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I am using the scale all the time now :) to weigh portions and it is much easier to keep track of the amount of calories I eat. So much for thinking I could determine quantities on sight alone. I could actually see this morning that one banana weighing 239g with the skin on, only weighs 134g once peeled. Just in case you might wonder, I don't eat bananas with their skins: I only thought the difference was striking enough to be reported here :)
I went to the swimming pool at the end of the morning and swam lengths for an hour. The pool had been allocated to women with toddlers before 11:00 AM, to be taught to swim, so the water was littered with foam tubes and boards as well as inflatables, among which a ball. There was one woman with a baby sitting on some kind of inflatable seat, as well as myself in the deep end, the toddlers being mercifully kept in a shallow pool, separated from the main one by a wall and taught to swim there.
Assuming all the props belonged to the swimming pool and as it doesn't take much for my playing instinct to surface, I almost immediately took possession of the ball, pushing it and chasing it in the water as well as throwing it in the air and leaning on it, trying to push it underwater as the woman with the baby on the inflatable looked on. But she didn't say anything to me or made any gesture to get the ball and simply kept on playing with her child. Her dismay was palpable however when she saw me leaning on it and I thought that I was possibly playing too rough with the ball and she was probably worried I might damage it and thus deprive the kids being taught to swim of a much needed tool? Ruining something that didn't actually belong to me being the last thing I wanted, I just kept pushing the ball gently in front of me as I swam and did so for about twenty minutes, which was fun.
As I pushed the ball next to the wall separating the toddlers' section from the main pool, she gently told me she wanted her ball back! Surprised and then very embarrassed, I apologised and told her that I had thought the ball belonged to the swimming pool but she replied with a smile not to worry. The ball was hers but she never said anything while I was playing with it!
After the toddlers, the teacher cleared the props and then got back in the water with a middle-aged lady and taught her to swim in the main pool. I kept on doing lengths but gave them a wide berth: the lady being taught to swim had foam tubes folded around her, which gave a strong indication she was very new to this and taking it very slowly, with the teacher standing near her and accompanying her. I didn't want to spook her or otherwise destabilise her by swimming too close.
Having completed an hour worth of swimming and the pool being due to close soon, I regained the locker room and got changed. I didn't even bother taking off my swimming costume and having a shower, as I live close by and just put my t-shirt and trousers back on top of it. The result looked dripping wet and a bit messy but I didn't want to change in full view of everybody else. There are just two individual changing cabins but they were both being used at the time.
The lady who was being taught to swim earlier, came out of the one of the changing cabins and I was mildly surprised to hear her thanking me for not swimming too close. Not interfering with a learner by splashing about near them is common courtesy in my view but not everybody's it seems... She explained she's never learned to swim and, having witnessed her sister-in-law drowning(!) a few years back, she has been scared stiff of water ever since... She is now getting lessons to get over her phobia and me not invading her space and hence not adding to her fear and apprehension, was very much appreciated.
Diet Calendar Entries for 13 April 2016:
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1903 kcal
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Fat: 65.50g | Prot: 63.27g | Carb: 273.00g.
Breakfast: Coffee with Milk and Sugar, Harvest Morn Fruit & Fibre, Whole Milk, Weetabix Whole Grain Cereal, Kellogg's Corn Flakes. Lunch: Bananas, Lettuce, Dr. Oetker Ristorante Pizza Mozzarella. Dinner: Zigmas Slightly Salted Herring Fillets in Oil. Snacks/Other: Cadbury Triple Choc Roll, Tea with Milk, Gala Apples, Tea with Milk. more...
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3482 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Swimming (fast) - 1 hour, Resting - 15 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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