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Just a peek...will be back later today, after a nap and decorating the tree!
This is for you Schmalger...another tip to help with the headaches. This is another recipe to support your adrenals. I have used Beiler broth for a number of years. It helps to curb hunger, flushes an imbalance of sodium and helps balance an over-acid system. It is harmless and highly nutritive. I cook up a bigger, batch, blend it up and eat it before meals for a few days. this is a link to a recipe for the broth. http://www.naturalways.com/recipe-Bi...alth-broth.htm As any "natural" restorative strategy, it takes time to work and must be used consistently. And of course, just because it is my cure, I do not mean to try to be a doctor or whatever. Just sharing what works for me. This recipe is a good natural diuretic that actually balances sodium and potassium, rather than stripping your body of sodium and leaving you deficient. I will be back later! I am trying to rest up. I am leaving early tomorrow to take 20 high school students on a two day field-trip to San Francisco. Of course, there will be other chaperones, but still... Sheri |
Daily Exercise Day 19
Level 3 – 2 Pauses used Exercise? Check! Stats? Elliptical - 20 minutes – 3.40 miles Mood? Flabbergasted. I'm disappointed that I only went 20 minutes, but at least I exercised I suppose. I really did push myself, too, hard. It took all I had to go that long. I know, I know. Pathetic. Really though? I couldn’t have gone much farther if you’d held a gun to my head. Don’t know what’s up with that unless it’s just all starting to catch up with me. My legs feel extremely tight and sore, so when I get done with this, I’m going to do some stretches to see if that helps to loosen them up. Another thing that may have contributed to the fact that I couldn’t even make it 30 minutes - which hasn’t happened until today - may be the fact that I worked out late last night and then fairly early today. Maybe it was just too close together. Pure speculation. I won’t make any promises, but I may try to get another 20 minutes in again later today/tonight. I’ll update if I do, but it will still count as part of day 19/21 for the challenge. But if I do get in another 20 minutes? That’d be nearly 7 miles in one day! So I’m definitely considering it; will see how I feel later. I hope everyone has a great ON PLAN day!! :D Some of us are in the home stretch, and others have just recently begun. YOU CAN DO IT LADIES! |
Quixotica - Looks like we were working on our posts at the same time. :D Thank you SO much for all of the information you've been sending my way. I assure you, it is very welcome and appreciated. It means a lot that you're willing to go out of your way in hopes of helping me get healthier and eliminate these headaches. I'll try to make it by a health food store this week for the ingredients for the shakes, and I should be able to get those veggies anywhere. Should be fun; I've never bought a zucchini. :o Quick question about preparing the broth - do you finely chop the veggies first? Probably a very lame question; I was just wondering because the recipe sounds like you just throw the whole veggies in the pot. Not sure if that's right. LOL Also, when you say to use it consistently - what size serving do you use (a cup? more/less?), and how often do you use it to consider it consistent? Do you drink/eat it along with something else, too? Okay, that was way more than one quick question. :^: I understand your disclaimer about not being a doctor, but this certainly can't be BAD for you. ;)
Really, thanks again. You've a wealth of information, and I appreciate you sharing it with me. And I hope you have fun today decorating the tree - and enjoy the nap, too! Try to have fun on the trip to San Francisco. I know it could be stressful - I can't imagine! But I hope you're able to have fun and enjoy! |
Hello everyone! It's been a long couple of days of storms and no electricity/internet but things are back to normal here. I actually managed to stay on track through the craziness, though I did get a little mindless in the last few hours before the power came back. Don't know why I thought eating would make it come on faster ;)
Challenge 1 - Stretches/weights - 12/21 days, 2 pauses used Challenge 2 - no chocolate - 14/21 days, 1 pause (none left!) Challenge 3 - Veggies, veggies, veggies 15/21 days Challenge 4: I will journal EVERYTHING that goes in my mouth, no pauses.7/21 days. Red - I've made a list of things to do when I feel like munching. I figure if I start working through the list first maybe I'll pay attention to what I'm doing and realize I'm not actually hungry.:congrat: on your new record. Modcat - Good to see you around these parts :) Wow, a 5 k and weights! I'm constantly amazed at the workouts all of you get in. Hope the job works out and it's a good fit for you. Schmalger - Sad about the bookstore. We had a similar closure near us. I felt bad but I have to admit I do shop at Amazon a lot. I'm not a big fan of shopping in general so doing it from home works for me. Like you I love books. We have had to set a no new bookcases rule so all new purchases have to fit by either trading in or gifting books I have or borrowing the book I want. Okay, I admit there has been some piling on the shelf too :o Hope your legs have recovered. I bet it was the two workouts close together. Quix - You know where those kisses landed! Your experience with potato chips sounds like mine. I used to throw bags out so no one would know I'd eaten the whole thing. And then I said it was because I was big boned and had a slow metabolism. Have fun in San Fran. Bet you will get tons of walking in! Miriam- Hope the last of the visit was enjoyable and the trip back smooth. Okay, that's my lame attempt at catching up :) Now back to my regularly scheduled weekend chores :eek: ETA - It is 8:30 so I've added today to the totals above :) |
moving right along....
Well, yesterday was weird. I went riding, came home and had planned to just hang out and go to the gym the next day, but I was so energized for some reason that I went to the gym and that involved a 50-minute walk each way. I only jogged for 15 minutes and did some weights, but the whole picture means I did a lot more exercise than if I had just sat home. Not bad, eh?And, I even stopped in a convenience store on the way home and was going to buy some junk snack. They didn't have what I wanted so I left with NOTHING. Wow, right?!
I didn't even eat much after that. Now, that is stranger. I guess what I did was just kind of push home while saying to myself, when I get home I can eat this and this, deciding in advance what I could have, instead of leaving it to the dangerous spur-of-the-moment kind of thing. Then, when I did get home I just had a part of what I'd planned. Perhaps it was knowing I could have it that allowed me not to have it. Yes, twisted, I know. :^: I am coming up on the magical 40, a number linked to the solar system and numerous biblical references. For me, it just marks another day of having stuck to my guns. I admit that yesterday I was feeling very much like hitting my old hangouts, where I can hook up my iPod and listen to the tunes while drinking and talking with the owner of the bar and whatever customers come in. But (sigh) I am just going to have to choose between one or the other, the Saturday night gym date that leaves me nicely sweated out and tired (but, feeling accomplished with something to show off later), or the boozing, smoke-filled, money-wasting (but, FUN for the MOMENT) night on the town. When you think of it, it's not such a hard choice to make.http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...59/bird101.gif Another thing, yesterday I was starting to actually be able to imagine myself looking good in just a T-shirt and jeans. I was wearing that under other things and changing in the gym locker room I could look in the mirror, stand a certain way with gut sucked in and actually picture it. Wow. It was nice. Before that at home, I was contemplating all the fat all over me and instead of getting super bummed out about it I thought, well, look, there is lots of room for improvement and improving it (i.e. LOSING it!) would mean I can really look different. Now please understand, the very ability to think like this is an amazing development for me!! I don't know what has caused it. It may be because I am starting to see something despite the fat and loose skin, like a mirage of the me that could be. Now, I admit, trying on clothes that don't fit and not seeing progress there REALLY gets me angry and down, but I've decided to stay away from the clothes a bit. They are not always the best gauge because the body changes in other ways too, or shrinks in a way that may not be apparent from a certain clothing item. OK, ENOUGH of me. I am really babbling, aren't I? Heh, check out Jen on her blog. Is that a before and after to die for, or what??! http://priorfatgirl.blogspot.com/200...to-myself.html Also, I recorded a weight this morning that has only been bested once this entire year!!!! http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...ret59/sun1.gif No Booze Day 18/39 complete no pauses allowed (started Nov. 5) First round completed Nov. 25 No Smoking (Started Nov. 5) Day 18/39 complete no pauses allowed (started Nov. 5) First round completed Nov. 25 No Sugar Day 16/37 complete no pauses allowed (started Nov. 7) First round completed Nov. 27 Write-it-down Challenge Day 12/32 completed no pauses allowed (started Nov. 11) First round completed Dec. 1 ************** Cyndi -- Amazing you were able to stick with your challenges despite the storm and blackouts. But you know, I don't think eating during the blackout was such a bad thing to do. I do remember something back in, what was it, physics or something in high school, where there is a Law that states something about frenzied consumption of food during a blackout expediting the return of electricity. I think it was a formula like this. SGTx2#$+void+334-(kjoules)=Exyt™power£¢∞ߺ It may have been a copyright sign instead of the trademark though, not sure. It also can be that I dreamt it all. I did fail physics... Heh, thanks for the congrats on my record :thanks: and good for you for listing up the things you can do instead of munching! schmalger -- Hi there! :wave: You're doing a great job on your challenge. There will be days where you just can't seem to get the same energy, But, doing just a little itsy bit of something is good just for the habit. And 20 minutes wasn't itsy bitsy. Strange, but I've been feeling the same way. I just can't push, push the way I was. It may be a depletion of my glycogen stores, which happens when you're doing a lot of exercise and not allowing much time to refuel. BUT, that's when the body really starts drawing on the fat stores, which is why I recommend doing even just a little. You don't want to overtrain, get sick and be totally sidelined (which I have often done) but you don't need to totally sit out and chance getting out of the habit. So, how did it go? Did you do another 20? Recently, when this happens to me, I switch over to the bike or other cardio machine. I feel like I've done so much more when I stick to one thing instead of doing 5 here, 5 there, 5 there, but it's probably the same, if not better. Heck, the heart doesn't care what is making it pound. Just the muscles would know and that shouldn't matter. I guess it would be better to switch things around. You've been absolutely amazing with your challenge. You're nearly through, what, just two days left?! http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...59/wow_001.gif You are absolutely tearing through this challenge!! I hope you're feeling better. How is the stomach? I was reading where you have to eat really ripe bananas for them not to make your stomach hurt. If you eat the nice firm ones, it'll do it. Well, I'm glad I inspire you but I don't feel like much of an inspiration. Sure glad I don't come across as a lush. Have you fooled right well, don't I? ..... JUST KIDDING! :rofl: No, you got it right there, it was just getting to be too much of a habit and I know what habits lead to because of the eating. And though a bit of fat isn't unhealthy, staying out till dawn wreaks havoc on a lot of things, not to mention my appearance and the sorry state of my finances...read, debts. :eek: "Assessed it, addressed it." I like that! Very snappy! I'm afraid it's going to be a while before I can make room to do Jillian. The cats are preventing me from cleaning my room (my God, she stoops to blaming the cats!! Has she no shame! Next she'll probably blame the weather :lol3: ) since they're all lying about on the electric carpet. http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...et59/3cats.jpg Also, it's cold and rainy out today, so that means I can't move things outside in order to move things around to find the things I can throw out.... I am exactly like you when it comes to books, schmalg. Exactly! That is sad about the little bookstore. I wish we had things like that here, but then it wouldn't be Tokyo. There is a used store but that's different. That's so sad to hear it had to close. That is amazing that this woman has lost 185 lbs. Wow and double wow! You really should talk to her. Take it from a reporter. You don't know anyone personally until you talk to them. ;) Quix -- Good luck on your trip with the students to Frisco. Wow. Thanks for the nutrition help too. I am a huge (that is NOT meant as a pun!) advocate of eating healthfully. |
Originally Posted by redballoon: And FWIW my cats are responsible for all sorts of things I do and do not get done ;) |
Red Alert!!!!
Oh, no, trouble just arrived! :eek: The mailman just delivered a package from my sister and the label says there are sweet things, as in sweet, YUMMY things that I can't have. My gosh, what am I going to do??!?!?
Well, there are a couple options. 1) Don't open it until I allow myself to eat sugar. 2) Open it but just (don't you love that little word?) don't eat the stuff. 3) Open it and eat it, perhaps even ALL of it! This is tough, especially on a day where I am feeling sore and annoyed and NOT in the mood for going to the gym...though I think I can force myself to. HELP!!!!! This is it...the package....it's like a bomb waiting to go off, resulting in severe damage to my hips and stomach, not to mention the scale. Any damage will be certain to send me plummeting into a pit of self-loathing. http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...9/D1000625.jpg |
Don't open it!!!!
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what if...
Oh, Shad, you are making me laugh here with your big red warning! That is just TOO funny! You're the best. Thank you so much!!
.....but, but ..... I want to open it and just look at the stuff. What if there's stuff in there that could, you know, go bad? Or what if my sister feels bad when I say I can't open it? Or what if there's like a lottery ticket or something that I have to tell my sis the number of and I, like, you know, win or something? Or what if...... Or what if you just shut the frig up, thank your sister and then get your sorry arse to the gym!!! ......oh.....OK. :( I was, you know, just worried and all..... http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...59/penguin.gif |
RED, Don't Open it!
:hug:Take it to the smoke filled-bar you are doing such a good job staying away from, plop it on the counter, smile and let bartender know they are a donation, turn around and walk out.
Sisters, gotta love 'em.:dizzy: Schmalger-I think it best to cut up the veggies first as they cook more quickly and thus have more vitamins. I eat the broth before a meal as an appetite supressant and I also eat/slurp it as in-between meal snacks. I also make mine with salt-free chicken broth...that makes it taste a little better. The parsley makes it pretty potent flavored. Cyndi-So, you are playing "Little House on the Prairie" without power, phone etc.? My kids used to love it when we had to break out all the candles and lanterns and cook scrambled eggs and pancakes for dinner on the camping stove. They also loved to get to eat the whole carton of ice cream before it all melted. We have wood heat, so no problem there. Hope you are staying warm and that the storm eases up soon. I will catch up with all of you and my challenges, which I have not been doing very good on, when I return from the San Francisco trip. I am excited now that it is almost here and now that the chance of rain and hail in the city is less. Chat with you on Monday! Sheri |
Thanks Quix, you are a gem too! It's a cool and quirky idea, which fits me well, but!!!!!! there is no way in heaven or **** that anyone is getting a hold of this package other than ME! My lil sis knows my most favorite of favorites and, even if I don't eat them, I am going to fantasize over them for a while. At the risk of breaking my own rules here, just let me say that my favorite of favorites -- black licorice --- gets a big "blech!" from 99 percent of Japanese. So, it would be a TOTAL waste.
I just wrote to my sister and thanked her and told her the dilemma. She didn't know a thing about my challenge and seeing as I don't do this well for this long usually, you have to forgive her thinking I just might be successful this time around. Oh, gosh, there's the sun out at last after the rain. Really better get to the gym now. Thanks again. Later! :wave: |
Don't open it - go to the gym - get off this site - just do it
Don't make me come there and take it away. |
......ok, ok, I'm going, I'm going ..... big, mean, Shad.... :( |
You haven't gone yet. I can still see that egg glowing. Go on, get out of there, leave the parcel under the bed (oh that's right the bed is on the floor) or the table or in the tatami well or behind the loo - somewhere where you won't trip over it and have it in your face all the time!!!!
Move woman |
You still haven't gone yet!!!!!!
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