Stuff stuff!

Stuff

So far my goal to sort out my stuff and junk has gone nowhere. my stuff is in more chaos then when I started. So rather than putting off blogging until I have something to write about my newly found organisation of my junk, I am going to blog about it if and when it actually takes place.

Instead, lets talk some more about health goals


Health

Last week I not only met my three times a week gym goal,I beat it! I went to the gym 5 times last week. That's right 5 times mother lickers!! Lets see if I can at least make the 3 again this week.

On one of those times was an aqua aerobics class, which was fun and made me feel like I looked really silly, which in all probability I did. Luckily the only other person in the pool (not counting my lovely friend K and the instructor) was an older woman walking laps.
One of the other times was a boxing class. Girl did I feel that the next day.

The scales still haven't moved significantly (74.9Kg, 75Kg) and neither have my measurements. Think it could be because of diet? The other day I had pizza for breakfast (it was only one slice, but still...), a latte (my second that week) with my carbie lunch, and then after dinner demolished half a share bag of choc coated honeycomb.

I don't have a huge guilt response when I do this kind of thing. I also find that I can justify being slack in my health goals because I am not terribly unhealthy, I eat lots of fruit and veggies, I'm not hugely overweight... But I am more overweight than I let myself think about. And my cardio vascular system is very poor. I see seniors hitting the treadmills faster than me and taking it in their stride while I am panting and red faced. I told you last entry that I was off to donate blood, my veins are so tiny and lazy that after unsuccessfully trying to tap one, we had to have the discussion as to weather it was worth me coming back another time or if it would be a waste of their time. I guess that's not so much about what I'm putting in my mouth, but it does come back to maintaining motivation and remembering why I'm trying to get healthy.

So I need to find some other motivation to get my diet (and health goals in general) under control. What works for you when the cheesecake, burger, chocolate or whatever else is your undoing is beckoning to you? How do you beat craving? What about the couch, x-box, next season of nurse Jackie when you could use the time in the gym?

Stuff

I have made very little inroads into organising my things. However, whilst trying to avoid going to a party the other night I did organise my hair bits and pieces. (And I ended up making myself go to the party. The party was good and it was good to get out of the house.)

My hair bits and pieces live in every nook and crannie of my house. Open a handbag - there is a bobby pin. Look in a drawer - there is a hair tie... and every time that I try to clean a room a start a new place for them, fully intending to amalgamate them with my existing stashes. It never happens. The stashes then get joined by a variety of other sundry items.

The time was now to make a master box. One that would house and sort different bits. A box that could be moved easily to a different room. Here's what I did:

First I obtained a sectioned box. It looks like a fishing tackle box.



Then I assembled my main hair stuff hidey holes.



Lastly I filled the box with the hair related stuff.



The sundry things that had accumulated with the hair bits have been roughly sorted and put in my bedroom for later sorting. I now know where safety pins have been when I have been looking for them any time in the past few years...

The organisey box still looks like a tackle box. Any ideas on how to pretty it up?

Renovators dream

I lead a charmed life. I am incredibly lucky to have amazing friends and family, amazing individuals who are there for me. I was also lucky enough to be born in a wealthy country and have all of my needs met and then some.

The areas of my life that need a little tarting up are all areas where I have let the team down. Mainly due to my lack of motivation and inability to see anything through to completion some things have gotten out of hand. There are other things where I never developed the skills I needed and I am feeling it now.

So rather than do the sane thing and work on one thing to completion and move on to the next I am going to attempt to make incremental change to a variety of issues.

Health

My doctor informs me that at 28 I have the lungs of a 40 year old.
I am a vegetarian with high cholesterol.
I am made predominantly made of a marshmallow like substance commonly known as fat. It has collected in an oh so flattering belt around my mid section. I have a hunch that this is because I do no exercise and live on take out and sweets... I could be wrong...

Using the Body Mass Index (as a guide only, flawed as it is) I am on the cusp of normal and overweight. At around 173cm I currently weigh 76kg. I would like to get down to around 70kg which places me closer to the middle of normal.



Time

I can never find the time to do all the important things in my life because I'm too busy wasting it. I can't find the time to study (I'm a student) but somehow manage a disgusting amount of television and other various things that avoid actually doing anything.

I don't really have a routine.

I have piles of dreams and lists of things I need or want to do, but I lose them as quickly as I lose the motivation to start the first item on them.


Stuff

My belongings are a mess. Half in overflowing boxes, the other half bulging out of storage spaces that lack any semblance of order.

I have a lot of things, probably a lot of wonderful things, but I don't use them because I don't know what I have or where it is.