Friday, September 28, 2007

Recording diet

Hi, everyone!

Thank you again, Azalea.
In a sense, planning times might be happier than a traveling itself.
I’m enjoying throughout my guidebook of Gifu.

By the way, my family has just started ‘Recording diet,’ which is proposed by Toshio Okada, an author of ‘Itsumademo debuto omounayo.’ (What a strange title!) He is a popular writer of otaku, and miraculously lost 50 kilograms. (117→67) I was really interested in his success story, which depicted simple, but exciting method to lose one’s weight. At first, all we have to do is to record steadily our weights and daily meals everyday. Then we will also record our calorie intake. We don’t have to save our meal at this stage. He said, ’A diet is an enjoyable brain work, and the best investment for low risk, high return.’ It’s a charming phrase for me.

So, see you tomorrow, friends!

3 comments:

Plum said...

Hi, everyone!!!
How are you? Are you having a good time?

I’ve just come back from Osaka, where I got so much to do. I did what I had to do, one by one, and my sister and I had dinner together at her place in Osaka-sayama. She was much better than I anticipated, and, although she said that she was not feeling well, she cooked sliced burdock root and rice seasoned with salt and stock, and made vermicelli soup, both of which tasted so good. Nonetheless she seemed to be a little depressed due to her recent sickness such as dizziness and nausea, even though normally she is an optimist and takes a fantastically positive attitude about her life and is far from depression. Anyway this morning she went to her doctors for ultrasound scanning and MR scanning, respectively, and the results were not so bad as we had conjectured. The medicine she got from the doctors seemed to be working, and also she was told that the plaque she got somewhere in her throat was discovered to be getting smaller, and she got relieved to hear that and so did I. That was great!!!

My sister is very different from me in nature, and she differs from me as much as my daughter does from me. My daughter is much more like her father, and my son is somewhere in-between. Intriguing, isn’t it?

I have no energy left tonight, and so I will go to bed now and try to get some good rest. Goodnight, my precious friends. Sleep well…

P.S. I saw a lot of cosmos blooming sweetly in rural areas from my train window. How beautiful they were!!!

Anonymous said...

Hi, everyone.

Burma is terrible. No one allows the inhumane actions taken by the military government. As Pol Pot administration of former Cambodia, a certain nation cooperates with villains again. Such an evil country!! I wonder at it that the brute country has the permanent seat in the UN Securiy Council.
The nation has rampaged in Tibet.
In the nation, there are no words, like human rights and justice.
There are words including pirate, corruption, pragmatism and autocracy. Do you know the country? In Europe, women statemen;German chancellor and French opposion party's leader have a good sense and are sensible.
Male politicians all over the world are indecisive. They walk with fetters named money.

So seeing is your best medicine.

Plum said...

Hi, everyone!!!
Are you having fun on Saturday afternoon?
It is September 29, 2007. I don’ t know when it started to rain, but it is still raining. It is totally an autumn rainy day, isn’t it? The rain is falling down so softly and gently, and I like it. How about you? Autumn rain is always enchantingly sentimental to me, and that’s the reason I like it.

I spent most of the time reading and making corrections and changes to one of my student’s summer diary written in English. She is a very young mother of two small children who moved to Nagoya just recently, and wrote how lonely she was without not many friends here in Nagoya and how terribly she missed her hometown friends with whom she grew up.

I quite understand how she feels without any close friends in a big city like Nagoya. I felt the same way when I moved to Nagoya, and extremely regretted that I married a man from this city, which was just a lonely mega-city to me. ( I was quite young when I moved here, you know.)

My arthritis seems to be getting better, which is great to me!!! I reduced the dosage of the medicine I am taking now, which is Voltaren I bought in Sydney. Actually it is a very strong medicine, and we always should take it with digestive, otherwise it is highly likely that we develop a stomach ulcer. My sister, who was a nurse, suggested that I should take suppositories of this medicine, if I like. But I do not like suppositories. Who in the world likes suppositories, I just wonder.

I also apply Voltaren gel to my hand, which has no smell and is not so sticky. It is quite effective and handy to me, and so it’s good. I now use the dishwasher which I didn’t use for a long time, since it is better not to use my hands for washing dishes. I had a “washlet” installed, and got an electrical toothbrush, which I found fairly handy. I may hire someone to do vacuum cleaning in the house, but I’m not sure. I used to have a domestic worker in once a week while I was not in Japan.

I could not get permission from my hand doctor to pull the weeds in my garden, and so for the time being I won’t do any gardening, which I am so sad about.

Anyway I have been OK today, and I just hope I will be OK tomorrow. I hope all of you are happy and enjoying yourselves.

Bye, bye, my precious friends. I will talk to you again tomorrow.