Took today to rest, so my steps will be under 20,000 today.
Still feeling quite discouraged about everything, but I'd rather keep this to myself.
Not even sure I want yoga this week.
Progress as of today: 42 lbs lost so far, only 9.5 lbs to go!
Gained 3 pounds... Wow. I don't even know what to say.
I'm not even sure what to change because I feel like I'm doing all the right things....
Progress as of today: 42 lbs lost so far, only 9.5 lbs to go!
happy 4th! you don't have to ever make a thousand changes at once. try to think of only a little change or to keep doing what you are doing for further results! <3
thanks for asking about me!
I think I could have done without this past week at work. I won't spend any more energy on the negatives there. I am off today (Friday) for the July 4th weekend - thank goodness, much needed time away. Somehow it doesn't feel right to be at home, but I'll take it.
Because of the extra day, I've washed the bedding and it's hanging outside to dry in the sanitizing sun. It is already uncomfortably warm and promises to get only warmer as the day moves on. Once the afternoon comes, I would like to work out in the front yard, which will be in the shade, to do some weeding.
In my funk this week, the only goal I could come up with for July is to "just get through it". And that made me so sad, because this is our summer month. (OK, August is too, but that has a twinge of autumn in it. July is the REAL summer.) What made me sad was that rather than wanting to enjoy summer or seize the day or make something of this time, my only goal was to hurry through it so that it would be over :-(
A LOT of THAT attitude is because of work and the rotten week I had. I'm only going to get busier, which is ridiculous. I just realized that a BIG part of the drain of work is all the DRAMA. I need to shed all of that **** and focus on my balance.
I truly do want to enjoy this summer month. Even just little joys like sitting out on my deck. Watching birds build their nests. Watching my butterfly garden come to fruition. I'm so filled with negative emotions by the time I get off of work that it's impossible to enjoy the time I have at home.
So I do have a couple of goals for July:
I think that's it.
Progress as of today: 45 lbs lost so far, only 6.5 lbs to go!
That's right....enjoy your summer!!!!! Just enjoy this July as you should! go outside when you can, take walks maybe later in the evenings when it's cooler out (after 7:30!)...try to adjust your schedule and NOT be at everyone beck & call.
enjoy the summer you deserve to have. you work hard. play hard ;)
i don't mean tire yourself out, i mean enjoy the july month as you want to.
i surely won't stop you!
Oh yesterday was quite the challenge. I don't enjoy getting yelled at by clients and agents for things that are not of my doing. Mistakes Girl caused some of it with her mistakes. The other was a client going off on me because his well & septic evaluation is taking too long. Just pitiful to hear a grown man act like a baby throwing a tantrum. And me getting the brunt of it.
Yoga was very much needed last night. I think I was the only one signed up, though. And that's sad.
Afterwards I had some ice cream, which was a stupid thing to do. Husband complained that there wasn't enough ice cream to fill a bowl, but when I looked into both containers, there was plenty in both! So I had some of both. DUMB!
AND I did this after being secretly jealous of the officer manager at the PT clinic downstairs (the one who had the weight loss surgery) because her legs are so skinny, while mine remain the size of tree trunks.
No weight training, no bike last night. My mood is foul. I'm feeling rather depressed.
Progress as of today: 45 lbs lost so far, only 6.5 lbs to go!
also, i also dislike grownups who have temper tantrums!
i also struggled to exercise last night and it left me out of starts. i guess we have to plan it to be more important!
Today will be tougher because I did not sleep well at all last night. So I'm starting the day very tired.
Slipped up a bit last night and had too many tortillas chips with dinner ~ 3 cups worth, give or take. Well, at least I didn't have any dessert cravings after that. The chips are so good when first opening the bag. Ahh... This is why I weigh too much.
I did not do weights, either. I just not work up the motivation to do so. Just sad.
I'm signing up for online yoga for tonight and Thursday. My daughter has plans tonight, so it will be just me, and I think online is fine.
I'm not going to Tuesday yoga because the instructor posted pictures on Facebook that she had a family get together over the weekend - no masks, no social distancing. I don't like doing her classes online, so there you go.
On this topic, Associate Attorney posted a video on his Facebook feed that he took at my church. It was a celebration of an Eagle scout project - again, no masks, no social distancing. I was SO tempted to call him out on that, on Facebook, but I didn't want to make any church enemies - BUT I might talk to him about it in person.
I'm so glad it will be a short work week.
Progress as of today: 45 lbs lost so far, only 6.5 lbs to go!
Guess working in the garden tonight is a priority.
One wrinkle in this going-to-the-gym debate is that the hours have been curtailed. Instead of being 24/7, now they are open from 5a-10p. Since my daughter works 2nd shift, the 10p closing time doesn't work for her, since she gets off at 11p. She could go before work, but she's not really a morning person.
Alls I know for sure right now is that I'm SO glad it's a shortened week this week, because of the 4th of July holiday this coming up weekend.
I did legs and chest and back weight training yesterday. Not a lot, but enough.
I realized this morning that I've basically wasted my time this first half of 2020. Well.... maybe that's not fair of me to say, because everything changed with COVID. Perhaps if I had been able to continue at the gym, that things would have been different.
This is the year that I turn 50 (soon), and I decided that I'm going to give myseklf the rest of this year (2020) to work my inner thigh problem. And at the end of the year, if I'm still struggling with my fat knees (and fat inner thighs), I am going to consult with a medical professional about doing something about it.
Progress as of today: 45 lbs lost so far, only 6.5 lbs to go!
This is the last weekend weigh-in for June, although for my goals, I can still weigh in on Tuesday, June 30th. I'm not sure if I will or not...
I did not get into the 130's as I had hoped. I had a couple of rough weeks where I strayed away from being focused on my goals, but I was able to see where the problem lies - I EAT TOO MUCH - and made some progress this week.
Last night was tough though. Dinner was shrimp and salad, and I was fine, but it didn't hold me, so I went to bed a little hungry. Oh how I wanted a dish of ice cream, but I wanted the best possible weigh-in today, so I made myself a big thing of flavored water (artificially sweetened, unfortunately) and went upstairs to get ready for bed.
Today, my gym opens up for the first time since the COVID shelter-down. With COVID numbers going up - although I think Illinois has been keeping it lower and steady - I think it's too soon for my comfort level to go back. I can put my membership on hold, but my husband and my daughter can't WAIT to get back into the gym. My hesitation comes in where, what if I suspend my membership for July and then regret it because I can't go with them?
Granted I wouldn't be able to go with them often because they usually workout at 11:30p when my daughter gets off of work, but on my daughter's days off, we would all go together -- unfortunately, going to the gym with them on M/Tu/W would cut into 2 of the yoga classes I attend at the studio.
Also, I'm starting to think that I should do studio yoga from home - this too because of COVID. The Tuesday class is best when it's attended live - the instructor doesn't translate well online - but she does this deep breathing (very common in yoga) that is shooting germs into the air! If I'm the only one in the studio, I can stand farther away than 6 feet from her, but ... UGH!!! The expulsion of the breath is exactly why we should all be wearing masks -- and then to go to a class where I'm actively doing this on purpose???
Finally, my last reservation about going to yoga or the gym is that I'm not all that confident that I am 100% healthy. I was talking to Nice Lady about this, because she thinks it's only a matter of time before we all get it. I said that maybe we all have had it (non-symptomatic) and just don't realize it. But then I reconsidered that because I think if COVID came into my house, my husband would have serious symptoms due to his auto-immune condition.
In spite of the heat and humidity here, I have outside stuff to do. I would like to repot 2 plants, gotta hang the laundry outside, I want to hose down a large rug and let it dry in the sun.
This is the last weekend I have to read the yoga book I checked out from the library before COVID. I might try to do that.
Mostly, my goals this weekend are to:
With asthma, I'm in the risk group so just not doing anything with extra risk I can do at home. Contemplating canceling Disneyland pass as well. I'll still do stuff like hiking, food shopping, try to go back to work when I can...
I think it's not a matter of not getting it... Just controlling when you get it... Give it enough time for health professionals to have some idea of what works and what doesn't. Supposedly a vaccine could be out in September/October. And it is summer anyway. Time to be outdoors.
I've heard that the vaccine won't be out until early next year, but by Sept/October there could be some promising anti-body therapies.
But for husband who has a suppressed immune system, HE's the one that should not be going anywhere. Yet, I completely understand WHY he really wants to go.
i agree with you, and others, who say that it's not the time to head back to the gym. i totally think you should wait it out and maybe not go back for AWHILE. i think that by going to the gym, you are setting yourself up (and all the others going back) to get sick.
It's "Slow Flow" yoga, and the point behind it is to become aware of one's breath, and then to connect one's movement with one's breath. But exhaling hard and open-mouthed --- just like Horn said above, This is not the time to be doing that.
The crazy work overload of the past 2 weeks finally got to me yesterday. I think the breaking point was when TOM showed up. All bets are off when it comes to those hormones.
I started to see my own mistakes at work. Had a headache. Crabby at my husband. Woke up at 1a and couldn't fall back asleep.... at least there is no yoga tonight so I can just relax.
The only positive is that I've been able to keep the eating in check, although last night was a struggle.
Progress as of today: 44 lbs lost so far, only 7.5 lbs to go!
And after today it’s the weekend so just a few more hours and you can relax :-)
Omg I had a huge entry which I lost because I pressed the wrong button on my phone.
I HATE WRITING HERE ON MY PHONE!!!!
Well I was probably writing too much anyway. The gist of it was that while studio yoga was helpful in establishing boundaries with work - gotta leave on time to make it to class - it's also starting to be a bit too much, because of the amount of work I have.
And it doesn't help that so much of my valuable time is wasted on correcting Mistakes Girl, taking phone calls that are too long and not productive, and listening to the boss rattle on and on about non work things. He's bored. I'm really busy.
So 3x a week is maybe too much for yoga. But I'm not sure which class I would cut. Something to think about....
Especially since the gyms will be opening on Saturday. So I will need to figure out if I'm going, and if so, how to fit that all in.
Eating went well yesterday, although I had Indian food leftovers for lunch and dinner, and that's quite high in carbs and calories. I tried hard to control portions.
Still had a mad desire for sweets after dinner, but just upstairs instead, with decaf and water.
Progress as of today: 44 lbs lost so far, only 7.5 lbs to go!
Also something to take from leg cramps, perhaps you can do it sometimes in the morning instead of your bike or just do a half evening session of yoga (a shorter one) instead of skipping totally?
I'm becoming quite frustrated with the number of errors that Mistakes Girl has made in opening up files. TWICE now, she's had the wrong address for the file, so when I prepare amendments, they are wrong, which is very embarrassing.
Everyone knows that she does this, but we all really like her. So nothing changes, except that I have to take time out of my busy day to check all of the files that she opens now. And even so I don't always catch her mistakes.
All of this makes me busier than I already am.
If the mistakes affect me, I correct them. But if not, I leave them for Male Co-Worker to discover, because someone else needs to know that she's doing this. Otherwise I become the nagging bad guy.
Trying to eat less and not snack so much. Thought about my goals and my physique and how my clothes fit... I eat too much.
I think I'm going to invest in a $10 food scale for occasional tracking. This would be short term so that I don't become obsessed.
Yin yoga was so nice yesterday, but the teacher changed her routine because I didn't bring any props, which I have at home. I will pack them in this really ugly bag I have so that it's easy to bring them to any class. I haven't done this before because the bag is really ugly, but I'm not going to let this vanity inconvenience anyone.
Because of COVID , you have to bring your own props, to minimize germ transmission by sharing blocks, bolsters , mats, etc.
I went alone because my daughter was still quite sore from her physical training on Saturday. I hope she will come wth me tonight for Slow Flow. I was having issues with the online registration last night.
Progress as of today: 44 lbs lost so far, only 7.5 lbs to go!
I’m glad someone else will see her mistakes good with that too so it’s not only you
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Hope you're okay soon.
KathyBlue on 07/06/2020:
My 5 year old kid nowadays, when he gets frustrated or something, he sits down or just stands, depending on the place where we are at that moment, closes his eyes and put himself into a yoga position and says "let me breathe in, and out, and think..." LOL
Horn_of_plenty on 07/06/2020:
it's OK to relax. take the week off and relax then...sending you a hug!