That's kind of what the Weekly Chat thread does, isn't it? Or would that be more of a "news and events" thread?

We've had a discussion previously of staying on topic in any particular thread. Nothing was really resolved or written in stone. I think, like life, there will always be a lot of overlap in various different threads.

Dagmar

I am going to seriously start to try to get down to my 133 - 135 lbs. range beginning today. I have a 12-days long dog sit starting today. It's a tough one as the dogs are not well socialized so that means an additional walk in the late afternoon for them alone. Plus they don't have any yard access (they live on the upper floor of a duplex) so that means a short walk in the early a.m. and late p.m.

I will have to also start arranging my replacements for dogwalking while I take the last week of October off to pack up and move and relocate my cats.

And I have to maintain my current household.

I will leave the reno at the new house to DH. If he has a problem he can ask me but I think he's capable of handling whatever else needs to be done there. I will have to cut the grass and water the yards there (my yard folks are weeding and pruning) and arrange for someone to look at the tree out front.

Thanksgiving also fits in there somewhere. I'm going to order the same wonderful rotisseried turkey we had last year, roast some veggies in the oven, buy a nice loaf of bread and a good bottle of wine, and I'm done! Oh and cranberry sauce for DH. Maybe also some small tarts with seasonal fruit for dessert.

I'm off to pack! I will check in when I can. Probably mostly in Weekly Chat.

Dagmar

I agree with Dagmar.

I wasn't trying to rock the boat. Just suggesting that the health and fitness thread has space for more than simply recording workouts. Workout-related health and fitness stuff could be discussed as well.

Yes, weekly chat does sometimes look rather like news and events but there's nothing wrong with that, obviously.

Back from vacation and catching up. I was tickled pink this weekend to be able to spend 7 very active hours in a water park with my swimmer girlfriend (she's 54 this month). The park wasn't crowded so it was endless hours of stairs, waterslides, more stairs, hoof it across the park to more stairs and waterslides, an interlude for body surfing in the wave pool, etc, etc, rinse and repeat. Literally! I am very glad this came at the end of a summer of running.

I always thought of the fitness thread as more of an accountability listing of "I did this" than more of a discussion forum, but if it were to turn into that, I would likely go over. Nobody wants to read about the yardage I will be doing in the pool, and frankly, I don't want to bother typing it. I'm lazy that way! But musings do interest me - the whole head game of this process has been the toughest thing for me to figure out and I have definitely been helped by the group here over the years.

I'm proud to announce I got on the treadmill both yesterday and today! I am BOUND AND DETERMINED to do the treadmill at least 4 times a week. Since I'm dreading getting up early, that means Tuesday and Thursday after work and Saturday and Sunday mornings. I believe that reading on the treadmill is a lot less boring than watching TV or just listening to music.

And for dinner tonight is a skinny version of chicken parmesan (served over zucchini "noodles").

Back from the marathon. It was a bit too warm and I took it a little slower than normal. This had the benefit of making me less sore afterward (and avoiding the heat exhaustion that a few runners developed).

BTW, I wasn't sure what the group decision was - shall we discuss exercise and fitness in the other thread? Or keep it here? Will it disrupt the flow of the other thread? Should we vote? Should the other thread vote? Do we need to invoke Robert's rules of order?

We haven't been that organized about things. They move forward on a more intuitive basis IMO.

The exercise thread has been mostly a listing, although the "regulars" there do muse about things. I think there will always be an overlap of things everywhere so why don't we accept that?


Dagmar

I think we learn from each other, as far as I know there are no rules as long as we stay legal.

152 this morning. The Disney weekend was far more difficult for eating well than was the recruiting trip. There was, however, much, much more movement. Apparently they did not cancel each other out. I'm thinking that some of it is probably my sunburn - my shoulders are pretty tender even today. No blisters, though.

First coached swim practice since college tonight at 7pm. I am simply hoping not to die. I'm not sure if I'm kidding.

Becky I used to swim competitively from about age 10-14. I remember those seemingly endless laps of the pool. At least you're going in the evening . I used to sleep in in those days and that's most of why I quit swimming - practice was at 6:30 a.m. and that was too hard in winter.

Dagmar

Well, at 2 weeks and 2 days in to my new diet, I managed to binge despite keeping most of my calories for the evening. It was actually quite easy; as usual, my stomach doesn't even feel particularly bloated after 1/2 c. of hazelnuts, 4 graham crackers and a cup of granola, all eaten after a full and hearty dinner (including dessert of a banana with a sugar-free vanilla pudding and 1 tbsp of peanut butter). There goes my theory about IF. Sad thing is, I'm still 1.5-2 pounds over my red line, and a good 5-6 pounds over my old maintenance weight. So I can't blame the binge on dropping into "dangerously low" weight levels.

Andrea~I actually think IF was what made me lose the last time (about 7 years ago?). It was only twice a month, and often just one meal each time (dinner). I was the president of a charitable organization and twice a month I had to conduct a meeting (board meeting followed by a general meeting two weeks later). Those meetings were always at the dinner hour and I never got home before 8 PM, so I just skipped dinner (members would bring snacks but I refused most if not all of them). I'd usually come home and have a glass of wine to unwind and then go to bed. I think that little kick in the pants was what really helped me shed all those pounds. I'd go back to that but it is just me and DH and I don't think he'd appreciate skipping dinner. But maybe it was a combination of stress, nerves and skipping that dinner twice a month that did it.

Currently I'm back up--those 3 pounds I lost are back on. I need to lose 25 pounds. This really sucks.

Dagmar - oh, I hear ya about the early mornings! I even won an impromptu "award" at the end of my senior year for missing the most morning practices, but having perfect attendance on the afternoons and weekends.

I lucked out - last night was backstroke technique drills, and most of it with fins. I am tired but not sore - yet. Now I need to figure out how to get to tomorrow's practice. The spouse is beginning several months of road travel for work and it is going to be a challenge to figure out how to get DS where he needs to be, and how to get me where I need to be.

Went for my annual physical yesterday, after rescheduling it once due to some emergency or another at work, I forget what.

My doctor discovered a slight heart murmur that he hadn't heard before, and because of all the cardio that I do, I wondered about athlete's heart. But also I had an unusual amount of coffee yesterday to keep going, and I've been stressed out. I also didn't do as well on my breathing test. Anyway I'm scheduled for an echocardiogram.

On the scale, once again I weighed in at 150 lbs. The doctor's assistant was surprised that I could guess my weight.

"Usually people tell me, 'Oh, I'm 200 pounds,' and I think to myself, 'Maybe you were five years ago, but not now.'"

That bothered me, because I've still got an inner fat girl living in me, my former self with all her phantom fat intact, and she is as sensitive as ever to any implied slights on her weight and her body, particularly from medical professionals.