Owwww
Well I went for my walk into town yesterday. I don’t know how far I walked but I didn’t do the abbreviated version, I barely stopped and I was gone for two hours. I’ve recently moved and live a bit further out than before. I certainly knew I’d done it. I’m way too sedentary usually.
I’m living in the Southwest of England and foodwise it is known for one main thing pasties. We even have a pasty van deliver to work (it’s painful sitting there when half the office have a pasty). There are about a dozen pasty shops in town and the smell wafts out of every single one of them. Along with the usual fast food joints and my personal favourite subway, it was a bit of a temptation challenge but I managed to resist everyone. I did pop into a new deli on the way home but I picked a nice pork and basil sandwich with no mayo or anything on granary.
Good stuff but perhaps I shouldn’t have worn my new trainers. My feet were a bit painful when I got back but hey I’m not usually on them for two hours solid. The problems have come when I woke up this morning. My back and both my knees are extremely painful. My right knee can give my jip at the best of times but the other one is usually okay and my back is not one of my problem areas. I’ve walked in and around town before and never felt like this so I guess I’m gonna put it down to the new shoes or it could be unrelated but I don’t know what else I’ve done.
Anyone got any good tips for the pain?
On another note I’m a member of a consumer opinion panel which dates back to well before I considered giving the weight loss another go. Basically every few months they send a product to test through the post, you try it and then fill in a survey and they send you a few quid in vouchers. I’ve had all sorts in the past, microwave rice, pasta sauce etc.
Yesterday I got back from town to find a package waiting for me. It was from them and it’s a bar of dark chocolate!
To do the survey I only need to eat a couple of squares and then I could take the rest into work for the gannets to devour. The question is can I just eat two squares?
Chocolate has never been my weakness, I’m much more dangerous around carbs (I have been known to eat a full loaf of bread when the mood takes me) and I know I can leave it sitting there if it is unopened but if it’s opened I might just eat the lot.
Well it is staying there for now, I have a nice piece of beef in the oven which I’m going to have with a few new potatoes and a shed load of veg.
Pain and chocolate are not a good combo to have to deal with.
I am the exact same way with the carbs and starches. I was not fanatic about sweets or candies but bread, rice,pasta, corn, potatos, all this food is what made me overweight.
When I walk, my legs ache differently depending on the shoes I wear. It is most likely the shoes. But if your legs hurt, and not your FEET, then it is probably something your body will adapt to. If it was the feet, maybe the shoes are not correct.
About the chocolate..how about you don’ open it until you are around the friends you plan to gift it to? Then you can take your two squares and immediately hand over the remaining, saving yourself the mind play of having it sit by you open and waiting.
Great job on the walk to town! where I live there is nowhere to walk TO, so I am stuck just walking around my neighborhood or around the park. I bet having a destinantion takes some of the “work” out of it?
Well great job on the loss! Keep us posted!
Happy Sunday Morning,
Enjoy reading your blogs..you have a fine sense of humor! For me a good hot shower helps ease back and knee pain or if time permits a soak in a hot tub of water. No pain, no gain so they say.
As for the bar of chocolate….give yourself a good challenge and see how long you can keep it in your sight and no open it or as you say take it to your friends.Keep up the good work and you will make it. It takes a few weeks to start seeing results..your bod needs to adjust before it will let go!!!!
No pain, no gain! Heheheh!! Anyhow, congrats on walking for 2 hours, that was certainly a long walk! So question….what exactly are pasties? Are they pastries? Hmmm….if they are, they sound yummy!
Pasties are a savoury. The usual one here is a cornish or devon pasty, which is shortcrust pastry filled with chunks of beef, carrots, onion and swede or turnip with gravy.