I survived! (barely)
Apparently in English the word is doms (delayed onset muscle soreness), but I prefer the German term Muskelkater, literally muscle hangover.
I didn't exactly try to keep up with the rest of the group, which would be foolish (them: well trained thin people in their 20s or 30s, me: 46 year old couch potato with a BMI of 36) but I did try to keep up with the lesson, which just happened to be a heavy duty gym circuit training session...
Still, while it had me gasping for air, it wasn't that bad, and the people were really nice and appreciative of my efforts.
I contemplated if it would be realistic to expect I'd be able to motivate myself to endure this torture every week, but then much wiser and more sensible friends told me I should build up my exercise more gradually and with a more personalised plan, especially considering my diabetes and back issues.
Which had the total opposite effect of me going all obstinate mode and fighting sensible advice, so now I'm the proud owner of a once a week gym membership!
While they may be right in that this is not the best choice for exercise, it beats no exercise by a long way and it doesn't matter where you find your motivation as long as you find it. So thanks a lot for giving me the unintentional extra push, my friends!
I even found out that our muncipality (if that's the right word) partially funds this kind of thing and I applied with my favourite person working there, one who's willing to look at what's best and not rigidly following the rules to the letter and got approval first thing this morning.
Which will be another very strong motivation: it's someone elses money so I'd better not let it go to waste. Like I said, motivation is motivation, no matter where it came from!
That was a lot more of off topic information than intended, so here goes with yesterdays meal experiment involving
@Stardew 's bread!
I used a larger vessel to create something like a thick slice of bread and had it with cheese and a turkey egg that should have been a little softer.
Very satisfying!
Had it with 2 leaves of mystery 'snack lettuce' filled with cream cheese, smoked ham, a slice of cheese and kimchi. Didn't eat the third leaf so I'll add that one to my meal today.
Today I'll take the experiment even further. I've made two even thinner slices of the bread and I'll see if they'll make a 'tosti' (two slices of bread with cheese and ham toasted in a thing that presses the whole thing together).
I gave away my tosti making thing because of diabetes though, so I went to see if neighbour-in-the-garden has one. So now I'll be trying the tosti thing not with an electrical appliance but with a brand new but medieval looking thing you're supposed to put directly on the gas flame.
I'll update you on the outcome of that!
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