Four Corners A Sense Of Self When acclaimed TV journalist Liz Jackson is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, crippling her with pain & panic attacks, she turns the lens on herself to make the most challenging story of her life. This episode was shown on Four Corners on ABC TV recently but, due to being away, I missed it. I finally…
Tag: health
5 seconds on Friday – Healing in the spring sunshine
A ‘cute’ appendicitis!
Ouch – multiplied by a million
Today I had my second ever mammogram. My first one, over 2 years ago, was a memorable occasion as I was excited to have finally reached this ‘invitation’ stage of my life (for some reason I was excited??). I have decided after today’s experience, that I do not like them.Today was worse in some ways than my first time because…
I’ve registered for my first 5km fun run, you can too – Mother’s Day Classic
MDC – I’ve registered, you can too | Mother’s Day Classic. I have just registered for my first 5km fun run – the Mothers Day Classic in Canberra on May 11 2014. I am excited but also a bit nervous! It’s for a great cause and I will be running it with my daughter Sarah and her boyfriend Ben. They live in…
Letter to myself – 12 wbt weekly challenge
The challenge for week 1 of this round of 12wbt is to write a letter to ourselves answering the following questions. It’s a good exercise and I think I’m lucky as I’ve been blogging about my feelings throughout the first round and into my second round, so I have an idea of what’s been going on in my head. While the questions below…
Starting the 10km program – Day 1
Today I started the 12wbt 10km running program. I’m not nearly as stressed as I was at the start of my Learn to Run program 12 or so weeks ago. I’m an old hand at this now!! I am following a similar meal plan to last round and now know all the tricks of customising my menus and getting my…
Tumba Trek – a different super Saturday session
Today was my final Super Saturday session on the Learn to Run program and what a day it’s been!! I walked nearly 15 Kms over 4.5 hours on the beautiful Hume and Hovell walking track, burnt 910 calories, enjoyed great company and all this was done in very hot conditions. I was a part of the 2014 Tumba Trek with…
Gunshot….the soundtrack to my morning run
I’m not joking! My neighbour was out shooting this morning while I was out running. I couldn’t see him anywhere, I just kept hearing these random shots and hoped that he could see me. In the end I used it as a training aid, every time I heard the shot I pretended it was the starting gun for a race and…
Body age as compared to real age
Just a quick note to say that I had a body evaluation done today and my 53 year old body is actually only 45 years old. Gotta be happy with that 🙂 My visceral fat is well in the normal range and by losing a few more kilos I should reduce my % of body fat. My muscle % and…
Walks
I mixed it up a bit on Friday by going for a walk (and a little run) after dinner, in the fading light of the day. It was very peaceful and I must say that I enjoyed the change. I also did a bit of canoeing today which was fun. I hadn’t been feeling too motivated and felt a bit sluggish, so…
5 good reasons to run early in the morning
Welcome to week 6! Monday mornings can be quite hard to get up & go running but I have managed to do it now for 6 weeks. It’s not pretty I can assure you!! This morning I realised that I actually love my 6.30am runs. Here are my top five reasons: 1. There are no flies at that time of…
Skinny love
This was taken on my morning run and just as I took it the song skinny love came on my playlist. I loved the shadow effect giving me long skinny legs and making me appear much taller than I am. It was a lovely morning, crisp and clear and I enjoyed my run much more than last week’s. I wasn’t as hungry, had much more energy and was able to run for 4 minutes without stopping. I then continued walking and running in intervals for the rest of my workout.
My weekly weigh in was ok with the scales showing that I dropped 500g since last week (I I really think it is quite unfair given the amount of work I’ve done all week on eating properly and exercising). But I am happy with how much energy I have, how my clothes are feeling looser and with how much I’m feeling in control. I feel healthy and happy with my efforts so hopefully the numbers will continue to fall. I have also stopped myself from weighing myself everyday as it was doing my head in. I will now only weigh in on Wednesdays as per instructions! I am managing with eating out and was proud that on a recent road trip I googled the McDonald’s menu and found the best choices for meals along the way.
Skinny love….getting closer!!!
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Pressure’s on!!
I’m feeling the pressure! Organising all my meals, trying to get the exercises right, finding time, making time, reading everything, recording everything I eat, calories burnt, first weigh in ……I know I’ll be fine in a week or so. I do like to be organised so that helps. My weigh in was OK – 100g down from my initial weigh…
The beginning…
Today was Day 1. Although the weeks of pre-season activities have helped get my head into the right mind set, it was still a big day. I had a huge weekend cycling with friends and on Saturday alone my heart rate monitor told me that I had burnt 1432 calories!! We did ride for most of the day and covered…
