Hate To Exercise

November 2023

Well, I recovered from my women’s issues and began to make headway getting myself back on track with my food regime of 2 years ago; namely big breakfast, huge lunch and tiny dinner. I’ve confined my snacking to a packet of crisps in the afternoon and 3 chocolates later in the evening. Combined all of that with regular 10,000 steps a day, I am starting to make a dent in my weight once again.

It’s been a slog getting myself back to here. There’s been excuses and hiccups and plain down laziness; and now that I’m nearly back in the old pattern of “smart eating” and some kind of exercise I kind think why it’s been so hard to get back here. I’ve been here before, I knew it was doable, and it’s not like this style of eating and exercising is so hard, or denies me any foods I want.

But, I won’t crow too soon. It’s been only 2 weeks or there about. We are currently in a run-up to Christmas and we all know how that goes. Still I’m determined to do my previous and not be like all those individuals who say “I start after Christmas”. No. I’m simply going to push through Christmas. And if that means I get to eat a massive slab of Christmas cake for breakfast, so be it. It’s not like I haven’t done it before. In fact 2 days last week, it was a massive piece of chocolate cake.

That’s it – that is the key to how I go about losing a few pounds whilst still eating everything. I just eat it in a different order. Last week it was chocolate cake for breakfast. This morning it’s macaroni and goulash. Tomorrow, I’ll figure it out. Having cake for breakfast means I don’t have any dessert later in the day, even if I go out for a pub lunch or something like that. Because I’ve already satisfied my sweet craving and my brain is cool with that. It is all, as we know, psychological.

So, here I am, once again on my healthy living path. I’ve stopped trying to push myself into the HIIT sessions – although I know these are more beneficial in terms of developing muscle all round body. I do however try to ensure I do the 10,000 steps a day. Some folks may think what can 10,000 steps a day do. Well, combine that with some smart eating, and you will start to see your weight drop. I just did. And no, it wasn’t a lot, but it’s a step in the right direction. I’m current 3lb / 1.5kg down.

Right, time for pasta and I need to pop out to the shops. See you soon.

If you’re a bloke squeamish about women’s periods, look away now

Life is a bi*tch, and it’s hard being a woman. Just as I was getting myself back into a stride of some exercise routine, trying to get back on the bandwagon of a healthy life style – I got hit with a massive period.

Being the age I am, menopause or peri-menopause – they’re kinda on a menu now. A touch too early for my liking, but all this stuff about having menopause at the age your mother did – is great big MYTH – which thankfully most sensible doctors are trying to debunk. My mother had hers at 52, I’m nowhere near that age. However, many women still don’t know that; neither do they know the symptoms to look out for, well here’s a few, and let them know: irregular periods, missing periods for months at a time; sudden and drastic hair loss; memory loss and sudden inability to speak like a human being; out of a blue unusually heavy periods. Plus others which thankfully I haven’t had the misfortune to encounter – and hopefully will not. So if you didn’t know – you do now, and share with your girlfriends.

Anyway, I did a week worth of HIIT sessions, when after months of absence, I got hit with a massive period. Like 10 of them together in one go, with such a large quantity of blood loss, it’s actually scary, and something to keep an eye on as it can lead to anaemia. With that amount of blood loss – seriously I felt like a baby needing a nappy change every half hour or so – doing any kind of exercise was a great big no-no. Unlike a normal heavy period, the way the bubbles of liquid gushed, and of course the mess that goes with it, it’s really not possible to do any kind of exercise. In fact leaving a home was difficult enough. Not worth taking the messy risk.

And I won’t even mention the stomach crumps. So yeah, there – menopause.

All that aside – I managed to get some proper walks in last week, but no HIITS. It really sucks: when your mind is ready and willing, your body then decides to throw you a massive curve ball that you just can’t do anything about.

See you again.

A little dent

Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman…