Week in review: Week to 20 December
Dec. 22nd, 2024 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedantherI've been keeping up the exercise.
I have not, unfortunately, been keeping up the sensible eating. There have been a lot of days lately when I've gone into town to do shopping or something on my lunch break, and bought something for lunch instead of waiting and eating the food I had at home. Often I don't even enjoy the lunch I buy all that much, either because I went in hoping to see something I liked and ended up just buying something that was there so I wouldn't leave empty handed, or because I saw several things I liked and bought all of them and regretted it later. Or because it's getting into summer weather and heavy lunches just aren't that good. I'm working on keeping a stock of sandwich fixings at home so there's always an alternative available.
A worrying development is that a few times I've caught myself going to town just to buy lunch, or for some other reason that's really just an excuse to go and buy lunch. I'm not sure whether that's because I'm bored with the food I have at home, or if the food itself is just an excuse and really I'm just bored of being at home all day. I'd feel more confident about the second possibility if it didn't sometimes happen on days when I'd already been out in the morning for a walk or a bike ride. Maybe the problem is that my diet needs to adjust to the amount of exercise I'm doing and I'm not finding the right adjustments yet.
After finishing two books with page counts over 1000 last week, the next few things I read were much shorter: a couple of picture books that had been sitting in my TBR for a very long time, and then Ursula K. Le Guin's Catwings books. (In other news, I completely blew my annual quota on new books this week by succumbing to Humble Bundle's offer of 30 Ursula K. Le Guin ebooks for a reasonable collective price.) I also read a couple of the Welcome to Our Country picture books, which I came across at the library a while back and made a note of for when I felt like I was in the mood to read them.
I have not, unfortunately, been keeping up the sensible eating. There have been a lot of days lately when I've gone into town to do shopping or something on my lunch break, and bought something for lunch instead of waiting and eating the food I had at home. Often I don't even enjoy the lunch I buy all that much, either because I went in hoping to see something I liked and ended up just buying something that was there so I wouldn't leave empty handed, or because I saw several things I liked and bought all of them and regretted it later. Or because it's getting into summer weather and heavy lunches just aren't that good. I'm working on keeping a stock of sandwich fixings at home so there's always an alternative available.
A worrying development is that a few times I've caught myself going to town just to buy lunch, or for some other reason that's really just an excuse to go and buy lunch. I'm not sure whether that's because I'm bored with the food I have at home, or if the food itself is just an excuse and really I'm just bored of being at home all day. I'd feel more confident about the second possibility if it didn't sometimes happen on days when I'd already been out in the morning for a walk or a bike ride. Maybe the problem is that my diet needs to adjust to the amount of exercise I'm doing and I'm not finding the right adjustments yet.
After finishing two books with page counts over 1000 last week, the next few things I read were much shorter: a couple of picture books that had been sitting in my TBR for a very long time, and then Ursula K. Le Guin's Catwings books. (In other news, I completely blew my annual quota on new books this week by succumbing to Humble Bundle's offer of 30 Ursula K. Le Guin ebooks for a reasonable collective price.) I also read a couple of the Welcome to Our Country picture books, which I came across at the library a while back and made a note of for when I felt like I was in the mood to read them.
