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It took me about a year to stop checking that my second leg was going to fit in my pants.
My maximum fast loss on MFP was one year at 1.5lbs a week average.
One year after that to stop looking.
Your brain lags1 -
Bmeadows I think we are all a little bit concerned about your feeling of being fatigued....have you had blood work done recently,do you take vitamins or maybe your stress is causing some depression?....I know from past experience that depression can take a terrible toll on your health mentally and physically...but you do work really hard outside and you do a lot for your family...you do hard physical labor like moving all of those blocks and moving furniture and building things and remodeling your camper....makes me tired to think about all you do....honestly I have so much more energy, stamina, and strength from losing weight...I could never have done all of the things i am doing now a year ago....I am probably sleeping half the time that I was....I feel at least 10 or 12 years younger..
take it easy on yourself.....you are so critical of yourself...I wish you could see yourself the way others think of you!...You are one determined lady!....2 -
If you want to gauge how much energy you have eat maintenance one day and have a rest day the next. I am incapable of fully resting when I do it. I am bouncing off the walls. I feel like the energy inside me will make me explode if I do not work some of it off.
Today I feel on the low side of what I have come to know lately as normal. I have been banking a few extra calories the last 3 days and I walked 5.5 miles this morning. I am not fatigued at all but I wish I felt like I did Saturday morning. I would still be capable of a lot more physical activity today if it needed to be done but that is not the case. The physical chores I need to do this evening are pretty light and should not take more than an hour.
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so much for getting better sleep last night. I was sleeping good for about 3 hours when suddenly the stupid fire alarm goes off. Not all of them, just one of the 5 in the house. And it doesn't go off completely - it blares 3 time and then quits. Then 5 minutes later, it does it again. And again. So I go from dead sleep to wide awake heart pounding in less than 30 seconds. I search the house to see if there was anything that would have set the thing off, but nothing. And its was the only one going off like that. So I finally took a guess as to which one it was, pulled it down, and took the battery out. Go back to bed. Just get settled in when ANOTHER does the same thing - beeps for about 3 beeps then quiets down. So I pull another one, take the battery out, and try once AGAIN to go to sleep. At which a THIRD one of the 5 started doing the same thing - it chirped a few times, then went off - beeped 3 times, and quit. I waited and it didn't do it again, so I sent back to bed. 45 minutes, it did it again. And did it 3 or 4 more times until my alarm went off this morning and I had to get up.
I had this place rewired in 2017 when I moved here and those are brand new fire alarms. The electricians installed 5 of the stupid things all within 6 feet of each other and they are apparently linked to each other so when 1 goes off, they all go off except when this little quirk happens. They've all done its before several months ago, and I hate it. all I can guess is that the batteries are getting weak and instead of just chirping at me like they are supposed to do, they just go off randomly. As I said, I searched the house and there was nothing that could have been over heating or putting off some sort of smoke or chemical to cause them to go off. And they weren't going off like they were seeing smoke, anyway - I've burned things on the stove before to set them off legitimately so I know what they sound like when they are working properly.
So I'll get some new batteries this evening and we'll see if that stops the problem. While I did change all the batteries at the same time back in the fall, I find it rather odd that all of them started having problems at the same time, but who knows? I had one square battery so I was able to change the battery in one of them. I hate to pull the fire alarms obviously for safety reasons, but I can't spend another night getting woke up every hour or so because of random short-term blares of random fire alarms!
Which means I got about 3 solid hours of sleep and another 3 hours of shorter bursts interrupted by wide-awakes due to the stupid fire alarms. So yeah, I'm really dragging this morning and brain fogged. Still managed to get a walk in this morning, though I was dragging by the time I got home. There probably won't be any cardio this afternoon and I may need to take an hour or so vacation and get a nap in. And of course with TOM starting tomorrow, I'm starting to feel the pre-effects of that which includes lethargy for about 24 hours before starting to about 24 hours after starting.
@NovusDies
That's an idea worth exploring, but I'll have to wait now to try it out because TOM always wipes me out and would interfere with the experiment. I should probably try to prepare myself to eat at maintenance this coming Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, though, since I'll will be helping the best friend move furniture on those days (unless she calls me to delay a third time). That would give me a maintenance day 24 hours before I go down to help her move, and be eating maintenance all 3 days of the physical activity.
@conniewilkins56
I haven't had a full bloodwork panel done in about a year, but my thyroid levels have been monitored, and those are all within normal with TSH actually low (I'm actually hyperthyroid at the moment). I've got an order put in from my doctor, though I'm waiting until September to have it done because I need to get my first mammogram this year and its scheduled for September and requires me driving an hour to get to the closest WVU facility so I want to get the bloodwork done at the same time so its all done by the same lab as what I had previously. If I go and get it now, I have to use labcorp and I've found that the different labs seem to have different standards for what is normal or not, and don't always easily compare to each other; or at least, I've seen the difference between WVU's labs and Lapcorp's lab results, so I'd prefer to have the bloodwork done by WVU which has been doing if for the last 5 years so I can keep the year to year comparison steady.
I look at all the things I should be doing and aren't and think I'm not getting much accomplished at all
My house desperately needs cleaned top to bottom; I haven't done it since I moved in and the dust bunnies behind the furniture are practically a warren full thanks to my 4 long haired cats. But I hate to take vacation time to spend tearing my house apart and I'd need a week or more to get it all cleaned.
I've wanted to get chickens for 3 years now, but have yet to get around to fixing up the building to be used as my chicken house; my mother tells me she doubts it ever going to happen because I keep it on my to do list but never get around to it. And that will include having to figure out how to put together the dog kennel I bought 2 years ago and plan to use for my chicken run since the instructions got ruined and I doubt I can depend on my brother to help me do it; he's always busy with other stuff whenever asked to help with something.
And then there's the sewing projects that I've been delaying for years, and my mother comments on occasion about my windows needing scraped and painted, the back porch area that really needs cleaned off and rebuilt, the things I'd like to do for my church - it seems like all I really manage to get done is routine yard work and house work! My job takes up so much of my day and week, that it seems all I have time left for is the things that have to be done and can't be put off.
I do appreciate the warm thoughts, though :g Those might be a little different if you knew me in person, though - its easy to hide a multitude of sins behind a keyboard! Though you can tell from my extra long posts that I'm a blabbermouth with know-it-all tendencies (my sister and mother will tell you all about the know it all tendencies
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actually come to think of it, I probably really ought to extend the maintenance period from 9/5 all the way through 8/15 which would cover the vacation period too, especially since its a family vacation so I don't have as much control over the quality of the food. And I plan to hike all over the park that week!1
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Bmeadows!...go buy some eggs...you do not have time to worry about a bunch of chickens...
...your mom reminds me of when my dad was alive and he and my mom would visit us...we moved out of a spic and span gorgeous house into a 6700 sq ft Money Pit....eventually the Money Pit was a great house and we lived there over ten years,raised our family there and had husbands parents and my mom also....talk about a crazy house lol...anyway whenever my parents visited the first thing my dad would do was look in our garage which was a nightmare as we had building supplies,furniture and many boxes stored in it...my dad would always say the garage was still a mess....finally I asked my dad if he came to visit me or check on my garage!....
After we had the house finished he finally admitted it was a great house....I loved that place.....eventually our parents died,kids got married and the house became too large for the two of us...we moved into a smaller home, then back to a larger one,then we moved to the Keys and the Las Vegas and now back in Florida!....recently we saw our old house on TV as a vet had bought it at some point and it was being renovated for him!....was neat to see it on television!..
The house we bought in the Keys had been built by a marine chef and the people we bought it from were marine biologists in Key West....they would host students at the house and do documentaries on sea life...yep, one night we were watching some old National Geographic show and there was our house on TV years before we lived there!
I am rambling...the point of this was that you have enough to do without buying livestock lol
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*laughs* but fresh eggs are wonderful! And chickens aren't that much maintenance - not like a milk cow at any rate! And chickens are just fun to watch, provide wonderful fertilize for my garden boxes, can take care of a lot of my bug problems if I let them free range the yard.....I keep threatening to get a pig one of these days, too, if I could find a cheaper way to have it slaughtered in the fall for fresh pork chops. The milk cow would be interesting (and I found that cows are less trouble in the end than goats), but I don't use enough milk to justify the cow and don't have a place right now for one (though if I can convince my grandfather to sell me the place next door and get a good grass crop growing on it.....) I've given a passing thought to bees, but not because I'd want the honey but because there aren't a lot of native ones around and we could use pollinators for the wild plants and our gardens.
And one dream of mine is if I achieve my pipe dream weight of 170-180 lbs and be light enough to actually take horseback riding lessons, something I've wanted to do since I was a girl but was always too heavy for, I'd like to get a mule - mules are hardier than horses and I think would just be darned cute! lol
AND good thing I got my walk in this morning because as the evening wears on, the chance of thunderstorms gets higher and I can hear rumblings out there now. I hope it does rain - my garden plants need it! Though in a few weeks, I'm going to have more spaghetti squash than I know what to do with - I have 5 that are getting big and may ripen at the same time. I'm down to 3 pumpkins and only 1 butternut squash - I think the lack of pollinators is in play in this case. And I pulled a zucchini yesterday and have 2 more I'm keeping an eye on. 2 more broccoli are finally making heads, and my cantaloupe and watermelon are finally taking off, so I might end up with those. OH, and I had half a head of cabbage yesterday for dinner (around 400g of the stuff) and have a whole head ready and waiting on me in the garden. Still no brussel sprouts, though
But I think my beans will be ready by next week. And my eggplants are doing fantastic and I have small, green cherry tomatoes and new potatoes and carrots and parsnips And my new rutabaga are coming up; I hope this will do better than the ones I have currently growing, because while the plants look great, I don't think they are making the firm ball like they are supposed to be doing. I suspect the heat is the problem, so I'm hoping by planting a new row now that won't be mature until October, the new ones might do better.
And this reminds me - I want to start a new crop of cabbages and I'd better get them into their pots today so they'll be ready in October!
Yup, I'm a farmer's girl at heart lol Unfortunately, I don't have the time, property, or means to quit my job and try homesteading full time. Maybe when the student loans pay off and the other loans I have pay off and if I can convince Grandpa to sell me the property next door, I might actually be able to dabble with the idea, but I don't know if I'd have the guts to take the risk and try it or not. With the biggest factor being health insurance
AND I miscounted - TOM isn't starting tomorrow; its here. Which explains why I was feeling so sluggish today -wasn't just my sleep being disrupted last night!
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I have a farm in Indiana but we have a distant cousin who farms it with crops....sadly, I can not grow anything including house plants....although I spent many wonderful summers at my grandparents farm with my cousins, I am a city girl....It was fun to pick vegetables in the garden,going to county fairs and playing in the creek catching all sorts of wiggly critters!...
My daughter swears by organic eggs but I can’t tell any difference and I only eat an egg about once every couple of months!...I did make deviled eggs this morning...4 halves 188 calories!...that will be my egg quota for a very long time!...
Sorry about your sleep being disrupted...we have beds that go up and down on twin frames so we can both sleep in a comfortable position!....I usually sleep really good...all of the extra exercise is like a sleeping pill to me!...my shoulder is sore from swimming and I am taking a “ rest “ day out of the pool....that’s why I am on here so much today lol...I did devil the eggs that John boiled ( I boil horrible eggs) and I cleaned the refrigerator, hung up clothes in my half of the closet, and cleaned up the kitchen...1 -
My mom has developed a problem with eggs in recent years - when she eats store bought eggs, it gives her indigestion later in the day, but she's found that organic or home grown eggs don't bother her like store bought ones do, so she is looking forward to me getting chickens
I don't make deviled eggs often, but I probably should as the calorie count for mine was pretty low considering all I needed in addition to the 3 eggs was 1 Tbsp of mayonaise and I used Smart Balance at 50 calories, so 6 halves came to 260 calories total. And if I could have found the helmmann's light mayo that I like the last time I bought mayo, it would have been 245 calories for those 3 eggs!
It's raining again, so good thing I did get my walk in this morning! I'll probably end up vegging out the rest of the evening. I have my dinner planned and pre-logged and have 1 serving of halo top cookies and cream pre-logged and still have 287 calories left if I get snacky and I'll have almost 13,000 steps in today when the day is done even if I do veg out the rest of the day, so I don't really need to push myself to do more exercise just to get a few more calories. And today with TOM having made his appearance coupled with it being dreary and rainy - I think after dinner I can either read on the couch, watch a movie and cross stitch, or spend some time in a virtual world which I haven't had time to do for a while. My body would probably appreciate it!1 -
It is funny that you mentioned Halo since I just ate a serving myself. When I first started earning 1000-1200 calories per day I continued to eat what I ate before I just ate other stuff to go with it. I was worried that if I could not maintain it I didn't want to experience a "shock" if I had to trim my calories back again.
6 months later I am not worried about maintaining it as much but I still eat the things I learned to eat when I had less calories to work with. You would think I would want to eat more normally again now that I have a bigger calorie budget. The thing is THIS is normal for me. It is why I didn't hiccup much when covid hit. Not that I was under a lot of stress over it because that is not my personality but I was certainly impacted. The least stressful thing I could do is just be normal.
I have gotten accustomed to having the extra calories and how I spend them so I would definitely have some shock if I had to suddenly trim back in a large way. I think I would be fine after 2 weeks though because my base eating is still pretty much the same.1 -
I decided to cash out of my calorie bank a little just because I am feeling a little more sluggish than earlier today and I do not want to extend it into tomorrow. This has seemed like a typical week so I do not think I am having CO problems. As far as I can remember the only chore I did that was different than normal was cycling the compost which really just took 10 minutes. Unless dealing with a pretty strong odor burns extra calories I am not sure that would even rate 50 calories.
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I decided to cash out of my calorie bank a little just because I am feeling a little more sluggish than earlier today and I do not want to extend it into tomorrow. This has seemed like a typical week so I do not think I am having CO problems. As far as I can remember the only chore I did that was different than normal was cycling the compost which really just took 10 minutes. Unless dealing with a pretty strong odor burns extra calories I am not sure that would even rate 50 calories.
Maybe it is just a lull day. Bet I feel better tomorrow.
DUH, you lost 10 pounds of water in 3 days and probably more yesterday. Of course you feel off.
This is why I dislike this roller coaster of water weight. I may have to talk to the doctor about staying on a diuretic which I do not want to do.1 -
I decided to cash out of my calorie bank a little just because I am feeling a little more sluggish than earlier today and I do not want to extend it into tomorrow. This has seemed like a typical week so I do not think I am having CO problems. As far as I can remember the only chore I did that was different than normal was cycling the compost which really just took 10 minutes. Unless dealing with a pretty strong odor burns extra calories I am not sure that would even rate 50 calories.
Maybe it is just a lull day. Bet I feel better tomorrow.
DUH, you lost 10 pounds of water in 3 days and probably more yesterday. Of course you feel off.
This is why I dislike this roller coaster of water weight. I may have to talk to the doctor about staying on a diuretic which I do not want to do.
How close are you to winter months where you live? Would it be possible to wait it out and see how you do in the cooler, drier weather?
Looks like I'm getting a sedentary day today whether I planned for it or not! I was going to get up and do a session on elliptical this morning but then checked and found that the vet appointment is scheduled for 8 instead of 9 and I didn't get up until 15 minutes to 6 and would rather just go ahead and start my day for work instead. I think i slept better last night - at least I didn't have fire alarms going off randomly, and I don't remember waking up more than once.
I doubt I get any exercise in this afternoon either because a friend texted me to ask if she could come over and do some sort of training for work using my internet; she was at her mother's home but her mother's internet isn't reliable. She likes to talk, so who knows when I'll get her out the door.
Then after work, I promised my brother I'd go over to see my new nephew, so there won't be any time after work, either.
Which means sticking to my regular 1500 calorie deficit today with no extra to help with dinner. Though if I go over, I'm not going to stress out about it. I may end up following your suggestion today after all, @NovusDies ! Sedentary day + perhaps over eating my deficit, if I push it to full maintenance today, we'll see if that helps with energy levels tomorrow! Though I don't know even if I do have better energy if I could fully credit it to the maintenance eating + sedentary day, especially if I manage to sleep in tomorrow morning (and that depends on how much of a nuisance my cat makes of himself.......and no, the bedroom I'm currently using doesn't have a door up yet, so I can't shut him out!)1 -
It happens during the winter too. It has happened more lately because of events, travel, and the break I took. The extra calories also allow me to eat more restaurant food. I am accustomed to cycling up and down but not this frequently. I have spent at least 7-10 days out of every month for the last 3 unloading water. That is hard on me. When I uptick more than about 7 pounds I feel it in all my physical activities.
I do not know if it will help while you are on your TOM but it can't hurt. I have not had to be sedentary on the day I have eaten maintenance I just have to do less exercise initially the next morning and I am buzzing.
I think my own energy level will stabilize a little higher when it cools off and the pressure of doing so much in the morning abates. This morning for instance I have 681 movement calories and I am still fasted. My experience tells me that I am now in the yellow zone of fuel and if I burn much more before I eat I will get a really bad headache and in general feel bad for several hours.
It is also time to run the experiment that I have been avoiding. I need to get my blood glucose monitor out and see exactly what the status of my reactive hypoglycemia is now with all the weight loss and activity. If I can fuel with carbs without worrying about low blood sugar it will help. I have been avoiding it but it needs to be done if I want to keep going at this pace. I think I still have some glucose tablets somewhere so I will need to track them down or get some more before I do it.0 -
Yep. I have lost 11.8 pounds in 4 days. No matter how many times I do it that is crazy.1
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It must be contagious...this is the last day of my “ break “ and after gaining 17 lbs I am back down 9 lbs....total gain over break 8 lbs....my lowest weight before break was 260 lbs and this morning 268.0 lbs....I am going back to 1 1/2 pounds for weekly loss in the morning....with swimming Calories burned it will still gives me enough calories to be satisfied...I didn’t swim yesterday as my shoulder is still sore ...I am going to water jog today and not do laps as that is what hurts my arm...( my body is starting to look like a road map)...this really upsets me because I do not want to think about spurs in my shoulder after having them already removed in left shoulder...the knees were a worse operation but the shoulder was very long in healing...and I have to go to the post office,bank,drug store and grocery store sometime today plus cook dinner etc...I miss my husband helping with this stuff so much...he is working on laundry this morning and he is struggling...breaks my heart but he is afraid to stop moving... I think we will have to have a nurse for a while when I get my foot operated on this fall....a nurse or a maid lol2
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talk about having a slug day - I'm not even going to have 3,000 steps in today; in fact, I'll be lucky to clear 2,000 steps! An early cat vet appointment and rain kept me from being able to walk this morning. And even though I did sleep better last night, I was still dragging when I went to pick my cat up at 3:30 and came home and actually laid down on the couch for over an hour until my mother came over.
I've got a very slight sore spot in my throat that's been there since last weekend, and this morning, I noticed that the lymph nodes in that side of my neck was also swelled. I emailed my doctor who said for now, we'd just ere on the side of it being allergies since I don't have any other symptoms to go with it - no head aches or body aches, no fever, no worsening of the sore throat, no breathing difficulties or congestion at all. and it could be allergies - I was cutting down that stupid knotweed earlier this week and it was blooming, not to mention the tree pollen. So that could be contributing to this tired feeling too, on top of TOM and all the work I was doing. Its too mild of a sore throat to be considered strep and only on one side, and again, no fever, either or body aches. And if I had the fever or body aches to go along with the tiredness, I'd wonder about mono, but I don't have any of those, either, so i don't think its that (besides, I don't go anywhere and don't share utensils or things like that, so I seriously doubt I'd have picked that up anyway, especially at my age).
I'm going to be over my calorie limit, too, because I just really, really want a taco salad from the place up town, though I'm getting it without the shell or cheese - lots of sour cream, though lol And I'm going to let myself have the chips, or at least 3 oz of them. If I can get them to answer the phone to take my order.
I suppose I could walk up there after I make my order; that would give me a few more steps in today and get me over 3,000 maybe at least, and I could pick up new batteries at Dollar General while I'm at it. I don't know - we'll see!
Or at least walk up there to see if they are open since they won't answer their phone!1 -
well, scratch that - I'm not going to be all that far over after all because the mexican place uptown would never answer the phone - it went ot voicemail every single time and I'm too tired and don't feel up to driving 30 minutes to the next closest town, and I wanted a taco salad and something substantial, not taco bell. So I just took a can of chicken noodle soup and doctored it up with cheese and salsa and sour cream and saltines and will call that dinner.3
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I prelogged my food for tomorrow. It gives me a lovely sense of safety and calm. Also, I'm in the mood now to enter my recipe for pork in peanut sauce, and I won't be tomorrow when I'm getting it cooked.
Plus tomorrow is hot Italian beef sandwiches, and I am SO gonna enjoy that....2 -
Well, I have been so proud of myself swimming and getting some exercise....love the extra calories to eat a little more protein....my shoulder has been bothering me for about a week and this morning it is really hurting a lot....also the old knees are thumping when I walk....being a little OCD I tend to go all out on anything I do!....BUT I am not quitting as I usually would when my ideas of imperfection or not good enough so forget it thoughts take over....I am going to rest my joints today and tomorrow, do ice etc and Tuesday I will go to the pool and do water walking round and round....boring but I will be moving and burning calories!...hopefully I will heal up and it isn’t spurs in my shoulder....I think I can, I think I can!6
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What a weird day.
Earlier in the day I was eating more because I was sure I was mowing today and I would need more food.
Then it rained which meant no mowing and I was facing a pretty bleak finish for the day so I pulled out some of my older calorie pinching tricks to stay on budget.
Then I ended up taking the dog for an extra walk and it is too late (acid reflux) for me to eat anymore and I am finishing with slightly too much left uneaten.
Sometimes I allow myself to go over and sometimes I draw a line in the sand. It is mostly dependent on my mood for when it happens. I think today I was irritated with myself for just assuming the rain forecast would be nothing for us again today as it has been for every forecast of rain for 8 days. This is obviously a day I should have allowed myself to go over a little.
Yep. Weird day.
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That's the weather for you!
They were calling for mostly rain here today, but they've changed the forecast and now its a 30% change according to the 10 day page at the weather channel, though if you look at the hourly, it says 15%, and the main day page says 50% (hedging their bets or what?)
As long as its not raining when I get off work this afternoon, I'm going to mow grass whether its wet or not. Its either get it done today or take vacation time to get it done tomorrow because I'm heading out on Thursday to the best friend's to help her move and will be gone until Sunday, and when I get home Sunday, it will be in time to pack to go camping on Monday. Besides which I hate mowing grass on Sunday - even if I'm doing in between church services, it feels sacrilegious to me lol I know, that's silly, but the things that get drummed into you as a child can sometimes be impossible to root back out!
I got a six mile walk in this morning, so even if it rains, I got extra calories to allow for dinner this evening. If I get to mow grass, that will give me extra for dessert.
I haven't had much activity in other than my walks since Thursday - I went down to the church to practice piano Saturday morning, slept most of Saturday afternoon, then took a walk and spent the rest of the evening reading, and Sunday was elliptical, then church, fix dinner, sleep, go back to church, come home and go back to bed. Monday I got a walk in first thing that morning, but spent the evening after work reading. I did manage to stay under my deficit yesterday by 1 calorie
however, if the scale doesn't pop back up too much if I get to mow grass today, then it looks like I may be experiencing a pretty good whoosh this week; we'll see how badly the scale pops back up tomorrow after mowing the grass. Starting Thursday, I"m going to take a week diet break and try to eat at maintenance, or at least set my calorie goal to maintenance and try to get back what I can in activity calories. I hope that will give me some more energy for moving the best friend this weekend, and then give me some more calories for the camping trip. See if that helps with the constant tiredness I feel all the time lately. Course when vacation gets here and I'm not having to get up early to the alarm clock, I should get way more sleep in next week too, between sleeping in and taking afternoon naps when needed.
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I took rest days Sun and Mon because of my shoulder....I wasn’t tired so I did run errands and go grocery shopping walking up and down all the aisles...cleaned the kitchen and ordinary chores....my shoulder is still very sore this morning but I am going to try water walking at the pool...my knees do feel much better after resting them..
daughter had to go to school yesterday and prepare her classroom....only 7 in her class but will teach virtually to 20 others at the same time....both grands opted to learn from home to start this year...there goes home alone for John and me!...
Our son is planning another 5 day hiking trip on the Appalachian Trail this fall...he has a friend going with him and his wife is staying home....I guess he misses his Boy Scout days....
Typical hot humid summer here....getting some late afternoon rains but not much....too hot to do much outside....0 -
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I'd love to walk the Appalachian Trail one of these days! But that's not something I think is very prudent to do alone, so unless my best friend finally gets into shape, its probably just something I'll dream about lol2 -
I hiked the New England portion of the Appalachian Trail by myself when I was 18. My parents thought it would be good for me before I headed to college in the fall (I was very rebellious at that age). I was in the best shape of my life, weighed 160 and could literally run up mountains without a pack on. I went for almost a full week and a half without seeing another person on the trail. Great memories...3
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@conniewilkins56 - I dream of thru-hiking the trail. I've done a lot of hiking, but usually only a week at a time. It is one of my most favorite things - there is something so satisfying about covering so much ground under your own power and carrying everything you need.
@Ccricfo - how long is the New England section? I bet it was absolutely gorgeous!
@bmeadows380 - I enjoy hiking alone, but I also prefer less populated trails. The more people there are, the safer I feel having someone with me. I can handle the woods by myself. It's the other people I worry about lol!2 -
@conniewilkins56 - I dream of thru-hiking the trail. I've done a lot of hiking, but usually only a week at a time. It is one of my most favorite things - there is something so satisfying about covering so much ground under your own power and carrying everything you need.
@Ccricfo - how long is the New England section? I bet it was absolutely gorgeous!
@bmeadows380 - I enjoy hiking alone, but I also prefer less populated trails. The more people there are, the safer I feel having someone with me. I can handle the woods by myself. It's the other people I worry about lol!
My son is 47 and in great physical shape being 6’ 8” and 255 lbs...he also ice skates on a police hockey team...( he is a sexual predator detective)... his first hike was in the late fall in N Georgia and he had to stop after a day and a half because his wife was freezing!...the next trip he took two buddies and one quit three hours in.....he did four days with the other guy....this trip he is going with an experienced hiker ( wife refuses to go ) and they are planning five full days in the Carolinas....he loves it....I am glad he isn’t going alone for safety reasons....2 -
@eliezalot
I like hiking alone too because I don't feel pushed and can take my own time, break when I need to, and enjoy the scenery when I want to. But I'm careful where I go by myself. I just day hike anyway - a few hours a day when I'm camping, and I stick to the trails within the parks I'm in and not the wilderness type trails. But even those trails are usually just me - I rarely if I ever cross paths with anyone.
It still worries my dad, though *sigh* I still carry a backpack, though, that I've been slowly stocking with things like flint and fire starter, a whistle and emergency blanket, a life straw, a first aid kit, and anything that I think would come in handy should something happen and I find myself stranded out over night.
I've never done a week hike where you carry your own supplies and camp along the trail. I'm finally in better shape and think it could be fun if I was with someone experienced, but its not something I think I want to try by myself!1 -
I want to do a 2 day 25-30 mile hike next spring. That seems like a good place to start and see how I handle multi-day treks. I will probably be alone but the route will be planned well enough to take it pretty easy on me.2
