Uni has killed my ability to write well ...trust me, I used to be able to write fantasy fiction really well, and I was in top English at college. Anyway...

Day one of my diet is over. :-)
Well, although I slept from 4am through 11.30am, things went well diet-wise today (until tonight, that is. yikes).
I got up earlier in the morning to feed the cats, then fell back into bed. When I did get up again, I took a Duromine tablet, started mixing with water the two-pre food powders and took them. I then timed 30 mins, and drank an OptiSlim shake. Yay. I then went out and finally planted the dwarf apple tree I've had for a week.* Although the pre-food diet drinks filled me up, I was hungry pretty quickly afterwards, aka 30 mins after I had the OptiSlim shake, which is a bit frustrating.

Says it all.

Dad and I went for a walk with Skye, the golden retriever who my parents call my sister. She hops up and down when she wants walkies, so we couldn't refuse! She was laying in the shade near the spa, looking all cute until Dad and I had finished what we were doing.*

After this 93calorie burning walk (I go on a number of walks with Skye each day. Not very fast, as she's an old dog, and pauses a lot to sniff for bunnies), I then started the "walk/run" routine I had added into < RunKeeper app > to coach me through training myself to run, wearing my new second hand heart Polar rate monitor. I can't believe I'm at my minimum fat burning heart rate (140bpm) just by walking out to the clothes line... I guess I do walk very fast.

 Anyway, my walk/run was more of a 6-7km/h jog and very fast walk than anything. It was my first run in years. My shins hurt like almighty at first, and at the end of the 40 minute routine (5 mins warm-up, 5 mins cool-down), my hips were what ached. But it was good pain. Working of the muscles is good pain, you see. My back was less of a problem on this than I had expected, thus less of the bad pain I had expected. So, I burned 231calories. :-) Yay.

It's ok. I don't dress like this.

The only side-effect (I think) I've noticed... or anything at all I've noticed, of Duromine is the same reaction coffee or lactose gives me. So, that isn't so bad. Alas, that could just be a reaction to the diet shake or two pre-shake stomache fillers I am using also. I'm not used to any of them.

I can't even pretend to understand this one.

Anyway. I finally came up to make myself dinner, and I was going to make myself a home-made vegetable tomato soup. Buttttttt, I made Latina Fresh pasta instead (easier), and a Sugar Free Mother. I was so hungry, I just couldn't wait. I fell off the wagon on DAY ONE. But, considering I ran for the first time in 5 years today, I'm not too far behind, so I won't even think that way.

NOT happening. :-)

Started watching Wonderfalls today, too. Only one season of it, but meh. I feel like that girl in the main role. Alas, she is strangely only pretty when a still-shot is taken of her. She's really not attractive in video movement. Weird.
Now, to that pesky asterix.

* I planted the Dwarf Apple tree, but the pot is too small for it to stay there for good. Its root system looks like this J. Apparently it is supposed be up the opposite way. Hmm. Dad helped me put a few holes in the pots I'd avoided giving drainage (thought I needed a drill...) - thus my lettuce died before it really took off, but is now once more slightly extant. The carrots, tomatoes and snow pea plants are growing really well, even with the drainage issue.

 My other plants in the greenhouse include a hanging cranberry, 8 raspberry canes, and I planted 8 punnets of strawberry plants into a hanging pot and an upside down strawberry planter. My old little green house which cultivated the lettuce, tomato, carrot and snow pea pots in the first place is now being used to cover mum's own strawberry plant which is small, but in Summer we have strawberries all the time. :-) I added the hanging strawberry planter into that little greenhouse with the big strawberry pot. Hurry up strawberries. Grow me some damn fruits. :-)

I'm not great with growing plants... but you can't say I don't try.

Managed to make dad break one of mum's nice water glasses... placed it on the ladder dad was about to use, with his orange juice. He moved his glass, but forgot about mine. :-( Yay me.

Anyway, time for another Skye walk! Til tomorrow, Ashe xo

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posted by Da at 8:54:00 PM