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@SummerSkier I always love seeing pics of Bandit! Great pictures!
@victorious55 I think you're doing a great job on 8/10 days being "nut free".
@MadisonMolly2017 What a great topic! And you are sooo talented! I'm impressed by the variety of artistic things that you can do! I'm not artistic at all!
Although I do enjoy coloring!
I enjoy baking (although I don't do as much as I used to since I'm trying to LOSE weight!), reading, walking, and crochet. I also would love to learn to paint, but just don't have the time right now.
Jul 10:
✔️ EXERCISE: 60 minutes walking.
✔️ CALORIES: 1472/1600
✔️ TRACK: Yes.
PASSES USED: 3/3 (3Jul)(4Jul)(Jul8)
✔️ Yoga/stretching (daily) 8/10 (Jul4)(Jul7)
😃 Strength training (M,W,F) 😃 Rest Day. 4/4
Personal Challenges Met: (5/7) (Jul4)(Jul7)
"Every new day is another chance to change your life." ~Unknown."3 -
@MadisonMolly2017 Thank you for your artistic and articulate posts!!
@SummerSkier Thanks for sharing your photos of your life with horses and in particular beloved Bandit.
@mshawski You are a brilliant and talented person!!2 -
I fall into the "work takes a lot of my time" category. When I am into crafting, I'm all in. But when I'm not, I'm really not. When my daughter left for Uni 2 years ago, I tried to take up some crafting activities, starting with crocheting. Couldn't do it, felt like a huge chore. Totally not into reading anymore. Really not feeling crafty at all atm - the thought of picking up my old crafting activities again stresses me out. I think sitting at a desk all day and then sitting doing crafts or reading at night just doesn't appeal to me.
So what do I still enjoy? I love cooking; I have always found it relaxing. I love to eat lol. Finding quick but yummy meals while working and on this weight loss journey has been challenging & fun. I love hiking & going for walks but that is over for a bit now due to my plantar fasciitis. I LOVE to swim; luckily we bought a house with an outdoor pool 3.5 years ago so I get to do that. I used to love to bike ride and since November, I have been trying to get into it again. I love keeping my house tidy and yes @MadisonMolly2017, I love to declutter also (although I have been doing less of it lately). Decluttering became a new hobby after we moved from our old house of 25 years. I also enjoy keeping the house tidy as it gives me a state of calm that I crave now. Having the little hurricane I call my daughter out of the house has greatly helped with that.
This weight loss/changing old habits/creating new habits journey has been a hobby. It certainly takes a lot of time. After I work through my Stop Self Sabotage book, I have another lined up: "Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Dummies". Self care routines and strength training/muscle building/flexibility exercises are a goal that I plan to work on soon.
I'm also looking forward to my daughter coming back home in the autumn. Spending time with my favourite person will be fun as we enjoy a lot of the same activities. So much easier to get up and do something when you have someone you love hanging out with to do things. We will have to come to some kind of compromise on her tidiness though. For some reason she just can't keep it together. But I will have the pleasure of her company as a trade off.
Thank you for the post Maddie! As I get closer to retirement I will have to do some thinking on how to create the life I've always dreamed of
This house is certainly one of the things I've always dreamed of. Now what else...
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P.S. Could someone tell me how to create spoilers in posts please?
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Hobbies are often misunderstood as mere non-productive frivolity. Today’s posts illustrate that hobbies are often our most important and fulfilling part of our experiences.
I love outdoor activities. Since 1994, I have lived on a farm with hay fields, barns, horses and wildlife too.
In the 90’s and until 2003, we added long distance bicycle tours with our family. Rose really loved it when we got a tandem bike. It greatly improved our ability to start and stop together.
About 6 years ago, we became “late in life” hikers of desert trails in Arizona.
Like @SummerSkier for me a beautiful trail ride makes a perfect day.
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Exercise: active stretching plus walking
Calories: well under my limit
Tracking: good5 -
It's certainly a rich medium to bring pizzaz to artistic projects. I don't have artistic bones though. That's more of my brothers space. I just cover the tech side. LOL!MadisonMolly2017 wrote: »WhatMeRunning wrote: »July 10
✅ - Exercise 20+ Minutes
✅ - Calories within budget (20 under)
✅ - Tracked every detail I consumed (yep)
0 Pass Days Used
Personal Challenges Met: 7/10 days (2nd, 4th, 5th)
✅ - Net Carbs 30g or less (20g)
✅ - Protein 180g or more (196g)
✅ - All Scheduled Workouts Completed (0 - Rest Day)
I was active today, just no timed workouts as it was my weekly scheduled rest day.
As for hobbies, the only things I can count as a hobby right now are running and MFP! LOL! There is no time for other stuff, my days are filled and quite routine, and any disruptions tend to mean some normal daily task has to not get done.
I have had a number of hobbies though. A few years ago I was creating projects with maker boards like Raspberry Pi, Arduino and others. Prior to that I spent a dozen years doing competition BBQ and outdoor cooking. Also spent some time really getting into wine making, including trying to make wines from other things than grapes, most memorable of those was jalapeno wine. More failures than I care to remember though.
@WhatMeRunning
What fascinating hobbies!! I made some things on a lasercutter & toyed with combining my art with arduinos etc. Such possibilities!
When I was training hard (hills) for 100-mile bike rides for Lymphoma & Leukemia Society, I did 3 things each day: Work, Ride, Sleep. I eventually stopped the intensity because my “free time” was so limited & my knees were sore almost all the time.
You impress me!
The most colorful sort of creation I ever came up with......was a light system for my daughters room. The perimiter of the room along the walls just below the ceiling were run with individually addressable RGB LED strips that I wired together (over 4000 total LED's). They were driven by an Arduino stored above her closet along with two power converters. The Arduino was connected to a custom made control panel which I mounted where the light switch was. It housed a Raspberry Pi inside with a 7 inch touch screen. On booting it would run the software I wrote that had a main screen with a color wheel to set the color and a slider to set the brightness anywhere from off to full white (chosen color would be center of slider). Swiping to the second screen had a grid of buttons with 24 functions, like solid, gradient, rainbow, spin, sparkle, and so on. For options where multiple colors were needed it would prompt with the color wheel and slider for each color. So for gradient you could pick red and blue and it would give a gradient from red at one end to blue at the other. Spin would take whatever the last setting was and scroll it, so with gradient as an example the color gradient would move along the strips, around the perimeter of the room making it look like the gradient pattern was spinning. The changes would be sent to the Arduino which was set to pick up the commands and change the lights to the proper function, which was also custom software.
It was really cool.
Sadly, while I had the foresight to think ahead and have the control panel custom made out of aircraft aluminum so it would be as indestructible as possible to an autistic girl fascinated by breaking things open to see how they work, I did not foresee her putting holes in the walls to climb to the ceiling to get to the LED strips. So it all had to be removed for safety.
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@WhatMeRunning
That project for your daughter’s room sounds amazing and I’m sure it brought her joy even if the installation was short lived!
Also just the idea of jalapeño wine gives me heartburn 😂3 -
Oh, and @MadisonMolly2017 you impress me as well! I didn't know you were a long distance cyclist as well (even if "retired" from it).
When I was a teenager my mom got into cycling and did long rides for charity just like that for many years. I was always in awe of her biking across entire states and such, and she did that a few times.
Never knew how people could actually do that until just a few years ago.3 -
@WhatMeRunning what incredible thought, time, talent, and genius went into creating that for your daughter!! I'm certain it was spectacular!3
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Yes, yes, and yes, but again just barely on the exercise. I did isometrics whist driving home (several hours), not sure how to log it, but I am sure it was at least equivalent to the 20 min minimum.
My hobbies are fishing, camping, and gardening, that I can think of now. Just got back from a quick in and out camping trip to Idaho in our new trailer. Its really small, but a whole lot nicer than the tents I camped in for many years. Should lengthen my camping time as I get older.
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The actual wine does too! The crazy part was it was actually delicious and 4 people enjoyed a couple glasses of it with me until there was just too much capsaicin in our stomachs! The rest of it was used for some fantastic sauces and glazes.@WhatMeRunning
That project for your daughter’s room sounds amazing and I’m sure it brought her joy even if the installation was short lived!
Also just the idea of jalapeño wine gives me heartburn 😂2 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? No
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? No
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? No6 -
victorious55 wrote: »July 10, 2021
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? No
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Kitchen Closed? Yes
Going "nuts" with nuts today? Yes
(8 days-free )
(I go "nuts" with nuts most times, trying to continue a good habit this month. Counting the number of "nuts" free days.)
Pass day 1/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records).
@victorious55 great idea with going nut free!! I thought of u the other day as i had a small amount of nuts the other day and literally got the shock of my life wen i tracked the calories. I always knew that nuts were fatty but omg after seeing just how much i dnt think ill ever touch them again. Ha ha!!!1 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes- 86 mins walking
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
My hobbies are live music, biking, hiking, boating and fishing, camping, and yoga.. and I've just recently taken up sewing. Also like to read.5 -
@MadisonMolly2017 - Have you ever looked at Magdalena Abakanowicz? She’s one of my fav sculptors and her work is similar to Bourgeois.
Thanks @mshawski !! No I haven’t- Will check her out!!
And I’ll be consulting with you from now on! 😁
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Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? yes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? yes
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? yes- Treadmill: 22 min / 1.39 mi
- Gluges WO + crunches
Apple rings closed: 10/31
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@MadisonMolly2017 - Have you ever looked at Magdalena Abakanowicz? She’s one of my fav sculptors and her work is similar to Bourgeois.
@mshawski
Wow - looked her up - YES I saw her Big Figures!!!!
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As far as hobbies, I've been doing the following things with my children and grandchildren: I have taken some weekly time to swim, watch "The Chosen," and work on the summer library reading program. My husband wants me to play my banjo with him regularly again, so I plan to make a concentrated effort to do that.
I can relate to the person that said something else does not get done if they take the time to indulge in a hobby.
This picture is older, but one of my favorites. We have since added 3 daughters-in-law and 4 young granddaughters!8
