Sue Heintze’s Blog

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning….   Uphill… barefoot…   BOTH ways  Yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay  a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it  and how easy they’ve got it!   

But now that… I’m over the ripe old age of thirty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!   

And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don’t know how good you’ve got it! 

I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!   

There was no email!!  We had to actually write somebody a letter – with a pen!   

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents! 

Child Protective Services  didn’t care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe! 

There were no MP3′ s or  Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!   

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We’d play our favourite tape and “eject” it when finished and the tape would come undone. Cause – that’s how we rolled, dig?  

We didn’t have fancy crap like  Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that’s it! 

And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID either!  
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn’t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!  

We didn’t have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We   had the  Atari 2600! With games like ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘Asteroids’. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen… forever! 
And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!  

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! NO REMOTES!!!

There was no  Cartoon Network  either! You could only get cartoons on  Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I’m saying!?! We had to wait  ALL WEEK  for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards! 

And we didn’t have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove! Imagine that!   

That’s exactly what I’m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy You’re spoiled. You guys wouldn’t have lasted five minutes back in 1980   or before! 

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

Thanks for the laugh Hils!

I’ve been a bit too brain dead and busy to be sitting down at the end of the day to blog.  So I haven’t.  And then I took a few days off to take a trip to Victor Harbor, in the hope I would spend a few lazy days by the beach, in the sun.  No such luck.  As soon as we headed in, the clouds descended.  It rained, blew and was bloody cold.  I was pissy.  Add to that I had ‘women’s problems’ for 2 days, forgot my thyroid medication, and so was feeling very cotton wool headed, sleepy and grumpy.  Today, our last day, I felt a little better.  Even played tennis.  Because it has been cold and wet have done nothing else except visit wineries, a cheese factory, eat (mostly crap) and drink.  Bbecause I wasn’t prepared enough and we don’t have a kitchen (I have some cottage cheese, yoghurt and berries in the fridge but that’s about the extent of it) I haven’t even had any veggies apart from a salad the first night.  I haven’t felt like training, walking, or doing any work (which I hadn’t planned to do, apart from this big project I’m working on – but I just couldn’t concentrate).

And my final bitch of the night – good coffee is hard to come by here.   So, my holiday by the beach sucked.  Definitely going up north next time.  Every time (except 1) I have been here in mid summer it’s been cold, wet and windy.  WTF?

And so.  Since I have been so lazy I am feeling rather crappy.  However, I have at least got my training and diet planned for comp.  I’m not pregnant, again, so my focus shifts to something else.  Bit over that. 

I am having Mike Robertson write my programs.  He offered a great special, half price online training to raise money for the Haiti earthquake victims.  I snapped it up but will have to wait a few weeks for my program, but that’s ok.  I went to a seminar of Mike’s this time last year in Melbourne.  He is an expert in knees, and various other correctional exercise stuff so I look forward to learning more about injury prehab and rehab while working toward my comp.  Let’s see if my hammy improves.  Am looking forward to something new, my training has been stale and a bit lacklustre.

Decided to do my own diet and cardio again.  A little different on the diet front than last time, but something I have done before which worked well.

Right, well off to bed I go I think.

It’s interesting, in about a week or so, I would have been having a baby had it stuck.  Instead I will be in Melbourne doing a photo shoot for a national promotion with a huge media company.  Maybe there is a reason it happened that way…who knows.

Before I forget, if anyone is wondering, our sugar free syrup is in transit from US to Oz and was supposed to be here last week.  I’m following it up.

PS Sorry Jan that I didn’t catch up, I would not have been the best company!

New Year Weight Loss

If you are like most people the number one goal on your list of new years resolutions is to lose some weight.

Wouldn’t it be fabulous if this was to be the year when you actually lost a few kilos and reached your ideal weight, and what’s more maintained your ideal weight for the entire year and beyond!

You should understand that it is of no use whatsoever to starve yourself on some kind of crash diet which may see you lose weight but also see you putting it all back on (and then some) in a very short space of time. To add insult to injury, your metabolism will also have been damaged and you will find it extremely difficult to lose weight from hereon in.

You need to find a regime that is both realistic and that you are happy with. In my opinion this should always involve some kind of exercise which will not only help you lose weight and look great, but make you far healthier and happier.

It doesn’t have to be anything extreme, just something that causes you to breathe a little faster or break into a sweat. It’s important you add resistance training into the mix though, don’t leave out this really importand aspect of training. This is what will help you shape your body. The best thing about it is that once you start you will find that the exercising itself will become addictive and something that you actually look forward to.

Next, you need to start eating sensibly. There is no need to go on some far fetched diet, if you eat balanced meals with heatlhy snacks in between you will see that this will have a massive effect on your weight loss goals.

When it comes to making new years resolutions to lose weight the main problem is that people set their weight loss goals too high, and when they have only lost a couple of pounds within the first week or so they usually just give up. What they fail to realise is that a couple of pounds of fat loss is great and if they are consistent and patient, then their weight loss goals will soon be met. So don’t make over enthusiastic goals to start off with and you won’t be disappointed. Be realistic.

I find that another problem is that the thought of losing weight is associated with going without and feeling miserable so it’s really important to find foods/meals that are healthy and you enjoy.

The thing is, it doesn’t have to be like that and if planned properly you can find it to be an enjoyable experience and the feeling that you will get when you reach your ideal weight will be priceless. What’s more, when you have achieved this you will feel like you can go on to achieve absolutely anything.

Christmas is almost here! As if you didn’t know

Usually it’s the case that by a couple of days after Christmas (mabye even before it arrives!) you are completely sick of the rich food that is eaten over this period and your body is craving for some healthy goodness. As you may have spent quite a lot of money on food for Christmas it is always a good idea to look at healthy snacks that you are able to make out of the Christmas leftovers.

Gather up all of the fruit that has accumulated over Christmas and make a big fruit smoothie which is absolutely bursting with goodness – it makes a lovely, healthy breakfast for the whole family. Of course you should add some vanilla protein powder so you aren’t ingesting a big glass of simple sugars alone. While fruit is good for you, remember it is sugar, and should be eaten with protein to avoid that big sugar spike.

When looking at healthy Christmas leftover snacks you can’t leave out the turkey. Turkey is a very healthy, lean meat, it is only when you add all of the trimmings that the calories start to pile up. Simple cold meat and salad, turkey and cranberry sauce sandwiches (minus the butter), curries, you name it, turkey is a very versatile and beautiful tasting meat.

How about a bowl of homemade soup which can basically comprise of any leftovers that you have accumulated. Make sure that you include lots of vegetables and it doesn’t just have to include turkey, put anything and everything in there and leave it to simmer on the stove, the wonderful smell will have everyone eager to get stuck in and it makes an ideal lunch time dish.

Ham is another versatile meat that can be used in a variety of healthy ways. A lovely crispy salad with some cold ham is a quick and healthy choice. Be daring with your salad, all of the normal stuff such as lettuce, cucumber etc but you can include fruit and nuts as well.

You can cook up a little pasta and mix lots of chopped up turkey or ham into it, grate up a little some parmesan cheese and serve with some of the above salad – eaten with a small slice of warm crusty bread (if you must!). Absolutely delicious and yet another cheap healthy snack which can be made up from the Christmas leftovers that would most probably otherwise go to waste.

There are really no limits to what you can come up with, just use your imagination!