Yeah well no fine. There I was – on Saturday morning all fired up, fasted and keen to get my latest lot of bloods done.
Tootled along in the new Yaris (now named Ruby btw!) to the lab we now use.. only to find they do not open on Saturdays…. Sh*t… not impressed. I was on my way to pick up my granddaughter to take her to a birthday party so could not shoot through to Milnerton where the Pathcare lab does open on Saturdays. I was planning to go on Friday am but decided on Saturday as Fridays would cut into my working day….. hhhmmm. Will have to go to Pathcare lab tomorrow am.
The regular blood tests have now become even more important in my life as I made some quite momentous decisions recently.
Quite momentous in that I have been battling to curb a backslide in my weight loss progress since all the ‘snot en trane’ of the last half year or so. I need all the help and motivation I can get but I have nonetheless resigned from Weigh-Less. I will miss the lovely pamphlets they produce and I will miss some of the people I met while there in 2009/2010. I will be glad to have R125 a month more to spend on good, quality food. But for the rest – well quite frankly I truly believe that I can teach most of them a thing or two. Some GL’s are tremendous and others just do not have ‘it’ I am afraid.
I have come to the realisation that I went about my weight loss in completely the wrong way. How can a 25kg weight loss not be a raging success story? You may well ask! I did the right things for me (I thought) – low GI eating plan mainly of my own creation; using nutrition software to keep track of intake; some increase in physical activity >>>>> and therein lies the crunch!
I have realised that far more than what that damn scale says, it is in fact body fat % that has to be monitored and brought down to within the normal range. At a 25kg weight loss, I looked pretty darn good if I say so myself and I still get compliments about my June 2010 birthday photo used on most websites I frequent. BUT BUT BUT I was a skinny(ish!) fat person!
If body fat % is right, then the weight will be right too… I think… any comments greatly appreciated here!
Lack of robust physical exercise during my weight loss journey resulted in far too much of that 25kg loss being lean muscle. I can feel that and see that in myself. To rectify the matter will not be a simple undertaking but I plan to give it a go. The low GI eating is resuming (for me the only way to go) and the nutrition software has been ‘re-booted’! The CRUNCH is going to be the physical exercise – aerobic; stretching; light weights; core; – dear heaven this is not going to be easy at all!!
Anyone know when I can buy reasonably priced skinfold calipers? I am serious! Can order from the USA for +- $20 BUT the freight costs are very high. www.chponline.com.
While we are mentioning websites here, check out the new diabetes website www.mydiablog.com. Had a long chat with the founder this evening – a German named Wolf. What a great guy.
Blue Tuesday coming up – had a great weekend out & about in the sunshine so not looking forward to my desk again early tomorrow morning.
Have a great week everyone.
Eileen's Odyssey 
Welcome back Eileen!!! Don’t underestimate your achievements so far. So you slid a bit – we all do. But the important thing is that you are back on track, and your continued efforts and comments will seve as huge motivation for many other out there. Well done. Have a great week. A.
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