If I am trapped in a closed room with no window at all, I can still tell you what's the weather outside.
How?
My knees can tell.
It's like having "rheumatic disease". My knees hurt when the temperature drops suddently, or the humidity goes up. Last week when it got wet and rained a bit, my knees hurt very much and I went to acupuncture again. When it became sunny over the weekend, my knees suddently go better and I could do my evening/morning walk again.
So sad...
...actually is because I don't want to (or can't go to) sleep at 1am...
I had done a lot and I had also done so few during the four-day holiday I longed for.
One the good side, I spent 3.5 hours in the salon to have my new hair do on Good Friday. Now my hair is as straight as ruler, a preparation to keep extra long hair as in school days :P
Also, I went to Ocean Park on Saturday with Mom. The objective of the trip was to see the "jelly fishes" (the guide said they were not "fishes"; they should be called "sea jelly") at the new attraction "Sea Jelly Spectacular", and of course to do some "walking" before it's getting hot! I have been doing quite good on my evening walk thing, except I didn't lost any pounds yet, and it is now become a habit, especially after a full meal.
On the bad side, I was stucked in the office for two afternoons, with my magnetic access card broken that I needed assistance from the security guards everytime going in and out of the lift lobby. To add on that, the bathroom on our floor is also out of service. We (it's "we" cause I was not the only one in the office!) needed to go downstair to use their bathroom.
Also, I am busy with the group project due on 26 April for my corporate communication course. We will meet again tomorrow evening and we have been working on it since the end of last month. The progress is good and I always try to contain myself not to overwhelm others during these meetings. But still, I spent a lot of time "amending" a member's contribution as she couldn't quite express herself using English (no problem when she's writing in Chinese). I have been thinking back and forth about if I should do that, but at the end I couldn't control myself so I did it and it used up quite a lot of my time.
So that's my Easter long weekend. I thought I could do some reading and knitting (I have an idea of knitting sweaters for babies I know that are under five as Christmas presents this year) over the long weekend but then I didn't do any. Too bad.
Here's where I have my evening walk. It's too cloudy that you can the "sea" on the left.
Forget about the number. It’s only a slogan to show my commitment. But I really want to lose some weight to buy clothes more easily :)
So. My number one and most important challenge of this “20-pound Mission” is that – I practically can’t do any exercise due to my knee except swimming, which is something I don’t know how to do and I don’t like to do.
So. What I am going to do focus mostly on diet and “walking exercise”:
On the diet part,
* avoid any oily food, food with source, sweet, pops, junk food, etc. (That almost means I can only have sandwich, sandwich, and sandwich for lunch!)
* don’t eat so full each meal, especially dinner; eat as little as possible during dinner time
* eat more fruit and drink more water
* may be drinking more green tea, which is said to be “fat-burning and cancer-preventive”
On the exercise part,
* walk as much as possible (Walking is the other exercise my doctor recommends, but it only includes walking on “flat” surface. Going uphill, downhill, upstairs and downstairs will all hurt my knees), including
* to buy lunch at Pacific Place, so I can walk around the HK Park
* to walk around 30 minutes after supper along the “waterfront park” under my apartment
* last but not least, those leg strengthening exercise my doctor recommends
So. I had tried almost all of the above today. When I tried to do the 30-minute walk at the “waterfront park”, I saw a lot of my neighours doing after-supper exercise there too. I never know HK people are so healthy.
Let’s count how many days I can stay on this mission impossible.
But another thing I think I need to do first is to buy a reliable scales. The digital one Mom has is “funny”. According to it, in just one day, I already lost 2-kg! But last time, it said I was gaining 1-kg per day for a week, when I didn’t do anything special, or wear heavy clothes!!!!!
