Getting fit!

[Diane CBPFC]

My imagination has gone wild - wondering where on a man's outfit he could smuggle a budgie. And would it be worth the risk just for a pink pancake?

[Diane CBPFC]

And something else too - until I saw those flood photos Malc posted last year, I imagined Australia as sunny all the time.

[Joan]

Your imagination shouldn't have to run very wild, Diane - budgie smugglers is an Australian slang term for Speedos.    There's actually a brand of swimmers called Budgy Smugglers.

When it decides to rain in Australia, it really rains.  Land of extremes.  We even had a twister in Eastern Sydney yesterday and the day before a tornado did a lot of damage further up the coast.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/04/2918675.htm

We passed that car accident on the Roseville Bridge and there were a lot more than three cars involved.

The sunny skies are back today.  I just looked out and the clouds have all blown away.  Doesn't mean they won't come back.

The first two verses of "My Country" by Dorothea Mackellar say it all:

The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

Of course, in the first verse she's talking about England, not Scotland!

[Diane CBPFC]

Update on my getting fit plan which is a high veggie; low cal diet with chocolate now and again with aquasize: This is week 4 and I've lost 17lbs.

[Diamond Lil]

Fantastic!  We won't recognise you soon

[Roger Kettle]

What's aquasize?

[Bilthehut]

Update on my getting fit plan which is a high veggie; low cal diet with chocolate now and again with aquasize: This is week 4 and I've lost 17lbs.

how many vegetarians can you eat a day?

[Joan]

Go, Diane, go!  Well done, that chocolate's very important. 

[Diane CBPFC]

What's aquasize?

Basically, it's playing silly buggers and horsing about in the water to cool music with a loonie shouting at you to go faster. Great fun.

[Diane CBPFC]

Update on my getting fit plan which is a high veggie; low cal diet with chocolate now and again with aquasize: This is week 4 and I've lost 17lbs.

how many vegetarians can you eat a day?

As many as I can catch.

[Vulture]

exercise = aquacise?

[Mince]

I have recently taken up restacise, relaxacise, loungacise, and vegacise.

Tomorrow I am adding lazybastardacise to the list.

[The Peepmaster]

Well I hope you've stopped shouting at Diane to go faster.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I'm contemplating bettedavicise, and looking through garygilmorecise.

Well done, Diane! Wish I could say the same.

[Diane CBPFC]

I can't go this week - life conspired against me in the form of a big lump on the side of kid #2's neck. We use the hospital emergancy in this town like a walk-in clinic at 8PM, as otherwise it is a 3 to 4 week for a regular doctor's appointment. I have to take him back on Wednesday so will miss both this week.

I haven't tried to lose weight in years - there are so many good products for sale these days when you start looking in the regular food shops such as Indian sauces that are 1/4 the calories and veggie burgers at 120 calories a pop. It costs more and takes time to plan it all but it is not the hardship dieting was years ago.