It’s been a year or two since I posted anything….wow! So here I am back again – older and not necessarily any wiser. Its mid 2020 (August), we survived Covid-19 (no need to talk about that, it will go down in the history books no doubt), I am still working in rural real estate doing Admin for Shaun at home and at the office; I’ve one paper left to complete my Certificate of Animal Care Lifestyle Block Animals Level 3; I’ve started a Petsitting business (have one regular Property Brokers client – things are slow – to begin with); I’ve been rehabilitating orphaned wild rabbits for the past two years …and since all my domestic rabbits have now passed, I have three fully adopted wildies (and started up a Page attributed to them on facebook). Also I start a six month Medical Transcription Course in November !
Jesse has left EIT where he did Level 2 Automotives and (most) of Level 3 Automotives but became a little tired with his course, leaving early and then worked in an orchard, at Bunnings, at Super Cheap Auto, and now works currently at Reduced to Clear Grocery Store; Shaun remains working in Lifestyle Real Estate at Property Brokers (but watch this space on that); we sold two of our rental properties; we (almost) sold our Gold Coast Apartment but decided not to in the end (have not been for two years to visit sadly because of circumstances and Covid 19); we are thinking and planning to take our house off this section and rebuild a brand new home in the same place (watch this space – maybe that’s a more long term goal of 5 years or so) and last but not least ….I’ve gained a considerable amount of weight (in my opinion….well…about 5kg all up over the past two years – 3 of those kg in the past few months and for no good reason).
The reason I have started blogging again is to work on diet and exercise and see if I can reduce my weight by 2 kg goal. Putting in my actual weight is not necessary here …oh OK my weight is 57 kg currently – I will blog from time to time (maybe daily) for a while on my progress, my diet, my water intake and my exercise levels. So stay tuned (I write this to myself because basically nobody can ‘stay tuned’ on this blog when I’ve turned all the Internet Search Engines off and nobody would find this blog in a millions years anyway!). So in fact it kind of remains fairly private to myself and that is good and quite intentional.
Note to self – cut down sugar, drink more water, exercise more. Stay off gluten and limit dairy. Limit red meat. These things are achieveable and most of them I do anyway.
Day one of my diet started today. Its midday, I’ve been out foraging for my rabbits, now I will do some more foraging and an hours exercise on the treadmill at 3pm. I’ve had zero to eat today so far but will have lunch soon. I feel despondent today, the lack of sleep I’ve been getting no doubt contributing to the weight again. Also I turn 50 years old next year so….well let’s face it – menopause will happen at some point and ageing naturally makes you gain weight. Its important to stay active and do some weight bearing exercise as well as you lose muscle as you age. I wonder often if its thyroid related or something but who knows….I must do my affirmations and stick ‘to the plan’.
What to have for lunch, I’m guessing eggs because that’s all there is until the groceries arrive. And another few cups of water…getting older sucks. Gone is that fast metabolism of youth!
