Living Life blog

Summer Fun

Although the summer is drawing towards a close the nights are still long and you can still get out and enjoy yourself, and do some mild exercise while you're out and about. The best way to do this of course is just to take a long stroll with the family [or with your dog].

It is that simple to exercise after all, you don't have to go out running with all the snazzy gear and potentially do yourself a mischeif, and we wouldn't like that mnow would we?

But then again maybe you are already a decent enough trainer that you would want to go for a run or for a game of football with the kids, it does you good to keep in shape and it also helps keeping the bills down. Private medical Insurance isn't cheap at the best of times so anything that you do to keep it at it's cheapest is good.

So, on you go, it's a marvelous evening and not the time to be watching the last of those summer evenings fade away, get out there and enjoy it, it's free after all

Fidgeting

I've found about forty or so internet sites devoted to the art of fidgeting, and all say that it can help weight loss.

None of the sites were from academic domains, so I'm guessing that all evidence so far published is anecdotal.

But i think I'll give it a go anyway. I'm sitting here bobbing my head as if keeping time to a distant beat, while bouncing my foot up and down as if on an invisible pedal. I might even do a few grimaces in a bit, but I'll have to wait til there's no-one else in the room.

*waits*

*grimaces*

Yupp, this fidgeting thing's going well so far, albeit I only started about 120 seconds ago.

Let;'s hear it for fidgeting. And next time  a family member tells you to stop fidgeting and sit still, respond thus:

"it's not fidgeting! What i'm doing is non-exercise activity thermogenesis"

That'll shut them up. Anyway I'll let you know how I get on, if any weigh gets lost I'll post the results here.

How to fidget - do as above but with an imaginary drumkit instead of a real one.