Healthy & Fitness - November 2014

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Re: Healthy & Fitness - November 2014

Postby Nancy » Wed Nov 19, 2014 7:46 pm

I raked the yard today for my exercise.

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Re: Healthy & Fitness - November 2014

Postby FelineFriend » Thu Nov 20, 2014 1:43 am

I did 3 LOL, stripped and changed the bed by myself, did some lifting/hauling, and housework for my exercise today.
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Re: Healthy & Fitness - November 2014

Postby LadyMaverick » Thu Nov 20, 2014 8:59 am

Okay - I'm going to start posting here again every day. It helps me maintain my focus on H&F. I am sliding upwards on the scale. My heart sank when I stepped on the scale this morning. I'm drawing the line in the sand here.

I know what to do.
I just have to grab a handful of "want-to" and get going again.
1. Know what you want.
2. Go after it relentlessly.

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Re: Healthy & Fitness - November 2014

Postby Ramblinrose » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:01 pm

LadyM.... It's easy to get off schedule. I find myself fighting it all the time.

I went to my fit class last night. It's fun to work as a group but at your own level. The trainers... There are three, two guys and a girl, are right there to cheer you on or correcting your form if you aren't doing something right.

Monday's class is on food. The eating program everyone is doing is the carb cycling. I am interested but concerned abt my sensitivities to carbs. The plan is for two days of low carbs and one day of high. This is the program that is used on the extreme weight loss show so I know that it is credible. Plus I e got the best coaches in the industry guiding me so I am willing to put my fears aside and try it.

This whole process has been so interesting and I can't believe that I have been lucky enough to stumble on it.
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Re: Healthy & Fitness - November 2014

Postby Lynlee » Fri Nov 21, 2014 2:49 am

let them know of your experience with carbs RR. There might be some carbs that suit you better than others (they aren't all equal) I've gone on specialised 'expert diets' and set aside what I already knew, and that was an error.
ATM - I back knowing I need be strict with the no added sugar thing that I had eased up on. at times. It might be what keeps sending me unbalanced - just like the old days when that was the effect I'd noted. For me - one excuse leads to lots of excuses.

Away for the w/e. totally - I need there to be a cooking device I can use. I'm bringing my own breakfast. Hoping that the GF/DF lunch and dinner will not be laced with potato or something. I need to stay strong.
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Re: Healthy & Fitness - November 2014

Postby LadyMaverick » Sat Nov 22, 2014 9:27 am

When I do good on moving my body, my eating slides. I was over 13K steps yesterday but made some blunders in eating. Thankfully my weight is headed back downward direction but I am still looking for that "groove" where moving body more and eating healthy portions become normal.

Today is a few hours of attempting to spoil the Grandkids and traveling. I am not prepared for eating out because I don't know where we will be eating. I am going to focus on trying to find something light and healthy (vegetables/fish) no matter what cuisines.
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Re: Healthy & Fitness - November 2014

Postby Twins' Mom » Sat Nov 22, 2014 10:57 am

Yesterday a.m. was a new high weight since I've kept the spreadsheet, which began a little over two months ago. :?

I ate well yesterday until evening - I was on the road and had Subway for lunch, no snacks except unsweeted iced tea (with a little added lemonade) and fruit which I took along. But by the time I stopped for supper I had been in slow or standstill traffic for a very long time, was hungry and tired and a little overwhelmed by kids and noise and wanting to stop at a known place -easy to get into and out of and back on the road....and I ate poorly.

I was low on steps also yesterday from such a long day in the car. After the MCD supper, I stopped off at a large outlet mall 40 min before closing time, and walked for 30 min, getting myselt to 7500 steps at least. The cold air helped wake me up and gave me some energy for the rest of the drive. Got home just before 10 and woke DH up (sleeping in front of the TV) and we both went right to bed.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better [wo]man. Ben Franklin

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Re: Healthy & Fitness - November 2014

Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Sat Nov 22, 2014 12:46 pm

Am I a bad person for being relieved so many of you are in the same unacceptable place I'm in? Weight was up before I left for the trip and I know it hasn't dropped since then.

I am on track for averaging 10K steps over the full month (at this point I'm 8K over that average so could be 1K short each day for the rest of the month and still make the average.)

I'm starting to add time on the treadmill, a bit here or there, if I find myself just sitting staring at the computer. If I'm doing paperwork, I can't work and walk because there's no place to spread out my papers, but even something like practicing the anthems can be done while I walk slowly. So I'm popping on and off the treadmill more often.

Food tracking is out the window right now. But I have an easier week coming up than the rest of you.

My right arm is sore, either muscle or tendon. It is worse in the morning, so pulling the covers off me hurts. Yesterday I broke a small dish. My arm was extended to put it in the china cabinet and the extension plus grip hurt enough that my hand let go. It only fell 18" which wouldn't have broken it on the old floor (vinyl) but on the tile it exploded everywhere. Sigh. I hate tile floors.

I still have to get the results from the tick testing. This sore arm is new so I need to figure out if it is a Lyme disease issue or something else. I haven't changed anything else in my routines except swimming. Obviously, I use the arm when swimming so it might be due to that, if it isn't Lyme Arthritis.

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Re: Healthy & Fitness - November 2014

Postby Ramblinrose » Sat Nov 22, 2014 10:14 pm

Kathryn ... Your sore arm could be do to something as simple as you slept on it wrong without knowing it. I get "kinks" in my elbows that I noice when I am unloading my groceries out of the car. It's the twisty motion of the full grocery bag that causes it.

I am now focusing more on what causes me to eat "stuff" that I known I shouldn't and the dialog that goes on in my head when I do. I can mentally come up with so many excuses to eat incorrectly. Mostly it comes down to the ... I deserve this or it won't matter this time or I'm tired and this is easy kind of talk.

By this stage of the game I certainly know what I should or shouldn't eat. Part of it is the little kid in me who heard most of her life that she "shouldn't eat this" from her father. It's my being defiant or that "you can't tell me what to do" attitude that I use to tell myself it doesn't matter what I put in my life when I know it does.

When I can come to terms with "what's eating me" rather than what I am eating then perhaps this won't be such an issue. And I do know that one of the reasons I have been able to loose this weight is I STOPPED making excuses and lying to myself.

The way to lose weight is really simple... I must move more than the 1200 calories that I eat. I can put in 10k steps but if I'm eating more than that energy will burn the the weight will stay. If I change the way I think and act then that will be reflexed on my scale.

I am choosing not to use t-day as an excuse to eat...I am addicted to sugar period. I can not eat sugar, not now not ever... It is a fact of my life. I can choose to put it in my mouth or not. I think of Nancy and how mentally strong she must be.... I admire and respect the way she handles her health issues, and that inspires me too.
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Re: Healthy & Fitness - November 2014

Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Sat Nov 22, 2014 11:11 pm

RR: the arms been sore for weeks now. It is worse in the morning but I don't think I'm sleep differently. I do note I can't sleep up against dh as I usually do because lying on it makes it worse (and he's on that side of me.)


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