BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 01:09 PM

Tam - Is there nothing they can do to relieve that pain or manage it? Constant pain just wears away and sucks all the joy out of life.

Seamus and I walked for about a half hour last night. Not sure what Aunt Tami did to the boy but he is still exhausted. Didn't even want to take his last run for a nighttime treat.

Hope to get him to the beach over the weekend. Meantime, writing down everything and counting my points.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 07:37 PM

I've walked a bit, today. Took a day off from Coach Morgan.:-) I saw my primary doc, today. Love her. I've lost 8 lbs since seeing her in mid-December. She is very happy with how I am doing overall. Since last night, I have had such a good feeling of happiness; I feel as though I am reaching a personal "Harmonic Convergence." I also had a biofeedback session which focused on breathing and was great!

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: maire-aine
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 06:42 PM

The weather here (Michigan) has been beautiful. Lots of sun and relatively mild temp. I've been driving with the window open, and even walked around our pedestrian-friendly downtown for a while this afternoon. Had broiled fish for supper.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 01:55 PM

What about volunteering at nursing homes or elderly day care providing music and movement activities a couple times a week?

I didn't go out today. I cannot believe how bad my legs hurt and how stiff. I couldn't use stairs at work today. Used the lift today, because I was afraid I would fall. Bendy bits won't bend.

Did do some filing downstairs.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 09:40 AM

It's great to see how you are all doing. I am only now waking up to the fact that leaving my full-time music teaching job 1 1/2 years ago, while it's had an enormously positive effect on most of my life, it has had a negative effect on my overall fitness- I just don't move as much as I used to! So I'm trying to add more activity to my everyday life, and to stretch at night like I used to- to counteract the aching joints, stiffness, and lack of mobility that is completely new to me. Already I feel better for 2 days of that pattern- wish me luck!

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 02:35 AM

Oh boy... Kat Can I come over and play at yours? We can do dragon riders, fighting threadfall (thread is burning and burrowing live meteorite things that destroy all plant life on Pern. Dragon riders fight it in the sky (dragon fire destroys it) before it hits land.

Or we can ride cantarback, herding the rudnocerii on the Anteswertian Plain. And we can harvest wild yatzoming fruits from the deadly thorns of the yatzoming tree. And we can make jeeklurp.

Sorry.... fell into my children's story. I miss playing with little uns.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 02:26 AM

Made it to work yesterday, may even do the same today.. that's the best I can say....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 04:37 PM

Today, I got off my bum and actually *played* with Morgan, all over the house and outside. I told him I wanted him to use his imagination to make his OWN worlds rather than emulating the violent video games he knows. Then I told him how I made up worlds of cowboys, spies, etc.when I was a kid. So we played cowboys after robbers, then robbers being chased on our horses. Then, he really got into playing spy which I used to do all of the time. We've done a good hour of my moving right along with him and talking a running scenario back and forth with him. THIS is the best exercise, I love it!!

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 02:41 PM

WW uses a digital scale and I hate you gnu.
Said with love,
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: gnu
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 02:40 PM

You got a scale that measures to decimal places? Do haircuts count?

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 02:14 PM

WW weigh in. I lost 1/2 pound. Whoo Whoo. Better than gaining I guess.
This week I have to track my points.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 01:46 PM

I didn't go into town. Wind was easterly and bitter cold. But I did take the post duties from colleague today so was up and down stairs and end to end of the building (it is a big building) twice today. Then twice into GP which means I had to climb stairs to flat twice. My legs didn't like. They are complaining now.

Doctor appointment did not go well. She asked if I am feeling low, I said yes because I am tired and I want to sleep. I want pain free, palipitation free, nightmare free sleep with no medical after effects the next day.   She is taking me off amytriptyline and putting me on prothiaden 25. She wanted to put me on prozac. Most common reported side effects of prozac are headache, nausea and insomnia. Hello! Am I not in enough pain? Am I not here because I am not sleeping? She just wanted to get me out of there. I was the last appointment of the day and she was running 20 minutes late. I hate feeling brushed aside.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 10:22 AM

Good work, kat. All that ball chasing.
Yardwork, MAG? A little too soon for that in Maine. But I will be walking Seamus tonight.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: MAG
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 10:19 AM

Great going, everybody!

I'm doing at least 1 hour yardwork everyday, plus going through mystuff for house cleanup -

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 09:13 AM

LOL, that he does.

Today was weigh-in day for me. I've lost another 1.6 pounds!

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 02:31 AM

bummer... all cloudy and frosty outdoors. legs in screaming pain, pro'lly won't go out at lunch.

sigh!


WoW for Kat's grandson. Kid keeps his eye on the ball.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 02:04 AM

Good for you, VTam!

Sins, I know! Every once in awhile he hits the window. It's double pane and double tough, as my dad would say, but the kid packs a wallop with that bat. I think he was three when he hit the baseball across the road to the neighbour's yard, plus that same year he hit it clear over the top of our house! I've got to take him to the batting cages sometime.

So, I pitched, caught, and batted today. It felt really good to go outside and not totally freeze.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 03:01 PM

Woot! I walked into town from the workplace again today and went a bit further. Hips seized up again, but I was determined and walked through it, till they loosened up.

We are supposed to have good weather all this week, so will continue these outings at lunch time.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 02:27 PM

Week 2 weigh in tomorrow and I have not folowed the plan closely. We'll see. This week I start with 10 minutes walking three times a day and build.

Very impressive kat. Watch out for those wild pitches though.
CLUNK!

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 11:25 AM

Thanks, VTam. Not quite soccer, but exercise yesterday consisted of playing ball with Morgan AND hitting a baseball every time he got the pitch over the plate to me. I still have it!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 04:35 AM

Mouldy - sounds like you hit a plateau... I know the feeling.

Don't beat yourself up, you didn't put any ON, that is the important thing. Small steps add up to a long journey, so don't get frustrated and go for the quick fix/easy crash.

When you get back into the habit as it were, you'll do fine. I keep telling myself that.. soon I'll start believing it - once my hips stop aching!

For some strange reason I had multiple leg cramps (ranging from calf to upper thigh/ass) on Sunday... can't think why. Glass of water and a salty nibble fixed it.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 03:32 PM

Good luck Andrea

Kat - that was a wish for your future fitness.

I walked into town today, in spite of the fact that my hips seized up by the time walked about 20 feet from the front door (I had walked from upstairs all the way from the back end so add another 70 feet).

Anyway, I pushed myself into Meadows shopping centre, whereupon I purchased 3 picture frames for some water colours I bought last spring that have been cluttering shelves instead of walls. That will be remedied this weekend. And I bought 4 pullovers of different colours that were on sale.

I only had tiny sliver of celebratory cake at work. We have been in the purpose built building for 10 years, so cakes abounded.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: mouldy
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 03:08 PM

Just got back from the weigh-in. Stayed the same, which was better than I anticipated, given the amount of WW bars and biscuits I have devoured!

Going to be really strict with myself this week. 182lbs start - 166.5lbs at the moment, after 16 months. It's dragged on long enough now. Time for an effort again to get a good chunk shifted. I want another 14lbs off!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 10:27 AM

Thanks Tam, but not quite soccer ready and no way I can keep up with that red-headed ball of energy, BUT he's very accommodating!*bg* I'll be happy when I can waltz him across the room sans O2 line and with plenty of breath and non-sore feet.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 02:34 AM

Kat - I love that grandson/coach image. Imagining you holding your own against him in a backyard game of soccer, now. I will try to keep that energy cycling around for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 09:52 PM

Congrats for leaving that terrible job. I am sure it will add years to your well-being! May you find prosperity in all ways. I had noticed you hadn't been posting and wondered how you were. I am so excited and I wanted you to be here when I posted this:

I have finally dropped a whole size and can now, finally, wear the slacks you sent me!! It's been awhile, but it feels so good and they fit really well. Not too snug, not too loose (yet!) and just the right length. Thanks, again, so much. This feels so good!

My goals this month are to keep doing the qi gong and small handweights along with whatever else my grandson/coach dreams up for me which I am capable of doing.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: MAG
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 08:26 PM

I've been busy for awhile and not posting --

quit my unbearable job, which is probably stupid in a deep recession, but have been healthier than I have been in years -- no insomnia, no acid reflux, no not wanting to get out ofd bed in the morning --

HOWEVER, all that walking did help keep me fit, and without it I have regained a little of the weight I had lost

got another round of gel shots in my knees; they had bothered me but now can walk (again) for exercise -- miss the Y with the nautilus and all but can't afford it with no money -- :)

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 06:05 PM

I got a fair amount of excercise today judging by how my legs hurt.... but have eaten vast amounts of jelly, chocolate and cheesy corn snacks, washed down with beer.... Meh.. you win some, you lose some!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 05:15 PM

definitely broke the no more than 1300 calories rule today. It was all the lovely roast tatties at the pub in Lower Stoke.

Tomorrow back into regime. But actually, I have been feeling better when I stick to the high nutrient low cal days.

Now I must make myself go out for walks at lunch time, if it isn't too miserable outdoors.

Wish me luck. The exercise is the hardest part, because it hurts. Hurts my feet, my knees and hips, not to mention pulmonary pain.

Subject: BS: Accountability - exercise goals-Mar 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 04:32 PM

Can you believe it? We've been doing this for over two years, now, started in Jan. 2008! So, here we go, the original intent and posting:


Please post your fitness/letting go of weight goals, as you meet them by the day/week/monthly. Also, feel free to post your goals in your first posting. Encouragement/chatting is okay, as long as it is kept to a minimum. I will delete any extra stuff.

Thanks and Cheers to All of You!

kat