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OK. Next week's commitment is to eat 1 carb-less meal each day.
Send- Great Job you are doing more and all. Don't get discouraged over the technical junk. You will get it figured out.
I have continued my 2-3 hour cycling at night. I am really going to try and begin my workout video starting Monday. I am hopeful. I think I will have to get up earlier to have time. Hard because sleep is a luxury for me. But I might have to bump my wake time to 5:30 in order to get my workout in. I get a good work out with the wood cutting and splitting, but that will soon be replaced with all the gardening. Which I hope is considered working out, because it sure feels like it. My life is odd. :)
PB- Doing Ok?
Julie- Doing ok?
Keep up the good work everyone, Rising up to the challenge of our selves.
It is you who suggested there are videos online that are less strenuous! I was encouraged by that! And anyone who can get out and walk through snowy ice to get a coffee has my respect.
You are not a slug!
Imo, people are encouraged by your life overall, not a few days of having a bad mood.
Just ignore that tomorrow is Sunday and skip the beating yourself up for not attending church. Go out for some Sunday coffee!
And I don't know what a data point is either🤔
In keeping with my plan to move more, eat less: I joined a go to meetings weight loss program.
The technology has me stumped, and depending on hubs to set me up will not be sustainable.
Those smart phones and Google are way too smart for me. My bird Tweety could hunt and peck better than I can. What (enter swear word here) is a data point?
Please do not answer.....asked hubs to stop speaking to me like that, lol.
Maybe if I do not eat until I can arrange the points on the electronic device, I really will lose weight......And my mind, thank you very much.
"Let's count! One, two, Three!" (Learned online bird videos)....Mango the budgie repeats counting).
Are we supposed to weigh it too? Weigh in, weigh the food? Where is the scale?
Is it online too?
Keep posting buddies, or I will not be able to find this thread!
I find it terribly discouraging that almost all the people making videos and giving advice on the web make recommendations well beyond my capabilities. I will never press 100 lbs(or more) or run a 13 minute mile.
Been doing my exercise daily. Pushups are a tiny bit easier. I can feel my arms are getting stronger, too.
Next week, I'll focus on my kicks and punches. Self defense exercise.
My biceps have been getting an intense workout pulling my hubby up the bed several times a day. It's gotten easier using a slide sheet, but he is still 220 lbs. The day before yesterday was intense because I didn't have an aide to help, but I managed to move him with the Hoyer life, shower him, get him dried, dressed and arranged in bed, and then kept him from working his way off the bottom of the bed. Boy! My biceps were bulging and shaking by the morning!
Just breathe! A real benefit, I agree.
I have caught myself almost holding my breath as I fell asleep. Not really holding my breath, but not breathing in enough. Deep breaths, wakes up your brain, so you can sleep! Really....sounds the opposite or strange, I know.
Could not use my arm strength to lift myself out of bathtub.
Rt. hip was painful for years.
Diagnosed plantar fasciatiis/heel spur.
TMJ adjusted once by dentist.
These and other conditions just resolved and went away with only a little time and help.
Written to encourage others who may think it will always be this way, and this is the end.
Keep exercising, keep living your life!
Thank you for this "buddies" thread! A real positive help for worn out caregivers.
I am grateful.
Kudos to those who can do an exercise plan with equipment and all. There is no failure, just a plan for you to keep moving forward. You've got this!
So, I have since made a conscious effort to breathe frequently and get enough air in, and voila! Problem solved. Not only did the uncomfortable sensation in my ear stopped but I literally don’t run out of breath anymore no matter how intense ithe exercise is, and after 35 minutes on the elliptical and 40 on the treadmill I sweat and I feel the goodness of the exercise in my body, yet I literally don’t run out of breath.
I believe the importance of learning and remembering how to breathe under any circumstances is key, so something I learned thanks to exercising I’m now trying to apply in life in general.
Thought it was a good learning to pass along.
Today, the caregiver we hired pushed me out the door to go to the gym because I was an emotional wreck. I only had 15 minutes there because of the traffic and rush to get back before he left for the day, but I did a mile on the elliptical!
A new week is here. What's your exercise goal for this week?
Mine is 2 sets of 10 squats each day besides the usual 5-10 minutes daily exercise,
Have fun walking, dancing, bicycling, chopping wood, etc. whatever exercise form you do.
As far as motivation.....of course I had to do the walking or would feel like I let my exercise buddies down.
I think I'd better advantage of the sunny weather and go out for some fresh air too, I was running errands today and am having caffeine jitters because I went overboard and bough a large coffee while I was out.
Who's next?
I know that if I can keep up enough activity, even just walking, there will come a time that I can do this and it will come easier to me, and I will have a life, a better life.
Even though going to bed early at 9, and waking at 3 a.m. netted only 6 hours of sleep, I still think I can, I think I can, I think I can. These adjustments on behalf of dH and his changing schedule, and the tweety bird's changing schedule are not making things easier, my schedule is nowhere to be seen. Pay bills.
I just did my 5 minutes of morning exercise. Today is my weigh-in day, but I don't feel like facing discouraging news. I don't feel any lighter. Clothes no looser, but no tighter either. At least that's good.
So, I'll put off till the end of next month.
Anyone exercising today?
Told my husband: "I'm building up my arm muscles."
My husband: " OK. Arnold."
Haha
Cwillie, I have a great mental image of you hustling down the street to the coffee shop bundled up for the weather!
Sendhelp, dancing in the kitchen, singing in the shower, laughing, playing piano ... Go for it! They all burn calories!
Polarbear, glad you’re back into the swing of things!