Health & Fitness
A lifelong battle to be fit and healthy, mostly focussed on my weight.
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Fat, fat, fattie
I’m overweight. I know I’m overweight, I know what I need to do to lose weight but I remain, stubbornly and without willpower, overweight. I don’t like the fact any more than you probably like thinking about it but those are the facts as they stand at the moment, laydees and gennelmenn. I am fat.…
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And I did run
Last night, after a gloriously sunny day, the clouds rolled in and the heavens opened. Why does that phrase always making me think that God is peeing on us (or all of the angels? I dunno…)? Anyway, the rain raineth on the just, which is apt as I only just made it in time to…
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Knee-ly there
(I do love me a craptastic punific title!!) I was at the physio yesterday and, bar a spot of confusion over the eccentric loading exercises I’d been given previously*, it went well. It’s the small things that matter you see, and the fact that the physio was able to prod and press on that tender…
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I'm fascinating
The more it starts to let me down, the more interesting my body becomes. Today I visited the physio again to restart my failed effort at getting back to running. I learned that my knees have a good level of hyperextensibility (they can be bent ever so slightly the wrong way, if that makes sense),…
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Vastus Lateralis
I have a weak vastus lateralis and a sore knee! The physio lady was very nice, chatty, friendly and didn’t have cold hands at all. She was a complete bitch. After some questions about how I got the injury and some gentle prodding and pushing of the area around my knee, she asked me to…
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The Long Run
It’s like something is constantly, gently, clawing at the inside of my forehead. My concentration is shot, and I flit between things I need to get done and other tasks and diversions. Unimportant yet easier to handle in my current state of mind. Diverted, distracted, stressed and unable to gain a moment of calm. Sleep…