Design Your Diet
Four words or Two?
The previous Christmas I had 2 tins of Quality Street and 2 tins of Roses, as well as 3 boxes of luxury chocolate biscuits. I had other stuff to eat, Chocolate Oranges and After Eights, plus some Liquorice Allsorts, for starters. What could I do if I wished to become slim? Not eat them? Give them away? Everybody else had got them as well. I couldn’t give them to anyone, I told myself.
I have to say that I enjoyed every single one.
It was tough, but I made it in the end,
just in time for the Easter eggs.
The pain in my leg was like Sciatica.
Wikipedia said that the longest nerve in the body is the sciatic nerve. It felt like it. I was limping and it didn’t go away at night. I could have sciatic pain, the Internet said, ‘if was pregnant’, but it’s too late for that. I should ‘avoid lifting heavy weights’, but I guessed that I was already lifting a heavy weight – me.
It said that the pain could be treated with ‘exercise’.
I referred myself to the physio-therapist.
She assessed me.
I asked if I should rest the pain away, or exercise the pain away?
She said that for me, it was exercise every time.
Oh dear!
I don’t have a stretchy leotard like they wear on TV. (I always think that the skinny youngsters leading the exercises don't need the exercises anyway.) I don’t have a high-vis jacket, trainers with a logo, or a smart phone with earbuds. Worst of all, I didn’t have a gym membership. How could I possibly exercise? I was just not equipped for it, but I had to do something.
Then I remembered the Four-word diet. Move more – Eat less. Maybe that would do it – except perhaps, I should take it one step at a time – the Two-word diet – Move-more. I decided to do something drastic to try to ease the pain. I would go for a walk before breakfast. That was in the days when it was light or even sunny before breakfast.
It was going to be hard.
Going to be extreme.
Could I do it?
(Could you?)
I decided that if it wasn’t sunny in the morning I’d stay in bed, but if the sun was shining, I would have to get up.
Right – that was settled then.
Next morning, I had a sinking feeling.
What would the weather be like?
Would the sun be shining … ?
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