Definitely getting old...

[denny]

...I'm going to join a gym this evening. It's a sad day when you have to acknowledge that your body is going to fall apart rapidly unless you do some maintenance work.

Virgin Active have opened a place within a few hundred yards of my flat, which is close enough that even I can't claim it's not convenient... and I'm starting to think that I could see quite an appreciable improvement in my leg if I did some regular exercise with it. On NYE at TG I noticed that my ability to dance is still slowly coming back, and as dancing is the only exercise it gets at present, I can only presume that a bit more exercise might well help it recover more quickly. It'd be really nice to be able to dance all night again...

Anyway, membership is going to cost me 65 quid a month, so I guess I'd better take it seriously. Anyone want to offer any advice? I'm already aware that I'm going to have to eat more, but help yourselves to any more detailed digs at my diet, I know you want to :) I'm sure there must be other things I haven't even thought of as well.

Oh, and obviously I'll be going over things quite carefully with both the personal trainer they assign me, and the physiotherapist I've been seeing, to try to make sure that I don't do myself an injury with this.

Comments

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

The last one is my best hope, I think... I've got no objection to cooking various other things with pasta, if they're claimed to contain some useful nutrient that I need. Depending on what they taste like, of course.

Brown rice is as nasty tasting as brown bread... needs more refining to make it edible ;)

Throwing lumps of meat in salads would never have occurred to me, that could make them more palatable :)

I'm not generally keen on 'interesting' cheeses... I only really eat cheddar and similar things. I know I don't like feta cheese, never heard of the other one. Fried cheese? Oddness.

Avacado is okay, asparagus is quite bitter iirc? Carrots are good, I'd forgotten about them.

Olives are foul :)

[hilarita.livejournal.com]

You can always pour lots of dressing over there. I usually make my own balsamic vinegar and olive oil mix (this takes about a minute). Mayonnaise is unfortunately full of fat, but does make lettuce about 1000% more interesting.