Man (this man anyway) does not live by bread alone
April 16th 2009 09:49
The eleven weeks when I had the catheter in really set me back in terms of fitness - and weight - as I'm beginning to realise. Even though I've been walking to work for more than a fortnight now, I'm still feeling quite tight around the stomach when I sit down, and am having to pull myself up straight in order not to cause pressure on the lower abdomen - or more, specifically, the area where the op took place, which still reacts to being squashed. As well it might!
I'm not quite at the stage of taking diet pills yet, but I'm certainly trying to walk more, and climb more hills and so on. Which means going back to my pre-prostate-problem days of walking part of the way home (mostly uphill), as well as doing some climbing around the hillier streets in town during the lunch hour. And perhaps cutting back a bit on some of the food intake.
We bought a breadmaking machine about a month and a half ago. Well, we didn't actually buy it; my wife got it on Fly By points. But the trouble is the bread is so nice, and we tend to eat far more of it than we would of the normal bought bread, which is quite bland by
contrast. I think we need to avoid making bread at the weekends, because it just gets swooped down on and demolished. It's not just me: other members of the household enjoy eating as well.
So bread on the weekends needs to go. Bread made overnight, ready for a couple of sandwiches the next morning is a better option. That way you limit how much you eat. (Though having the breadmaker go off in the middle of the night with a great whump and thump is a bit disconcerting.)
The photo of freshly made bread is by someone who goes by the curious alias of Muddy (away 12-18 April) and who appears to have the same sort of breadmaker we have.
I'm not quite at the stage of taking diet pills yet, but I'm certainly trying to walk more, and climb more hills and so on. Which means going back to my pre-prostate-problem days of walking part of the way home (mostly uphill), as well as doing some climbing around the hillier streets in town during the lunch hour. And perhaps cutting back a bit on some of the food intake.
We bought a breadmaking machine about a month and a half ago. Well, we didn't actually buy it; my wife got it on Fly By points. But the trouble is the bread is so nice, and we tend to eat far more of it than we would of the normal bought bread, which is quite bland by
So bread on the weekends needs to go. Bread made overnight, ready for a couple of sandwiches the next morning is a better option. That way you limit how much you eat. (Though having the breadmaker go off in the middle of the night with a great whump and thump is a bit disconcerting.)
The photo of freshly made bread is by someone who goes by the curious alias of Muddy (away 12-18 April) and who appears to have the same sort of breadmaker we have.
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