Wow and they haven't evicted you from the country? I thought it was required by law that you had to watch cricket

Well everything I do is somewhat erratic, I guess my exercise is too. I'm trying to make it be erratic within a useful range though.

I did get to the club today - with limited time. So it was 20-25 minutes on the elliptical, then 20 minutes mucking around, almost certainly unproductively, with the weight machines. (Dunno what to do about this - have another better look with more time, when I'm supposed to be browsing, not supposed to be exercising?) Later I did a 15-20 minutes brisk walk, with the dog, while I returned the dinky frog.

Ways the club helps me.

Many nice things all to do with the pool and wet area.

Has an elliptical machine, with buttons and flashing numbers.

Has the elliptical machine side on to a massive wall of mirrors so that in a sideways glance I can see myself from the side and in motion. This is a great inspiration to change!

Has a division between 2 mirrors which I didn't notice the first couple of times that I looked in the mirror, and which is right down the middle of where I see my body in the mirror, and which adds about 5 inches to all my measurements!! Even more incentive!

Sometimes has music playing on one of the radio stations I can hook up to while I am on the machine.

Sometimes has loud music playing on their giant tv screen thingie.

How it does not help.

Sometimes has people talking on the radio stations, or has adverts on them, at the same time as they are playing their own stupid repetitive health club adverts on the big screen, so that I can not get any music unless I have brought my own!! (Which is currently not an option ... what a bugger because it is soooo helpful!)

Sometimes has music indistinguishable from whispering. (Vis Holly Valance. Was she singing? Was she there just to raise the heart rates of the male heterosexuals?)

Plays the old timers music that made me want to bop around while I was trying to cool down a bit! Not fair!!!!

Hooked me up with that doofus trainer even though deaf Freddy should have heard me saying that I was prepared to wait indefinitely for someone who would be a good match for my needs!!

Another way it did help.

Had this video. Which of course everyone else in the world had already seen, but which I had not, and which did fit in nicely.
YouTube - George Michael - Flawless (Go to the City)

Oh and I just remembered another downer.

Has heaps of tv screens so that regardless of what you may be trying to attend to, it is possible to see the poor compere of Ready, Steady, Cook, in his increasingly large, loose overshirts, which is not so bad, but also managed to give me a glimpse of someone drizzling chocolate over a just puffed, strawberry mousse!! What the...!

that would be so distracting for me -

Occassionally i watch people on the ellipticals and you can see ponytails bouncing up and down and umm- other body parts bouncing up and down... you realize the importance of supportive undergarments at that point

Oh I do have my eyes fixed firmly on Holly Valance for (almost) all the time I'm there! Fortunately my bra is tough enough. Unfortunately they do not make bras for thighs ...

He he - and as for the pony tail, well a sweaty pony tail banging up and down on my back is pretty uncomfortable, so I do keep my hair up now. Actually the other day I realized I had arrived with my hair up in a bun and secured with two ballpoint pens. Major hunt in my belongings revealed no scrunchie, no elastic band - so I just poked the pens in again more securely and bounced along like that. See this is how I got so fat - I am totally able to forget what I look like! I forgot they were there until after I left again! I dunno if anyone was pointing or shaking their head at me or not. And of course I was entranced by the ads for Fitness First vitamins and the flashing red heart rate lights and didn't look in the mean mirrors!

Well. I have had to watch some ... Yes. There is a law.

I just don't actually watch more than I am obliged to by law. That is what I really meant.

Wednesday March 5, 2008.

Breakfast: 7:30 Toast (75) with plum and cinnamon jam.(15) A boiled egg.(70) 2 little tomatoes (30) Weetbix (107) with soy milk (122) and tinned peaches (50). Coffee with a little hilo milk. (5) Breakfast – 474 calories.

Lunch: 12:00 1 wholemeal bread roll (160 cal) with 100 gm low fat cottage cheese (91). A stick of celery (5), a small field mushroom (25), a handful of snow peas (8), a small carrot (40). About 12 nice little strawberries(50). Coffee with milk. (5) Lunch – 384 calories.

Snack: 5:10 2 wholmeal Vive crackers (50). 7 walnut halves (~ 75). 1 gala apple (50). Coffee with milk (5). Snack – 180 calories.

A bit late for a snack, but definitely worth the pause and regroup before I went shopping! I'm thinking that this really breaks the “I could eat a horse” sensation before it gets going, and is a much better time to eat this stuff than after dinner.

Dinner: 7:30 and then again 8:30 because I had a phone call in between.
60 gm red emperor, marinated in limejuice, coriander leaves and fresh chilli, dusted in flour and fried in EVO oil (120). 100 gm can of light tuna with oven-dried tomato and basil (79) in a wholemeal breadroll (160). Carrot (40), capsicum (10), ½ large tomato (20), 1/3 cucumber(4), celery (5), snow peas (10), 1 ½ field mushrooms(40), spoon of sliced black olives (10). 200 gm diet apricot yoghurt (84). Coffee with milk (5). Dinner – 587 calories.

Actually after that large late snack, I probably didn't need as much dinner as I ate. I did feel a little overfed afterwards, and maybe should have thought about it a bit before I had the yoghurt. I'm a bit loathe to part with it at the moment because it has sometimes stopped me from wondering about eating other things. I'm a bit nervous about saying I've had a good day food wise until it's the next day!

Total - 1625 calories.

I watched tv during and for a while after dinner. I didn't sit in the bad chair but still it was the tv room. An interesting show though – nothing ho hum about it.

I felt fine! I wasn't starving when I started to eat. That was one good thing. I hadn't been shopping while I was hungry – that was another good thing. Also, while I was still eating dinner and I thought about what might happen or how I might feel afterwards I said to myself that it was great that I knew I didn't have to feel any obligation to eat. That is just the most relaxing idea. At the moment, every time I think of that I feel the monkey falling off my shoulders. Soft shoulders, soggy elbows! Woohoo!!

Exercise: As above. I'm whingeing about the music at the club, but I should say that I managed a bit better pace today than last time, and both times I did have the old jelly knee thing when I got off [edit: got off the machine], so I'm kinda whingeing, but overall pretty happy about that elliptical.

do ellipticals go in the opposite direction down under ?? you know, like toilet flushing ??

Absolutely. Of course.

It is a known fact that people here walk around upside down (from your perspective only - from mine, you walk around upside down). Also we ride ellipticals upside down, with the rotation therefore, in reverse to that in the northern hemisphere!!

And thank you for drawing that to my attention.

Also, we all sit upside down, and sleep upside down, and you know ... do everything from the opposite direction to you - at the same time, perhaps.

Like I said, you got the weather karma. Spinning dilemmas seem minor to all else.

I'd chew on a 4-pack of lightbulbs (any wattage) for two 40 degree days in a row right now.

So you're saying I'd need a snorkel to engage in a lagerfest ?? I hate when I nose-load beer. It kinda hurts.

Well sometimes people who need an urgent lager-fest within the first 24 hours use a snorkel. After that they get used to drinking upside down like the rest of us.




I just like the idea that if you were having a lager fest where you live, while I was sedately sipping a diet ginger beer, where I live (under my halo), the bottoms of our glasses could be pointing at each other, while our heads both pointed towards the opposite ends of the universe.


Soz about your horrible weather...

Hey, I love to catch cricket when I can. I got addicted when studying at Oxford. By the way I love the new avatar

I love your new AVI, you look gorgeous!!! WOW look how thin your face is, so so nice!!! And I don't want to hear one word about it's a small photo or the lens made it look better or any other excuse, you look great and that's all there is to it!!

Hope your day is a good one, I don't have time to read through it all so I'll try later. Hugs and love
Kim

Thank you.

You studied at Oxford! Far out! What an amazing way to experience the UK - and what an amazing place to study!

It sounds like your addiction to cricket has retreated, due to lack of cricket. How lucky!! It really is too time consuming to be addicted to - now you have time to go to the gym!! (and/or time to have a life! )



He he. No-one has time to read it all - it's like cricket!! Thanks for the good wishes, and the compliment.

OK, no excuses about the avvie. "I have a screening tool on the computer (ie the viewer - me), that automatically rejects all the fat face photos" ... this reply is out. "This is my new ready-for-action avvie!!" ... this reply is in!!

Now all I need is the action ...