We can rebuild him

[morsla]

Clarification: I consider "fit" as being "fit enough to comfortably achieve things I want to regularly do."

Thanks for the helpful comments in my last entry. For the others... well, it is something I feel strongly about, and I know that I'm not physically capable of doing many things that I'd like to have back in my life. You only need to be as fit as your hobbies require, within some sort of minimum "required to remain alive" guidelines. Please just accept that I have unusual hobbies...

The Plan (part 1)

Food:

• Breakfast: Add more protein - make more milkshakes, with lots of fruit in them. Complex/simple carbohydrates are already there (cereal, muesli, fruit & fruit juice), but they are just supplying current needs.
• Lunch: Make it at home more often... it's healthier than the stuff I buy at work. Cook more soup and pasta salads, take them to work.
• Dinner: No changes at the moment. (I don't know how to make it more healthy... it's the one meal that I have enough time to prepare as I'd like it)

Exercise:

• Stretching (daily): Get up when aeliel does (instead of sleeping in), and stretch for 20 minutes.
• Training (week 1-4): Thursday night Tai Chi (Zi Ran Men)
• Training (week 4-8): Add Monday night Internal Liu He class again. (This will hurt)
• Training (week 8+): Add Saturday morning Liu He class where time permits.


• Walking: Walk from Flinders Street to home when I can spare the time (~40 minute walk)

Miscellaneous stuff

• Firetwirling: Any melbournites interested? Anna and Mel are interstate, and I want to play...
• Bike: Start riding again. Find weekend rides, and people to ride with. Picnics along the Merri Creek and Yarra trails are both on my list.

I will not be another person who fell by the wayside. I trained with some insanely fit people, and I kept pace with the best of them. I will get that back again.

kikilon: could I bribe you with dinner one night, if you can show me some more stretches? ;) Beyond some basic leg stretches, I've never really learned how to get at my recalcitrant muscle groups...

Comments

The answer lies in the beans!

[harkon.livejournal.com]

One of my favourite breakfast foods is baked beans, not the canned stuff mind you (though I don't mind them either). The basic recipe is kinda like a pasta sauce that then has beans added to them before being cooked for a Long Time. So basically onion, garlic (this is something I like, most recipes I see don't have it), chilli/chilli powder, tinned tomato, red wine (any will do, since you are cooking for so long it is a waste to using anything good) and a pinch of mixed herbs (from the packet, since I like eating hot breakfasts when herbs are not in season), sugar, salt and pepper.

Also good to take to work if you can sneak in a jaffle iron...

And good for second dinner... and midnight snack... and before bed snack...

Re: The answer lies in the beans!

[morsla.livejournal.com]

That'd be good to make in bulk, and microwave for breakfast... (breakfast is almost always a high-speed meal while running out of the house). I discovered the bulk dry foods stalls in the Vic Market last time I went...

I cook something similar, but without as much liquid (or the red wine) - I cook it 'til the beans fall to bits, and use it in burritos.

Re: The answer lies in the beans!

[harkon.livejournal.com]

The tinned tomato and the red wine is there so you can cook the beans in something so they don't all smoosh together, so there isn't that much (it is only one tin and a bit of wine for a lot of beans) and by the end of it is generally thicker (well chunkier, because there are no added emulsifiers) than what comes out of a can.

And indeed it is good to be made in bulk, though it takes more self control than I possess to stop myself from scoffing the lot...

ohh shiny

[jilavre.livejournal.com]

I'm going to get poi this weekend when I get to melbourne... wouldn't know where to start looking for them in Bendigo.
The plan is to learn to be coordinated with them BEFORE I add fire.

[harkon.livejournal.com]

I think that plan is very good. You are wise.

Re: ohh shiny

[aeduna.livejournal.com]

Have burn cream handy :)

(not a personal slight, i've just watched (experienced) people twirling with chain-poi manage to get them to a) wrap around their arm and then b) lock in place)

Re: ohh shiny

[jilavre.livejournal.com]

thanks for the tip!!

Re: ohh shiny

[fetnas.livejournal.com]

Burn cream is bad stuff. It may numb the pain of the burn, but it also insulates the skin and stops the excess heat from escaping, prolonging the healing the process! That's what they told us at the St.John first aid course. Burns should be treated with cold running water or a cold pack. Never use burn cream!

Re: ohh shiny

[morsla.livejournal.com]

You're coming down this weekend? Cool :)

Want to visit Juggleart with me? I'm tempted by their shiny three-part firestaff... mine aren't very easy to transport.

Re: ohh shiny

[jilavre.livejournal.com]

are they open on Saturday?
I was going to try underbelly on smith st , near barbukka.
Where's juggleart?

Re: ohh shiny

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Just off Smith Street - http://www.juggleart.com/catalog/about.php

They're open 12-5 on Saturday.

[kikilon.livejournal.com]

Good on you for getting back into things!
I'm always up for things lbikrides, walks and stretches, so let me know when you need company. ^_^

And gaaaah! Homecooked food! You have found my weakness! How can I resist such an offer? ^_-

Unfortunately, it will have to wait until after the uni break (so until the last week of July), since next weekend will be busy, and from the weekend after, I'll be in Canberra.
If you return to the land of ICQ though, we can have late-night stretching sessions online together (I've done that last year when was into my 3-hour stretching routines, and it works quite well).

But from August onwards, I'm up to join you.

*wonders what's up with this world where everybody around her is getting fit to PUT ON body mass and weight*
I should just share some of mine with everybody. ^_-

[morsla.livejournal.com]

July/August is fine :) I'm out 6-7 nights a week at the moment, although I'm desperately trying to claw back some spare time. I want to paint/stretch/write, but have no free nights to do them in...

I'll try to get a tiny bit of flexibility back before then...

[kikilon.livejournal.com]

Then it's a plan.