The name alone appeals to me Purple! Looking it up now, I rather like that lime green one. What are you doing in an old train carriage in that heat? It’s lovely cool gardening weather here – 30C.
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Thin,
I think the BSD book suggested that 1.6km is about 2000 steps. I did count manually last year and my 4m (6.5k) circuit cane in at about 7500 steps. I was disappointed, I mean how could it be that I was walking/ running 5-7kms most days and yet not be active enough?! I don’t know though how many steps I clock up in general daily activities though.
P, as a logger, do you have a feeling for that?
Thin
Around the house and garden I can get up to 5,000 steps, doing housework, washing, mowing lawn, weeding garden.
If I sit at the computer, research travel, pay bills and read a book etc etc, then I get about 2,500 steps a day, in total. This is awful and the Fitbit prods me into further action.
Roughly. Nine holes of golf is usually 5-6,000 steps. Walking the dog for 30 minutes is around 2,500 steps.
Hermaj will be getting in quite a few steps if she stands at her desk each day.
Cheers, Bay ⛳️⛳️👯👯🌺🌺
Thanks Bay!
I’m sure in the summer months I’m plenty active enough, despite sitting at a computer all week. In the winter, when it’s only light from 8 til 4 or so, I know I’m not!
Just been out to do the hens, -4 at 8am, poor girls had a cold night – their overnight poos were frozen solid under the perch bars.
If I stand at my desk, Bay, it wouldn’t really gain me many more steps but it would mean many more typos (I’m a seriously bad typist as it is), many more sighs of frustration, not to mention a dodgy middle and lower back.
I just this second tried it and found I would be bent at something like a 45 degree angle and typing at arm’s length. It also gave me a weird view of the screen and I couldn’t clearly read the text at the bottom.
My desk is my late dad’s huge, old-fashioned, partner’s desk and my keyboard is fitted in where the large centre drawer once was, i.e. just the right height for me, although the desk itself is slightly too high. So adjustments would prove problematic.
A good suggestion and I do accept that a lectern-type standing desk would fine to work at if keyboards weren’t involved. Sadly, it wouldn’t work for me. As if the job wasn’t sometimes bad enough … The current one is becoming one of the “I wish I was stacking shelves in Sainsbury’s” variety. However, I’d better get on with it before I lose the will to live 🙁
Happy, 10 000 steps in 6-7 kms. Energy used is important too. 10 000 slow steps on level ground are totally different to climbing stairs. Standing to iron barely registers but can be quite energetic.
Standing is always better than sitting etc. I think we all need to use monitors simply as a nudge to remind ys to get up and move.
Thin, I was coming home in the train from the city, they just seem to be trialling their old trains in the offpeak peroods on my line!!! 40 deg when I arrived at our station. And dripping wet!!
Re Misfit, it also tells the time, so functions as a watch and fitness monitor. I thought you’d seen it, Bay. I’ve had it a year now. 😊
Hi All – re trackers, I confess to two fitbits – long story, no need to ask. I love both, with reservations:
Fitbit Charge HR: neat (ish) to wear, tracks sleep and heart rate (I was horrified to find how fractured my sleep is) and does all you really need it to do in terms of measuring steps taken, calories burned etc. In conjunction with measuring calories eaten using My Fitness Pal app, I found it brilliant when I started 5:2.
Fitbit Surge does all the Above, but you can also tell it what activity you’re doing and it records it, and has GPS – so if I go for a walk alone and get lost, someone with access to my phone or PC can see where I am – advantage or otherwise, dep on your point of view. Also watch also visible, smart if you like your watches big and clunky – but much more expensive, so depends how much you value the extra stuff. If all you need is a basic step and calorie counter, the basic Fitbit Flex is half the price of either, neater to wear, and does the job.
I wear one or other almost all the time, and need to recharge every 2-3 days (less if I switch off the automatic sync system) .both seem to record steps at plus/minus 2000 per mile.
Oh I see Purple, I hadn’t read your post that way at all and hadn’t realised that you were travelling in a train! I was thinking morning tea in some re-fitted carriage pre-arranged by people who hadn’t checked the weather forecast.
Yes, I definitely see the value of the fitbit/misfit in prompting us to move more during the course of a day and I’ll be getting one. A 5km walk forms part of my day every day (vs. something I try to fit in). It’s better than not walking but it’s still not enough. I use my treadmill when it’s too hot or too wet to walk outside. I wonder if an ironing board rigged across a treadmill would catch on.
Happy, do you jog or walk 5-7km every day? The only other time in my adult life when I was this weight was when I was running 5 miles a day.
Bay, did you eat the soup cold?
FFS, I love your review, thanks!
Hi Thin,
I don’t manage even 5km every day over winter unfortunately. I do try and get out for a walk at lunchtime, weather permitting… but we’ve had an appallingly wet winter…
And I haven’t been for a run since last year, partly because my back’s been bad, but also I’m not much of a winter runner at the best of times. I’m not up for running through floods, and I get a bit of asthma if it’s very cold or windy, and its usually guaranteed to be at least one of those!
Good job weight loss and maintenance doesn’t depend on exercise eh?
Just a quick hello to pass on the recipe I used for this evening’s FD dinner. The source – New Times, Rwanda – may seem a bit unexpected. My printout of the recipe was taken some time ago from the BBC Good Food website but seems to have disappeared. This came up on Google and is exactly the same recipe.
With sides of Slim Rice, seasoned with a few drops of light soy sauce and some dried herbs, steamed broccoli and green beans it came to a modest 290 cals and was incredibly filling. Do give it a go. You might need toothpicks to hold the parcels together.
Thanks Hermaj,
That does sound good. Sadly, my OH, who drinks endless cups of tea with 1tsp of sugar each, is apparently allergic to any savoury dish with the merest taint of sugar. He can spot ‘this dish contains onion that was chopped on a board that a date once wafted past…’ Luckily for me, he travels with work quite a bit 🙂
Could be worse, Happy.: a friend’s OH, who has lived for 50 years in N America and brought their eating habits back with him, manages to add something sweet to every recipe, whether appropriate or not. If she manages to con him into eating something not sweet, she finds him at the honey jar within minutes. To be fair, it must be really difficult to adjust away from that ‘everything sweet’ culture – but at least your OH can manage a meal without its being sugar-drenched….
It’s amazing stuff isn’t it? My sourdough starter also puts up with all sorts of forgetful treatment.
Just spent a couple of hours struggling with my vacuum cleaner. It didn’t seem to be picking up, just moving fluff etc around. Finally, in frustration, I pulled it apart. It had sucked up nothing! Great. More equipment wearing out…as well as me!
Hi Purple
I wiped the dust of all my shutters one day and got a lot of exercise. Hehe! 😬😬😬😬 Today is gardening, washing, ironing, and general dusting. I wipe surfaces with damp cloth. Also used the Dyson this morning to pick up dog hair from tiles, then washed them. What does this say?
Displacement activity while I’m fasting. 😎😎😎
Going to be 32 C today after the clouds burn off. ☀️☀️☀️☀️ Sunshine sent to the NH.
Cheers, Bay 💐💐💐🌺🌺☀️🌺🐾🐾🐾☀️🌞
If that’s what it takes, Bay…and you fast so well….Your house must get sparkler as you get smaller!
I am working hard at resisting the thought of a biscuit in the bath at the end of a long fast day. For some reason I am much hungrier than usual – but I’m telling myself that one biscuit won’t make it feel any better, and anything more will mean fasting again another day, so I might as well continue to resist.
Hi Fast
I have always not liked housework, but now In a perverse kind of way, I have learned to feel satisfaction when things are done around the house. You are right in that things are more sparkling, however, it’s coming off a very low base. 😉😉😉.
It’s almost an indicator of a fast day that is going to fail, if i don’t do lots of housework. Now having a water drink pause after pruning and washing floors. 😇😇😇
Keep going, that biscuit won’t improve your life one jot. I’ll think of you later tonight, when I’m tempted.
Cheers, Bay ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
Just watched the wonderful Dr M on Insight (Aussie TV forum) discussing his blood sugar diet. It was wonderful to see the guy from Diabetes Australia shown up for the out of date frauds they are. They still promote insulin use and low fat, high carb diets and exercise as helpful for diabetics. SO wrong! !!
We look forward to meeting Dr M at a luncheon in Sydney on Friday. He really is a saviour! P
Happy, here’s another example of savoury with fruit – if you can call the salty, super-sour preserved lemons fruit. Don’t worry about over-salting You only use them i small quantities. Maybe Him Indoors might be persuaded.
This worked very well for this evening’s fast day dinner. The basic recipe comes to 211 cal. I chucked in a couple of ageing baby courgettes, a handful of spinach and 20 olives and it still only came to a modest 259.
Hermaj – I’ve prepared, but not cooked, the date-and-spinach-stuffed chicken: it’s sitting in the fridge, ready for FD on Thursday. Will let you know the verdict. Meanwhile, today, stuffed baked avocado – much more calorific, but all good stuff. Avocado flesh removed, mixed with a few nuts, spring onions, grated cheese and ground cumin, then returned to the empty skins and baked. Definitely not for a FD, but full of healthy fats and vitamins and protein. The point of alternating FDs and NFDs: overall calorie deficit without nutritional deprivation – clever!
Hi Fast,
Good to hear you are giving the date-and-spinach-stuffed chicken a try. Hope you enjoy it. It knocks into a cocked hat the idea that healthy low-calorie food has to be boring. There are a number of other breast of chicken recipes on Beeb Good Food, including one or two that involve wrapping Parma ham around the stuffed chicken. They are either suitable for a fast day or, worst case, a nice lightweight dish for a non fast day.
I am more than tempted to try your baked avocados. As you say, not fast day fare but good and healthy. Just one point. What kind of cheese did you go for? and does it matter? As it happens, I’ve got a couple of just-about-right avocados in the fridge so maybe in the next couple of days…
Happy, shame about OH. You could, of course, let him cook his own grub while you tuck into something tasty.
I enjoyed the Insight show last night feeling quite smug that none of it was news to me. OH sat through it all too so I especially loved it when Dr M. went along the trestle table slamming all the foods that I’ve been trying to steer him away from. We more or less eat the same things for dinner (with vastly different ratios and portion sizes) but it highlighted for me how much my own diet has changed. Extend Dr M. a huge thank you from me please.
Hermaj, the original recipe said cheddar or similar mixed into the avocado and Parmesan grated on top. I don’t much care for Parmesan (guess why, fellow emetophobe?!) so usually use all cheddar – but I have been known to cut down the cheddar and put a blob of Boursin with garlic and herbs on top. Makes it very rich, but yummy. Quantities for each avocado are roughly 2pz total cheese, 1 Oz nuts, 1 spring onion,1 teasp cumin – but as always, I end up doing my own thing…enjoy!
What a civilised way to promote a book, P. The only book launches I’ve ever been to – both to mark the launch of a friend/colleague’s novel – consisted of wine, which I don’t drink although there was mineral water available, and nibbles, some of them just about OK.
I’m sure the meeting with Bay and Mr Bay was great fun. We’re hoping to catch up with them some time, somewhere, after a short but very enjoyable meeting over coffee in Hampstead last year.
Fast, thanks for the more detailed recipe for baked avocados. I like the idea of the blob of Boursin. I hear what you’re saying about Parmesan, although freshly grated is not nearly so bad. What was really horrid and nauseating was the ready-grated rubbish in the little cardboard containers (which probably wasn’t Parmesan anyway), which were all you could get when I was a kid and just developing an interest in “foreign muck” as my xenophobic father called it.
We tend to use Gran Padano instead. It has a similar texture, is somewhat cheaper, has no nasty smell – I just checked – and could be worth a try. But there’s nowt wrong with Cheddar. For me, Cornish Cruncher, strength 7, is food of the gods. I have to be very careful with it as it’s so easy to overdo the lactose intake and have to retire to bed, a poor sick bunny.
Me too, girls – fast tomorrow, definitely.
Meal out tonight, marking a special day for us, and sabotaged by kindness…Felt unusually carnivorous, and in our local community caff – a place which does very splendid burgers – so an obvious menu choice. Knowing it would come with chips – and having every intention of eating them – I ordered it without the bun – just meat, chips and carrot/cabbage slaw. It arrived with a huge pile of chips – twice as many as OH had. He ate most of them for me (greater love, etc….) and when I queried with the waitress why I’d been so generously served, she said ‘chef thought since you couldn’t eat the bread, you must be gluten sensitive, so he gave you extra chips to make up.’
What could I say??!!
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