
Thinking about the diet/non-diet thing again and how exercise reflects my frame of mind. When I have my diet head on, I exercise to eat. I see my hour on the treadmill as earning calories. I think that attitude comes largely from Weight Watchers which does encourage exercise as “earning Points”. But my non-diet head [...]
26Oct09
A Little Self-Discovery
I have thrown out all of my fat book except three and have recently taken them out to have another browse. The first is Dr Pamela Peeke’s Fight Fat After Forty and I’ll write here periodically about what it’s making me think. Yesterday I didn’t get past the first chapter without a major revelation. I [...]
24Oct09
Recovery
I figure it takes me about two to three weeks now to recover from a serious tumble into a vat of sugar/fat/whatever. This time it also took two weeks of awful stomach problems to force me into getting back into really good habits. Even giving up the wine has been easy because I feel so [...]
24Oct09
Definitive Waistline – Part 2
OK – I should have gone to the NHS at the beginning. Measure your waist To find your true waist, feel for your hip bone on one side of your body. Move upwards until you can feel the bones of your bottom rib. Halfway between is your waist. For most people this is where their [...]
23Oct09
Definitive Waistline
I don’t want to sound fanatical, but where the heck do you measure your waist? People who make clothes say it’s the narrowest part. Dr Oz the You On A Diet guy says at the navel. Other’s say just above the navel. Well……those three places range from 33 to 36 inches – almost healthy to [...]
22Oct09
Thinking About Exercise
I love a good workout. I can happily sit on the sofa for a week. These are two truths that make it complicated to be me. Or maybe everyone is like this. I have always been sporty with or without extra weight. I suppose that innate enjoyment of exercise is why I’ve never had more [...]
22Oct09
Gym-free Fitness
I go through phases of liking the gym and resenting the time and money that it demands. I’m in the latter phase right now. I’ve had many vague thoughts about starting routing at home with hand weights and a balance ball but have never quite got that to the reality stage. But I think it’s [...]