On the plus side, I definitely held my own in the slow lane at swimming this morning! No-one overtook me, and I was waved on by people stopping for a breather at either end. 22 lengths at a sedate, but steady, pace.
Well done, you sound like me. How long is a length?
22 lengths is really good @North East Quine . I really must get back to swimming. I used to go and swim a kilometre at least once a week when we lived five minutes from a pool. I'm not fast but I once had a swimming teacher tell her class to emulate my stroke. The comment was totally lost on me as I can't hear a thing while swimming as I have hearing aids out and ear plugs in, but husband told me later.
I lost nearly two pounds this week. Although not officially overweight I've put on a stone since moving here and would like to lose at least some of it.
I didn't weigh myself this Monday because we were staying with the Quinie. And I'm not going to weigh myself now as I have eaten a surfeit of chocolate eggs and don't want to know.
I didn't weigh myself this Monday because we were staying with the Quinie. And I'm not going to weigh myself now as I have eaten a surfeit of chocolate eggs and don't want to know.
Quite right too - eating chocolate at Easter absolutely doesn't count!
I didn't weigh myself this Monday because we were staying with the Quinie. And I'm not going to weigh myself now as I have eaten a surfeit of chocolate eggs and don't want to know.
Quite right too - eating chocolate at Easter absolutely doesn't count!
I didn't weigh myself this Monday because we were staying with the Quinie. And I'm not going to weigh myself now as I have eaten a surfeit of chocolate eggs and don't want to know.
Quite right too - eating chocolate at Easter absolutely doesn't count!
Is it still Easter? (Asking for a friend...)
Well, at Chichester Cathedral on Easter Sunday morning our Bishop reminded us that in the Anglican Church Easter lasts until Pentecost and also suggested that gave considerable scope for chocolate consumption.....😆
I didn't weigh myself this Monday because we were staying with the Quinie. And I'm not going to weigh myself now as I have eaten a surfeit of chocolate eggs and don't want to know.
Quite right too - eating chocolate at Easter absolutely doesn't count!
My bathroom scales would beg to be of a different view.
Christmas Tax was half a stone. Hoping Easter Tax will be rather less. Birthday Tax was the 2lb I didn't lose that week.
Fortunately I'm not that mad on chocolate. Cheese and beer are a far worse problem. That and pies, pasties, sausage rolls and the like.
The latest diabetes med is also an appetite suppressant. I miss hunger. Without hunger, you don't have satisfaction- just the dutiful consumption of sustenance.
After invigilating this morning, I went for a swim in the University pool. The great advantage of this pool is that once you are in you can swim for as long as you like - ideal for sedate swimmers such as myself.
I did 50 lengths of the 25m pool. I'm not going to say how long it took me!
I did 50 lengths of the 25m pool. I'm not going to say how long it took me!
I think the most I've ever done is 44, so well done! I try to do 40 lengths; my best time has been 54 minutes although it usually takes a few minutes longer. When I entered my time on a swimming comparison app, I was told that 0% of swimmers go more slowly than I do!
My best length swim was 32 lengths; I was aiming for a mile (64 lengths), but I developed a "stitch" and had to give up.
My dad (bless him) used to do 30 lengths of the pool every Friday after work, along with a couple of colleagues, after which they would negate any good they'd done by adjourning to the Orkney Club for a few pints ...
His aim was 30 lengths in 30 minutes, which I'd say was pretty decent, especially as he continued long after retirement (and after the aforementioned colleagues had died).
That reminds me very much of the regular discussions with the osteopath (as she straightens me out again) about the importance of warming down post-cricket, and my observation that the warming down exercise tends to mostly involve bending of one elbow...
I try to go swimming first thing in the morning three times a week. After my swim I do some shopping, come home and have breakfast. It's then - nearly an hour after leaving the water - that I tend to feel cold. (Just to clarify: this is a heated pool).
Monday morning weigh in and I have lost nothing. Not that I expected to - Easter / chocolate etc etc.
Also I have a deadline for an article I'm writing, and generally, when I'm focussing on something like that, I can wander through to the kitchen, make a coffee, pick up a couple of biscuits and inhale them at my desk without really being fully aware I've done so. At one point last week I actually cried at my desk I was loving the research so much, I was completely "out of it." The N E Man assures me there was a large chocolate egg on the piano that morning, which wasn't there that evening. Possibly not co-incidentally, there was a foil wrapper from an egg in my waste-paper bin.
Strategy going forward - making sure I always have water on my desk, and maybe a bowl of nuts so that I can mindlessly eat and drink that instead. (I know nuts = calories, but they also include useful healthy stuff.)
I have been for a swim in our local pool this morning.
Indoor 25 metre pool. Not sure how many lengths - 20 or 22? and 5 mins in the sauna at the end. It was the 9.30-10.30 session - by the time we'd paid and changed and showered we got into the pool at about 9.40 and I think I got out at 10.52 to squeeze in the sauna.
The NE Man, in the "medium" lane as opposed to me in the "slow" lane, did 32 lengths and was in the sauna ahead of me.
Firstly, I don't need to worry about loose skin from too-rapid weight loss because I have lost one measly pound this month, down from 17 stone 7lbs to 17 stone 6lbs.
Secondly, I went for another swim in the university pool after invigilating this morning. I was aiming to swim 64 lengths (1 mile). I started at 12.30 and reached my goal at 2:10. However almost everyone in the pool had left by 2pm, presumably having been swimming in their lunch hour. Three of us had the whole pool to ourselves. Perfect! So I thought I'd just keep going till 2.30, by which time I'd swum 74 lengths, so I thought I might as well do 80 (2 km). I might seize up later, but I feel great right now.
I have swum a mile before, but I don't think I've ever swum 2km. A pleasing first at 60.
I've done that sort of thing with the kind of longer distance walking I enjoy - set out to do one distance, opportunity presented and I ended up doing far more.
A very decent effort, NEQ, & possibly further than I have swum in my life!
I had a dentists appointment today followed by a networking event a mile or so out of town, so I reckon I've done a good 20 miles on the bike. I'm expecting to feel it tomorrow. In fact I'm feeling it now!
That is brilliant @North East Quine . I must get back into swimming, though I get very bored after about 30 minutes I don't know how you kept going so long.
I tried recalling what I did when I was whatever age corresponded to the length I was on. Oddly enough, I found my forties were blurred. I couldn't match age to events at all. Whereas my thirties - I had reached the end of the length before I had listed everything!
I've chosen the Stay flexible: every couple of hours you are sitting, do two minutes of stretching and moving option. So I'll be doing that throughout May, with a daily e-mail reminder.
I've signed up. I think - the registration process seemed to go into a bit of circularity. I too have chosen the movement one (I reckon I have the Think one covered).
It let me. I thought the question asking for the first 4 digits of my postal code would be an impediment. I chose this commitment: Stand: Get up and move for 5 or more minutes every hour throughout the day. It can be easy to stay seated most of the day, but we know that this isn’t good for us – regularly movement throughout the day can help us age better. You could set an alarm to help you to remember to stand up and move.
The trouble with setting an alarm is that you can turn it off and stay sitting. I'm having to put it over the other side of the room so I have to get up to turn it off.
Lazy habits are hard to change!
For the first time since 2019, I have done a 20+ miles walking day! I really thought I'd never do that again, and had talked myself into accepting that.
I will sleep well tonight when my leg muscles have stopped complaining to me...
Thank you, both! Oddly enough, it's taken longer for my shoulders to recover from carrying my backpack which is a first. I use a back pack regularly, it wasn't heavier than when it's packed for work, then I walk the hour to work, but maybe it was just the longer time it was on my back. My legs were fine once I'd got past the initial post walk ache! Though they did not like walking in my organ playing shoes this morning. The slight heel was definitely not to their liking! (Only pair of shoes with a heel I ever wear!)
We're going on holiday soon, in rural Pembrokeshire. I'm no great walker, but last time I couldn't go where I wanted due to not having the correct footwear. I've now bought some new shoes - nothing fancy!
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I lost nearly two pounds this week. Although not officially overweight I've put on a stone since moving here and would like to lose at least some of it.
Quite right too - eating chocolate at Easter absolutely doesn't count!
Is it still Easter? (Asking for a friend...)
Well, at Chichester Cathedral on Easter Sunday morning our Bishop reminded us that in the Anglican Church Easter lasts until Pentecost and also suggested that gave considerable scope for chocolate consumption.....😆
My bathroom scales would beg to be of a different view.
Christmas Tax was half a stone. Hoping Easter Tax will be rather less. Birthday Tax was the 2lb I didn't lose that week.
Fortunately I'm not that mad on chocolate. Cheese and beer are a far worse problem. That and pies, pasties, sausage rolls and the like.
I did 50 lengths of the 25m pool. I'm not going to say how long it took me!
You and me both!
I think the most I've ever done is 44, so well done! I try to do 40 lengths; my best time has been 54 minutes although it usually takes a few minutes longer. When I entered my time on a swimming comparison app, I was told that 0% of swimmers go more slowly than I do!
My dad (bless him) used to do 30 lengths of the pool every Friday after work, along with a couple of colleagues, after which they would negate any good they'd done by adjourning to the Orkney Club for a few pints ...
His aim was 30 lengths in 30 minutes, which I'd say was pretty decent, especially as he continued long after retirement (and after the aforementioned colleagues had died).
Also I have a deadline for an article I'm writing, and generally, when I'm focussing on something like that, I can wander through to the kitchen, make a coffee, pick up a couple of biscuits and inhale them at my desk without really being fully aware I've done so. At one point last week I actually cried at my desk I was loving the research so much, I was completely "out of it." The N E Man assures me there was a large chocolate egg on the piano that morning, which wasn't there that evening. Possibly not co-incidentally, there was a foil wrapper from an egg in my waste-paper bin.
Strategy going forward - making sure I always have water on my desk, and maybe a bowl of nuts so that I can mindlessly eat and drink that instead. (I know nuts = calories, but they also include useful healthy stuff.)
I have been for a swim in our local pool this morning.
I intend to go tomorrow (not to your pool of course, that would be silly!).
The NE Man, in the "medium" lane as opposed to me in the "slow" lane, did 32 lengths and was in the sauna ahead of me.
I lose count sometimes, too!
Firstly, I don't need to worry about loose skin from too-rapid weight loss because I have lost one measly pound this month, down from 17 stone 7lbs to 17 stone 6lbs.
Secondly, I went for another swim in the university pool after invigilating this morning. I was aiming to swim 64 lengths (1 mile). I started at 12.30 and reached my goal at 2:10. However almost everyone in the pool had left by 2pm, presumably having been swimming in their lunch hour. Three of us had the whole pool to ourselves. Perfect! So I thought I'd just keep going till 2.30, by which time I'd swum 74 lengths, so I thought I might as well do 80 (2 km). I might seize up later, but I feel great right now.
I have swum a mile before, but I don't think I've ever swum 2km. A pleasing first at 60.
I've done that sort of thing with the kind of longer distance walking I enjoy - set out to do one distance, opportunity presented and I ended up doing far more.
I had a dentists appointment today followed by a networking event a mile or so out of town, so I reckon I've done a good 20 miles on the bike. I'm expecting to feel it tomorrow. In fact I'm feeling it now!
I notice that quite a few folk now swim with earbuds.
https://wels.open.ac.uk/research/projects/take-5
I've chosen the Stay flexible: every couple of hours you are sitting, do two minutes of stretching and moving option. So I'll be doing that throughout May, with a daily e-mail reminder.
It sounds both beneficial and easily achievable.
Lazy habits are hard to change!
I will sleep well tonight when my leg muscles have stopped complaining to me...