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My fitness progress.

Garth, my gym trainer, has given me an entirely new gym program.  He say’s I will be working my core muscles, and working to reduce my 'tuck shop arms' lol, :-).

Lots of work in front of the mirrors to remind me to keep my back straight while I exercise.

No reduction in my weight or change showing in my body composition since my last assessment but my waist is 1" smaller so some improvement there and I am stronger.

My next fitness assessment will be in four weeks time.

Being your own boss.

I have a lot of sedentary work to do now, I need to buckle down and make the time to complete the shopping carts in my on line stores. It is not hard work but it is time consuming and it makes me want to pick on food.  Last night I had a constant urge to get up and make a supper to eat, I was not hungry, so I did not; I knew it was part of old, sedentary activity habits trying to return.  I told myself I would make a couple of cups of tea, if the feeling didn’t go away, and I would make a diet jelly for the following night if it was too hard to work late and not eat, or some vegetable soup if I actually did get hungry late at night.  I got ‘stuck into the work’, completed half of it, and went to bed, without having snacked. I was pleased about that. J

The sedentary activity has some advantages, we are experiencing heat wave conditions here in Northern Victoria and I gave my left leg a knock the other day.  Knocking a leg is not normally such a bad thing but my left leg had a crush injury about a decade ago and I have to be careful with it. It feels hot, so the sedentary shopping cart work will not be helping me lose any excess weight this week but I am doing it with both feet up, in front of the fan and using the time to rest the leg and allow it to recover and make the best of the heat.  The view into our garden as usual is lovely, day lilies and my first lilies are in flower along with the last of the bearded iris and my beautiful roses.

So here I am, feet up in front of my view, express coffee on hand. If I am doing ‘office work’, at least I’m my own boss.  J  I get to knock off early afternoon and head down to the Goulburn River for a warm up session before entering the gym. I work out with views over the Shepparton parkland then home to enjoy my beautiful garden, maybe bath in the courtyard garden and relax with a book before dinner and then a return to my sedentary shopping cart set up work tonight.

It is good being your own boss, you get to choose when you will do things, you do need to watch that there isn’t too much sedentary work in the balance, and even writing this, I can see, I’m slipping into old bad habits and allowing the sedentary jobs to dominate again.

Observations and Corrections tool.

I observe that my sedentary work, the setting up of the shopping carts, is blowing out so I am going to plan set hours to do this work, log in and strict log off times. When I come home from gym today, I am going to keep on active exercise, while I am still in a good fat burning zone. I can create another vegetable bed, plant another crop of beans, something I try to do  every fortnight to maintain a continual harvest through summer and autumn and I will weed, prune and tidy up the garden and do some well overdue housework.  A quick shower instead of the leisurely bath will do for today, it will be there as my reward on a more active day. Then, after I have had a very active afternoon and early evening, and not just one active hour at gym, I will get back to my shopping carts for a few hours with a deadline to log off at midnight.   Does that sound better? Lol J

As for the leg, it is sitting dangling the leg that is bad for it, not walking or having it up, activity is good for circulation = good for old injuries.

Yes its great being your own boss, just watch carefully that you do not become a self-abusing boss, it is so easy to do. If any one thing more than another, contributed to my past obesity, it was self abusive, self neglecting, 'workaholism' . I will recognise the signs early and not go there again.
(self talk) 'Love yourself, Kathy'.

  
 


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