I'm back...did anyone miss me? :-)

Well I'm back from the Nationals - 6 days of sailing (between 3 and 5 hours each day) I'm in need of some time at work just to recover!  I really enjoyed the week, cherished the time spent with good friends and learned much more about race sailing.  Funny thing though; it always seems that learning things requires you to buy more kit ...

Today was day one of New Caroline!  Part of my exhaustion during the sailing was down to my being so over weight, so I'm going to do something about that.  I've been on diets before and they seem to make me fat!  I've lost 3 stone (42 pounds) on three separate occasions and each time I've put it all (or more) back on. So no diet, just some rules:

1. NO eating in the car (ever noticed that you can't eat a salad when you're driving?  It's always fatty food that one grazes on there).
2. No ready made meals.  I'm going to take some time to cook my own meals (I can always tell when I'm going down hill by how many plastic meals I'm eating)
3. Chocolate only allowed on Friday evening, as a special treat, and then only if I have kept the other rules in the previous 7 days.
4. A 30 minute 'prayer walk' taken at lunch time each day. 

We'll see how that all goes up until Christmas and then see what to do next. 

Anyway it's good to be back amongst my e-friends, I'll now pop round your blogs and see what you've been up to since I went away.

Comments

[graham]

Silly question! :-)

Did u win?!

[Caroline]

Oh no, I'm very much at the back of the fleet, but we did a bit better than I had thought we would and we even had some good results!

For me it's the taking part, see my poem in the [about] section

[Ruth S]

Hmmm, I like those 'weight-off' suggestions. Think I might try a few.

And yes. Why does getting better at something require capital outlay? Like the poem by the way, it was very, .... poetic :-)

[rob]

prayer walking is a new weightloss strategy to me!!! I think i told you i did quite a lot of swimming which helps me get my thoughts in order. However i find that as the calorie burning rate goes up, my praying ability goes down - bother those inverse correlations!

[Caroline]

Funnily enough Rob, that's an advantage of the walk. I trundle along saying the Jesus Prayer

"Lord Jesus Christ, son of the Father; have mercy on me a sinner"

and that sets up quite a brisk rhythm to my walk. As I go along, I find things drop into my 'mind' and I ponder them and then go back to the Jesus Prayer!

I found with swimming that I could keep going for a long time but at such a slow pace that I wasn't really exercising.