Death becomes her ...
'Health' being the flavour du jour, I had a quick flick back through the 'health' tab on this blog - history really does appear to repeat itself. That or it's just my life that sounds like a stuck record. Throat problems, Alcohol and attempted Abstinence are all recurring themes over the last 5 years. An insight into both my future health problems ... as well as my cure? I had a terrible private obsession with death even before I became a 'specialist' in Elderly Care, but it often now feels all consuming - when will I die; how will i die; when will the people I care about die; how will they die ... and so on and so forth. This is probably not an uncommon train of thought among people whose daily bread is death and the dying. Projecting forward, based on the last 5 years health, as expressed via the blog - I would not be surprised if it was throat/ stomach cancer and/ or some alcohol(ic) related liver/ kidney/ heart failure/ stroke 'what got me'. Had not my latest round of abstinence saved the day, of course! Right then, no need to write about this again ... until the next time.
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
2011: A Health Odyssey ...
In the beginning, there was blob. And it was bad.
And this video I've just stumbled upon explains why:
So what I am going to do about it?
Phase 1. Cut out alcohol completely. No exercise. No change to diet. On the start of month 2 weigh in, this should mean that any change/ reduction in weight is directly attributable to Alcohol (I've been curious about the sole effect of this cheeky little habit for a while now).
Phase 2. Once this little mystery is resolved - it's on to the serious stuff. Teetotal + Exercise.
Keep you posted with the detail (my health goals and the rationale behind them) shortly. But it's bedtime now. Nite nite x
In the beginning, there was blob. And it was bad.
And this video I've just stumbled upon explains why:
(4mins but worth a watch if you also suffer from 'spare tyre syndrome')
So what I am going to do about it?
Phase 1. Cut out alcohol completely. No exercise. No change to diet. On the start of month 2 weigh in, this should mean that any change/ reduction in weight is directly attributable to Alcohol (I've been curious about the sole effect of this cheeky little habit for a while now).
Phase 2. Once this little mystery is resolved - it's on to the serious stuff. Teetotal + Exercise.
Keep you posted with the detail (my health goals and the rationale behind them) shortly. But it's bedtime now. Nite nite x
Saturday, January 08, 2011
The Naked Truth
If WMG/ You Tube/ Google allowed me to include the music I already own on this site, this post would be accompanied, no doubt, by 'Nowhere to Run" by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas! This is my statement of intent. At some point over the coming year I hope to be posting updated versions of the above to demonstrate how successful my New Year's Resolution has been ...
My mission if I choose to accept it, is to ring some changes to the above, by practising - for the first time in 7 years of training - what I preach to others. Namely, that change through exercise rehab can only come via some hard hours on the 'coal face'.
I will share my body map (the problem list I have compiled based on the the findings of my physiotherapy self-assessment) another time. It is in no one's interests to continue this gruesome post for a sentence longer! Happy New Year tout le monde x
ps: having reflected on my shape and genetics since posting this a few moments ago, I realise that there probably won't be much noticeable difference in the pix, to the lay person. Hopefully though the stonking dimensions of the 42" rubber tyre will come down. Time will tell.
Blimey*
I'm ALL man, you better believe it!
* So you're looking at 42" Imperial Inches of prime *beef steak aka the circumference of my love handles (that's 105cm in new money).
If WMG/ You Tube/ Google allowed me to include the music I already own on this site, this post would be accompanied, no doubt, by 'Nowhere to Run" by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas! This is my statement of intent. At some point over the coming year I hope to be posting updated versions of the above to demonstrate how successful my New Year's Resolution has been ...
My mission if I choose to accept it, is to ring some changes to the above, by practising - for the first time in 7 years of training - what I preach to others. Namely, that change through exercise rehab can only come via some hard hours on the 'coal face'.
I will share my body map (the problem list I have compiled based on the the findings of my physiotherapy self-assessment) another time. It is in no one's interests to continue this gruesome post for a sentence longer! Happy New Year tout le monde x
ps: having reflected on my shape and genetics since posting this a few moments ago, I realise that there probably won't be much noticeable difference in the pix, to the lay person. Hopefully though the stonking dimensions of the 42" rubber tyre will come down. Time will tell.
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