Is this what it is about?

Whew! Just done a good session on the cross-trainer, and I sort of get an idea what people mean when they talk about getting a high from exercise. Fit people probably don’t understand, but for unfit people, that sounds like a whole crock.

When you’re unfit, exercise is just plain unpleasant. You don’t get through the pain-barrier, you don’t get second-wind, you just have a thoroughly miserable time. You have, I suspect, to reach a certain fitness threshold before you start to get any of those benefits.

(I will add here that I in no way think that I am at that stage yet, but I did, I hope, get a slight inkling of what it might be like one day)

No exercise got done yesterday, alas. I had to head straight off to the event after work. I also pigged out on BBQ chicken. It was not in any sort of sauce – bonus – but it was bloody good.

Stayed there overnight and had a cooked breakfast this morning. M-mmm, I do love a cooked breakfast; what the hotels here in the UK call a “Full English Breakfast”. Fried bacon, fried sausage, fried eggs, mushrooms, baked beans, tomatoes, hash browns (although those are, of course American gate-crashers to the party). Full of calories, full of fat and full of sheer scrumptiousness. I could happily eat a full English breakfast every day. I would no doubt soon be 38 stone, but what a way to go. So, I never cook them for myself, but I do take advantage of them when they are on offer.

One caveat though, no fried bread. I hate fried bread. Eurgh! I don’t know how people can eat it. Too much grease, too concentrated. I was put off it in the school canteen 30-odd years ago, and I have not been able to face it since. Toast. That is what the righteous breakfast has, not fried bread, toast.

However, I digress. Other news on the lifestyle front, I have invested in a new juicer, which turns out to be a real pain in the butt for doing citrus – and I do love fresh juice – so I have got a cheap citrus juicer from Tescos (£5.99) and it is very good. (I gave my previous cheap and cheerful juicer from Argos (14-odd quid) away as a present (asked for) and this one is better at half the price. Easier to clean).

I have also decided to try out Psyllium husks as a Fibre supplement. 2 teaspoons morning and night. Good for the digestion, so I am told, and bulks one out too.

I’m off to Scotland tomorrow until Monday, so no diet and no official exercise; however I hope that I will do a fair amount of yomping up and down hills, which should count a bit.

Back Monday.