Marks Grans Blog

My determination to lose some weight has strengthened over the weekend.  I think partly because I'm now feeling very uncomfortable in my clothes and in particular my bras!  (lets not mention the previous bra incident!) I think I realised my lethargy has come about in part because I'm being lazy.  Lockdown meant more time was spent sitting.  I was sitting at the table in the morning reading all sorts of rubbish on my phone, I was sitting reading magazines and my book, I was sitting at the computer, I was sitting in the garden, you name it, I was sitting for it!  I'm still sitting more than I should as I'm not going out a lot yet.  Yesterday I said to hubby this feels like it did after the cancer treatment.   Everyone told me I could 'get back to normal now'.  My thought was 'what the heck was normal'.  I couldn't for the life of me remember what my days consisted of pre cancer treatments and hospital appointments.  It took me a...

I'm finding myself thinking about change.  Life itself has changed dramatically for now.  Who thought when we used to see Chinese people wearing masks all the time we'd be doing the same.  I used to see lots of Chinese students at the university when I did my art class and to a person they wore masks.  I wondered how they coped with that.  Now I know! My own changes, apart from mask wearing, are more a change of habits than anything else. I've put on weight.  I can tell I've put weight on when most of the clothes in my wardrobe are passed over for leggings or joggies.  I'm not really a leggings or joggie person normally.  I'm more a jeans sort of person.  Fortunately I can still squash into my jeans on occasion when I want to look less scruffy - yes, I do look scruffy in leggings or joggies - especially the ones with holes in the knees - gardening anybody?!  However today I decided this is ridiculous and unhealthy and I need to get mys...