I have had some requests to explain about the BodyMedia fIt I wear and to ask if I have a medical condition that requires my wearing such a device.  lol...the condition I have is called the combined sins of PRIDE and SLOTH.

I have a strong tendency towards the combined sins of pride in my creative achievement (sedentary work) which develops the sin of sloth as there isn't a lot of time left over for active life.  I need reminders, hence my using the BodyMedia fit to monitor my sleap and exercise activities, so I make an effort to stay healthy.

You can check out the BodyMedia fIT though facebook.  It is expensive...but  so are personal trainers and neglecting your body...which I have been known to do and still do.  This is a way of not being able to avoid seeing when i slack off and receiving praise when I do the right thing by my body.
If you maintain fitness on your own I wouldn't spend the money on it..but I need the kick in the but.  I am 65 and overweight with a strong self destructive tendency to put creative pursuit ahead of physical fitness and I use this to strive to keep my life in a balance.

Know yourself well and you too can put in place whatever corrective measures you need to do to help keep your life in balance.   I am not perfect in my balance management but I am reasonably happy with it.  I think the message here is to aim for excellence, not perfection and ENJOY LIFE :-).

Ah the joy of traveilling in distant places where my only concern was having a good wireless cellular booster so we could pick up communication signals.  I knew the homecoming would be difficult, because we left at the beginning of the worst mouse plague in rural Australia, in fifteen years.

We arrived home from a five month tour of Australia at the end of August, to an enormous post-mouse plague spring clean and renovation of some of the structural damage they had done to the house..  
When we first left home, I was dreading the return and clean up.  After a few months a way I felt emotionally and physically strong enough to tackle the job however I did set a deadline target to complete the work.  I think this helped me as I knew it would not go on for ever and I treated the house clean as my exercise routing for this last fortnight.  

Before we left for the five month tour I sealed every gap I could find, left mouse biat in every room and locked the house up. 
The farmer was planning to burnt his entire oat crop stubble in an effort to rid it of mice as we hooked up the caravan and drove away.  This fire would of course send the mice in the field scurrying towards the country homes, and my home. Frankly I did not want to be there.  I just trusted the bait to do it's job and left the state to avoid a daily battle with mice and the smoke from the farm fires. 

Now I am as repulsed by mice and any non-mouse-lover.  I had packed everything I could into sealed crates before we left home.  Just the same I wanted to disinfect and clean everything and find and dispose of every dead mouse in the place.  As  we have quite a few room here, it has been an enourmous job.  Head count 46 as of tonight after 2 weeks of work. 

On the positive point, I made a goal deadline of having the home spring cleaned by September 14.

I achieved this 14th  September goal date to have the house spring cleaned.   I also made a 3,191 calorie burn according to my BodyMedia FIT 5,000 steps and 2 and a half hours of exercise today.    Great to have met that target and have survived the experience of living beside an oat field during a mouse plague aftermath spring clean. The worst of it is behind me :-)  I can relax now and enjoy all the beauty that living in the bush so close to nature, brings me. 

Do you love Sunday? What does it mean to you?
As I worked in and around professions that go on 24/7 and could not be scheduled between Monday to Friday, I have no concept of a traditional working week.
I love Sundays because it is the day I am least likely to be interrupted by business and so it allows for full focus on creativity. 

That however is my dilemma. I love my creative work so much, it is however a sedentary activity and I need to remember to include physical activity into my day.  I did well yesterday.  I was thrilled that I included 1 hour of moderate active exercise and 20 minutes of intense exercise in my day. 

Today, as well as spending my creative time writing, I plan to set up Wire display racks in the kitchen and do a lot of studio cleaning which will involve some heavy physical work as I pull everything out of the room to clean under and around all the furniture. 

Calorie burn Wednesday 2,445

I buy most of my home soft furnishings online and always wish I had coupons  to use when I pay for them.
lol, I spent the afternoon while Reg went fishing redesigning the caravan bench seat that Reg and Indigo share into a comfortable armchair complete with footstool. Indigo told me she hated it...it lacked her high seat where she morning sun bakes.
Reg came back from fishing...hated it..man of habit. LOL. He went to bed and I rearranged everything back exactly the way it had been. Made for a good workout.

"Where flowers bloom so does hope," motivational fridge magnet .
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Cooking on a barbecue or grill is generally a healthy way to cook, but fatty foods, charred meats and the by-products of fat dripping on coals may not be so good for you. The following small changes in your cooking methods allow you to enjoy all the great tastes of a barbecue while also minimizing any risk to your health.

Reg is not interested in BBQ’s here, he likes to sit in his armchair and eat in front of one of his samsung lcd tvs.  Dinner is always served when the 6pm news is on at our house and Reg never likes to miss the news, not even for an excellent BBQ dinner.


 

Here are some great tips for Healthy Barbeque Cooking

Back from a WONDERFUL exhilarating time painting at Lake Victoria, swamp hens, black swans, ducks a couple of fishermen and a woman and her dog all came over to have a look, lol. 

Pedometer measured my step count as 1,298 doing an on location art work, lol didn't know I could class painting out as good incidental exercise.  The best incidental exercise is doing things you love and I sure loved painting out in nature on this beautiful spring day.