No Sunlight
If this blog has any devoted followers, they will have noticed that I have stopped monitoring my weight on a week by week basis. I have elected to leave Slimming World, for the time being at least. I have weighed myself at home and assuming that the scales there are vaguely similar to the ones I own (perhaps presumptuously), I am roughly the same weight now as I was three weeks ago.
Anyway, in a vain attempt to offset my issues with gluttony, I have returned to the gym, with today being my third visit this week. I invariably do 3 miles worth of brisk walking/jogging, 5000m on the rowing machine and some cool down cycling. Generally there's little else to report. The bank of TV screens above the treadmills have recently been tuned to Sky News. The debate about the extent to which Sky News is becoming some sort of British equivalent to Fox News will have to wait for another time.
What has struck me on my visits this week is the high volume of really shit news at the moment. I know as an observation this seems somewhat trite and that terrible things happen around the world on an all too frequent basis. But I've recently began to consider the scrolling captions on Sky News as some sort of scrolling ticker of doom. Irish students falling to their deaths from a faulty balcony. A 3 week old baby being mauled to death in Sunderland. A man killing three and injurying dozens more by driving a van into a crowd in Graz. A 21 year old committing a racially motivated act of terrorism killing 9 innocent people in a church. There are days where I find these grim realities particularly difficult to confront. They don't do a great deal for what my therapist would have described as "periods of low mood" anyway. I may return to that subject in tomorrow's blog.
Anyway, in a vain attempt to offset my issues with gluttony, I have returned to the gym, with today being my third visit this week. I invariably do 3 miles worth of brisk walking/jogging, 5000m on the rowing machine and some cool down cycling. Generally there's little else to report. The bank of TV screens above the treadmills have recently been tuned to Sky News. The debate about the extent to which Sky News is becoming some sort of British equivalent to Fox News will have to wait for another time.
What has struck me on my visits this week is the high volume of really shit news at the moment. I know as an observation this seems somewhat trite and that terrible things happen around the world on an all too frequent basis. But I've recently began to consider the scrolling captions on Sky News as some sort of scrolling ticker of doom. Irish students falling to their deaths from a faulty balcony. A 3 week old baby being mauled to death in Sunderland. A man killing three and injurying dozens more by driving a van into a crowd in Graz. A 21 year old committing a racially motivated act of terrorism killing 9 innocent people in a church. There are days where I find these grim realities particularly difficult to confront. They don't do a great deal for what my therapist would have described as "periods of low mood" anyway. I may return to that subject in tomorrow's blog.
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