Gosh, #15 already??!

I just finished cleaning the car.. inside and out..
that all the butt moving I'm doing today!! Too darn hot! Going to be over 95 today!

Dana

Good morning all.
I had a long hot not totally OP weekend. On Saturday I moved cinderblocks and bushwhacked at DD's new school to try to get the playground in shape, hot, no AC, thorny buggers slicing right through my gloves. After just 2 hours I was all shaky, my hands my legs, standing on a hillside with big clippers for an hour had taken its' toll. I was sort of embarassed to be so weak. I used the kids as an excuse and got DH to take us home. He then went back and worked the rest of the day, I took a nap. God, I'm Lame.

Sunday, I layed around on the couch and felt sort of sad- no exercise, though DH did all the yard work for me, so I also felt guilty.

But today I am motivated- back to the grindstone, got my bike and I am pedaling all the way through Days of Our Lives. Trying for a little yoga too-we'll see.

Hope everyone has a great day, I know the heat is taking it out of us all in a big way- thanks Bush! No Kyoto for us- we'll just let our children clean up this mess!

SunDrop

After my killer upper body on sat. I did a 11 mile bike ride on sunday and today did a great lowerbody too hot to do much more. although i have been riding my bike instead of car today to the Y and the new job for my PPD. So that is more exercise. Hopefully there will be more of that going on too!

Worked out in the indoor pool at the Rehab. Paid for the month so I know I'll make more of an effort to get there three days a week. the last two months I had been going on a per visit basis and only went about once a week. I was trying then to build up my outdoor walking (and succeeded) but know that's out in this heat. If we get a nice cool time, I'll squeeze that in too. Will try (gently) to reintroduce me to my skitype machine too.

yes yes yes!!!!

yesterday morning, before 6:30, i went for a mile-long walk!!

and today, I DID IT AGAIN!!!!!

but the tops of my legs hurt [not the joints, thank goodness, but right where the legs attach to the rest of the body] what have i done wrong THIS TIME???????

it is in your PM jiff. I feel it is a pulled muscle that is angry that youare exercising. some ibuprofen and very slight stretching should help tons.

This bike is nifty but it tricked me. I did an hour of this up and down hills program "moderate intensity" yesterday and thought, that was easy.

This morning I could barely walk my glutes especially, agony.
I'm a bit relieved though because I needed something for my legs besides Tae-bo.


I took today off, I didn't have much choice.

tomorrow, low intensity.


Have a happy day everyone.

Does working in the yard consider as butt moving??

I have been outside nearly 4 hours the past two days digging, planting, lifting 50 pound bags of sand and river rock. Making my English Style Garden look PRETTY! ! !

I do want to get on my treadmill, but with it being so nice outside I just don't feel up to staying in the house.

the weather is better, the garden is gorgeous and we can help her with it, and she has a treadmill!!!

what do you all think???

actually, a rest day for me. too hot, too humid, too much ozone for me to be walking around...

and as the wise sue has counseled, maybe a day off wouldn't be a bad idea, although the muscles feel much much better today..

How long will it take to walk?? Jiff if you see me will you pick me up??? I am comming I love it!!

today i did a great lowerbody it was to hot so i did not over do it.

Despite myself, I got exercise in today! Wasn't planning it but it was so hot outside today, I didn't want to go where, do anything (like the heat index is 104 right now - temp 97).

I remembered the pool was open for a session today at my regular time. No, no, I don't want to do that. No I really don't. But I did. Got in 50 minutes of gentle water exercise. I'm taking that as a sign that my health habits have improved. Though I told myself that today's an off day, I still have not eaten much. That's probably the heat though but maybe partly better habits.

DH and I still debating if we should just hit a mall or something but the effort just going from a/c car to a/c mall just doesn't seem worth it. Think I'll save it all for tomorrow.

I've had a ahem, poor 3 days as far as exercise and diet have gone. I guess these times just happen. I did walk around downtown pushing a stroller for a few hours yesterday, but there were these little Debbie cakes (with stars and stripes) well I had 2 packages, so I'm thinking that I negated the walking effect.

But today is a new day, I'm going to be rushing around like mad getting ready to take my very spirited 2 Yo on airplanes all day next Thursday. Then we get to Vermont and I throw him at my baby crazed family, Yea!
I know I need to make room for my program in my days this week, I'm going to our natural foods store today to get some healthy foods, kashi cereal etc, and I am back on the bike at least 45 mins a day, and water! I drank like one glass yesterday, and lots of diet coke and now I feel icky. So water will be a priority again.


And now jut one small thing to relate to you all. This little detour off my program seemed to happen right after I went clothes shopping, at my DH's insistence, because my shirts were all too big. I'm now a ladies XL and a man's Large. So I was shopping and I got so anxious, I kept looking at these "small" shirts and it made me feel really uncomfortable, they all fit. I even bought a little sweater set in black for the airplane. I got home and started eating. What's up with that?
Fear of success? I kept thinking I should be happy! What the heck is wrong with me?

the easy things first: after taking a two-day break because of this icky heat and humidity and ozone, it was another mile for me this morning!!!!! and i'm planning to increase it by early next week, as finishing it gets easier and less stressful on my body.

now, for the really serious stuff... sundrop... give yourself a break on the exercise, first of all. it was a gazillion degrees with high humidity all along the east coast this week. not suitable for exercise, unless you're in the water.

and about the clothing size issues... <sigh> i'm a fine one to talk, since i'm still trying to put 6x clothes on a small 3x body!! fear that you might regain the weight instead of maintaining what you've lost or continuing to lose?

you can't really see yourself in the mirror and you KNOW that fitting into these sizes is WRONG because you can't see your real size?

my sister suggested that i cut out eyeholes in a paper bag and put the bag over my head, and THEN look in the mirror. she said that she read that this depersonalizes what we see and we can look at ourselves objectively.

believe me, i have no answers, but there MUST be someway to differentiate between what we THINK we look like and what we actually DO look like.

but i also think that this is, in some ways, an extension of how we perceived ourselves while heavier. i've NEVER had any sense of my size, not even at 500 pounds. all i knew is that i couldn't move. i STILL have no concept of my size, even after losing the more than 200 pounds, but i know that i can now move!!!!