Dust Bunnies

Ok, the Dust Bunnies are fluffy, but they are not cute,  like easter bunnies or family pets, they are quite virile little ferals that cover your exercise machines like blue green algae down in the Murray River.

They are bad for your health!

If inhaled they can cause serious sneezing, eye watering and nasal congestion when using exercise gadgets after long periods of inactivity. Although unused and rusting exercise equipment and other such props are MAGNETS for these bunnies, they are contagious!  I have found them hiding under my bed, in between the computer keyboard, on the bed head (cough, wheeze).

Solutions?

Obviously they hate to be disturbed from the natural habitat so the best way to stop the rapid multiplication of these critters is to make it uninhabitable for them.   So use it or lose it!

I did have fun on my exercise machines and I love fitness gadgets and I'm keeping a few and always on the lookout for more (did I say online shopping?).  But the others...........sadly but with a new years resolution echoing faintly in the distance, I sold them online, gave some away and cleaned up those dust bunnies and their stinky little lairs.

I did buy a new gadget though, HULA HOOP!!!!!!!!!!!!

My sister is waiting patiently for it in case the dust bunnies come back.  She can wait.  I LOVE my new thing!

Photographic evidence of Dust Bunnies welcome here.

lonesome exercise gadgets

I've had the ab twister, doer, bender, blender, slider, groaner, moaner etc and they just end up as etc hangers for my messy room.  I bought and sold the wii fairly quickly and just sold off a fancy contraption online.  So limited walkies and swimming costume social phobia  led to an impasse on the exercise frontier which didn't help the slide back down the slippery slope of too hard land.

My newest gadget arrived the other week and I have to say its been a hard slog to get to the place I am now.  I'm talking about that childhood hobby - Hula Hooping!

I have NEVER felt so unco-ordinated in all my life (except when I did Jazz Ballet), I just can't keep that silly hoop up on my hips let alone spinning upright.  And to make matters worse, my 69 year old mother is a bloody legend at it!   And she loves to rub it in too, smart arse.   But I tell you what, it is a blooming marvelous invention, best way to get a sweat up ( other than that other fun thing), and it gets your whole body pumped.  So many bruises later and I have a result, I can keep it up and orbiting nicely.


I'm hoping this is the one.

Will be posting some photos for the before and after segments.  Meanwhile you can amuse yourselves with a little vid I made.

why whinging weightloss?

I started this blog to out myself as a couch potato and to keep a record of my whinging weightloss journey.  The reason I called it that is because I have to drag myself kicking and screaming into any kind of energetic and motivated mood and I can come up with a number of excellent excuses and complaints to sabotage my goals.  So hence this blog was born and with a humorous take on my fear of change of any kind, I set forth my whinges herewith.   So a bit about me.   When I was a kid I was obsessed with horses and rode, groomed, fed, talked and ran after horses all day and night.  Then I got over horses (shock horror gasp) and became obsessed with learning the guitar and well........my outside life went down hill from there.........I sat around strumming guitars and composing deeply melancholic songs, all hunched over my guitar with my wild hair hiding my face from the world.  This method of guitar playing was completely the wrong way to hold the damn thang and so I have a rather nasty case of 'frozen shoulder' which is kind of an rsi type thing.  So why is this relevant?  Well its the first of my complaints, I am out of alignment and my hips are uneven and then one leg is shorter than the other which leads to painful feet when I try to power walk.  There you go, its quite a realistic problem.

So walking is difficult and jogging is out of the question and I don't ride mad horses anymore.  I quite like swimming, but am pretty slack in getting and finding large bodies of water even though its just a bus ride away to the nearest pool or a dip in a small harbour inlet.

Well that's enough of a welcome committee for now!

hello and welcome

Kicking and Screaming all the way to healthy and fit!

It's not natural to move, eat noice food or feel fabulous about yourself when you are a chocolate drooling, ice cream slurping, couch potato chip machine!!!!!!!!!!

But.............drum roll/belly roll/ jelly roll

some things that might change your mind;

• medical
• tired
• middle age spread
• isolation
• daggy clothes
• no bikinis EVER
• bowel problems
• digestive issues
• reflux
•  IBS
• sore feet
• knee problems
• back problems
• sick of feeling BLAH
• No sex, or not much anyway unless your a fat admirer.

and the list goes on.............................for me anyway

High cholestrol, familial diabetes, BROWN FAT! eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww, FATTY APRON! eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

fat fanny (oh no, did she say that!) YES & the dreaded chafed thighs in summer! Throw away those bike pants that you wear under skirts and dresses, throw away that baby powder for your stinging thighs.

ENOUGH!

I'm coming out of the fat closet!        I'm making a public stand!   I'm doing my own Jerry Springer show on myself!

hope you can join me

x

the harbinger of whinger