Weight Status
Posted: Fri 5 February, 2010 Filed under: Domestic, Health, Weight Loss Leave a comment »Last year, I was working on losing some weight, and went to the local Slimming World group with Herself in order to look at doing so.
With the way work’s been, I stopped having the time to go to the meetings back at the start of December, but pretty much kept to what we’d been doing while attending.
With things calming down a bit, we’ve started going back, and of course one of the things that had to be done was weighing-in again.
I knew I’d done OK in the interceding time, hadn’t put on too much even with the Festering Season. So it was nice to see that in that time I’d put on 2½ lbs.
I’ve still got a way to go – a long way, if I’m honest – but at least I’m doing OK, and intend to keep on doing so.
Snow vs Resolution
Posted: Sun 10 January, 2010 Filed under: Domestic, Five Year Plan (now Ten), Health, Resolutions 1 Comment »One of my plans for 2010 is to keep on losing weight, and get myself back to the gym, see how things go.
I had planned to be going in some time over the last week, at least get started on the idea. However, the weather has kind of kicked that into touch, and will probably continue to do so this coming week.
It might sound like the weather’s an excuse – and I suppose if I were really determined, I could still go, but it’d be interesting, to say the least. The gym itself is on the outskirts of another local village, where the roads haven’t been gritted at all. But I’ve had one crunch on dodgy roads this winter, and I really don’t want to have another one – particularly while I’m still in the poxy hire car.
I will go back to the gym – but only when it’s safe to do so.
Obsessive Behaviour
Posted: Wed 11 November, 2009 Filed under: D4D™, Domestic, Health, People, Thoughts, Weight Loss, Weirdness 1 Comment »Over the last few months, as I’ve written about before, we’ve been attending one of the local Slimming World groups in an effort to lose a bit of weight. Obviously I’ve got more to lose than Herself, but we’re both working on it.
So far it’s been fairly successful – we’ve both lost a stone over that time. We could, in all honesty, have lost more, and/or in less time if we followed all the rules and weighed everything obsessively.
But that’s the key word – in my opinion, there’s an awful lot of this weight-loss stuff that is actually about doing stuff obsessively. We’ve seen three (I think) “group leaders” now, all of whom have lost significant amounts of weight – and absolutely fair play to them for doing so, they’ve done fantastically well – but all of whom are (to be polite about it) just a little bit crackers. There’s a number of examples of this, although right now I can’t be arsed to list them.
The one that keeps on coming back to me, though, was the one who was still utterly obsessed by food – all she’d done was replace high-calorie foods with low-calorie ones. But there was still that slightly crackers gleam in the eye when she was talking about being able to eat “whole bowls of no-Syn trifle to yourself” and so on.
And I find I just don’t have that obsessive part to me – and to some degree it actually leaves me feeling quite uncomfortable. I’m not obsessed with food, nor do I collect anything obsessively, or really anything else. It’s simply not part of me.
I don’t know where I’m going with this, to be honest. It’s just something I’ve noticed and wanted to write about it. And maybe that’s it, maybe writing is my obsessive behaviour, whether it be D4D™ or other writing projects. In some ways I’d actually be quite happy if that were the case. I just don’t know if it is.
Unwell – Additional
Posted: Tue 27 October, 2009 Filed under: Animals, Domestic, Health, Thoughts 1 Comment »Following on from yesterday’s post about Hound being unwell, she’s definitely getting over it.
What I forgot to add to yesterday’s post though – and the subject for this one – is that because of taking her to the vets again on Monday, I had to let the new workplace know I was going to be in later than usual. So I sent them an email on Sunday night, explaining that the dog was ill etc., and I’d be in late.
It was only afterwards that I started having second thoughts, thinking that it sounded
- a bit like just an excuse for a lie-in
- like I must be a bit daft when it comes to Hound etc.
In the end, I rationalised it a bit by thinking “Well, if it were a child, they’d fully understand that we had to go to a hospital for extra checks and so on“. And in a lot of ways, Hound is to us what a child is to a lot of other couples. (No, not “A pain in the arse, that deserves regular beating”) While we’re not the kind of moronic fuck-knuckles who dress a dog up in clothes, or treat it like a surrogate child, we have invested one hell of a lot of time, energy and money in Hound over the years in a similar way to a ‘normal’ family.
Of course, it turned out that no-one in the office had thought about it like that anyway – it was just me thinking into things way too much. As usual.
Unwell
Posted: Mon 26 October, 2009 Filed under: Animals, Domestic, Health 1 Comment »Last night, we ended up taking Hound to the emergency vet. She’d been a bit flat all day – and we should’ve realised all was Not Well when she didn’t move while we ate lunch.
But during the evening she went downhill quite quickly, so we ended up calling the out-of-hours service for our vets, and getting over to the vets main place.
It turned out she’s got aspirated pneumonia – basically, she’s coughed on whatever, breathed it in, and done so repeatedly. Last night she was running a temperature of 40°, which was the most concern to the vet. As he said at the time, “It’s not the highest temperature I’ve ever seen with a dog, but it’s not far off“.
She ended up with four injections – antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, antacid, and Metoclopramide to help food get processed.
She’s been back today to be checked again, on the knowledge that if her temperature wasn’t much better, she was going to be staying in for a couple of days with an IV drip etc. to sort her out. Fortunately, she is much better, temperature’s back down to normal, and it looks like the jabs have done their job.
We’re not out of the woods yet with her – we’ve got two weeks of antibiotics and Metoclopramide to give her, as well as three days of something that’ll help her cough up the shit that’s still in her lungs. But the indications are positive for now, and all told we’re much happier again about her health.
Still Snotty
Posted: Fri 9 October, 2009 Filed under: Domestic, Health Leave a comment »This cold is beginning to really piss me off now.
I don’t know why, but when I get colds, they seem to last a lot longer than they do with other people. Maybe it just feels that way.
In this case, the “winding down” phase of it has lasted all this week, and I’m still feeling somewhat snotty now. I’ve had good days and bad days with it, but I’m bored of it now and just want it to Go The Hell Away.
After all, it would be nice to start the new job on Monday without feeling like shit.
First Stone
Posted: Tue 6 October, 2009 Filed under: Domestic, Health, Weight Loss Leave a comment »Last night, I finally officially got rid of my first full stone of weight. It’s taken a while, although some of that is because of the working-away of the last six weeks, where I have slipped a few times and not been quite as good as I should’ve been.
All the same, I’m still pleased with having lost that stone. I’ve a fair way to go – this means I’m halfway through my first phase of the weightloss – I finally feel like I’m beginning to make some progress with it.