We’ve just got back from a weeks holiday in Exmouth.
We’re really lucky to have some friends who live there and let us use their house while they’re away.
As always when we’re away we fit lots of stuff in to the week, including a trip over to Weymouth. We booked the Sealife centre and assumed that we’d be there for a couple of hours,
then have a look around the seaside town and arcades.
Our record for the Birmingham Sealife is 30 minutes because K, “had seen it” 😂.
We were there from open till close, then have a full 5 hours. The talks were great, we did a behind the scenes tour and the park area was good.
K & A were really engaged with the keepers and really interested in what they said and the tricks the otters and seals could
do.
We went to the seal talk / feeding twice.
During which the keeper explained what fish they were using and that the seals are at their peak winter chub, this helps them maintain temperature and matches what would happen in the wild.
They were about to start changing their food to start the slim down to their summer weight.
I realised that a seal must be my spirit animal, as I’ve got a
bit of winter chub, and in the car on the way back we discussed trimming down a bit as the excesses of the holiday were showing on my belt.
As you might guess, for me that simply means focusing on the basics consistently.
The priorities of the basics changed a little because of my own skin diagnosis and close friends losing parents.
- Listen to your body and if your partner / friends suggest you get a second opinion - get it,
don’t wait for months, particularly 18 of them.
- Enjoy the process - we’re getting too old to exercise in a way we don’t enjoy and eat a meal plan that leaves us feeling unfulfilled. It might take a little longer to achieve achieve your goals but you will be able to maintain them for life if your plan becomes the way you do things.
I’ll write about the usual stuff over the next few messages.
Darren “cuddly seal”
Checkley