I've been a bit drained lately. I just haven't seemed to have had time for anything and so my blog, my eating and my gym time have suffered. I think some of it has been due to lack of organisation so I'm staying up late and sleeping past my alarm.
Part of it is because of anaemia and the resulting lack of energy - and I'm glad to say I'm feeling a lot better now. And I think that part of it is the need for change.
I've been doing the same thing now for four months (in terms of food and exercise) and I've made some really good progress, but now it's just all same-same and I'd like something new.
Yes, I know that this is a long-term change of lifestyle thing and but I just need something new to get excited about. I initially thought I'd go swimming.
This plan didn't get very far - I have no local options for this. The "rivers" around Bacchus Marsh are more like what I'd call a creek where I grew up, and they look all muddy and shallow anyway. it's not exactly 60m crossings of the Murrumbidgee. The local pool is open in summer but opens at 11am and closes around 6pm. Clearly making the pool available at the peak sunburn times is a priority here - and ensuring that by opening these hours the place will be packed with screaming school children and swimming laps will be impossible......
So there goes that great idea. We don't have a car so I need to be reasonable about what I can do. It's just not practical to spend 90 minutes on public transport each way getting to a pool for a 45 minute splishy splashy.
This leaves me the spending time with Trevor. Yeah, I know I've said it before - that I'll get Trev out of the shed, pump up his tyres and take him for a spin, but I haven't. It's just all seemed too hard. Now I'm feeling a lot more energetic thanks to healthier haemoglobin it might actually happen. It might even happen tonight.
So basically today I'm having a whinge. Yay me. Getting back to the gym tomorrow and full-on calorie tracking will probably stop the whingeing. I'm fine once I've started something, I'm just really annoying in the lead-up. I probably should do something about this.
Anyway, as I'm mentioned before, this Wednesday I'll do a stocktake with PT Quagmire. I'll get some feedback from him. It's obviously a food thing and not an exercise thing so I need to sort out that area of my life. I might even do a two week 1250cal/day thing to give me a bit of a push along.
For those who don't know, I call him Quagmire after the sex-obsessed character in Family Guy. When I first met him I thought "Whoa - you are some pervy guy and no I don't want to have sex with you thanks very much". After a few chats I realised he's probably all talk and I've really come to like him a lot. He's a good guy, very good at his job and unlike me seems to be able to see the good side of almost anyone. (Whereas I'm a picky bitch when I'm tired or cranky).
So here's a link to Quagmire - looks a bit like him too..
http://www.localfitness.com.au/genesis-fitness-clubs-flinders-st-melbourne/personal-trainer-jason
I know you public transport it to work, is there a pool near work that you can hit before or after work and then head home?
ReplyDeleteI used to do that at one of my jobs. Swim before work (even though it meant getting up at the crack of ungodly) and then heading to work after. It's the quietest time at the pool!
And I want to see Trevor! He's lonely!