Day 2
I know the titles of my blog are going to be extra boring but it will help me keep count. Did well yesterday. Went out with my girlfriends. Did not have any bread rolls during lunch, opted for jacket potato without anything on it and boiled veg as side plates and spare ribs. I figured spare ribs were better than a whole pizza or pasta with rich sauce. No dessert. Only water with my lunch. Very good choices if you tell me. And it was very yummy. Incidentally, just before that, I went to donate blood and they declined cause the blood levels (iron) was too low at 10. something. The doctor said that it could be that I have assymia (don't know about the spelling) which means low blood but it's unlikely since although I had been refused before on those ground, at other times it was high enough for me to donate. I'll go again in 2 months time to try and donate again. If it's still low, my blood will be all mine. I did donate a coupleof times in the past. Last time I went I was refused cause I had had a tattoo 4 months before and apparently 6 months need to pass since the event. I was quite surprised but he said that in the past it used to be 2 years andbefore that they just didn't accept people with tattoos. The doctor had been really surprised to hear me say I have a tattoo - I guess I just don't look the type. Although I'm not sure what the tattoo type looks like unless it's the bike girls which I 'm not.
Backto the comandments - did the walk, the situps, very little stretching but it qualifies, drank my water, said no to butter and wine and beer and bread, no chocolate bars, no dessert. I did not do the pushups - my arms were just too sore and with the first five just cracked scaringly all over the place. So I have decided to invest in some dumbells and do my arm weight training that way, give my arms a little less than 76kg to lift poor things. Today I have a nice back massage booked with my friend. And then just lie around by the hotel's pool. What's better is that this is a package I had purchased a couple of months ago on the spur of the moment impulse so even though I have paid for it really, today it's as if it's free. I know, it's stupid but it does feel that way.
Mum update. She is her usual cheerful self going around as if she has not pissed me off. I'm not letting it go however. She cannot pretend things are ok when she is still coughing. She did go to the doctor this week after that I took her of course, who said that everything is fine and he gave her some medicine which she is taking. Still, things are not right and she can't act as if they are. At times she'll go 'I don't know how this cough got me this year' and I'll go 'I think 40 years of smoking might have something to do with it'. Thanks for your support. We'll see how it goes. Dad also has this lingering sort of cough. But that is another maddening story which I won't bore you with, just yet, LOL 
. It's 8:10am here and I have to leave home at 10am for my massage reality escapism. I'm hoping to fit in the walk before then. I don't really feel like it to be honest but at the same time I'll feel better having that out of the way as one of my comandments, LOL. What can I say? Being religious, is at times very tough. LOL. Good day.