I learned the difference between good idea and bad idea exercise
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Verity1111
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Like walking home a few miles is a good idea. However, walking home a mile while carrying 75lbs of groceries (which you can not lift more than letting your arms hang because you're not in that kind of shape), in a snowstorm in the city... to the point your hands are shaking horribly when you get home is a BAD idea. I forgot our grocery cart and figured, why go back? No big deal. Until I spent over $100. lol. Now my upper and lower back hurt this morning/afternoon and my leg above my knee is badly bruised from being hit in the leg by groceries. I didn't go out to do it for exercise technically but, still, it is reminding me to not push myself too far. Lol. So, let's be careful with our bodies because most of us only get one.
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Now that was rather silly of you!
I hope you feel better soon! :flowerforyou:4 -
This is why I use a back pack when I go food shopping.6
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If you walk, go with a list and stick to it! I only live two blocks from my main grocer, and actually live behind my secondary (Sprouts, y u so expensive). I still have this issue occasionally.2
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ladyreva78 wrote: »Now that was rather silly of you!
I hope you feel better soon! :flowerforyou:
Yes it was lol but I just thought it was ironic I dont do enough GOOD exercise but I will torture my body LOLponyosquid wrote: »This is why I use a back pack when I go food shopping.
I had a backpack. It was alot of food. lol. A LOT. I bought 70oz of oil alone plus had about 10 bags full. Bananas in my backpack. lol.If you walk, go with a list and stick to it! I only live two blocks from my main grocer, and actually live behind my secondary (Sprouts, y u so expensive). I still have this issue occasionally.
can't do it! I have tried. But also I have 2 kids with autism and one other child. My fiance eats meat and I dont and I needed food for all of us. 5 separate diets. I'm a full time college student too and my fiance works full time plus no car so I rarely get to go to the store (1-2 times per month). Once I was there I figured I couldnt waste the trip lol6 -
Verity1111 wrote: »can't do it! I have tried. But also I have 2 kids with autism and one other child. My fiance eats meat and I dont and I needed food for all of us. 5 separate diets. I'm a full time college student too and my fiance works full time plus no car so I rarely get to go to the store (1-2 times per month). Once I was there I figured I couldnt waste the trip lol
Well, you can, but you aren't doing it on the premise of a 'wasted trip' if not.
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Verity1111 wrote: »can't do it! I have tried. But also I have 2 kids with autism and one other child. My fiance eats meat and I dont and I needed food for all of us. 5 separate diets. I'm a full time college student too and my fiance works full time plus no car so I rarely get to go to the store (1-2 times per month). Once I was there I figured I couldnt waste the trip lol
Well, you can, but you aren't doing it on the premise of a 'wasted trip' if not.
Well if I did that no one would eat for days
so I cant. I need to shop for a minimum of 2 weeks for 5 people. And most of the food is premade because I also dont have the time to be making things from scratch 12 times a day (3 meals x 4 people). Plus I am in the middle of midterms and studying for state exams (I'm pre-pharmacy) and I've been sick for a month (they think I have an autoimmune disease). So Im kind of booked up. xD Getting only a few things would set us back someone wouldnt be eating. I rarely have a sitter unless Im in school. I could have brought the cart though, but I forgot it.
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I'm sorry you're so sore! That'll probably be the last time you forget your cart, though. Rest as much as you can for a few days. We've all of us gone a little overboard with exercise from time to time -- but that sounds like a really hard slog for you. Hope you feel better soon!3
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I know that pain! I hope you recover soon1
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Verity1111 wrote: »Verity1111 wrote: »can't do it! I have tried. But also I have 2 kids with autism and one other child. My fiance eats meat and I dont and I needed food for all of us. 5 separate diets. I'm a full time college student too and my fiance works full time plus no car so I rarely get to go to the store (1-2 times per month). Once I was there I figured I couldnt waste the trip lol
Well, you can, but you aren't doing it on the premise of a 'wasted trip' if not.
Well if I did that no one would eat for days so I cant. I need to shop for a minimum of 2 weeks for 5 people. And most of the food is premade because I also dont have the time to be making things from scratch 12 times a day (3 meals x 4 people). Plus I am in the middle of midterms and studying for state exams (I'm pre-pharmacy) and I've been sick for a month (they think I have an autoimmune disease). So Im kind of booked up. xD Getting only a few things would set us back someone wouldnt be eating. I rarely have a sitter unless Im in school. I could have brought the cart though, but I forgot it.
May I ask why the kids all have their own diets and can't have the same meals? Or you cannot plan to have meals that coordinate and work (mostly) with everyone?
Part of pre-planning with a list for meals is so that you don't have to buy as much random items to plan per each person. Even if the main protein has to be different (vegetarian vs meat eater), for example, the rest of the meal can be relatively the same side dishes/carbs, etc.
I used to work 50 hours Mon-Fri minimum, 8 hours Saturday, and went to school full-time... Of which, my drive to-and-from work was about 1-1.5 hours depending on traffic. It sucks, but you gotta make time.
Is the schedule too varied to where you cannot get to the store more often? It sucks to have to go more often if you cannot drive, but it decreases stress over-all. Stock up on items like rice (I'm lucky and have grocers near me who sell 10-20lb bags, those last me over 6 months), lentils, etc. They are dried so their shelf life should keep you stable for a while and not have you pick up more for a good while. It'd be more the veg/proteins you'd then have to worry about restocking. Potatoes, onions, and carrots have pretty good shelf lives. I like cauliflower, but I tend to leave it in the veg drawer in the fridge too long. Giant bags of frozen veg can be lifesavers, just have to make sure you check the prices vs volume to see how it adds up deal-wise.
Trying to think of more advice I can give, but I have to wait for a response on the kid's diets first.6 -
Hope you're feeling better soon. At least that's the shopping done!
I'm feeling a bit worse for wear today too after a bit of exercise - my DH and son are of on a tramp next week, but DS has recently been sick so we weren't too sure how he was going to go with the tramp.
So we went to a local (much smaller) hill walk to see how he coped before sending him off up a mountain. But I forgot that I have NOT been training to climb a mountain myself... Not really too sore, but definitely feeling a few under-used muscles.
The dogs are still sleeping it off today!
DS coped fine, so we're feeling a bit happier about next week's adventures.0 -
If you're in the city, wasn't there a bus? I assume u didn't want to pay for a taxi...0
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Ouch! I hope you feel better soon!
A better plan would be to walk to the store more frequently but to only get a couple of bags each time. I don't know about the snowstorm part, though. I'm a wuss when it comes to cold weather. I'm glad it only snows a couple of times a year here.
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Also, could you walk to the store but maybe take an Uber or something home? Do Uber drivers let you stash tons of groceries in their trunk? I don't see why not, they let people put luggage in their trunks, right?0
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Verity1111 wrote: »Like walking home a few miles is a good idea. However, walking home a mile while carrying 75lbs of groceries (which you can not lift more than letting your arms hang because you're not in that kind of shape), in a snowstorm in the city... to the point your hands are shaking horribly when you get home is a BAD idea. I forgot our grocery cart and figured, why go back? No big deal. Until I spent over $100. lol. Now my upper and lower back hurt this morning/afternoon and my leg above my knee is badly bruised from being hit in the leg by groceries. I didn't go out to do it for exercise technically but, still, it is reminding me to not push myself too far. Lol. So, let's be careful with our bodies because most of us only get one.
You are right. I make mistakes like that sometimes too.
In future knowing you are always going to be buying food for 5 people for 2 weeks go back for the cart or do not buy more than you can comfortably carry. Lesson learned.
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I made a similar mistake twice of the weekend..
Bad Idea #1. Climb a mountain (its a walking path that rises 300 metres over a 2 km) with 4 kids under 10.... The 3yo wanted to be picked up by the time we had gone up 10 steps... So I carried her up about 200 metres . And then carried her back down again. (no, we didnt make it to the top...)
Bad Idea #2. Go and buy dog food. Its about 2km from my house to the shop (if I take the scenic route, which I did) bought 25KG of dog food... and put it in my backpack. Then walked home (stupidly taking the scenic route). it was halfway through the return trip that my legs started to hurt.....1 -
Verity1111 wrote: »Like walking home a few miles is a good idea. However, walking home a mile while carrying 75lbs of groceries (which you can not lift more than letting your arms hang because you're not in that kind of shape), in a snowstorm in the city... to the point your hands are shaking horribly when you get home is a BAD idea. I forgot our grocery cart and figured, why go back? No big deal. Until I spent over $100. lol. Now my upper and lower back hurt this morning/afternoon and my leg above my knee is badly bruised from being hit in the leg by groceries. I didn't go out to do it for exercise technically but, still, it is reminding me to not push myself too far. Lol. So, let's be careful with our bodies because most of us only get one.
I do this a lot. Walk to store and end up buying way to much. Always. I thought I was the only one in America who walked to go grocery shopping.lol0 -
I used to walk to get groceries. When I was in the store, I carried one of those baskets they've got at the door around and once it got heavy, that's where my shopping would end.
I had 3 cats so I had to get litter and cat food first. Didn't leave a lot of room for me to get stuff, so I had to be extremely selective.
I was very slender and fit in those days!0 -
Verity1111 wrote: »Verity1111 wrote: »can't do it! I have tried. But also I have 2 kids with autism and one other child. My fiance eats meat and I dont and I needed food for all of us. 5 separate diets. I'm a full time college student too and my fiance works full time plus no car so I rarely get to go to the store (1-2 times per month). Once I was there I figured I couldnt waste the trip lol
Well, you can, but you aren't doing it on the premise of a 'wasted trip' if not.
Well if I did that no one would eat for days so I cant. I need to shop for a minimum of 2 weeks for 5 people. And most of the food is premade because I also dont have the time to be making things from scratch 12 times a day (3 meals x 4 people). Plus I am in the middle of midterms and studying for state exams (I'm pre-pharmacy) and I've been sick for a month (they think I have an autoimmune disease). So Im kind of booked up. xD Getting only a few things would set us back someone wouldnt be eating. I rarely have a sitter unless Im in school. I could have brought the cart though, but I forgot it.
May I ask why the kids all have their own diets and can't have the same meals? Or you cannot plan to have meals that coordinate and work (mostly) with everyone?
Part of pre-planning with a list for meals is so that you don't have to buy as much random items to plan per each person. Even if the main protein has to be different (vegetarian vs meat eater), for example, the rest of the meal can be relatively the same side dishes/carbs, etc.
I used to work 50 hours Mon-Fri minimum, 8 hours Saturday, and went to school full-time... Of which, my drive to-and-from work was about 1-1.5 hours depending on traffic. It sucks, but you gotta make time.
Is the schedule too varied to where you cannot get to the store more often? It sucks to have to go more often if you cannot drive, but it decreases stress over-all. Stock up on items like rice (I'm lucky and have grocers near me who sell 10-20lb bags, those last me over 6 months), lentils, etc. They are dried so their shelf life should keep you stable for a while and not have you pick up more for a good while. It'd be more the veg/proteins you'd then have to worry about restocking. Potatoes, onions, and carrots have pretty good shelf lives. I like cauliflower, but I tend to leave it in the veg drawer in the fridge too long. Giant bags of frozen veg can be lifesavers, just have to make sure you check the prices vs volume to see how it adds up deal-wise.
Trying to think of more advice I can give, but I have to wait for a response on the kid's diets first.
Autism. I raised them vegetarian before this as well so that limits me but they won't eat meat anyway. My fiance eats meat. My younger two are 3 and nearly 6 and both have autism and are non-verbal. Oldest is 7 and is typical. Autism causes a large amount of sensory disorders and it causes food aversions and severe fears of different tastes, textures, etc. Wouldn't be so rough but they have totally opposite food aversions and my older son was about 3 years old and went over a week without food to where we started considering a feeding tube. I had a friend with a son with autism who was not as lucky and her son had to be intubated. As for my daughter, she is 7 but her brother who is 3 has such an odd diet that it would never be a normal 7 year olds (or rarely). 3 year old loves spicy food only and random raw vegetables - green onion, black olives, indian food, mexican food of specific types (refried beans with hot sauce mainly, but sometimes enchiladas if they are spicy enough), tamales (again, spicy), etc.. he is afraid of most pasta. The only food all three of them eat is homemade spaghetti (not lasagna, no cheese, nothing added or someone won't eat it!). Once in a while PBJ but usually the 3-year-old won't touch it. My 6 year old ONLY eats macaroni and cheese and it must be yellow or orange (no white cheddar!), plain cheese pizza unless I can hide the veggies cutting them super small with a ton of cheese, lasagna (plain just cheese) or other plain pasta with red sauce and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, chips, banana (only fruit he touches), french fries and random "breads"..like pancakes but only if I put peanut butter and banana on them and same for raisin bread, wheat bread, white bread, etc. He will not touch anything else sweet. He HATES candy or cakes. He only drinks water! The only way I can sneak eggs in is to make french toast (not sweet) put PB on it with banana and slice it up. 3 year old will also go hungry and not eat for days sometimes. He once in a while likes potatos but it's so random because he will only eat whatever he is craving and some foods he LITERALLY screams and runs away from and will slam the door and hide in the bedroom. My daughter is not super picky but she doesn't like raw vegetables by themselves lol (can't blame her) or spicy food so that means she can only eat with my 6 year old and I hate making her eat PBJ, macaroni, pizza and spaghetti nonstop because thats pretty much the same lunch dinner and breakfast every single day. She doesnt eat pb and banana either and the veggies she does love are a lot of them but the opposite of my 3 yearold. He likes spinach, olives, green onion, artichokes, onions, hot peppers, green peppers... She loves cooked broccoli, cooked peas, potatoes, green beans, etc. She is a straight A student, student of the month, always listens and I feel bad constantly making her eat stuff she doesnt like when she isnt really that picky of an eater and I dont want to force Indian food on a 7 year old either. She loves grapes, apples, strawberries, blueberries and my 3 year old likes strawberries and apples too so theres that once in a while as a snack at least. As for me I have tons of allergies. So that means Im out for the banana (I break out and get sick just cutting it for my son every single day). The fruit is all out pretty much. Yesterday they did eat together for once but it was just pizza and for the 3 year old I had to be very creative. I had no olives or green onions or green peppers etc to throw on raw so I had to cook pinto beans into it. He ate the beans and some cheese and left the sauce and crust. lol. Sorry to ramble LOL but its kind of stressful. And he really changes his diet day to day but I cant argue because he cant talk and he doesnt comprehend 100% either. And also I do sometimes sneak things in but its not easy. 10 -
Next time if you want to walk from the store lifting something, take your cart, take a backpack, put some of the stuff in your backpack and the rest in your cart. You'd get the best of both worlds. I'm sorry you're sore. I made the same mistake before and the begs were the plastic kind that digs into your hands when you carry them. Had sore hands for a week.2
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Verity1111 wrote: »Verity1111 wrote: »can't do it! I have tried. But also I have 2 kids with autism and one other child. My fiance eats meat and I dont and I needed food for all of us. 5 separate diets. I'm a full time college student too and my fiance works full time plus no car so I rarely get to go to the store (1-2 times per month). Once I was there I figured I couldnt waste the trip lol
Well, you can, but you aren't doing it on the premise of a 'wasted trip' if not.
Well if I did that no one would eat for days so I cant. I need to shop for a minimum of 2 weeks for 5 people. And most of the food is premade because I also dont have the time to be making things from scratch 12 times a day (3 meals x 4 people). Plus I am in the middle of midterms and studying for state exams (I'm pre-pharmacy) and I've been sick for a month (they think I have an autoimmune disease). So Im kind of booked up. xD Getting only a few things would set us back someone wouldnt be eating. I rarely have a sitter unless Im in school. I could have brought the cart though, but I forgot it.
May I ask why the kids all have their own diets and can't have the same meals? Or you cannot plan to have meals that coordinate and work (mostly) with everyone?
Part of pre-planning with a list for meals is so that you don't have to buy as much random items to plan per each person. Even if the main protein has to be different (vegetarian vs meat eater), for example, the rest of the meal can be relatively the same side dishes/carbs, etc.
I used to work 50 hours Mon-Fri minimum, 8 hours Saturday, and went to school full-time... Of which, my drive to-and-from work was about 1-1.5 hours depending on traffic. It sucks, but you gotta make time.
Is the schedule too varied to where you cannot get to the store more often? It sucks to have to go more often if you cannot drive, but it decreases stress over-all. Stock up on items like rice (I'm lucky and have grocers near me who sell 10-20lb bags, those last me over 6 months), lentils, etc. They are dried so their shelf life should keep you stable for a while and not have you pick up more for a good while. It'd be more the veg/proteins you'd then have to worry about restocking. Potatoes, onions, and carrots have pretty good shelf lives. I like cauliflower, but I tend to leave it in the veg drawer in the fridge too long. Giant bags of frozen veg can be lifesavers, just have to make sure you check the prices vs volume to see how it adds up deal-wise.
Trying to think of more advice I can give, but I have to wait for a response on the kid's diets first.
Also I really cant make time more than I do without offing myself. I worked 60 hrs a week and did school too. This is harder. You would need to have 3 kids and 2 with disabilities to get it. NO car remember and I need to depend on others to get my son to class in this weather. And this is my typical schedule:
Monday: up at 630 to get daughter ready and to school by 8am. home by 830ish
feed other 2 very quickly and get them to babysitters.
Go to school and get home around 2:30. Drop bag in house and walk straight to my kids school to pick her up.
Go home for one of the few nights I can do homework but also with kids screaming nonstop and telling me they are hungry. Then factor in baths as well and dinner. Can't go to the store with the 3 screaming kids with no stroller and no car with my fiance at work. He is also taking courses for work right now so he has homework too.
...which btw I have about 20 + hours a week of homework. I am pre-pharmacy.
Tuesdays I have no class USUALLY but I often have exams and my fiance has school Tuesdays and then sometimes work after plus I spend 630-1030 getting both kids ready and dropping them off with no break whatsoever in between. They are on opposite sides of the city of chicago (south side and north side) miles apart.
I will go home at 1030 with a screaming toddler who was in the car or bus with me if bus then 1230. Feed him something before he drives me mad. Try to feed myself. Then I can pick maybe get to a store with screaming toddler but even then I cant bring my grocery cart with him so I cant get much or I could clean my disaster of a house which this is the few hrs I usually do that... give him a bath because as usual hes played in his diaper. Expect this 1-3 times per day! He isnt ready to potty train and per his dr usually kids with autism who cant talk dont for a while. My 6 year old just did at age 4 1/2 - 5. Anyway by then its about 1:30 but I need to leave again by 2:30 to pick up my daughter. Then literally drop her off with grandma straight to a car (get a lift) or train to pick up my son its an hr drive there and an hr back and way longer by train so get home by 6 by car or later by train. Pick up daughter feed them dinner. Do my lab hw be up till super late doing it and wake up at 5am to be on a bus by 630am to go to class because if I am even ONE minute late I dont get in. This is actually my slow day. Wednesday and Friday are my busy days.
Homework per week by the way?
2 exams taken at home in medical terminology with 2 chapters to read per week which takes me about 5 hours or more usually because I read very slow and we need to memorize hundreds of terms. The teacher actually wants us to dedicate 10 hrs due to how much the work is but I have to rush it.
Chemistry large math portion every week which takes me 4 hours.
Chemistry reading is about 3 hours per week.
Pre-lab, Pre-procedure, lab report and post lab questions for chem lab which can take me 4-5 hours depending on the assignment. Sometimes more because it can be over an hr per assignment for long labs.
Chemistry discussion worksheet thats another 1 hour or more.
Biology pre-lab 1 hour here.
Biology reading 2 hours.
Biology homework depends on the week. 2 hours tossed in
Time in class per week is about 23 hours plus 1.5 hours travel time each day four days per week so 35 hours and I cant do my work in class because I have an anxiety disorder and I can barely sit there and listen to lecture. I dont even get to take exams in class so that is extra time I schedule with the disability center... 35 hrs school + travel + when I get home travel time for my son (which adds up to about 10 hrs per week give or take for pickups and I cant even estimate drop offs and getting himand his sister ready the days Im home..). Brings me to 35 school + 20 ormore hw + 10 for my son = 65 hours. 168 hrs in a week. If I get 6 hrs of sleep per day Im down to 61 hours or 8 hours a day which doesnt include the 2 hours I spent traveling to my sons school on Tuesday and Thursday or the therapy session I forgot on Monday. Or bathing them or myself. Peeing or taking a you know what. Cooking or helping my daughter with her homework. Cleaning. By the time Im done it adds up and Im pretty much booked for the day. And if I want more than 6 hrs of sleep I am definitely stuck. Plus I need to hope those hours coincide with me having less than 3 kids if I want to shop.
I am also studying for the state Pharmacy Tech exam and the PCAT.
If you're wonder, sometimes I do not sleep - AT ALL. I just pull all nighters studying or I'd never get to and I literally have stayed up 48+ hours and then taken exams. I'm also sick nonstop and they think I have lupus or another autoimmune disease but I havent had time to go to the rheumatologist so Ive been to immediate care and the ER a few times but I was recently sick for 5 weeks straight. I sometimes take a day off school just to get groceries. or just to clean! Like oh youre off work? The kids have been living on snacks for a couple days so off to the store and skipping class.7
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