My cooking hasn't notably improved over the last few months, but what I have put my efforts into is getting fitter - and lighter. I was overweight (let's be honest - obese), and although I've always cycled a fair amount, I was eating badly.
So last summer I started a healthy diet. Not any particular scheme or brand, just cutting out rubbish, and doing portion control. Then I used a 'Couch to 5K' app to get back into running. I say "back", but although I did the London Marathon in 1999 that was a company thing I did one time - not really having run before or since. There are lots of running apps out there, but the one I used had a nice week by week tutorial that gets you up to running 5K from just sitting on your sofa (couch) in 9 weeks. My longest recent run is now around 16k (10 miles or so). And my cycling volumes are way up too. Planning a 100 mile ride this weekend. I've done that distance before, but I'm much lighter now. I'm all Garmin and Strava these days doing the whole "quantified self" thing. As of this morning, my BMI is below 25 for the first time since, probably college, and I'm a "healthy weight", having shed 50 kg or 110 lbs since August... The downside is that none of my clothes now fit me. That's been the story of my lockdown. Adam On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 12:03 PM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: > The talk of Rachel Ray cookware made me wonder if others have developed > new skills or hobbies during the pandemic. > > About 6 months ago I put in more effort on how to use our 12 inch cast > iron skillet: Use, care, maintenance, recipes, etc. My experience with > cast iron prior to this was that everything stuck horribly to the surface. > Turns out that with a good coating if seasoning (polymerized oil) the > surface is largely non stick. > > I've also become the Instant Pot guy in the house. So much that I've been > told to back off frequency of stews etc. > > So, what's your New Thing since covid? > Running? > Baking? > Yoga? > Tv? > Meditation? > Car detailing? > > YouTube and Reddit have been great resources. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1BrneMZ%3DutihK_wGOzFpC2P_xr%3D4J3ceyD%3Dkw-ztVvSEVQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1BrneMZ%3DutihK_wGOzFpC2P_xr%3D4J3ceyD%3Dkw-ztVvSEVQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGC50BMn47bJdcNOz5WUfNDU2KQH0-QJAsxrBYM4ar-F0A%40mail.gmail.com.
