Weekend Playlist: Health

Weekend Playlist: Health

Here's the weekend playlist created by Cookie and Fozzie looking at X/twitter selections (04/07/2024) with Songs that reference health (but not solely doctors/nurses).
This theme based on the 77th anniversairy of the NHS.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] What seems to be the matter?
1. Depeche Mode - Shake the disease
2. Kylie - Fever
3. Matchbox 20 - Unwell
4. The The - Infected
5. Smiths - Still Ill
6. George Michael - Heal the pain

[Side 2] Making me feel better
7. Thompson Twins - Doctor Doctor
8. Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
9. Dr Feelgood - She does it right
10. Julie Andrews - A spoonful of sugar (Sound of Music)
11. P!nk - Just like a pill
12. Sellers & Loren - Goodness gracious me

[Bonus]
Simple Minds - Alive & kicking
Bee Gees - Stayin' alive
Cure - Numb

Long list

• Carter USM - Is wrestling fixed?
• Dolly Parton - Chemo Hero
• Weird Al Yankovic - Like a surgeon
• Damned - Street of dreams
• Dr Feelgood - She does it right
• Nick Lowe - Dose of you
• Fischer Z - Pretty Paracetamol
• The The - Infected
• Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive
• Red hot chili peppers - Scar tissue
• Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
• Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
• Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
• Smiths - Still III
• Sellers & Loren - Goodness gracious me
• Miami Sound Machine - Dr Beat
• Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
• Thompson Twins - Doctor Doctor
• Soft Play - Cut and run
• Harry Nillson - Coconut
• Radiohead - Fitter happier
• Billy woods x Messiah Music - Pollo Rico
• Joe Gideon - Heart attack girl
• NRG - I need your lovin'
• David Gray - Hospital Food
• Huey Lewis & The News - I want a new drug
• Owl City - Hospital Flowers
• Conor Oberst - Bright eyes
• Jam - Bitterest Pill
• Madness - House of fun
• Prodigy - Take me to the hospital
• Dr Hook & Medicine Show - Sylvia's mother
• Jason Isbell - Elephant
• Robert Palmer - Bad case of loving you
• Cheaptrick - The doctor
• Simple Minds - Alive & kicking
• Julie Andrews - A spoonful of sugar (Sound of Music)
• Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours
• Fray - How to save a life
• Disturbed - A reason to fight
• Kylie - Fever
• Depeche Mode - Shake the disease
• Garbage - I think I'm paranoid
• Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb
• Marvin Gaye - Sexual healing
• George Michael - Heal the pain
• U2 - Electric Co
• Athlete - Wires
• Alice Cooper - Ballad of Dwight Fry
• Metallica - Welcome home (sanitarium)
• Quiet Riot - Bang your head
• Bee Gees - Stayin' alive
• P!nk - Just like a pill
• Ramones - I wanna be sedated
• Beatles - Dr Robert
• Garbage - Medication
• Goldfrapp - A&E
• Cold War Kids - Hospital beds
• Lemonheads - My drug buddy
• Radiohead - My iron lung
• Switchfoot - Mess of me
• Faithless - God is a DJ
• Elton John - Healing Hands
• Ultra Nate - Found a cure

Wooshy Watch Week #5: (Mar 18-24)

Good news is ran 4 times this week including a nice an hour up and down the beach on Hayling Island on Sunday. Bad news is starting to crave meat, particularly chicken as went Nando's, oh dear!

Wooshy Watch Week #4: (Mar 11-17)

Only managed to run once on Monday in the end, mostly due the windy weather all week and it's little surprising that my weight has not moved to much as follows (in Kg): https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8826346691505606744#allposts

Day	Morn	Even
Mo	69.1	69.7
Tu	69.1	69.7
We	69.3	69.8
Th	69.1	70.0
Fr	69.1	69.7
Sa	68.8	69.8
Su	69.0	69.3

Wooshy Watch Week #3: (Mar 4-Mar 10)

My weight appears to have reach a plateau. Been around 69kg. I had a couple of meals out with family visiting and a good mechanic friend but jogged 7 miles three times and exercised as usual, so feel shouldn't have plateaued just yet.

Wooshy Watch Week #2: (Feb 25-Mar 3)

Up and down week last week. Two 6.5 mile runs on Tuesday and Thursday but I had a niggle on the left side of my hip, so have to take it easy. Whilst I am no Andy Murray, I certainly wouldn't want what his hip has suffered the last couple of years.

I managed to get my weight down as low as 67.5kg early last week but have been yo-yo between 68kg and 70kg. Only real bad thing I had last week was KFC.

Wooshy Watch Week #1: (Feb 17-24)

So having just come back from holiday celebrating Chinese New Year and as it is now the Year of the Pig, I ate just like a... Although initially I did get a food poisoning on the flight there (that's another story for another time). I started taking 10k steps per day but I still managed to gain 2kg (72kg).

So during the first week back, I reverted back to the high veg and oat diet that I have been imposing myself to reduce my cholesterol levels. I have to admit that went Wong Kei in Chinatown where I love my won ton soup and the wife cooking experiments ventured into roast duck.

I have also been exercising, which has been mostly running and have run 10k on Wednesday (20th) and Friday (22nd) with another 5 miles on Sunday. The Sunday run was important because I didn't eat much the night before and I didn't eat before the run as wanted to see how far/long I could run effectively on fumes. The answer here is 4 to 5 miles, which something my brain and body will remember if I ever decide to run a marathon again.

Generally I have been running to get at my body fat and it appeared to be working as after the Sunday run, I was down to 67.5Kg. But remember that weight is a little bit of a red herring as I would have lost weight in sweating. In fact apparently, you only lose one pound of body fat running a marathon according to livestrong (burning 1000 calories per hour).

Health Goals

Summary of self goals to improve my health/well-being:

• 10000 steps per day
• 200 sit-ups per day
• Run at least 3 times per week
• 30g of fibre every day
• Limited intake of sugar/bad fat

Milestones from those goals include:

• Weight between 10.5st (66.6kg) to 11st (70kg). BMI: 22-23.
• Lower total cholesterol level to less than 5mmol/L. HDL to less than 3mmol/L

Random Musings - Day #7

The DLR have kept the opening of Woolwich Arsenal DLR station underwraps. But I've been reliably informed by a friend and this transport blog that it will commence running on January 10th with the official opening a couple days later. This section should be another way getting about from the southeast into London and presumably is in place as an alternative means to the area where most of London 2012 Olympics will be held.

Now I am totally down with the flu but I am fighting it with Vicks, my special ginger drink, multivitamins, fisherman's friend and lots of water. Keeping hydrated is probably the key to it all. Anyways spotted this nice little recipe, which actually sounds tasty.

Moonwalking. There's some good tutorials on how to do it properly. One from videojug is here. Another good video tutorial is from
glowsticking.com. There's even one from Borat... well not quite but I LIKE!

Another friend says he is going to do some running in the not to distant future and asked what do I recommend. Decathlon and Sweatshop are probably your best bets. (Have a look at my running blog for more details...

I hate Manchester United. On paper, it wasn't humanly possible to lose to a team, that's only won 3 times in 11 with a couple of those against crap teams in cup competitions. But somehow they pulled off a 1-0 defeat to Derby in the Carling Cup. Not pleased at all. That's Man U, off my list of potential Premiership teams (as a second club) to support... It was too good to be true. I should have realised that Nigel Clough, Derby's new boss was around and they would be up for the game, whereas Fergie, the master tactician that he is realise, it's a game of two halves (there is a second leg to come at Old Trafford) and 8-1 on Derby winning. Yeah let them win. It's a fix. I swear the game was a fix! I hate Manchester United!!

Monkeh (a.k.a. the Digital/PG Tips Monkey). A little flashback to those adverts from the ill-fated itv digital. Have a look at Ryan Giggs in a pinny.