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Cheery_Daff

Merry Christmas Greying! :j Sounds like your festivities were perfect (if, er, a little windswept at times :rotfl: )

Just popped in to say thank you for inspiring me - I packed a flask of hot chocolate today (spiked with a teensy pinch of mixed spice and some almond extract - mmmmmmm) and took some leftover pasta and some biscuits and went for a 9 mile walk :j :j Most lovely to have some decent fresh air and exercise, and I'm not sure I would have done it without you talking about walking and flasks of hot chocolate so thank you :j

Greying_Pilgrim

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

I packed a flask of hot chocolate today (spiked with a teensy pinch of mixed spice and some almond extract - mmmmmmm) and took some leftover pasta and some biscuits and went for a 9 mile walk :j :j Most lovely to have some decent fresh air and exercise, :j

Fan-blooming-tastic Cheery! 9 miles :T Bravo - you have walked mucho further than me this Christmas :T But I agree, so good to just get out and about :T

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Woke up this morning to find that I am middle-aged :eek: According to some Prof-bod-type, 40-60 is middle-aged :eek: And apparently I, and fousands who are in my age-group ('tis a pretty big age range........) are overweight, drink too much and excersise too little. I do wish the NHS would stop making broad brush stroke statements and concentrate on the person in front of them. Not everyone in that age bracket is overweight. Not everyone drinks, let alone too much! And some people excersise like billyO, and could run rings around folk half their age!

Humpf!

I have a friend who mentioned in their xmas card that they and their OH are 'still overweight'. I suspect at least one of them drinks in excess of guideline units per week too. But who will change that? It can only come from within. They have a stressful job, but they are desk/meeting/carbound for 12/13/14 hours per day. Their other half has what would be termed a sedentary job. I would love for my friend to lose the excess weight, because unfortunately the family health history is not favourable. Some prof-bod-type pontificating is not going to make a difference to their life. It really isn't. And I can only determine (to a certain extent) my own health and fitness, through defining 'sufficient', keeping treats as treats (but not obstaining completely which = 'boring'), eat sensibly for the most part and exercise routinely, rather than in 'all or nothing' bursts.

I'm super-impressed with Cheery completing a 9 mile walk over Christmas. We're having a bit of a hiatus from the long/uphill or mountain, walking at the moment. Due to having Baby Greying and needing to cater for their needs - and taking a screaming baby on a route march is no fun, I should imagine, anyway. But we're getting shorter walks in, we're getting the outside 'in' so we're getting there

Back to normal at Greying Towers today. I think that I will take the decorations down and tackle tidying. We've some minor works going on next week, so everything that we do to shift stuff (ideally out of, and away from the house) will help.

I will wrap Baby Greying up warmly and we'll go out for a wander. The new TV guide is out already, so we may well swing by the newsagents and grab a copy.

I don't think that we need anything else from the high street, so I shall try to keep my purse otherwise locked

Tea this evening was going to be beetroot and bay bourginon with rice. But I may change that. We have already eaten quite a bit of rice over the festive period. We'll see how time pans out.

Right, daylight is burning. Best shift-a-tail-feather and get on with things

Ta for popping in and reading. Much appreciated. By me. Always.

Greying X

Fortune_Smiles

Hi Greying

hope you've had a lovely festive time. I may not have fitted the middle-aged stereotype before Christmas but I certainly do now :eek: Mr F and I have plans to really focus on health and fitness in 2017 - mountain bikes may even be on the agenda :eek::eek:

Fortune x

Cheery_Daff

Pfft, what does middle aged mean anyway?? It could just be one year and we'd never know which one til we died

I have no intention of slapping a label on my age at any point however, I will continue to exert control over those aspects of my health I am able to, because staying healthy and relatively fit makes life more fun for me

I love it that I can just march out of the door and stomp about in the countryside for 9 miles on my own thats partly good management on my part (I usually walk at least 4 miles a day on normal days, and regularly run too), and I keep a relative lid on my stuffing-my-face tendencies (most of the time...), but I am also blessed with good legs, good general health, very few family obligations, I have no children or pets, and I'm fortunate enough to live close to the scenery in a place I feel comfortable wandering about alone.

We do what we can I suppose!

Sorry greying, i'm on the phone and waffling on again just made some raspberry quark scones for breakfast so best go and scoff a few :j

Greying_Pilgrim

Ay up Fortune - luverly to *see* you. I was thinking of you yesterday, when I was pondering about glue........... Ah, ha! But I bet it wasn't the pontificating of a Prof-bod-type that made up your mind about mountain bikes! You want to do it for yourselves - Bravo!! Will have to up the ante to be able to keep up with you! Haven't got back on our bikes yet :rotfl:

Cheery - I couldn't have written it better;

.....I will continue to exert control over those aspects of my health I am able to, because staying healthy and relatively fit makes life more fun for me.....

Well said :T I heartily concur and that is precisely how I feel about it. Plus we've got to try to keep well for Baby Greying - and in time to keep up with them!!! :rotfl:

Right, I've cleared away the decorations, sorted the xmas cards and now I think it is time for a wander to see how far it is.

Toodle oooooo

Greying X

hex2

We used to walk a lot more with tiny boys (in rucksacks!), awful few years in the middle when one or other moaned all the way round. Now they like climbing on rocks and things so it tends to be ok as long as we don't push too far.

Re the middle aged research, yes v annoying. I've done some work that showed me the edges of it and the money wasted is frightening. I had one of those epiphany moments years ago where I looked at a photo of my fat self, puffing round out of breath after the boys, and decided to stop blaming everyone but me and do something. Not tomorrow, not when all the chocolates are gone but right now, things change. I've been ill along the way but I can still keep up with my boys. Both of us are older parents, and we knew we had to do this for the boys too.

apple_muncher

If you woke up this morning to find yourself middle-aged, does that mean that today is your very own birthday??! If it is, then happy birthday GP, and have some cake (smilie not working). And if I've read that wrong, and it isn't your birthday, then have some cake anyway!

I had dd just a few months short of reaching that bracket, and dh was half-way through it already, so we fully unnerstand the energy, health, flexibility side of things.

Have a loverly day.

Greying_Pilgrim

Greying snarfs all cake proffered before offer is rescinded.........

My dear apple muncher - no t'ain't me burfday today I just found out that I am considered middle aged :eek: by the NHS <rollseyessmilie> Because I am already in *that* age-bracket - unfortunately I know things are beginning to creak..... but ....... middle-aged :eek::rotfl:

hex I'm not sure that I realised that you were in the older parent category. But thank you for illustrating what can be achieved if minds are focussed to it

I have to say, the latest figures that I saw confirmed that the maternal age for giving birth was going up, whilst teenage pregnancies were dropping. It's about time that the NHS caught up.

So, we have been round and about to see how far it was. It was just far enough, as the sea fog drifted in....... and no, Greying does not live on the coast - which illustrates how dense it was - it made the temperature drop further, so we were glad to get back indoors.

I picked up some barginacious mushrooms from mrW (well, YS'd, so affordable by their standards), and some YS'd peppers. I also picked up some mozzarella from h3ron@ 3 for £1, so I got 6 and they've gone straight in the freezer. the TV guide has gone up 3p, it is now 55p - was suspicious when the xmas edition was only £1.

The assistant in h3ron was telling me that they have already taken their tree down at home - and as their children are older than Baby Greying, so I don't feel too bad that our decs (such as they were) are down now.

We went to the bank to pop kind present cash into BG's account. They are richer than me...... :rotfl:

Lunch was leftover casserole from last night - so no extra expenditure, and I think that now that i have the mushrooms, I will make the bourginon for tea.

Right, best do a bit more......

Greying X

joeyjimbles

I'm not sure what middle-aged means - how will you know when it was until you get to the end anyway? I do, however, think there's a sort of feeling, a kind of restart button for some, or a stuck-in-a-rut feeling for others that occurs at some point, possibly several points, at which you evaluate where you are and what to do next.
I think OH is there right now actually which manages to be interesting, frustrating, funny and endearing by turns. He's a very good chap however so I know whatever he does next, and things are a-changing, will be interesting and hopefully more fulfilling for him, and by consequence the rest of us too.
And for the sake of completeness, I think I've been having the feeling in waves about various things for the last couple of years as the family dynamic has shifted. Happily, neither of us have woken up with a desire for a younger model or a red sports car - tho OH does have a new (p)leather jacket. Should I be concerned?