This getting older lark is no fun

A slow start this morning.  I didn't get up until just after 6 am - very late for me, the first time I've got up that late for weeks and weeks.  I woke up several times during the night as usual, had to go to the loo twice (knew I shouldn't have had that warm milk before bed!  So much for it helping me to sleep....just makes me need a wee).  However, I did manage to go back to sleep fairly soon after each time of waking, I was determined to actually stay in bed for once.  Trouble is, I feel all fuzzy headed and idle now, no inclination to do anything.  Well, that won't help anything, I'll get up off my fat behind and find something to do after this.  

I'm in agony with backache and hip ache at the moment, my right hip is becoming more and more of a problem, and the backache seems to have become a permanent fixture.  I think it's because my hip is hurting so much and affecting the way I stand or walk, which in turn is affecting my posture and making my back hurt all the time.  I know I should go to the GP about my hip really, but am sure she'll just say 'well lose some weight you fat cow!'.  Ok, I know she won't put it quite like that, she's far too polite, but she'll mention my weight for sure and it will be what she means.  And she'll be right, of course.  

The trouble is, it's a vicious circle.  For a start, I'm finding the older I get, the harder it is to lose weight, my body seems to want to hang on to every pound of fat.  Being more mobile, exercising or even walking more would surely help to lose a bit of weight and loosen up my stiff joints.  But everything hurts so much, I don't feel inclined to do any exercise, and when I do walk anywhere, like out with the dog, my hip and back hurt so much I just want to collapse in a chair when I get home.  And then I don't want to do anything the next day.  And so it's a neverending circle problem.  We have an exercise bike on the landing, right outside our bedroom door, even that I hardly ever use.  I tried it over the weekend - had to stop after just a couple of minutes, it really exacerbated the pain in my hip.

I suppose I could try warming up my hip first with my 'hottie' (hot water bottle shaped soft corded material filled with some kind of pellets, you heat it up in the microwave) - I'd have to find it first, I just seem to forget about it.  That might help.  

I do need to do something, and quick - if/when husband has to have this foot operation and is out of action for 8 weeks, I'll have to do all the dog walking then, as I mentioned before.  So that's an incentive!

Edit:-

Blast!  I wrote this post on the wrong blog....should be on my other blog, not this food one!  Duh - said I was fuzzy headed this morning didn't I?!

I've reposted this here in the proper place and deleted it off my food blog....sorry about that.

And PS - I now realise I can't transfer the comments I've received from Pam and Briony on this post on the wrong blog - sorry about that, ladies.  Perhaps I should just go back to bed and start again!