Diet update and the Great Wall of China
Mar. 19th, 2007 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenn_unpluggedI lost another 1.5 pounds last week, bringing me to 5.5 pounds total. :-D
I slacked off on the exercising last week, so I really need to pick back up with that. I used to be a morning exercise person, and these days I seem to be a midday exercise person. For some reason, it's really hard to motivate myself to go for a walk or drive to the gym first thing in the morning. I'd rather drink some coffee and get to work. But around lunchtime, I'm more mentally ready to exercise, and I don't have to talk myself into it. It's just weird because all through college when I was running, I would get up first thing in the morning and go, because if I didn't do it then, I wouldn't do it later in the day.
Of course, in the summer in Arizona that was a necessity -- it was too hot by 8:00 am to exercise outside. Which is true here as well, though it's more the humidity that gets me than the heat, and that's present even at 7:00 am. So who knows, maybe this is a seasonal thing. It's also dark at 7:00 right now. Somehow it's easier to convince myself to go exercise when the sun is higher in the sky.
Doug is in Shanghai right now, which is interesting because he was in Beijing just a couple of weeks ago. And I've been meaning to post these pictures he took of the Great Wall!
The Great Wall! Doug said it was reeeally cold that day.
There appear to be quite a few people out there that day considering the weather, and Doug's guide told him that in the summer it's so crowded with people that it's almost impossible to walk along the Wall.
I think this is in the Forbidden City.
He wanted to go to Tienanmen Square too, but it was closed that day for some reason.
I appreciate that he took pictures, because I would really love to go and see the Great Wall. It's on the list of really cool things to see before I die, along with the pyramids of Giza, the Great Barrier Reef, and those big head statues on Easter Island. He also took some video of walking along the wall with our new video camera, but it's in HD format and we don't have the software to convert it into a web-ready format.
I don't think he gets to see anything quite so cool this trip, but he's gone a long time and will be in a lot of places: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Sydney, Singapore (again), and then back home. He flew out through London (yes, the wrong way) because it was cheaper and he'll be flying back through Australia again, so he's taking a big tour -- four continents within two weeks!
I slacked off on the exercising last week, so I really need to pick back up with that. I used to be a morning exercise person, and these days I seem to be a midday exercise person. For some reason, it's really hard to motivate myself to go for a walk or drive to the gym first thing in the morning. I'd rather drink some coffee and get to work. But around lunchtime, I'm more mentally ready to exercise, and I don't have to talk myself into it. It's just weird because all through college when I was running, I would get up first thing in the morning and go, because if I didn't do it then, I wouldn't do it later in the day.
Of course, in the summer in Arizona that was a necessity -- it was too hot by 8:00 am to exercise outside. Which is true here as well, though it's more the humidity that gets me than the heat, and that's present even at 7:00 am. So who knows, maybe this is a seasonal thing. It's also dark at 7:00 right now. Somehow it's easier to convince myself to go exercise when the sun is higher in the sky.
Doug is in Shanghai right now, which is interesting because he was in Beijing just a couple of weeks ago. And I've been meaning to post these pictures he took of the Great Wall!
The Great Wall! Doug said it was reeeally cold that day.
There appear to be quite a few people out there that day considering the weather, and Doug's guide told him that in the summer it's so crowded with people that it's almost impossible to walk along the Wall.
I think this is in the Forbidden City.
He wanted to go to Tienanmen Square too, but it was closed that day for some reason.
I appreciate that he took pictures, because I would really love to go and see the Great Wall. It's on the list of really cool things to see before I die, along with the pyramids of Giza, the Great Barrier Reef, and those big head statues on Easter Island. He also took some video of walking along the wall with our new video camera, but it's in HD format and we don't have the software to convert it into a web-ready format.
I don't think he gets to see anything quite so cool this trip, but he's gone a long time and will be in a lot of places: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Sydney, Singapore (again), and then back home. He flew out through London (yes, the wrong way) because it was cheaper and he'll be flying back through Australia again, so he's taking a big tour -- four continents within two weeks!
Congratulations
Date: 2007-03-19 05:41 pm (UTC)Re: Congratulations
Date: 2007-03-20 08:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-20 01:01 am (UTC)Great Job.... I know (from experience) how hard it is to diet. I keep telling myself it is not a diet, but a way of life. However, my life does not seem to listen...
Papa is home now and so far so good...
Love you much!!
Mom
PS... a little over two months to the beach....
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Date: 2007-03-20 08:05 pm (UTC)