Archive for the ‘Physical’ Category

Dancing Happiness

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. [Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance*] Yesterday, on my ‘experience’ wanderings (that’s what I like to call them) I happened into a bar where a few, maybe 30 or so, people were learning to ...

Stocktake Time Again – Big Changes on the Horizon

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

In exactly one month’s time, I will change my status once again from employed to self employed.  Since it has been a long time since I have took stock of where I am, now would seem to be an appropriate time to do so.  This is where I think I ...

Dieting Misery

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Apparently Naomi Campbell goes on the maple syrup diet – syrup mixed with cayenne pepper, lemon juice and water – three times a year.  Beyoncé is said to have done that one as well adding laxative tea every night and a sea-salt water in the morning.  Jennifer Aniston is, allegedly, ...

Donor’s Mother Meets Saved Girl

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

For the first time in Scotland a family who donated their dead relatives organs and the person that received one of them have met.  See BBC News - Mother meets girl who received sons liver.  This story made me feel good about the fact that I have chosen and made ...

Lie Down and Die.

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

It struck me very strongly this week that in the week that Auschwitz survivors mark Holocaust Memorial Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8482760.stm), I happen to be reading Viktor E Frankel's "Man's Search for Meaning", Dr. Frankel was an Auschwitz survivor.  In the same week, news coming out of the disaster in Haiti cumulated ...

More Calories Required.

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

I am trying to get back in to my walk routine after my unintentional mini break and it has been a mixed bag.  Wednesday was very slow and I did feel a bit woozy on the last lap but I persevered and completed.  Yesterday, I felt so much better that ...

Experts and Vested Interests

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

It is quite amazing just how many people take expert advice at face value, even the Government does it. When I mention that I was walking as exercise, people look at me like I have lost it. And yet, walking is good exercise and a few keep fit sites do ...

Physician, Heal thyself…with a little help

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Another way to break bad habits, dependencies and addictions is with a little help from your friends. Whereas alcohol dependency is likely to be hidden, nicotine addiction is usually more open and people around you are more willing to accept its very addictive nature. I stopped smoking just over 2 ...

Walking – the double Whammy

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

I have also up walking in the morning -except having missed 10 or so days now due to injured leg and the cold/flu.  Walking replaced the gym with a few weeks of inactivity in the middle.  The gym had to go on two counts, firstly I did not enjoy the ...

Blue Monday Blues

Monday, January 19th, 2009

The 5th of January I wrote and said things where going back to normal.  How I lied!  If anything Christmas time is the worst time for making you break habits you have tried to hard to maintain.  The few days of not following routines are fatal to anything that requires ...

Happy New Year Resolutions!

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Well this is it, 2009 before we could even catch our breaths, everything's back to normal. Have you made any resolutions?  I have, but not because I think that one year turning into another will make it any different, just that it does provide a good excuse to try harder at ...

Patience – a disappearing virtue?

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Ahem.  Went to the gym this evening and must say I struggled to be motivated to get there and to stay there once I got there.  Put myself under some pressure to make the effort today since I had not been since Saturday and when I weighed myself this morning, ...

Crashing and burning here………….

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Well I’m doing very well with updating this blog am I?  I can’t believe my last post was on the 6th, time has flown by so quickly.  I have a number of drafts saved but I have been posting more (other stuff) to my other blog.

Self Stocktake Part 1

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

The problem with the self stock-check is that one is in danger of discovering lots of things that require changing.  And some time the list can be quite intimidating.  But you have to be hash with what needs changing, too much and the changes are never going to happen, too ...

I hope my bum looks big in this…..

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Can you imagine the female happiness across the Western world at this story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7386405.stm.  Millions of men like myself feel vinidicated by the fact that they always known that behind every healthy woman is a big bootie!!   I will no longer feel guilty lusting them shaking lovelies on MTV, KISS, VH1 ...