I didn't get to go skating last Saturday but went for a three mile walk around the Lickeys in the rain instead. We saw two Roe deer on our walk but that was the only highlight on what was a miserable day. The walk did spur me on to attend a couple of aquafit sessions during the week which I'm delighted at.
The first aquafit session saw me in the water some 15 mins before the session doing those crappy head held high breaststroke lengths on account that I'd forgotten my goggles. As we got into position for the class I had a silly grin on my face thinking 'well done you, you're actually here'. This joy rapidly disappeared when the music started. Grease Lightning, WMCA and the Birdy Song got me exercising with psychotic anger. How these women (there were 20 women and one man) tolerate this noise as music is beyond belief! I can't even move to that unadulterated crap when I've 10 pints inside me. At one point I thought all was not lost as I heard the opening bars of Racy's classic Some Girls Do. How foolish I felt when I turned out to be Making Your Mind Up by Bucks Fizz. That's a lesson to everyone ... don't be tricked like I was.
The fruit and veg intake is still good and I'm being very cunning at hiding veg in meals so Andrew doesn't winge too much. I've slipped peas into his rice and roasted all manner of veg he wouldn't normally eat. I even hid a punnet of raspberries in some jelly. All of these foods have been consumed with great gusto! I'm not sure that covering all your veg in oil and salt and all your fruit in sugar and cream is what the goverments 5 a day scheme has in mind. Oh well.
I'm still sticking to the No Drinking In The House Unless Guests but plan to break this tomorrow night as it's Burns night. The haggis is being fattened as I type and there's no way it could be consumed without a whiskey tipple.
On the down side not one but two previously undiscovered Christmas chocolate streams have been unearthed. A whole tub of celebrations and the most addictive substance in the world ... mini Diam bars, (curses to Kim for leaving them behind!) were found in the kitchen during the last week. We have risen to the challenge however by being absolute troppers and force feeding ourselves these choccies in order to get them cleared out of the house! Well done us ;)
Another downer is that when you stop drinking regularly and then go out for a drink you don't half put it away. We pretty much wiped out last Saturday as a result of the previous Friday night out and we only just salvaged Sunday by the skin of our teeth.
On the post-it note front there are a couple of losses and one gain. Small Plate Small Portion just isn't working as I when I do remember to use the small plate I can't 'arf pile it high. Easily getting as much or possibly even more on than a regular plate. One of the problems being that when you are trying to increase your veg intake you need to put a lot more veg on the plate. I'm going to regard this post-it as a failure and have another think on how to tackle portion size. Maybe it's just too early to take this one on.
The other loss is a continuation from last week and that's the -1 Hour Of TV Time A Night. In an attempt to combat this I have bought a backgammon set. I used to play when I worked nights some 10-12 years ago but I can't remember how it is played now. I hope it will be a good activity for me and Andrew to learn. Also I have discovered a fencing club that runs on a Thursday night. Andrew is a big fan of fencing so the plan is to pop down there for an hour once a week, ticking not only this post-it but increasing our physical activity too.
The gain hasn't made it onto a post-it yet and I'm not sure that it will as it's firmly stuck in my head. This is going to sound weird but here goes. No More Than 24 Hours Spent In The House. The reason for this is I work from home 3 days a week only needing to go into the office two days. So it is possible for me to not go outside for up to 5 days. It hardly ever happened 'onest guv but it's not rare for me to spend 2 or 3 days in the house without venturing outside. This has got to stop. So far since my last blog I have managed to stick to this one. In the back of my mind I wan't to up this to Go Outside Everyday but let's see how it pans out. Small sustainable steps remember.
Todays outside trip is aquafit and if the Birdy Song is played again again I'm going to use the scrawny, perky titted, aurally defective, braindead bint as a towel!
Wish me luck.
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