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01 Aug 08 - 11:36 AM (#2403092) Subject: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing New thread for exercise goals, etc. for the month of August. I don't have much to report at the moment as I've hurt my foot, but I hope to be back at it, soon. Have fun! |
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04 Aug 08 - 06:07 PM (#2405231) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Eye Lander Hi Kat, Hope foot injury not too serious. I am back home to the IOW tomorrow for my son's wedding on Saturday. Then to Bideford Folk Festival on the Sunday. The town is about 30min walk from camp site, I may not walk back at night but hope (weather permitting) to walk into town each day. Jillie |
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04 Aug 08 - 06:19 PM (#2405237) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing Thanks, Jillie. Soft tissue damage which hurts like a son-of-a-gun BUT is much better! Just takes time. So...I am going on a two week sabbatical, here at home. I'll be a bit scarce for the non. Keep up the good work, folks! |
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04 Aug 08 - 07:53 PM (#2405294) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Liz the Squeak Just back from a long weekend in Munich, Germany, where I walked for flipping miles in hot sun! However.... the scales tell me that the German diet of strudel, fresh rolls and sausage, is not good for me. The housebrick sized slice of lasagne I had in Salzburg didn't help either. I have 4lbs to lose again, plus another 3lbs that they've found behind the sofa. Ho hum.... this means WAR! I'm off to join a friend at her slimming club tomorrow. LTS |
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04 Aug 08 - 10:55 PM (#2405432) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing I did something right to do with food while Micca was here...I lost three pounds! |
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05 Aug 08 - 06:44 AM (#2405583) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Liz the Squeak I blame MudGuard's Krummelkuchen... it's incredible and entirely edible and came in cherry or apricot.... mmmmmmmmmmmmm.... Back on the yoghurt and bird food today. I may even make it to dressed by midday, but I'm cutting it fine..... LTS |
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14 Aug 08 - 03:11 PM (#2413894) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing Wow, this really went off the rails, didn't it? I am still nursing a sore and swollen foot, but hope to get back on track, soon. How're the rest of you doing? |
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14 Aug 08 - 03:54 PM (#2413937) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Bert ...I did something right to do with food while Micca was here...I lost three pounds!.. That's 'cos Micca ate it all;-) |
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14 Aug 08 - 05:33 PM (#2414038) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Liz the Squeak I joined the Slimming Club yesterday.... I don't understand what I'm supposed to do with my Green days, my Original days, free food, superfree food and Syn points, but hopefully the encouragement from everyone else will make a difference. At least it's a start. LTS |
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14 Aug 08 - 07:28 PM (#2414127) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Becca72 I'm getting back on track after being sort of derailed. Down a total of 18 lbs and still trying to walk for 30 minutes every day either outside or on the treadmill at home. :-) |
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14 Aug 08 - 09:33 PM (#2414193) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing Bert, I lost three pounds when he was here, too! But, I also ate a lot...maybe it was the type of food? LOL! Liz, good for you. I decided I have to get back to tracking what I eat, so I went back to www.sparkpeople.com and filled in my nutrition log for today. Becca, that's great! According to my doc's scales, I have lost a total of 21, but I think since I last saw him, last week, I have added 1 or 2 at least. Tomorrow I am calling a gal who does personal training and nutrition. Thanks, folks! |
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14 Aug 08 - 10:48 PM (#2414233) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre WHEW! I am glad to see this thread! I thought about starting it but decided this was Kat's idea and if she wanted to keep it up, she would. I've had a busy August. Here goes: 8/1: 2 hours of yoga 8/2: 3 hours of yoga & 3 hours of kayaking (I was on a yoga and kayaking adventure August 1-3) 8/3: 20 minutes of Qigong just as the sun was peeking out and then a 3 hour paddle (rough water/strong headwinds...but FUN), small amount of hiking and breakfast on the Appalachian Trail 8/5: 60 Minutes Yoga 8/8: 60 Minutes Yoga 8/11: 60 Minutes Yoga (Power Vinyasa) 8/12: 60 Minutes Yoga (On the Ball) 8/14: 60 Minutes Yoga and a new pedometer today so I'll be tracking steps starting tomorrow. Strength training to resume next week! Michelle |
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15 Aug 08 - 05:39 AM (#2414381) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Liz the Squeak I suppose I should get back to the Pilates, if only to strengthen my shoulder muscles - I laid off it last year when I acquired a frozen shoulder and any movement was screaming, burning agony. I did the pyshio and it's about 98% fine now, but I forgot to take up the Pilates again. It would be useful to resume to try and get that remaining 2% back and get the rest of my muscles going. Thinks: If I did it whilst eating a chocolate substitute, would it be Pilates of the carob bean? I'll get me coat. In the meantime, I have rediscovered a liking for the occasional plum. LTS |
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15 Aug 08 - 11:50 AM (#2414653) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Becca72 Oh Liz...that was simply awful. LOL |
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15 Aug 08 - 05:48 PM (#2414985) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre Counting the positives...I'm digging on that. How's this? Last year at this time I was taking insulin twice a day, was morbidly obese (still have a ways to go but I am no longer int he morbidly obese category...not by a stretch!)and had yet to be introduced to parts of my body. Just today I received the results of some lab work I had done. My A1C (3 month average of blood sugar readings) was significantly into the healthy zone which means I am doing just fine without the insulin. My cholesterol levels are within the healthy range! My triglycerides are still a little high but not like before when I was 250 points above the healthy range. I have made friends with my body over this past year. I have visible collar bones which I have been wanting to have for what seems like forever, I have felt my hip bones (far from seeing them....but I don't want that anyway!) and I now know about my sternum. The first time I saw it poking up (I was laying in bed), I thought it was a tumor!!! NO KIDDING! My God, my body has changed SO MUCH and I am lost in happy tears of thankfulness.....I just had to share. I NEED A HUG!!!!!! DAAAMMMMITT!!! :) Michelle |
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15 Aug 08 - 06:22 PM (#2414996) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Liz the Squeak Michelle - (((( XxX ))) and a clap, clap, clappity clap, clap! Congratulations, now tell me how you did it! LTS |
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15 Aug 08 - 06:25 PM (#2415000) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing Michelle, that is inspiring!! Congratulations and yes, how did you do it....I know, I know, lots of exercise! |
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15 Aug 08 - 08:05 PM (#2415068) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre Thanks Guys! I do Weight Watchers. I find it to be a healthy, well balanced plan that easily fits my life. So, Weight Watchers (I've done both Flex and Core, right now I'm back to Flex) & some kind of body movement almost every day. For me, I love yoga, kayaking, walking and biking. I also do strength training with an awesome trainer who keeps things hopping by never doing the same routines twice...she likes to shake things up and while I don't always love it, I ALWAYS love how I feel afterwards. Things that work for me include doing things I love (otherwise I know it won't last long), maintaining a blog of thoughts, happenings and activities logs, having the support of friends and family, and being patient with myself. I am enjoying this adventure as much as possible as I only intend to pass this way once! Michelle :) |
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16 Aug 08 - 05:37 PM (#2415615) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Liz the Squeak I've been informed that pootling around the shops for an hour does not count towards my 'walking for 15 mins'... I'm annoyed and relieved. Annoyed that I have to find another way of walking for 15 mins, and relieved that my purse will remain at its' present weight! Well done Michelle, support is a great help. LTS |
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17 Aug 08 - 11:57 AM (#2416087) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: GUEST,pattyClink LilyFestre, I just read your post of the 15th! WOW! SO proud of you, that is a very big deal! Congratulations! Liz, I don't know what 'pootling' involves, but once I wore a pedometer through a couple hours of browsing and searching in big-box stores and part of a mall, and it was 12,000 steps. Which certainly COUNTS! We have ton of people who mall-walk around here, they window-shop and keep moving. Did you make up 'pootling' or is that a real word? I love it. As for me, doing okay, weight plateaus and then drops 1 or 2 if I remain 'good'. Gotta get in more walks in a week. Back exercises starting to pay off. |
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17 Aug 08 - 01:31 PM (#2416137) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing I just watched and started on This new exercise routine, BUT it is far from just for beginners! I could feel the "burn" as soon as I started, but it was a no go when he wanted me face down on the floor. I will have to modify this to do it on the bed where I know I can get up, easily. Our bed is a select comfort type so I can make it as hard as the floor. I KNOW this exercise will help and it fits in better with what a physical therapist recommended for me when she diagnosed me as hypermobile. About ten minutes, today...it's a start back on track. |
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17 Aug 08 - 05:37 PM (#2416309) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Liz the Squeak 'pootling' - to pootle or wander aimlessly around at a sedate pace, carefully gauged to annoy people who walk fast or have long legs. I don't know where it came from really, but I liked it and adopted it as my own. It goes with fossicking - to mess about, to rootle round as in a bag of potatoes to try to locate the carrot, and not actually achieve anything useful. Rootle - to rumage pointlessly in a bag or box, making the maximum of effort to get to the very bottom corners in order to get nothing much at all. Apparently it only counts as excercise if you get breathless and sweaty. I do that watching Sean Connery films so that's what I'm off to do now. LTS |
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17 Aug 08 - 06:04 PM (#2416322) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Eye Lander Hi Peeps, Back home again after a week on the Islandfor my sons wedding and then a week at afestival. Dreading WW's weigh in tomorrow morning!! back to the regime again. Jillie Oh Liz, are you going to the Wail this year? |
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18 Aug 08 - 08:15 AM (#2416694) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work I have been lax in ordering my ticket but I will investigate this evening... I have been given permission! LTS |
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18 Aug 08 - 08:45 PM (#2417369) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre Power Yoga: 60 Minutes |
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19 Aug 08 - 07:51 AM (#2417599) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre Yoga: 60 Minutes Michelle |
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19 Aug 08 - 10:55 AM (#2417746) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Liz the Squeak 2 consecutive days, walked to and from the strain tation. About 2 miles in all... that's 2 miles more than I usually do! LTS |
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19 Aug 08 - 11:33 AM (#2417778) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing Good for you, Liz!! Almost 15 minutes of my new Qi Gong video - the Standing portion. Wow, it gives much more of a workout than the Qi Gong for Seniors one I was doing. I can feel it, immediately, in my legs and it feels good, as though I am really doing something. |
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19 Aug 08 - 04:54 PM (#2418039) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Liz the Squeak Tomorrow is the first weigh-in on my new 'eating plan'.... wonder if anything has happened? Hey ho... LTS |
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19 Aug 08 - 10:21 PM (#2418301) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre Yoga: 60 Minutes Michelle |
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20 Aug 08 - 06:38 PM (#2419047) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Liz the Squeak Another mile walked.... another meeting gone to... a pathetic half a pound lost... but I had just eaten my dinner so I must remember, the week after next (busy next week), not to eat before I go. Got a crate full of fruit and veggies to take camping with me, and hopefully some good friends who will discourage me from licking chip wrappers and sucking on kids lollies. LTS |
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20 Aug 08 - 07:33 PM (#2419080) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: maeve May I join in the fun? I was just given new walking shoes, so I can now resume my walks. |
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20 Aug 08 - 09:33 PM (#2419128) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing Please do, maeve! I hurt my heel, yesterday, too vigorous with the Qi Gong, I think. Still moving a bit, though. |
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21 Aug 08 - 07:49 AM (#2419308) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre Yesterday's Activities: Biking: 3 miles (first time out in a few years) Yoga: 60 Minutes Michelle |
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21 Aug 08 - 08:50 AM (#2419334) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Becca72 I've been working 55+ hours per week and not so much exercise... yeesh. I'm going to the nutritionist this morning and not expecting good news. But I'm staying positive! LOL |
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21 Aug 08 - 10:51 AM (#2419416) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Eye Lander Back from a week festivaling, in a VERY HILLY town!! ALso came back with some awful virus which landed on my chest -cough cough cough! But the good thing is I have lost almost 4lb since Monday morning. YAYY |
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21 Aug 08 - 10:57 AM (#2419422) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing Wow, goodonya! I gained over the forced foot rest of the past three |
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21 Aug 08 - 11:00 AM (#2419424) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Becca72 The news wasn't as bad as I thought. I have stayed the same. I'll take it! |
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23 Aug 08 - 12:38 AM (#2420511) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre Yoga: 45 Minutes Dancing my ass off: 2 hours? Mabye more at a Ted Nugent concert....had a BLAST!!!!!!!!!!! Michelle |
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23 Aug 08 - 12:57 AM (#2420517) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Barry Finn I saw Micca, one look & I lost 3 lbs. He took my camera & my shoes. I took his picture. I've been trying to get my blood sugar down so I've been doing a full workout on those modern machines for an hour on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays & then I swim after that, on Tuesdays & Thursdays I just swim. On Saturdays I try to do some music & on Sundays my kids beat me up. I think I need to quit being retired. Barry |
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23 Aug 08 - 01:24 AM (#2420522) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing Barry, that sounds great! Good for you, really. Didn't know you've retired? Congrats on that! |
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23 Aug 08 - 04:20 PM (#2420848) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing I put on my other shoes for the first time in about two months and went to the store with Rog. I pushed the cart and walked the aisles and really felt it in all parts of my bawd...not quite limped to the car. Put on my regular shoes and felt more "movable" by the time we got home. It's a start in getting back to where I was; I haven't gone to the shops or anywhere else where I walk, in about a month. Things are getting better! |
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23 Aug 08 - 04:47 PM (#2420862) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: wysiwyg I had been wearing the same huge men's shirts bought when I needed them, because they were comfy, all cotton, and expensive. Alone, or open over shells. Camping, we buy exclusively Goodwill. I'm surprisingly able to fend off skeeters now, so evening outdoor sitting is a new toy, even IF cold.... At Goodwill, a men's size MUCH smaller looked good enough to wear for the upcoming cold evening, long-sleeve.... Hardi said, when I put it on, it fit perfectly and was CUTE. Now I can't seem to stop wearing it. I got a lot svelter than I knew! Time to check the scale and measurements again to mark a new baseline. I mean, I do not know this woman, but I need to get to know her ASAP. She fits into one mirror, for one thing. When was the last time THAT was true?!? And all without focusing on diet or weight loss at all. Just having too much FUN. And eating constantly. Hardi makes me do it. Every 2 hours. When the rest of the world is stuffed from lunch, I'm eating the 2nd half of mine. The total and content are the same as anyone else ate, but without splitting it in half or thirds, it's instant pounds on (instead of instant pounds off). This has been accompanied by many spontaneous, visceral memories of my very active 20's, 30's and early 40's. It would seem that ability is coming back, as well. ~S~ |
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23 Aug 08 - 11:02 PM (#2420999) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre Positive: Weight Watchers friend had us over for dinner tonight...food was YUMMY and healthy...it was nice to go somewhere where others are health conscious too. :) Added Bonus: I was able to share the clothes that are now too big for me. I know they will be put to good use and appreciated....too bad she just needs the one size larger than mine as I have clothing that range in sizes that are only one size too large to 5 sizes too large....and they have been taking over my closet! Until today, that is. I spent this morning taking out everything that was just too big and now have five piles that are 3 feet high! Only one more rack to go and probably I should go through my sweaters too. I beleive, I have enough folks interested to have a plus-sized winter coat swap...I can't be the only person who has winter coats that are too big!!! Michelle |
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24 Aug 08 - 12:23 AM (#2421030) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing Susan, that is wonderful!! Good for you!!! And, welcome back. |
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24 Aug 08 - 09:37 AM (#2421154) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Eye Lander well done Wysiwyget. So 2 hourly feeds is what I need? Jillie. |
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24 Aug 08 - 02:46 PM (#2421310) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre I don't know if I eat every 2 hours but I eat frequently too. The idea, at least for me, is that I try to eat BEFORE I get hungry...or perhaps it's that I don't get hungry because I keep a steady stream of fuel going in. Some days it's more than others depending upon the activity going on.....power yoga days or strength training days require a little bit more for me or my blood sugar takes a nose dive. Low blood sugar sun salutations are no fun!!! So Jillie, yep....are you the one doing WW? I forget who else it was...but this works beautifully with the plan, whether it be Core or Flex. :) Michelle |
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24 Aug 08 - 05:42 PM (#2421413) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: wysiwyg Immeduiately after eating, one's metabolism rises temporarily to digest what has been eaten. It's called "thermogenesis." We all do it. (It's helpful to harness it.) That means that if you get the amounts right, and the time frame right, you not only get a constant-fuel state and are never really very hungry (unless you've exercised your buns off), you ALSO burn not only what you ate, but a bit more. You burn off weight most efficiently when you can balance all of that. It does not compute for food addicts, but if the weight did not come on as a result of addiction, it can come off with a few scientific tweaks. Absent addiction, what is hard is not doing it but learning enough about it to make it work in your favor. The ideal mini-meal components as explained to me long ago by a diabetic friend are: a fruit, a carb, and a protein. Always. ALWAYS. The fruit will start to burn first, and then the carb will kick in, and the protein will keep it all burning slow and steady. Amounts, picture a half a tennis ball (or half a pingpong ball) for each component and adjust as needed for activity level-- for example more carb for more activity, less fruit if it's a concentrate like jam or juice, etc. Again, the trick is to balance them correctly to one's activity level and food preferences. It's not well known, but (absent food addiction) it is not a practical necessity to undergo gastric bypass in order to reduce meal sizes significantly. One can study the nearest bariatric program, see what they are doing and eating, and simply emulate it. The change is mental-- eat to live instead of live to eat, and eat what is needed for the actual situation at hand-- remembering always that if one is hungry in ten minutes or 2 hours, one can always eat another mini-meal. Treating food like an enemy only reinforces the "power" the food has. We're so much smarter than that, really. The more likely real culprit-- the rationale for this thread, right?-- is the activity level. When I am doing the workouts I LIKE to do, I can easily burn 3000 calories a day, eating as much ice cream as my digestion will allow. All this of course does not fit popular cultural ideas about food, but, "Who's shrinking?" I reply, "and who ain't?" ~Susan (Apol for typ[os: vision issues) |
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25 Aug 08 - 09:39 AM (#2421719) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: wysiwyg Corrected portion of above post: Immediately after eating, one's metabolism rises temporarily to digest what has been eaten. It's called "thermogenesis." We all do it. It's helpful to harness it. Exercise done during thermogenesis will burn more calories than exercise done at other times. That means that if you get the amounts right, and the time frame right, and the right amount/duration of exercise-- you not only get a constant-fuel state and are never really very hungry (unless you've exercised your buns off), you ALSO burn not only most of what you ate, but a bit more. You burn off weight most efficiently when you can balance all of that. So-- the mini-meals alternating with activity WORK, powerfully and pretty painlessly. :~) ~S~ |
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25 Aug 08 - 10:14 AM (#2421739) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: maeve It's so good to see your posts again, Susan. |
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25 Aug 08 - 10:43 AM (#2421761) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: wysiwyg This vision issue is such that any screen-focusing costs me bigtime in dizziness the rest of the day whenever I try to use my eyes again. By day's end my patience has been well exercised!!! Yesterday I blew that "estimate" of vision allocation: the pooltime sheduled for day's end was cut short when I was just too dizzy to be safe in deep water. But, all this means that anything I post (till the doc fixes me up) is rushed but important to me, especially if it's not a recreational bedtime one (after I've used up my sight muscles for the day). It also means that in addition to typos I may be just ungracious or insensitive as all get-out. Apologies in advance. ~S~ |
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25 Aug 08 - 07:43 PM (#2422071) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre 60 Minutes of Power Yoga Michelle |
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25 Aug 08 - 09:18 PM (#2422115) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing Susan, no typos that I can see.:-) After over a month of being off my feet, I managed two minutes on the treadmill before my heel started hurting a tiny bit. NOt taking any chances, so I stopped. Tomorrow, I start back on my Qi Gong for Seniors, sitting in a chair. It's better than nothing. |
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25 Aug 08 - 10:10 PM (#2422139) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre Kat....smart move! Never rush the healing process! In yoga, we are constantly told to do what feels good, or to find our own edge....and it sounds like you did just that! When you do Qi Gong, do you do the animals? I did a yoga/kayaking retreat and we did some Qi Gong.....the animal ones were fun and I loved watching the instructor's form....the moves are really beautiful to watch. I particularly liked monkey, cougar and bear. Feel better. Michelle |
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25 Aug 08 - 11:35 PM (#2422177) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: wysiwyg Made up chores requiring some homebound stairclimbing today since pool out of the question. Extra dinner chores, kitchen chores, and a lovely recliner sit with leashed #1 dog Faulkner in a new vacay-like zone we created that doesn't hurt my knees to get out to, for some shady fresh air. Figgered out a way to make that zone dog-safe too; planning to fabricate a really big dog-playpen there on the cheap and easy. Have most of the materials, maybe all of them. ~S~ |
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25 Aug 08 - 11:45 PM (#2422185) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: wysiwyg PS also orderd a DVD of a new fitness program I found that I plan to adapt for the waterworld. Can't wait to practice it myself with my poolside DVD player! ~S~ |
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26 Aug 08 - 12:36 PM (#2422544) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Liz the Squeak Many more steps walked than normal, but no idea how many. Alas though, many more pints of beer consumed than normal... and I know exactly how many there were! Still, if I haven't lost any weight, it's certainly redistributed itself - I can get my jacket to meet across the front where it didn't last week! LTS |
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26 Aug 08 - 12:40 PM (#2422548) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing Qi gong - 20 minutes Weights - 8 reps each |
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26 Aug 08 - 08:00 PM (#2422916) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre Walking: 20 Minutes Strength Training: Trainer canceled. Sick. Yoga: 60 Minutes Back to teaching today so I was on my feet and going ALL DAY (not complaining, just noticing!!!) Michelle who just signed up for her first walk/run....a 5k that I can't run all of but I will run SOME of!!!! WOO HOOO! Who knew?!?!? |
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26 Aug 08 - 09:49 PM (#2422986) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: wysiwyg BackHab 60 minutes, AquaRunning 40 minutes, several outdoor chores. ~S~ |
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26 Aug 08 - 11:46 PM (#2423036) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: maeve Dug potatoes, picked three kinds of beans, picked tomatoes, filled farm stand, chased chickens, scrubbed and rinsed 2 tubs of laundry, Many trips back and forth to set up mobile farm stand in the car trunk,stood and moved during 2 hour chorus rehearsa, sold veggies after rehearsal. |
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27 Aug 08 - 10:03 AM (#2423287) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Liz the Squeak I just walked for 2 miles back from the big shops and didn't realise I was doing it, until I got home! I was walking to the next bus stop, looking for a bus and then continuing on... during the 30 mins or so it took I got passed by one bus. LTS |
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27 Aug 08 - 08:34 PM (#2423885) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre Yoga: 60 Minutes Michelle |
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27 Aug 08 - 11:24 PM (#2423975) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing LOL, LtS! Good for you. T-3 minutes...slowly but surely getting back there Michelle, I do a modified qi gong, no animal movements, though I did learn some of them when I did tai chi years ago. I hope to get back to it, too. |
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28 Aug 08 - 03:19 AM (#2424059) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Liz the Squeak Add another mile to yesterdays total, but today I'm perforce a chairobics contender... stuck in printing out 50 X 40 pages of sheet music. The trip to the big shops yesterday was to find out the copying costs. Turns out it's the price of 4 printer cartridges so it's cheaper to do it here! However, I shall be sitting 'vigourously' with some scary music on. The decluttering has been minorly successful in this room so there is space to wiggle the chair around. LTS LTS |
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28 Aug 08 - 10:26 AM (#2424297) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: wysiwyg 45 minutes AquaRunning, 30 minutes BackHab/AiChi, 5 minutes new program moves, 2 hours HARD foldup of camper and back/forth from house to fetch items needed. ~S~ |
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28 Aug 08 - 01:41 PM (#2424543) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: maeve Four miles walking/hiking/climbing hills to pick 5 pounds of wild blackberries. Hand dug another 60 pounds of potatoes. Lots of back-and-forthing picking beans, lettuce, tomatoes and arranging them on the farm stand. |
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28 Aug 08 - 01:56 PM (#2424563) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing Wow, maeve! That's a LOT of produce...my mouth is watering! QG-20 minutes |
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28 Aug 08 - 02:56 PM (#2424639) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing Our front yard is very uneven...makes it hard to walk for me and my trick ankles. I have not watered my flowerbed, shrubs, and new tree since I hurt my foot. Rog and Morgan have been doing their best, but Rog misses a day or two and Morgan never waters each spot long enough. This morning I stepped out with the dog, on the front "stoop" and saw my poor, poor sunflowers drooping over a fence which sits about three feet in front of them. how could I NOT risk a walk across the grass to water them and all of my other posies? So...(drum roll, please)I stepped out, sturdy cane in hand, and watered all but the ornamental grasses around the corner. It took a lot of effort and it hurt, some, but it felt GOOD and I am counting it as exercise!:-) |
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28 Aug 08 - 03:05 PM (#2424643) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: maeve Can you hear us applauding from here in Maine, kat? That's great. Even better, you appear to have returned inside safely. |
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28 Aug 08 - 03:36 PM (#2424678) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing Yes and none the worse for the wear, maeve, thanks! Just for that, I snapped a few photos from the front step: Droopy Sunflowers. |
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28 Aug 08 - 04:08 PM (#2424719) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre 'Tis my day off from any kind of exercise class but I've been on my feet all day, the pedometer says 4 miles of walking AND I'm helping with a yoga demonstration tonight! Michelle PS. Kat, there's applause coming from this corner of Pennsylvania as well...good for you!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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28 Aug 08 - 11:36 PM (#2425102) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: katlaughing Thanks and I managed 4 minutes on the treadmill. Adding them up, a minute a day. |
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29 Aug 08 - 03:30 AM (#2425170) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: Liz the Squeak Another mile walked yesterday.... but a weekend of drunken debauchery (with any luck) ahead... I suspect walking will be limited to trips to the bar. LTS |
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29 Aug 08 - 07:53 PM (#2425934) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre Walked 7+ miles today and did 60 minutes of glorious yoga. Michelle |
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30 Aug 08 - 07:58 PM (#2426547) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: wysiwyg Been camping, nuff said. ~S~ |
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31 Aug 08 - 06:28 PM (#2427107) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: wysiwyg Hardi's been cranking up the family pop-up campers since he was about 8. Today I took over the job. I accompanied it with a little sermon on how one CAN actually take one's time and do it in sets of 10 cranks, just like a weight-lifting set. Because there are no mean parents sitting around cracking the whip, nor hungry little kids clamoring for dinner NOW, etc. Nope, now he has to put up with a wife working on muscle development (who likes to do muscle stuff, herself). Has to learn how to sit around waiting for someone else to do the chores, like I've had to do when all I COULD do was sit. It was that comment in the midst of yesterday's mini-campout; we had been naming the unmistakable sounds-- common to all campgrounds-- that indicate a fresh arrival. (Wives backing their hubbies into the campsite pad, manic Hot Wheels on gravel, etc.), and he mentioned "Agonal Cranking." It was funny-- but only sorta. :~) ~S~ |
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31 Aug 08 - 08:12 PM (#2427190) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre Followed the vegan way of eating today just to see if I could do it and if I would like it. No animal products of any kind. It certainly makes a body think! Michelle |
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01 Sep 08 - 07:55 PM (#2428162) Subject: RE: BS: Accountability - counting positives! From: LilyFestre 5.4 mile hike in the woods (Pennsylvania Grand Canyon) 60 minutes of vinyasa flow....the warm up was suns....yes...THEY were the warm-up...WHEW baby....what a practice it was tonight!!! Michelle |