In defence of food

I am currently reading Michael Pollan's 'In defence of food'. If are concerned about what you and your family eat it is required reading. He starts the book with these words 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.' The food is what he calls real food or whole food that has not been tampered with by 'food' scientists. He explains how processed food came about. The reason crap is dressed up as food, why the crap has one nutrient at a time stuck in it. Another statement that stuck was if it makes a chemical claim on the packet avoid it at all costs.

I'm trying to find Gary Taubes' 'Good calories, bad calories'. Unfortunately my library doesn't have it.

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Weekly traing 15June - 21 June

Despite moments when I feel yuck I've done a bit of training.

Swim

2400m - 2x1200m band & balls

Bike

14.35miles - 2x35min turbo sessions

Run

6miles - 2x3miles - my legs have been feeling great since I stopped wearing my orthotics and try and go barefoot everywhere - well not strictly barefoot wear flip flops until I get some vibram five fingers. And because it is winter I've been wearing socks. Teresa isn't really impressed so I stopped wearing fluffy purple socks and started wearing black socks with my black flip flops.

It isn't as crazy as it sounds - here in new zealand going barefoot is more acceptable than most countries - I often used to teach in shorts and barefeet at the height of summer.

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Weekly training 8June-14 June

I did a little bit 1200m in the pool, 7mile on the bike and 3 mile run. I still feel yuck and lethargic. Its been my worse sick spell for years and added to that the lack of sleep when the children were not well. I plan to do a bit more training this week.

On top of all this I strained the right by over zealous leave raking at the weekend.

On top of all that I have some hand soreness from computer mouse usage. It is not my usual arthritic pain from too much work, it is at the base of the right thumb from gripping the mouse. I did some reading on ergonomics and ergonomic mice and before I buy something I am trying adding extra size to my mice to stop me from gripping it so tightly, this is also forcing me to hold it much lightly and moving my arm from the elbow and not the wrist.

I am seriously considering a mouse that keeps your hand in the handshake position.


I am really impatient to pay off the last of the mortgage.

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Weekly traing - not

I did a little bit of training to see how I was feeling. Back down with coughing and green mucus. This last month we have all had colds and it has been the wordt month of weather we've had since moving to New Zealand in 2000.

Things to share

1. Unbelievable: Chicken in a can
2. Unbelievable: Redefines what we know humans are capable of.

Other news

Despite the horrific last visit with the in-laws back in the UK April 2007 we are going back again. The in-laws in question looked like a couple facing the death penalty and finding out that they are to be pardoned, that is how relieved they looked because after their shocking behaviour last time they must have thought they would never see their grandchildren again. Teresa told them on Sunday during their regular skype (web cams, etc) But we want the children to know their grand parents and I don't want adult stuff to get in the way. Plus we are going to spend a large part of the visit in holiday accomodation. Teresa and I are going to treat ourselves to holiday parks that provide lots of kids activities. It is going to be a celebration for having paid off every single cent of the mortgage. And of course the in-laws have said they would pay - which despite some of my feelings towards them , is very generous.

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Latest happenings

No training last week. Just started again this week.

Greenhouse has broken zip on left side had to wire it together in wild weather. Tomato plants that were doing really well now not doing so well I think it just got too cold even for the greenhouse. I'm going to retry in july which is the middle of winter.

Emily has started swimming in the 25metere pool at swimming lessons. She does backstroke and frontcrawk but returns to the learner pool for breast stroke.

Cameron is a real boy. In the last month it seems he has moved into full blown boy in terms of noise, running around making car noises and general high levels of mad activity.

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