Mayday

I was hoping that my new job would change my life, well, it hasn't exactly so far anyway but I do feel like I'm on a journey to and of improvement.

I've been using My Fitness Pal for years to keep track of what I'm eating and mainly to make sure that I'm eating enough of the right things, well I've just found out that I can tweak what it measures so I can see where I'm falling short, for instance, my iron levels have run low forever and that's normal for me but by choosing to monitor and log my iron on My Fitness Pal, I can see how I'm doing in this department.  The same goes for protein, I'm not really having enough but I can monitor it and change my eating habits to combat this.  Good huh?

I'm reading the most depressing book in the world at the moment.  I'm not going to tell you the title because it's unfair to disrespect the author and my judgement will probably change in around 4 chapters when things start to get positive and constructive, at the moment, it's a never ending shopping list of all the negative things that happen to your body once you hit 40... which is a very long way off ;)

The author is a doctor and a realist and is just what I need i.e. no sugar coating and some serious straight talk and lets face it, we all need some straight talk in some department don't we?

This book may really change my health so I'm going to keep reading.


I have a few days off work, yesterday was freezing cold but I spent several hours on a play date with my darling great niece Everly, in the garden because that's where she wanted to be.  She is two, going on thirty two.  She has a flair for rationale that would shame an adult, (we need to go inside Everly because it's cold and staring to rain.  "But if we put our hoods up (demonstrates,) we can still play outside!")

Jan and I agreed that Mum would have adored her and we wouldn't have stood a chance next to Everly.  I'm so in love.