Entries from February 2009 ↓

A while back I created a page about recovering from Compartment syndrome. My Google Analytics page (which I’m a little obsessive about checking) tells me that this page is quite popular, and I’m getting a fair bit of traffic from Google searches with Compartment Syndrome keywords.

Thing is, not a lot of these people are hanging around to actually read the page, which is weird. In fact it has a really high bounce rate. I think the infor there could be useful to people, so i wonder what I should do to entice people to get through the article. More headings? less intro? pictures?

Anyone got any ideas?

My motivation is very low this week.  I haven’t exercised a whole lot and I’ve been doing a lot of picking at food. I’ve also had a LOT of near misses with chocolate and chips, so at least my strategies are holding out there.

I suspect that TTOM is about to start which may explain why, but also I’ve been a bit tired and unorganised. Really though, there’s no reason, just a natural swing in mood I think. Everyone has them.

Bearing this in mind, I’m not going to worry about it too much. I’m going to ride it out, minimise damage by reminding myself that I’m vulnerable to overeating just now, and monitor to make sure this phase passes in a reasonable amont of time.

I expect that by next week I’ll be right back on track.

I didn’t get to weigh in on Sunday, as I wasn’t home, so I weighed in this morning (monday) and found that I had lost 0.2kgs, taking me down to 73.0!! YAY!!! I’ve had a relatively fast trip through the 73’s, next stop the 72’s!!! I hope

My weekend wasn’t great. I had a party at which I had a few more chips and homemade sausage rolls than I really should have. But compared to how much I would have eaten just a few months ago, I actually was very restrained. I think maybe I’m learning.

The grumpies are a big cause of emotional eating for me. When I get tired, frustrated, fed up, I get the grumpies and then I turn to food - usually the fried potato variety of food.

One of the best tools I’ve found for curing the grumpies and heading off a binge is to have a folder full of “happy music” on my MP3 player. I listen to it when I’m feeling a bit out of sorts.

I defy anybody to be grumpy while listening to “Hey hey we’re the Monkees!”

I finally upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.7! you can’t see the differnce, but I can when I log on to make posts or cahnge stuff. It was very easy after all the stressing I’ve been doing about losing all my posts again! I used the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin, and it worked like a dream!

I never really liked cauliflower, but then, when your only experience of a vegetable is having it served up all boiled and soggy, that isn’t really surprising, is it?

I tried roasting cauliflower the other night, and it was REALLY YUMMY!!! I sliced it through the stem so it was kind of flat, and then sprayed it with olive oil spray, sprinkled on some mixed herbs and gave it 10 minutes on each side in a moderate oven. The result is a lovely nutty flavour that’s awesome with just a little salt.

hmmmm…. what other nasty veggies can I do interesting things with?

I did C25k week 6 day three today. That’s a 25 MINUTE RUN people!! I was so proud of myself, I almost did a little woohoo dance in the middle of the gym. But that would have been silly so I just did it in my head.

At the start of the run I was pretty sure I woudn’t make it, I kept telling myself that I could stop if I really needed to. But about halfway in I got into my stride, and when the prompt on my mp3 said I was done, I was actually surprised! I maybe could have even gone further.

Feels good to be thinking of myself as a runner.

My weigh in at the gym was this morning, according to the gym scales I lost 0.9kg since last wednesday.  Thank Goodness! I hate having to explain to the PT why my weight has plateued or (gulp) gone up!!

This week according to my Sunday Morning weigh in I lost 1.2kgs!! This is fantastic, and hopefully will carry through to my weigh in at the gym this week, as the PT who weighs me in has been unimpressed with my results lately - which have kind of stalled. I have had a very good weekend so far, (my usual downfall) and plan to continue that this afternoon, so there shouldn’t be any problem.

This brings my weight down to 73.2kgs. I am now very close to my next goal of below 72kgs, which is the weight I was when I came back from the UK. After that my next goal will be below 70 - I haven’t been a 60’s girl for years and years, so that will be exciting!

Yesterday I ran for 20 minutes straight!!! On the path, with a light wind part of the way. I only took two little water fountain breaks and then kept straight on.

I was so pleased with myself that I did a little victory dance afterwards. I’m sure the people nearby thought I was acomplete nutter.

5 kilometres here I come!!