Filed under: British Military Fitness, food, gym, healthy eating, running | Tags: blood pressure, British Military Fitness, cholesterol test, doctor, food, gym, running, spinning, transient ischaemic attack
I seem to have been in and out of the doctor’s surgery a bit too much lately, which is annoying on many levels. I hate being ill: it slows me down, stops me from doing any exercise and therefore prevents me from eating what I want. And I get really annoyed that the old people can’t work the self check-in screen in reception. They really can’t cope with using the touchscreen to enter their sex and date of birth – sends them into a complete spin and causes a queue out the door while the receptionist sorts them out. It would be quicker to check them in the old-fashioned way.
Anyway, the good news is that I appear to be normal:
Height: 1.62m (5′4″ in old money)
Weight: 64kg (10 stone 2 – that’s three pounds lighter than at Christmas – yay)
BMI: 24 (ok, very top end of normal – but still normal)
Blood pressure: 120/70
Cholesterol: 2.56 (has to be under 4)
The blood pressure and cholesterol were pretty important – my Dad suffered two transient ischaemic attacks (mini strokes) a few years ago – one of which I witnessed, probably the scariest moment of my life. His blood pressure and cholesterol level turned out to be off the scale – and had never been checked. I had to go through a telephone grilling before the doctor would agree to me having one – despite the family history – and she gave me a lecture on eating properly, even if my level turned out to be below average. Obviously I sounded like the type of person that would get a good result, go off and eat only cheese for the rest of my life. I’m not entirely sure how to analyse the result, but I’m relieved that it is – well – normal.
I’m also a pretty normal January exerciser, as it turns out. After doing 14 “units”of exercise (British Military Fitness, running, gym, spinning) in the first 18 days of the year- I’ve done nothing for the last nine days. In my defence, I’m on antibiotics that have wiped me out and made me way more sleepy than usual, but it is time to get back in the saddle. I intend to start tomorrow morning by going back to the gym.
Filed under: gym, healthy eating, running | Tags: gym, healthy eating, running, spinning
No really, it is. Not a drop of alcohol has passed my lips since about 2.30am on Friday morning. Pretty impressive for a weekend. Exercise-wise, after my session at the gym on Monday, I did my five-mile Twyford/Dinton run yesterday and a spinning class plus a few weights this morning. And I’m on a bit of a health kick to get my digestive system back on track after my holiday. Not to mention trying to shift a few pounds that crept on when I wasn’t looking. :-/
An hour’s worth of exercise, five days a week. Which makes my 45 minutes of circuits at the gym this morning a bit of a waste of time on the weight-loss front. Bugger.
Filed under: X-bike, gym, healthy eating, running | Tags: healthy eating, running
Stood on the scales this morning and weighed in at 10 stone 5. Oh dear. I think that’s the heaviest I’ve ever been. At 5′4″, I probably should weigh about 9 stone 7 – I’ve got down to that a couple of times over the past couple of years, but that’s generally been when I’ve been having a bad time for some reason. I’m happy enough just under 10 stone, but definitely don’t like going over.
This is largely the reason I started running in the first place. I didn’t just wake up one morning and fancy a jog. Rather, I put on a stone in my first year at University after living on crap Hall food and snakey-b for two terms; and decided drastic action was required. I’ve been running since then for 12 years – albeit on and off, and mixed up with other types of exercise. It sure as hell beats dieting.
I’m afraid it makes me laugh inwardly to hear other people banging on about their latest diet, which involves cutting out wheat, dairy, meat, any form of carbohydrate or living on cabbage soup – but fails to suggest doing any form of exercise.
I absolutely love cooking, eating and drinking…especially with friends and family. So I run to compensate. If I burn off the same number of calories as I consume, my weight should remain roughly the same. Looks like I got my maths a bit wrong lately though – time to hit the road/treadmill/x-bike with a bit more enthusiasm…
Also requiring significantly more enthusiasm is my website project. I’ve got as far as buying www.irunbecauseilovefood.co.uk, and now need to find a hosting company. Any tips gratefully received – though you’ll probably have difficulty communicating them because my comments box won’t work since I pointed the blog at the new domain. Boo to complicated techie stuff that I don’t understand.
I like my food, but I was horrified by this story on the BBC this morning. Wrong on so many levels…
I would, however, be interested to know what was on the menu at the Arkansas Prison. After two weeks of eating virtually nothing but smoothies and soups made with fresh fruit and veg, I’ve lost only two pounds.
