I have postponed my physical to February 15th. Uncle and I have been enjoying rich food lately so, I should get back on track with healthy eating and exercising. He is leaving on Monday.
I am setting myself a goal of eating fish and chicken only till my physical. No red and fatty meat. I will also be eating lentils, beans and chick peas with lots of fresh greens. Also, decided to limit my carb consumption and see how that goes.
I have also been spending a bit too much. So, from 10th of January till the end of February, I am limiting my purchases to fresh produce, dairy and water only. I will pay the regular bills, the cleaning lady, pay for my physical and fill my gas tank once during this time. No clothing items, toiletries, impulse buys and etc.
Whenever I challenge myself like this, something always comes up and I end up spending money. We'll see how this one will go.
Earlier, I had mentioned that I was watching some YouTube channels. I would like to share them here:
- https://www.youtube.com/@AcreHomestead Becky is a young mom. She likes to plant veggies, can her garden harvest and preserve all sorts of food. She is a very positve young woman. I like to watch her videos.
- https://www.youtube.com/@TheOutsiderCabin Father and son built a cabin in the woods. Unfortunately the dad passed last year. Their building process is fun to watch.
- https://www.youtube.com/@ImprovedHealth I like to do exercises with this lady. She is very cool and not talkative. She has exercises for older people or people who are starting again.
- https://www.youtube.com/@country_life_vlog This is a blog from Azerbaijan. There is barely any talk but, I am so hooked to watching them. They keep a very clean farm. They also have a small cabin in the mountains. What they cook is similar to what we have at home but, the lady makes enormous amounts at a time. They also can and preserve food. Very interesting to me. Rarely they talk a little and I can pick up a few words because Azerbaijani is a form of Turkic languages like ours. I have never been there but, my friends who have visited the country tell me that, you can understand each other despite talking in different versions of Turkish.
Wishing everybody a nice and warm weekend.
Hi Tpol. Happy New year again. I postponed my physical too because I indulged too much during last month and I am scared to see that AC1 number. I used to watch that country life vlog but haven’t done it in while. I really enjoyed watching it. I would like to visit Azerbaijan one day. Have a nice day.
ReplyDeleteHi Farah, Hope all is well with you. As for postponing physicals, like minds think alike I guess. Lol! I would like to visit Azerbaijan too and it's only a 3 hour flight from Istanbul.
DeleteI just bought Wendy's ... LMAO! Hopefully better eating habits come for me soon, haha.
ReplyDeleteLuckily, I do not like fast food. I especially do not like French fries. If I have to, I will go for a Whopper at BK. What frustrates me most is that buying a single sandwich is makes less sense than buying the menu that comes with fries and a drink. A Whopper sandwich at BK is 84 TL wheras a Whopper Menu is 94. So, one feels sort of obliged to buy the menu.
DeleteHa I used to try to push back my medicals to try to "get myself in order" too - never worked! And thanks for those Youtube links. I already watched the Azerbaijani couple - they are amazing aren't they!
ReplyDeleteI will try my best about getting myself in order. May be I should post what I eat and do here on the blog. The Azerbaijani couple is amazing. They obviously respect their environment.
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