Susan, I’m so terribly sorry to hear about your loss. :hug: I hope you find the comfort and strength you need with friends and family to get through this very difficult time.

Nelie- I hope they can figure out what’s going on soon! In the mean time enjoy your trip to China and take good care of yourself. Look forward to hearing all about it when you get back.

Hi all. Thanks for the kind thoughts.

Nelie - have a fabulous trip!!!

Did something stupid last night, and feeling achey today as a result. Was doing upper body work along with a client, with her using 3 pound weights in three types of boxing motions. Macho (or is it macha?) me used the 5 pound weights. Dumb! My back is aching like crazy. Found the exercises in David Kirsh's New York Exercise Plan book (not sure of exact title) and clients seem to find it a fun set of exercises; I like it because it is compound and good for toning as an alternative to the heavier, slower exercises I have them do.
Wish I like taking baths, really could use a nice hot one right now. Oh well, lots of stretching tonight should help.

Hope all of you are having a good day.

Susan

Hi LWL,

Nelie - have a good trip!!!

No exercise safar this week, kids have holiday so my routine is busted. Also, with all the things going on simultaneously I thought it good to take it very easy. I postponed a visit to my sister so I had 2 days extra rest without committments.

Today i had a phone call from my lawyer regarding XH and his email about lowering payments. Her plan of action is quite swift: Go to court for preliminary asettlements right away. I have just come back from a round of gathering papers in the different county offices where we currenly live, where the kids were born & where I got married, and she has arrranged for a court hearing in 2 weeks time. Surprising really, and I was sad when I gathered the papers because this really is another phase I'm entering now.

I'm still mentally adjusting to the idea that my divorce is now entering court.

have a great day all,
rabbit

Rabbit, you're very wise. Rest when you can. And eat nutritious and delicious food. Sad things take it out of you. And so do anger-inducing ones. :hug:

Off for dinner now. I think a load of salad, some home-made wholewheat bread and ... some lovely mackerel or sardines. Heaven.

Susan, I've seen that NY Body Makeover book you're talking about. Didn't do anything with it, though! :( But now I'll have to give it another onceover when it comes available in the library again since you're recommending! (I'll stay away from the boxing though!)

RABBIT - Sorry to hear about your continuing situation. Don't overextend yourself. I won't help the situation. Kids on holiday always seem funny to me, I love to spend time with DD when she is off from school but I am exhausted keeping up with a 7 YO.

On the subject of DD, we found a nearby pool with great family swim times, I am thinking how to add that into our schedule but am also holding firm I need to off load some other things first. Just realized I have been on a couple of committees or in groups for 15 years, I need to refresh and reorganize to reflect what I am doing now. So I am thinking there is some serious pool time in our future.

Food is a mess though today, and I am going for Thai food so I will have lots of veggies there. Trying to get to the bottom of everything on my desk. I am winning though I can tell, the pile is going down faster than people can add to it. Goal today is to get out a little early, it is bright and sunny here so maybe DD and I can hit the playground before dinner. :jig:

UBWO at home tonight, need to kick on the cardio tomorrow, and glad to see the family calendar is blissfully clear. :yes:

Friend from England coming in over the weekend but won't meet up with her until Monday. Maybe we can get together another time while she is here, she actually lives in Ibiza now, and we will be staying with her this summer, so I don't feel too pressured to get all my Sue time now. LOL.:love:

hrbabe, let me know what you think of the NY Body Makeover. I have been doing it at home on my own for the past two weeks, in addition to some heavier upper body work, and am finding it very effective--am now in a smaller size pants. I'm bottom heavy, so can't go heavy on weights for lower body, and the different types of squats and lunges and cardio component have really worked for me. I can't do a number of the plyo exercises he suggests as I have a bad knee, but substitute my minitrampoline and treadmill for those.

Rabbit do you have to go to court in person, or can your lawyer represent you? I stayed away from court during my divorce, so I don't have those bad memories to deal with.

Liza, hope you decide on the pool thing with DD...it is such a nice way to spend summer time...

Silverbirch, do you just eat the mackeral and sardines right from the cans? How do you prepare them? I know they are supposed to be really good for you.

Got a good nights sleep and did about 45 minutes of the NY workout this morning, as well as extra treadmill. Haven't been getting any new clients at the gym...things are getting slower, and am going to focus on ME for a while.

Susan

Hi LWL,

Thanks for all the encouragement I get from you all!

Susan - I have to go to court in person, but presently I just see it as one other thing to deal with.

Thanks also for the support in the idea to take it really easy these days... I was not emotionally stable in the beginning of this week, so I really have to take care not to overdo things. Right now I'm trying to put in some houors of work at home, but I"ll take 1 - 1.5 day off to compensate for not making it for the beginning of this week.

Great news on the DD front..she got contactlenses yesterday and she loves it!! I'm very very happy for her as she has quite strong glasses at the moment. I know it is not a really big issue to have strong glasses, but as a girl, and entering secondary school next year, and already being quite small, I feel it is good for her to find out that she can enter into the world of the big children, and not having glasses certainly boosts her self esteem. Apart from that, I got a lot of headaches from having similar strong cilinders in my glasses, and with lenses at least she will not have that problem.

Glorious weather here, I'm off to do some work & then get into the swing of the holidays again.

Liza - definitely see if you can shed some of the 15 yr old comittee memberships & spend some time with DD in the pool!
have a great day all,
rabbit.

:wave:

Hello all! :hug: for all you guys going through tough times.

Eating has been appalling, but nice :lol: I'm full to bursting and I don't think I'll have to eat for at least 3 days! :lol: I had fun with my Mum and Dad, I've chosen THE DRESS - it's a sparkly one, with a lace overlay halter/choker neck. It's BEEEEEYUTIFUL! It's one I tried on before, then I went looking at others, just to make sure!

I'm back at the gym tonight! I have about 2 hours before :yoga: so I'll do a full body weights workout and some cardio. Just need to catch up on my kickboxing classes that I missed, then I'll be A-OK :D

Tinned/canned fish
 

:wave: Good morning, everyone!

Well, Susan, I arrange them nicely on a plate first! :rofl: I buy ones which are canned in extra virgin olive oil and then drain all that off. (Any drips which remain I count as being good for me. :D ) Then, I usually have them with a couple of slices of wholewheat bread or oatcakes, and salad*. I might have the sardines on toast. Toast one side of the wholewheat or other whole grain bread, arrange the sardines on top and flash under the grill again.

(*N.B. For me, salad usually means a pile of raw vegetables without dressing. I've never been a salad dressing person and the lovely taste is enough. I occasionally add a splash of balsamic vinegar to cut the oil.)

I also sometimes have tinned rollmop herrings if I can't find any which aren't tinned. (These are herrings cured with onions, juniper berries and vinegar.) I just love fish. We eat a lot of different fresh fish as well. Last night we had halibut poached gently in milk with a couple of bay leaves, new potatoes (var. Charlotte) with ... a pile of raw veg.

Rabbit, you eat fish pretty regularly too, don't you? Did you mention eels or did I imagine that?

Pool and playgrounds sound nice. The weather was scorching here yesterday (25C) so I could see these in my future.

2F - phew about the dress! Happy you're happy about it. :)

Have a good day, everyone. We can do this, one step at a time. That's all it takes.

SUSAN - I am thinking that realistically I will schedule the pool activities for this fall, right now I am into simplifying and my brother is more than willing to take DD with him and his son who is 5 months apart in age from DD. During the summer she goes to Splash Camp, and as you can tell pool time everyday, unless it is Friday and then it is Beach day. I really don't like the pool but may get into it for the workout and the stamina building.

Did some intervals this morning on the treadmill, I do feel better with that type of workout and the elliptical program reverses direction every once in a while, that is a workout.

NELIE must be flying to China at this point right?? What a great adventure.

RABBIT - Great on the lenses for DD, in fact, I think in a lot of cases, kids do better with the contacts as they fit the eye better, staying focused so the eyesight is better overall.

Beautiful weather today, allergies are kicking but whatever. I am making fajaitas for Cinco de Mayo tonight, brown rice and black beans too. I have found some WW tortillas that are very good as well though DH and DD are not yet going there with me.

2FRU - Congratulations on the dress selection, everything else is easy right?

SILVER - Love fish, love sardines, love it all, sardines with tomato, not packed in tomato as much as slices of tomato. Great stuff. Love eels too, glad to have a large Japanese community near by as they have lots of smoked eel in the stores.

Off to get some more water, have my yogurt, raspberries and whey, the vanilla whey adds some flavor to the plain yogurt so it works well together.

Achoo, the allergies are really knocking me. Terrible sleep last night. Got up late, ate breakfast because I was hungry so I won't do my upper body workout until noon. Going to keep on track as much as possible though being outside is not on my agenda.

Laziest weekend ever. I think I got a little too much Cinco de Mayo in me on Friday, that lunch we were served at the all staff meeting made me feel all bloaty. I did nothing yesterday, I just wasn’t into moving so much. I took the dog out for about 30 min so I guess that’s better than nothing but not what I would call a work out.

I think I’ll do a home strength workout and maybe take the rollerblades out for a run. I’ll be spending the evening at Israel Fest in the Valley to see a band, only $5 entrance fee! Cheap entertainment in LA, wow. And there will probably be falafel (don’t worry I’ll skip the chips ;)).

Back on track tomorrow, Mondays have a way of getting me back on routine, even thought they are pretty much evil.

Hope everyone else is having a good weekend.