a bit patient

 There are times when I feel well and truly recovered from my ordeal, but then there are days like yesterday where I pushed myself to do 80 minutes on the treadmill and was left feeling weak and unable to do much else even after breakfast with a protein drink. Today I kept it to 60 minutes but even still, I feel fatigue. I've been having cold chills the last few days, even while bundled up in my quilt in a bit of sunshine. I guess I just have to be a bit patient… 

There have been a few bonus days of sunshine and semi-warmth so I'm capitalising on that and spending my afternoons outside with a book and too much facebook! By 2pm today the clouds had obliterated the blue sky and the radar showed some rain bearing down on us, so I'm back inside. It's going to be cold and rainy starting on the weekend so I'll plan indoor tasks for then (look out Lupa - time for a haircut!).

It's possible that I've already had my last swim :-( The water is an icy 68F which is several degrees colder than I like especially when having cold chills! Carm was in after his golf game today  😱 

We had a lovely supper on Tuesday night with Trudie, Leo, and Pat over for a pasta dish. Piles of roasted zucchini and cherry tomato confit were the base, with some lentil meatballs from the freezer swirled in - I hadn't thought the ‘meatball’ thing through and they basically disintegrated with cooking in the instant pot. It was good though! And there were enough leftovers to have it again last night!

Tonight we'll be back to having tomato sandwiches. We've had lots of those this summer and I'm not even sick of them yet, despite have ZERO bacon! But I've been adding broccoli sprouts, some capers, and occasionally some parm to dress it up a bit - yum!

I downloaded a book about intermittent fasting yesterday so that's my learning focus for the next few days. Biologically I can see that it makes sense as it's only been in the last few thousand years that food has been readily enough available to have breakfast, lunch, supper, and snacks! We would have had to work hard for those meals in the past and our bodies are built to excel without constant food. I've been trying to have a slightly longer overnight fast on most days and usually don't eat until well after my treadmill time.

As it turns out, the fasting book is way more technical than my brain is set up for! Lots of long scientific words about the processes our bodies undergo make it slightly (ha ha way) over my head, but I get the general gist - 14+ hour fasts are good for many of our bodies systems.

The mint I have in pots on the deck has been going crazy! I need to chop it all back and throw it in the freezer for tea but they look so nice I'm reluctant to disturb them.

One of these days I'll actually take some photos…

Awesome!

“sunny September days”

“getting bundled up under my quilt”

“the chilled juice strained off from cooked tomatoes”

“the pink impatiens at the end of the deck”