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Well, this year is getting off to a good start for me. I gained NO weight over the holidays, and in fact, I think I dropped a pound. Cool beans!
I did some nibbling, but no real over indulging, especially on the sweets this year.
Now it's just keeping it up, and getting back to a regular regiment of the gym, and eating right.
I went back to my weight class last Saturday morning, ... haven't been for over a month, and got all kinds of ribbing from the regulars in that class. My muscles are still talking to me today. But it's all GOOD aches. I went back to my Zumba class last night and it was fun. Good to be back in the game.
How's it going out there for everyone? Anything to report?
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I started my first walk today, but just a mini one. I need to put work first for awhile here...
There was fresh snow on the ground and big clunky boots didn't really make the experience a rejuvenating one, but it was snowing and so pretty. This was Jenna's first walk in 2 weeks (same as me.. eeep) so she was elated! I'm glad I have her with me for extra motivation!
My chocolates are nearly gone now (that was alot of work to get rid of them!!!) so hopefully I can now concentrate on stocking healthier stuff too.
I will say, it was really nice not to even 'think' exercise and proper eating for a 2 week stretch. Sometimes you just need a break from always 'doing the right thing'.
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Donna, several years ago I made the conscious choice to put my health first ... above all else. Basically, I figured that feeling good just makes life in general better.
The idea for me was to make it so I wasn't "thinking exercise" or about proper eating, but to have it be more of a natural state of mind. I wanted to keep the exercise portion of it simple, (which is why I invested in my treadmill) and have it become as much of a staple in my daily life as brushing my teeth, showering or putting on my makeup. Which accumulatively takes about 30 minutes too, so another 20 to 30 minutes for some exercise wasn't going to put that much of a dent in my day. 30 minutes on the treadmill equals one sitcom. How ez is that? haha
I still bike ride, which for me is not only exercise, but also a social outlet. And the kayak serves as that sort of activity for me also.
These were all choices I've made to be able to incorporate fitness naturally, making it so keeping me moving would also be fun for me.
Not trying to preach, just wanting to encourage a different mindset, and to give some insight as to how I have approached it.
Believe me, I popped many chocolates in my mouth this holiday season, and even managed to polish off two bottles of Bailey's Irish Cream ... by myself! (my weakness, and someone always gives me at least one bottle for a gift because they know I like it so much) Bailey's in coffee.... ahhhh, too good.
Since I kept up with my (almost) daily exercise during the holidays tho, I guess it counteracted my straying off course in the food dept. haha
My bonus this year was not going into the new year bloated and puffy. For me, that was worth some selective restraints.
~nettie
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hanging my head in shame took 2 weeks off exercising- ate 2 volkswagons and small island since the first of December gained 5 lbs back to the drawing board- or shall I say- back to reality
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I agree nettie, this stuff has to blend in to the rest of your life or you'll always fight it uphill. I'm slowly getting there but it takes planning for me still. When I walk cody to school, rather than come straight home, I go the long way around the block as a means of getting home. It does work! But I also know, I need a longer stretch of time in order to up the ante. That's the part I struggle with time wise.
I'm always thinking of how I can incorporate moving more AND keeping Cody happy as he's joined to my hip. Nothing works long term with me unless he's part of the equation somehow. That creates another issue right there. A present AND somewhat resistant child puts a strain on what others would simply consider natural, as in walking out the door to go to their class or walk or what have you. And if I do it during his school time, I miss work.
So it's time to put Cody in swimming or basketball or something so I can go work out at the same time once again. Doable totally, but tricky to find the right class for him so I'm not cutting off my work too short and it works with our schedule around daycare etc.
Yarrow just opened a fitness place, but it's still not the answer even though it's 1 minute down the road. I still need to incorporate something good for Cody at the same time.
I also have to cut back on the machines. Since stopping them in December, my back has much improved. I've been pushing myself landing in physio 4x a month. I'm attempting only once a month IF need be. Since getting off the machines, I haven't been back in. I'm obviously doing something wrong for my condition.
I'll continue to search for things that work as I have to keep moving. Thanks for the inspiration! You're very good at this stuff.
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I'm down to 236lbs now, just a couple pounds less than I was right before Christmas but considering what I ate over the Holiday while visiting my sister, it's still not too bad.
Other than changing my fitness program around again, I don't have much news. Still doing two workouts per day, still keeping up with overall healthy nutrition (90% healthy, the other 10% I manage with the extra workout). It's all a big broken record/lifestyle.
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My respect and admiration to any human who through their lifetime embrace a sinscere effort to maintain a prescribed weight ratio for the continuation and betterment of their performance to theirs and to their communty as physically fit individual. I reaspond not just as an apreciative auntropernour of the female figure, but a crude Hungarian in quest for further conversation with those who understand or promote feminen values. Everyone knows its cheaper to diet and exersize than to buy new bigger size clothes.
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well 4 outpaient surguries in 2007, last one being dec 27th. feb, aug & dec all easy ones. june was a bad one, and had a cath for almost 2 weeks....so eat, sleep watch tv....all you can do. so total sedentary for that time plus meds, makes you tired and short of energy. after extraction, you got a week or so of adjusting to normal then it was back into surgury in aug. after that one, more readjusting.....just gettin to feel normal and had another one dec 27th. good part is NO CANCER...as long as they remove tumors quickly, they dont get a chance to grow into bad ones. in the interm i put on a few pounds, got my BP UP, sugar is elevated...so now its DROP POUNDS so these 2 will normalize. workin on it.
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Keep it up Ol Paint- good to hear you are coming around.
Donna- when my girls were small all three of us joined Karate. We took it together for 7 years. It was something we could all do together and keep fit. They did lose interest after that, but both got their blue belts, which I am happy for now as they are heading off to college/university soon. And it started me on my martial arts journey. Perhaps Martial Arts isn't your gig but is there a place where the two of you could work out together in your area? Or ask at the local Y if there is a mixed adult/children Basketball or maybe tennis or badminton or something???
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HAHAHAHA No Bart- I just felt like I ate a couple! Sometimes my speech gets a little graphic. I gotta stop doing that. Especially around here where all these creative minds hang out.
-------------------- Deri Russell Wildwood Signs Hanover, Ontario
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