May be you can do that. I mean have a huge box of sweet buns, cup cakes and so in your kitchen and eat only 200 calories of it a day. For me....... it is baaaad idea.

That is good. This including that stuff looks good and thanking her for thinking of me.

Tx guys.

I found a route to my job that is 19,3 km instead of 25. It is still a lot for every day.
The good in it:
- I totally fulfill my commitment of spending two hours every day outside.
- I am super prepared for the bicycle part of the triathlon
- I am again 59 kg, so running will be also easier
- My skin looks better. Few wrinkles disappeared. And I just like how I look right now. (very rare state for me)
The bad in it:
- I sit about two hours every day on a bike and am bored to death.
- I am bored.
- I eat more, so when I will return back to my normal office I am gonna have a problem.
- I am bored

I am so goood I am so good I am so goood......
1 hour 54

5 km run : 25 min
22 km biking: 56 min
and like always swimming is the worst 500 m : 33 min

Swimming was horrible. I mean I am horrible at swimming under normal conditions: in the swimming pool. My technique is like non-existent and all the arm muscles you need so much for swimming are my weakest part. And today it was swimming in the open lake and a piece of about 20 m was under one pretty low bridge. Open lake in itself sets me into the crisis mode. I start to imagine how deep it is and what kind of monsters are touching my legs. And then comes the bridge. Tx God it is basically the last piece of the swimming. The bridge is really low, may be 1 m above the water surface. And it is dark there. And it is also the narrowest piece of the swimming part, so that the density of swimmers there is huge. People are basically constantly touching each other. And then my imaginations starts to work. I think of all the spiders that are sitting on the bridge and just waiting to jump onto my head. Adrenaline flows and I can scarcely keep myself from calling the helpers boat to get me out of there. Despite all that I swam to the end on my own and managed to avoid all spiders.

From there on it was easy. Next part was bicycle. Nothing interesting happened there. And the last part was running. It is huge difference when I run fresh, or after already giving my best for 1,5 hours. But it was still easy compared with swimming. Weather was OK. 16 C°. That is pretty good for running and bike.

Wow 5k in 25min is not bad. I hit 23:19 and I am one of the fittest around here. Kind of pathetic but that's what I been telling you. We all kinda fat and not in shape.

Tx It is for me sooo cool to read that. ....I am not used to people saying that I am good at something.

Running is my best part. I started time running on tread mill in a gym. And then it become just kind of game to be every time at least 10 sec better than the last time because I find actually running super boring. And the cool thing in a gym is that you can control your speed at every moment. So I basically knew at every moment: "Yeahhh I need to push a little harder. " or "I am good. I can just walk out" It doesn't work every time. Sometimes I have bad days, when I somehow can't push and struggle for breath and my legs just don't move like I try to make them move. And yesterday I just pushed as hard as I could.

Very well done!

Tx.

I need a bicycle helmet.

Today I had to be in my job two hours earlier. So at 5:30 I was sitting on my bike and pedaling through the forest. It was totally cool. I saw a sunrise. And the fresh air and no one around. I tried to make pictures with my phone but they don't even approximately give this cool witchy feeling.

But...... I normally bike without helmet. And it is usually OK. I think that if I am so clumsy that I fall and get my head split in two that means only that Darwin was right. But in half-dark going down the mountain on pretty rough terrain with about 30 km/h..... I mean if I would fall and split my head in such situation that would mean also that Darwin was right. But the thought to be naturally selected to die for being dumb is zero appealing to me.

So gonna get a bicycle helmet next week.

Ordered huge package from Amazon:
helmet, new tires, new brakes, a piece for my bicycle lights. Super excited to get it. And happy that I can replace all that things myself without taking my bike to the shop.

*Jump jump jump*

Spent yesterday basically all day in a forest hiking and mushroom hunting.
here is a part of the mushrooms.

Here are they converted to a dinner. I took this mushrooms, two potatoes, 1 onion and just roasted it in the pan. Put some herbs on top. No idea how many calories, but zero regrets.
Warning for everyone who tries to repeat: You should really know what you are doing when picking mushrooms in the wild. Pick the wrong one and your are in need of new liver or even dead.

Drink on the site is self made blackberries drink. I took basically about a 1/2 cup of blackberries+ about a table spoon of sugar put it in a blender and added ca. 0.5 l of water. You can vary proportions however you like. You can put the result through the filter, so that you don't get solid remainder of the blackberries in your glass.



Pretty happy about how weekend went. I mean hiking is clearly not so sporty achievement. But being whole day outside in a forest makes me feel like the world is nice to me and generally pretty good place to be.

Health and Fitness......
Mathematical (or may be aspi ) part in me starts to wonder, what exactly is health. If I look only around in this part of 2+2, I get the impression that health="not fat" + " certain amount of muscles". Wiki tells that it is subject of discussion in a society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health
"Health is the level of functional and metabolic efficiency of a living organism. In humans it is the ability of individuals or communities to adapt and self-manage when facing physical, mental, psychological and social changes with environment.[1] The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health in its broader sense in its 1948 constitution as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."[2][3] This definition has been subject to controversy, in particular as lacking operational value, the ambiguity in developing cohesive health strategies, and because of the problem created by use of the word "complete".[4][5][6] Other definitions have been proposed, among which a recent definition that correlates health and personal satisfaction.[7] [8] Classification systems such as the WHO Family of International Classifications, including the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), are commonly used to define and measure the components of health."

Am I healthy....? Actually about as difficult question for me as the question Am I fat?. I am definitely not in a state "of complete physical, mental, and social well-being". But who is?

I do eat jelly.

I never buy jelly, but I conserve and can fruits and berries myself. Now is blackberry time. I pick them myself and brought in the second batch this year today. The batch is about 6 kg. A big bowl will be eaten fresh.


The remainder is conserved. I did two types of jelly/fruits with sugar.

First one is short time conservation for 2~3 weeks in a fridge. For this I added 100 gr of sugar to 400 g of berries and put it through a blender. I didn't cook the mix and didn't microwave the glas. Basically only sugar conserves fruits here. I use this mix as bread spread, for baking, for greek yogurt or as a basis for blackberries drink. Super flavor and smell and mnjjjjaaam.


The second one is long term conservation. It remains good for at least a year and doesn't need to be in a fridge. Glasses are through the microwave, lids cooked of for 10 min. Here it is a lot more of sugar: 1 part berries to 1 part sugar, but it is still less than in grocery store jelly. Jelly is cooked for 30 min on low heat. And I use pectin instead of jelly-sugar for gelation.

Damn that looks good. One of my favorite things is blackberry jam my grandmother used to make from blackberries picked in their backyard. Haven't had that since she passed away. Even other homemade jams just weren't the same.

What's that white stuff in the background? Pineapple?

Looks like you'll always have plenty of jelly to put on you McMuffins

Jepp. I am trying to make dry fruits and see how it will work-out. Last year I tried only with apples. It worked super good. And right now I got 3 pineapples from a foodsharing network. They are very ripe and should be somehow consumed fast. And so I am trying it with drying.

You know me.... no mcmuffins

I need to go swimming. I don't want. It costs so much time. But I need too. It is with 100% certainty the best time investment for my next 4 hours. But I have at least 5 other things that I would like/need to do. My magic tool: a prioritized to-do list on which I find time for all things.

swimming - 4 hours (it is all together with way to the pool, changing and so on)
blackberries picking - 1 hour
work stuff - 2 hours
crocheting - 1 hour parallel to poker
chores - 30 min
yoga -30 min
----------------------------------- 9 hours; totally doable

Rare occasion that I think I could really use more muscles. I mean not like in for looking good, but for something very practical. I am trying to change my bike pedals....... It is depressing. I tried this and that and it didn't work.
Now I found this vid. That is gonna be my try tomorrow. I mean it has to work. But I am also scared that metal will burst and I will be hurt. It is probably dumb..... But.....

Why do you think muscle looks good in the first place? Because it is an honest indicator of ones ability to do something practical, and so has been selected for as something that "looks good". Ying and Yang and all that.

I completely agree with the idea. I mean as long as it is not so much muscles that it not only doesn't help you to do practical things but hinders you walking or moving your arms normally. You know like


And I also think that things with nutrition and moving your butt become a lot easier if in foreground are practical things. For example it is much easier for me to use my bike instead of a car as a means of transportation than to go three times a week and do cardio with only purpose of doing cardio.

I am a loser baby....

The pedal is still unscrewed. Will screw off it together with crank arm, go with it to the guys in a car-shop on my way and make this face
.

It is crazy. I jumped with all my weight on about 1 m arm. I am surprised that my wrench is still whole.

Add sugar to fruit?!!! Sigh.

Premises: I don't have a freezer and I have excess of blackberries.

Do you have alternative methods of conservation?
Any alternatives except throwing them away?

Don't buy excess. If you do, eat them all. Kilo of blackberries is 400 calories.

I don't buy them. I pick them myself. This year was three times picking. each time between 5 and 8 kg. At least a kg was eaten each time pure. Some were distributed between neighbors and some got canned. And it is hard to stop picking if my container is only half full.

That's different. What about using less sugar or artificial? This is a very small rock that is not important especially if jelly is your thing.

I just brought it up because just the idea of doing it is a slap to the health and fitness gods. Fruit really is from the heavens and to add sugar is insulting to me. But in this case I think we can make an exception.

Right now I am working on making the most refreshing tastiest drink of all time, so I can always have a jar of it. I am leaning towards hibiscus and lemonade. But I am torn about sweetener, it absolutely has to be low cal. But maybe 50cals for 12oz is acceptable.