"This May I Will" Are you ready?
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Just a quick note because I should be in bed 💤. My meditation habit is starting to take hold. I’ve missed one day this month and that was because we had company. My routine has been to go to bed early enough that I wake up by 7:45 without an alarm. At 8 classical stretch is on our PBS station, at 8:30 I go out on my porch and have gotten hooked on 10 min meditations with Deepak Chopra with the FitBit app. Every single time I open my eyes after meditation I am surprised at the brilliant green of the grass and trees in front of me. Every. Single. Time! However, today started out bad. I was awake a lot during the night and dream time was 34% of the night. And they weren’t good dreams...I was either late for something or I took the wrong road on and on. This morning I ended up missing my stretch time, did my meditation, but felt out of sync all day. So I think morning stretch might be becoming a necessity for me to function better. It looks like I’ll be setting my alarm tonight to make sure I don’t miss tomorrow.5
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If you can read my previous message, you must be a genius! Why are my posts suddenly coming up all garbled and words on the wrong lines?? It’s not the first time, and it’s annoying. Someone else here had that happen, too, so I’m not alone. We’ll see how this turns out.
I realized I started meditation only a couple weeks ago, not at the first of the month, but will continue next month. I am also doing Tuna Tuesdays because I want to get more Omegas and that’s an easy way to remember it. I’m not finished with Good Habits, Bad Habits yet and have renewed it so I can listen again and take some notes next time through to share. I started out the day with classical stretch and I really think it sets the tone for the day so will continue with that as well. I’ll stop my disconnected rambling now🤭 Oh, except to say my daughter is right this minute moving from Albuquerque to Corpus Cristi so guess where I’ll be spending winters (a few weeks anyway)!2 -
@nebslp - hmm... gourmet anniversary, interesting! I think we’ll be having leftover gourmet meatloaf. 🤣 My husband would wash the dishes, though. He is my automatic dishwasher. 🤣 We aren’t ready to go out to a restaurant yet.
I’m going to have to check out classical stretch. I’ve heard you mention it many times. I’m enjoying taking a few minutes each morning to look out my front door and watch the birds and listen to their song. I can’t see the sunrise from that spot, but I like watch the shadows climb up the wall across the street.0 -
I was SO tired this morning. I woke up before 6 after having an extremely vivid dream. One of the character’s name was James, and I don’t even know anyone by that name. It took place in the 1800’s (the lady crying “James, James” was wearing a Little House on the Prairie type dress). The dream included horses and a wolf, and James was being held captive with many ropes tied to a wagon. His friend on a large, mottled gray horse tried to save him but his horse slipped and fell which caused all the other horses to run away, and the wolf came back. Oh, there’s more, but let’s just saying was kinda like a BAD movie😬 in living color. Anyway, the point is I did not want to get up and stretch, but I did it anyway and then meditated 15 minutes. I think it’s the only thing that got me through this day. I have 2 grandchildren this week and will get 2 more🤞tomorrow. I’m taking an Advil PM and hope it knocks me out. We will all be stretching at 8:00. That should make for a good laugh! Then we’ll see if they can keep their mouths shut for the 10 minute meditation.😂🤣😂🤣3
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Got it done! 13/14 days so far.4
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13/15 days! Meditating today didn’t workout because of other demands on my time (4 very loud little voices!)
I gave up some good habits and took up some bad ones during the pandemic. If I don’t turn things around, I will get old, and I don’t have time for that. I feel old today. Yesterday’s meditation said we need to have balance in our lives in 5 areas...sleep, meditation, movement, healthy emotions, and nutritious eating. I have a lot of work to do!1 -
13/15 days! Meditating today didn’t workout because of other demands on my time (4 very loud little voices!)
I gave up some good habits and took up some bad ones during the pandemic. If I don’t turn things around, I will get old, and I don’t have time for that. I feel old today. Yesterday’s meditation said we need to have balance in our lives in 5 areas...sleep, meditation, movement, healthy emotions, and nutritious eating. I have a lot of work to do!
Dear @nebslp,
I NEVER consider you old! Quite the opposite!
Is there one of those 5 that you might want to concentrate upon in June?
I’m a big believer in “divide & conquer”
I did eating first
Then exercise
Then healthy emotions
Then meditative activities - my art & affirmations
And now working on sleep
Otherwise I would have been too overwhelmed if I tried to do all at once.
I know you are a woman of many talents! You’ve got this!2 -
Hey everyone, I have been MIA for awhile. I'm a teacher and the last few weeks of the school year have been CRAZY. However, I have stayed on course with my habits and started a new one to boot!
I also downloaded one of those pretty habit trackers (like @77tes has) which has been super fun.
Friday was our last day of school for students, and Tuesday is the last official day for teachers...but I will be working at least one more day next week to prep for a summer program.
I bought a new planner and I want to set up some habits & structure for my days off.
I hope you all are well and having a great Memorial Day weekend.
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Hi Everyone! Just a brief check in post as I am spending the weekend deep cleaning my house and especially all the carpets in preparation for my daughter and future son-in-law‘s (!!😀!!) arrival in June. It will have been 18 months since I’ve seen my daughter or hugged her. The longest time I’ve ever gone without seeing her and I couldn’t be more excited. She lives 2000 miles away in Santa Fe.
The deep cleaning has reminded me that another one of the many benefits of staying active is giving us the strength, energy, and stamina for large home projects. I’m moving furniture, slinging objects, and pushing the heavy rug cleaner vacuum around and I’ve got the endurance to keep going. I love being independent and not needing to hire other people to do tasks that I should be able to do myself.
Tomorrow is not a holiday for me as I need to finish up a project before a depart for Minnesota on Friday. I will be posting our next challenge tomorrow but it might be a bit abbreviated. We’re going to be doing something different this summer so please be thinking about what health goals you’d like to accomplish!3 -
I totally agree with all you wrote @themedalist !! I am so happy for you!
@nebslp thank you for your many posts esp when I was busy prepping for our son’s visit from the UK with his wife!!
@angelic834 I hear you as former teacher.. this time of year is insane. - at best!! Congrats on maintaining your habits & even adding another!!!
Yes, trackers are so much fun! And effective!
Things are going well here. Some loss on the scale & eating well even with my DIL’s amazing cooking!
Have a great day/weekend!
Maddie 🍀🌺🥰2 -
I am posting now and plan to go back later to read everyone's posts for the month. I hope to respond in a day or so, otherwise I will never enter my post, and I do want to actually do this during May 🙄.
Earlier I was pondering why I hadn't actually posted this month. There has definitely been a variety of things going on, and some difficulties as well. One major thing is that I promised myself not to get on the computer, or at least MFP, in the later evening, and especially no longer at night time, and then to figure out when to post during the day. Well, I definitely did not post at night! But obviously I never figured out when to post during the day. My looking at email at nighttime was also included in my new rule 😲.
I will have to attach posting to or after something 🤷♀️❓ earlier in the evening after my I Wills are completed.
On the positive side of this is that I am forcing myself to go to sleep earlier😴 more often. Although I did some coloring to get some wind-down time sometimes instead of going right to sleep.
I received my second vaccine two 1/2 weeks ago. So that is finally done. I've been really struggling with some rough arthritis flare ups this month and trying to figure out the 'why' of that. And we finally had to replace our refrigerator which ended up being a bigger use of my time than I expected it to be. It seemed to be wise to do so now, before it finally gave out after all these years, as the signs were there that it could be soon enough. So it has been busy at times. But the main thing was not having a good plan of when to post.
I started adding in some various light strength exercises for my arms during April. During May I decided that I'm adding in some experimental strength exercises for my legs also.
AFTER I _____ start to heat my tea water_____
I WILL ____ do upper body exercises with weights while the water is heating up ____ 3 times a day currently. Every day except on a planned rest day.
AFTER I ____ I haven't found anything yet to attach this one to it so I just attempt to remember to do it: One back up plan I do have is that when I look over the exercise planner to see that I wrote everything in it, if I haven't done anything for the lower body or the third upper body (no extra tea that day perhaps) I just go and do both right then and write it in.
I WILL ____ do lower body strength exercises____ What and how will vary as I experiment with what might work for me. Every day except on a planned rest day.
I looked through my planner for May and everyday I did both the upper body 🤸♀️ and lower body ✨ strength building exercises/ or other activity as planned for that day.
So it was a good month for the "I Wills"!
I will catch up with you all later 💗,
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@texasgardnr I'll say it was a GOOD month as far as faithfulness to your strengthening exercises!! I'm sorry to hear your arthritis has flared up. Sometimes it's hard to figure it out...most people blame it on the weather
I hope you feel as free as I do now that you've had your second vaccine. It is wonderful to be able to be with people and not have to dig out the old mask again. And I hope you like your new refrigerator. Mine was used when we bought it...back in 1997. Must have been a good one cuz it's still humming along. It was great hearing from you and I'm sure you'll figure out a posting time when you can.
@MadisonMolly2017 Thank you for not thinking of me as old. I generally don't think so either but 3 days with the kids and a few rounds of hot potato and other ball games had me thinking otherwise. I can turn this around. If anyone knows about Joan McDonald who started getting in shape in her late 60's, you know it's never too late to start.
I'm afraid to go back and read previous posts without posting this because I have to go back a page. I'll be baaack!!!2 -
@themedalist You must be over the moon about seeing your daughter and SIL-to be soon! 18 months must have felt like an eternity. I'm sure you were able to zoom or FaceTime, but it's just not the same as seeing them in person and giving them a big hug. It's so true that staying strong and independent is something we need to strive for every day through regular activities. Cleaning is good for something! Thank you for taking the time to keep us challenged and engaged. I am so curious about what's in store for June.
@angelica843 Congrats on staying the course this month! I, too, know all about the busy end of the school year. I hope you can enjoy your summer and get some much needed rest.
Hi to everyone else! Looking forward to your progress reports soon
One more day left in May. It's been a good month in some ways, really hard in others. I'm hoping/praying June will be even better.4 -
Last day to meet our goals in May! I was really sore this morning and my knee was not feeling happy, but I did CS anyway. Then as I was on my way to the front porch for meditation, I noticed the mama swallow was sitting in the nest and I didn’t want to bother her. So I found another great spot on the other side of the house on the deck facing the grove. Just as I sat down, papa swallow flew by as if to thank me🤔. One more day done to round out the month😁
Thank you to all veterans for your service 🇺🇸4 -
Great updates everyone! I am so happy to see that we are finishing the month strong! On to June!2
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Final check in for the month. And my nails are looking good.
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May was great with a lot accomplished! Congratulations everyone!
I’m excited to see what you choose to do for the new Summer Challenge!!!1 -
Well my tracker for may is nowhere near as pretty as @77tes but I focused on one item totally. It was interesting that the only spike I saw toward the end of the month was when my back spasm'ed out on me for a few days. Visually the trackers are REALLY helpful.I know that there are a lot of things which influence BP and it's apparent that pain not only effects RHR but also blood pressure in my case.. However looking big picture I see a good trend and I honestly FEEL better with less night sweats and the chest pain I had for a few months. gone!
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Hi! I just saw this post. @summerSkier and @77tes Both trackers look great! @SummerSkier I’m seeing LoTs of green there!🙂 I agree that they are helpful especially when keeping track of numbers daily. You can really see and analyze your progress that way. And make tweaks if needed. Thanks for sharing!1
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@SummerSkier , those are some terrific numbers! Cool way to track BP.2
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@SummerSkier WoW! what a creative and excellent idea for how to track your numbers! I totally agree with @nebslp that it is so easy for you to immediately see your trends as well as being able to analyze what is going on very quickly! Well done on your progress and making the tracker!!
@77tes Awesome tracker! The new tracker book is turning out to be very versatile for you. And as always, you creatively make your monthly tracker very pretty and a work of art also. Another excellent month! PS, your nails do look amazing!!
@nebslp We visited our son and his family this weekend. Hugs and cuddles with my little grand daughter! We've seen them for occasional driveway sort of visits or drive-by/ drop off stuff moments but as we all know that is just not the same. This weekend we still followed the post vaccine guidelines but being actually able to see smiles again was very special.
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