Exercise
1 hour jog

Meals
Berry drink
Tofu Scramble
Mock Chicken patty, pierogies

Hope all went well with you and your tooth. Hope you get well soon! Guess you will be on a liquid diet for a few days, or just a soft food diet anyway.

I spent the day working on taxes. Still a bit more to do, but getting closer to getting them done.

Agility classes had a one month break and should be picking up again in April. Hope to get a bit more from them soon.

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Tip of the Day: Make Healthy Living a Lifestyle

While this may sound like just another overused cliché, there is actually a lot of meaning packed into. We can not expect to be healthy, both mentally or physically, if we view exercise or eating well as something we must force upon ourselves. This is because your body, and mind, have built-in defensive mechanisms against anything we internally don't want to do. This is usually expressed in the form of stress and goes beyond just health and fitness. Even in our work and social lives, when we have to force ourselves to wake up every morning to work, or force ourselves to get along with people around us, then this will not last too long.

Thus the best way to become healthy is to make exercise and eating right a part of your lifestyle, or even more so, a part of who you are. How much a part of your life will depend on your personality and what you would like to accomplish. And the best way to incorporate this is by gradually adding new exercises or better eating habits to your daily routine, and from there allow yourself to figure out what works for you. If a certain exercise routine is not working for you, then change it, simple as that. That is why it is best to incrementally improve how you exercise and when, so that you can better assess if something works for you before you build upon it. Same thing goes with eating healthy, and in fact everything else in life. So make sure to always listen to your body and mind, because often they know things you don't!

Source: https://bmicalculator.mes.fm/health-...ng-a-lifestyle

Exercise
1 1/2 hrs. morning barn chores
1/2 hr. evening barn chores

Meals
oatmeal with blueberries
yogurt
applesauce
soup

Down 1/2 lb. Better than nothing.....

Tooth is gone! Took about 15 minutes and no pain. My jaw is a bit sore and I still need to eat soft food, but all is good.

Maybe we will see the sun today. I hope so.

Going to a Spring craft show today. I really don't need anything, but I like to see the items for sale.

Have a great Saturday!

Morning
2 hour walk

Meals
Egg omelet with mock sausage patties
Mock Chicken patty with pierogies
Bean burrito with guacamole and chips

Congratulations Renee!! You are moving still in the right direction. It is funny how you make it sound like it isn't that big a deal, but every little bit counts. Great job! As for me.....well no loss here this week, but I haven't lost hope yet. I am counting on next week.

Glad to hear that all went quickly for you with your tooth getting pulled. Hope it heals just as quickly.

We went to a Home & Garden show today. It was very interesting. We are suppose to have someone come out and check out our basement and help us figure out how to fix it so it doesn't smell as moldy.

Tomorrow is suppose to be Sunny here. We shall see. Won't be walking too much though. I think I am getting a shin splint in my one leg. Probably need to take it easy on it for a few days and keep it wrapped.

Have a great Sunday!

Tip of the Day: Being Thin Does Not Mean You Are Fit


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This is a very important health tip that we should always keep in mind, even to the point of not bothering to weigh ourselves. The reason is that being thin does not always mean that you are you fit or healthy. This is because bodyweight is not the only thing that factors into being healthy. Many factors go beyond just you are outer appearance, and those are how strong your heart, lungs, and overall body and brain functions are. The other factor is muscle mass. If you are thin but lack in muscle, you may fit in the category of "skinny fat". This term comes from the fact that if you lack in muscle, regardless of your weight, your bodyweight must still be comprised of something, and often times that is in excess fat.

Thus don't worry too much about how thin you are but rather use more accurate measures of health and fitness. Such measures could be simply how well you feel, or how much weights you can lift, or even how fast or long you can run for. Improving on these factors can go a long way in improving and maintaining your overall health!

Source https://bmicalculator.mes.fm/health-...an-you-are-fit

1 1/2 hrs. morning barn chores
1 hr. walk
1/2 hr. evening barn chores

Meals
oatmeal
chicken soup, saltines
rigatoni

Put up some tree swallow birdhouses yesterday. I have a few more to do. The barn swallows should arrive in a couple of weeks, followed by the purple martins. I am determined to get some martins this year!

Have a blessed Sunday!

Exercise
2 hour walk
1 hour walk
Mowed grass, so more walking

Meals
Tofu scramble
Chile Relleno
Some Irish cheese slices
Bean enchiladas, guacamole

Today was a beautiful day. Started off cold, but got cold later.
I was up to midnight last night, but I finished my taxes. Yeah.
Slept in to around 0800, and then went for a walk.
Went to the second church service today. A bit more crowded.
Overall, a very nice day.

Next weekend is your rummage sale. Are people getting excited about it?

Guess you will be working with Steel for your next horse show. On rainy/muddy days, do you work with him in one of the barns?

I hope you are successful this year with the Martins.

Hope you had a nice Sunday. Wishing you an even better Monday.

Tip of the Day: Maintaining Weight Loss Is Hard

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Losing unnecessary weight is hard enough, but the real challenge is maintaining weight loss. This is because the body, and brain, has natural mechanisms to fight off against ANY change in weight. This is because the body gets used to whatever weight that you may have been for long periods of time. Such mechanisms include feeling much hungrier than usual as well as burning calories more efficiently to burn overall less calories. This means that if someone has been, for example, 200 pounds for many years and than suddenly loses 20 pounds, that person will feel hungrier and burn less calories than someone that has been 180 pounds for years. This can be summed up by your body getting "used to a certain body weight".

But knowing this fact is important to always keep in mind when trying to maintain any healthy weight loss. Thus you should expect to feel hungrier, and also expect that you would need to eat less calories than others at the same weight body who have been at that weight for a long time. But the good thing is the your body will gradually adapt to the new body weight, and thus gaining weight becomes harder!

This process also works in the reverse so if you want to gain more weight, expect it also to be difficult initially but gradually this will be come easier as your body gets used to the change.

Source https://bmicalculator.mes.fm/health-...t-loss-is-hard

Exercise
1 1/2 hrs. morning barn chores
1 hr. raking stones out of the grass and back into the driveway
1/2 hr. evening barn chores

Meals
oatmeal with blueberries
chicken soup, saltines
banana
sliced peaches, tortilla casserole, rice

It must be a relief to have your taxes done......

The rummage sale preparation is going great! I have a huge amount of items people have donated. The leftover items also get donated. The books go to our local library, the clothing goes to our local homeless shelter and all the other items go to a needy man who sells at flea markets. So it's a win, win all the way around.

Yes, I've been working with Steel a bit. I can work some in the barn, but mostly in the stone driveway.

I already have some tree swallows. That was fast!



Have a great Monday!

Exercise
10 flights of stairs
10 modified pushups
45 minute walk

Meals
Berry drink
Mexican casserole
Irish cheese, Tortilla chips, hummus

The tree swallows moved right in!! Must be previous tenants. :)

Sounds like you have the best kind of rummage sale.

Have a terrific Tuesday!

Tip of the Day:


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1 1/2 hrs. morning barn chores
1/2 hr. evening barn chores

Meals
oatmeal with blueberries
banana
yogurt
grapes
coleslaw, sloppy joes, boiled potato, peas

Warm with a bit of rain here today. The grass is really starting to green-up. This is my favorite time of the year when everything is waking up.

Going to Red Lobster tonight for dinner. It's our 36th wedding anniversary. My, how time flies!

Have an awesome Tuesday!

Exercise
10 flights of stairs
45 minute walk

Meals
Scrambled eggs, hash brown, and biscuit
Subway veggie sub
Chile Relleno

Noticed you ate kind of lightly yesterday. Must have been prepping for your Red Lobster meal. Happy Anniversary!!!!


Tip of the Day:

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day, as soon as we wake, we have the opportunity to create something magical.
No matter what transpires with outward forces, the only thing that really matters
is your attitude toward your own world.
You have the power to create or extinguish your own happiness.
It starts with a positive thought that steadily grows to a natural disposition.
It will further flourish and breed happiness in others because positivity is highly contagious.
Simply choose to be happy, starting today.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving,
but like morning light it scattered the night
and made the day worth living. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Exercise
1 1/2 hrs. morning barn chores
1/2 hr. evening barn chores

Meals
oatmeal with blueberries
banana
2 pancakes
salad, coconut shrimp, lobster tail, stringbeans with mushrooms, mashed potatoes

Had a very nice day yesterday. Great dinner at Red Lobster.

Today starts the set-up of the rummage sale. I have a good team of helpers so there shouldn't be any problems. We'll finish tomorrow and then have the sale Friday and Saturday. Lots of fun and good fellowship!

Looks like we're going to get lots of rain tomorrow.

Have an awesome day!

Exercise
45 minute walk

Meals
Tofu scramble
Grilled veggie sandwich
Mock Fish bites

Glad you had a nice anniversary. I hope the bad rainy weather avoids your rummage sale area so you can have a great and successful event. I hear it will get a little bit cooler again. We had a bit of rain here, but it is still pretty dry and the plants are all starting to reflect it. I am going to have to start watering my bushes and trees. I think a few of them have already gone past the saving point.

Have a terrific Tuesday!

Tip of the Day: Success, Failure, and the Chipmunk
By Kathy Wilson, http://ezinearticles.com/?Success,-F...unk&id=1423390

The view from my office is my back yard, most of which I've left in it's natural state and which also abuts a greenbelt. There is a wonderful variety of wildlife that passes by my office window every day - deer, raccoons, chipmunks, and all kinds of birds. Both the birds and the chipmunks are drawn to the seed in the birdfeeder I've placed right outside my office window. The birdfeeder has a "squirrel proof" shield on it and is hung quite high on a metal pole. However, this contraption apparently isn't chipmunk proof. I found myself vastly entertained by a very determined chipmunk who spent days leaping from the pole to the birdfeeder. He fell many times, and each time would immediately scamper back up the pole where he would try again.

I began to wonder if this little fella was a little nutty (pun intended) as he repeated his fruitless actions time after time. Then I noticed he seemed to be using the information about his most recent attempt to calculate his attempt and improve his aerial acrobatics. He'd carefully eyeball the situation, gauging how much oomph to put in his leap and where to aim for the best landing. He soon became so adept at it that he was no longer missing. He would scamper up the pole to the exact spot he knew was the best launching place, leap with the exact amount of push-off, and land exactly where he knew he could easily grab toe-holds. Then he'd eat the birdseed until he was full, jump down, and scamper off to play in the trees.

This chipmunk is one very smart, and now very fat, little guy. While I was watching this process, I was reminded of one of the most important parts of accomplishing goals:

Failure isn't failure. It's learning.

Each time you experience a set-back in achieving one of your goals, you are gaining knowledge that will assist you not only as you are working toward your goal, it will also make your end result more grand. I invite you to look at your "failures" and set-backs from a new perspective. Ask, "what have I learned in this that can help me in achieving my goal?" I guarantee you'll find valuable information lurking in that "failure".

Exercise
1 1/2 hrs. morning barn chores
13,103 steps
1/2 hr. evening barn chores

Meals
oatmeal with blueberries
banana
chicken salad
coleslaw, tilapia, carrots

Did a lot of walking yesterday setting up the rummage sale. Today, I will price items and straighten everything up.

Getting lots of rain here....hope you get some too.

Have a great Thursday!

Meals
10 flights of stairs
45 minute walk

Meals
Sesame bagel with fat free cream cheese
Chickpeas and spinach, with Swiss cheese
Mock fish fillets, tofu, zucchini, tomato scramble

Wow, you did a bunch of walking yesterday!! That is great. I hope the rain doesn't ruin your rummage sale. Do you have any of it in covered buildings? My husband said we got a bunch of rain here today. Which is good because we needed it. It took me 3 hours to get home from work tonight. A truck overturned on the road and traffic was backed up for miles. In one section, it took me a 1 hour 15 minutes to go 4 1/4 miles. I think I can walk that fast.

I hope you great weather tomorrow for your rummage sale. It is suppose to be much cooler here. Have a wonderful Friday!

Tip of the Day: Get Motivated

Sometimes the hardest part of making a big change is getting motivated.
At the below link, you will find 25 seriously inspiring women who have lost
between 84 and 205 pounds each.....


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Exercise
1 1/2 hrs. morning barn chores
1/2 hr. evening barn chores

Meals
oatmeal with blueberries
roast beef sandwich
cantaloupe, chicken stir-fry, rice

No worries about the rummage sale and rain. I'm having it in the banquet hall of the church. We're supposed to have good weather, so things should go well.

Hope you have an easier time getting home tonight....

Enjoy the day!

Exercise
1 hour walk
45 minute walk

Meals
Tofu scramble
Mexican casserole
Bean burrito, guacamole with blue chips

We had cold and windy weather today. Cloudy skies. That's great that you can use the banquet hall. It should work out great. Hope you have a successful two days.

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