SBF2 Reboot boogaloo...May 3rd!

It's amazing, isn't it Mary? It's become habit, and it's an interesting exercise in a "well, it's time to shut down the computer/TV/magazine" so that I can eat now. Focusing on it makes a big difference. I weigh myself on Wednesday morning. I'm curious to see what that says...I feel smaller, but I've also been hitting the weight training/yoga pretty hard, so I may not have lost scale weight (I have to keep reminding myself that isn't my current goal...but it's a very weird and difficult shift).

Had an absolutely brutal (in a wonderful way) training session yesterday...switching from hitting pads/boxing combos to weights/TRX and back again. I made the beautiful mistake of saying "I hate crunches" last time so we did an ab workout that was all swiss ball, balance, cirque de soleil looking stuff, much of which looked impossible when she demo'ed it, but was challenging but possible when I tried it. I laughed at one point because the thought "Oh, it's just plank on the ball....I can rest!" went through my head.

Today it's a strength/dance conditioning class with one of my fav. teachers (she subbed in at the gym a few times, and the positive feedback was so high that they hired her) followed by boxing. Also on the "must do" list today: translating a page of difficult spanish. Si, se puede!

Si, se puede, boogaloo!:flowerforyou:

Good morning!
Mary, sorry your hubby is sick! I hope you don't get it! What part of Nebraska is he going to? I lived in the very southwest corner for the first 12 years of my life. Farm girl out in the sticks...literally.
V, you can come work out at my house! When the dryer is running it gets very hot and humid in here. Feel like I am having my own bikram-ish taebo.
CP, how are you doing on the push ups? Can't wait till your back from your trip. Miss hearing from you!:smooched:
Bobbie, how are you doing? Getting in some good work outs this week?

I managed to get all my cleaning done (except for some straightening up) and got Shred in before taking Alex to tumbling class at 11. That's progress for me! :happy: Did not feel like working out but I didn't know if I was going to be able to get any exercise in today since the guys are coming back to look at the dryer again. He called the property management and he said the OWNER is meeting him here today at 1:30. I've never met the owner (owners intimidate me lol) and I think he lives in Louisiana, so maybe he meant the property manager is coming over today. That's who I am hoping comes.
I may try to do some yard work this afternoon depending on the dryer job. Other than that I plan to chill out. :glasses:
Forward rolls boogaloo!
MM

I weighed in. Total loss last month: 8 oz. Ack. I guess down is good, right? The measuring tape brought no joy, either. (waist at narrowest: up .5 inches, waist at bellybutton down .5 inches and thigh down .5 inches...so that's good. I think the waist "growth" is due to the fact that my lower back muscles are kicking.) But, it seems that while trying to lose, I've turned into the magical maintaining machine. I really, really, just wanted that additional half pound to get back to the 140s. I'm trying to let the mirror be my guide. I look better, my muscles are more defined, I may not be smaller, but I am harder. End of story.

Another busy day. I keep waiting to see if the phone rings and if I'm teaching or not. I hate this...I'm trying to use it as an exercise in letting go, but it still sucks. Boo to it.

Other than hoping I don't have to teach (that's a not bad financial state to be in...) it's an appointment downtown, translating (current project...Aesop's Fables...difficulty: some of them don't make a lot of sense in English, so in my broken translations from Spanish they make even less sense. It's amazing to remember that language is not words...it's phrases) reading, and a weights class followed by spynga. I've decided to shift and have a bit of a workout schedule (this relieves me from guilt a bit and helps prevent too much working out). I'm making Mon, Wed and Fri my "double days". Every other day is one workout per. (I find it a little slice of crazy/wonderful that I need to prevent myself from overtraining.) Also, I found out that in June, I'll be able to take a Thursday a.m. Zumba if I want to, so that's cool.

I've started "Savor". It's interesting, but I've just gotten started. It's very Buddhist (which should come as no surprise, since it's written by a Buddhist monk and a R.D.) I just keep pondering where "mindfullness" ends and "conscious deprivation" begins. Where is the line between "not stuffed full" and "still hungry". Hungry all the time = not happy V.

Pondering, boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

update: ended up doing yoga at home. I think my body is trying to tell me that Wednesday needs to be a recovery day, as this is the second week in a row I've been really dragging on Wednesday. I think Hard workouts Thurs-Mon, and semi-hard on Tuesday might earn a day off, right? Or at least a light day.

The only bummer is Wednesday is the best/only weight training class offered at the gym. But, with challenging yoga on Fridays and stretch/strength on Mondays, as well as a session with my trainer sometime, that's probably enough. Anyway, today I took it easy.

:flowerforyou:

Morning, pebbs.

I have finished my translation (which is my new thing I want to do before I check in here.) I graduated myself today to an actual musicology article in Spanish. I was doing Aesop's fables, but decided that there most likely won't be eagles and foxes and grapes on the exam. Bummer.

Today, my trainer is coming over. I have an appointment at the Doc's later this afternoon to sort of say "what gives?" Apparently, my last round of bloodwork came back completely normal. Wha? How can I be deficient one week and fine the next? Sort of kind of makes no sense to me. I'm going to see if he'll prescribe some vit injections for me...just to see if there's a malabsorption issue. I'm sick of the doc saying "you're sick...no wait, you're fine...no wait, you're sick." Just kind of makes you wonder how much of it is operator error, you know...with all respect to lab techs, you just never know what goes on after they take the blood out of your arm...I think I may just look for a good naturopath. I would like to feel a bit better. Blergh.

So, on for this afternoon: meet with the trainer, go to the doctor, go to the farmer's market (goal: more vegetables than cheese) and come home and read for my comps.

Also, since the summer term started Monday, I'm 99% sure I'm not teaching. (but there's still a chance I could get a weird, last minute, semester already started, call. My department is not exactly on the ball with scheduling.) Also, I could get a call that I'm someone's RA for the summer. I hope I don't. I have made big-time peace with the idea of a break (actually just time to do my own work) and now it would be a bummer if I had to work.

Busy break boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

Update: I did bad. I had more than two cookies. But they were probably the best I've ever had. Not low cal either. I spent five hours baking and decorating them so that burns cals right? Then DH dragged me out for a brisk walk. I certainly didn't feel like it but I am glad I went. I needed to. Darn cookies. They are super good though if I do say so myself. We put some in the freezer, half are going with me to the Bible Study lunch tomorrow, and half are going to DH's work. I posted pics on FB.
I will try to check in tomorrow but I don't know what exercise I will be getting in. I need to do something, but I don't know if there will be time.
Working off my cookies boogaloo!
MM

Welcome Mummsy! Congrats on your 13 pounds down! :happy:

Mary, sounds like a busy day. Maybe one of these days I'll have as much energy as you!

I did 30 Day Shred level 2 this morning. I hate that level. lol. But it's done and I feel better.
Cookies will be the end of me today if I do not get rid of them. I can honestly say they are probably the best sugar cookies I've ever had.
Busy day and my heart feels a little heavy this morning about next week's news (mummsy, it's a long story but we're trying to adopt a girl from Russia. Things have been rough lately.). Trying not to dwell on the possibility of bad news.
Hope your day is blessed!
Practicing self control boogaloo!
MM

Morning pebbs,

Did a double (hard spin + hard yoga) at the gym and then came home and made coconut flour muffins. Really, really good (coconut flour is my latest discovery. I made blueberry muffins...they don't taste coconut-y at all and it's one of the few wheat subs with a wheaty, sproingy texture) I forgot to put in the agave nectar, and discovered that they didn't need it to be the delicious. Next I'm going to experiment with some sort of carrot-pumpkin-spice mixture. Later, I'm going to make potato leek soup (I successfully purchased vegetables at the farmer's market yesterday!) for dinner.

Already I'm cheating on my translation-practice-before-I-check-in rule. I'm pretty sure I'm going to change Friday into a day off and study on Saturdays (I was going to aim for Mon-Fri). Or, I could abandon the idea of a schedule (yeah, like that's going to happen )

In other other news, I had my latest doc's visit. New determination is that the malabsorption issue was temporary (most likely due to super stupid strong antibiotics during my last illness) as everything seems to be back to high normal range. He tested me for a couple of weird viruses (including some sort of "stealth" strain of mono) If those come back negative, we're going with "just fibro." Boo to it, but OK, we can cope and move on.

Cope and move on boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

Welcome, Mummsy. . .yep, we're awesome! :laugh:

Hi, everyone! Hi, Mummsy! Glad you found us!!:flowerforyou: A new thread starts each Monday in the Fitness and Exercise section. Look for the SBF2 Reboot Boogaloo with the Monday's date for the week.

Did pretty well with the eating today. Still need to get the exercise going good again. I am looking forward to summer and summer stuff.

Had a case in Juvenile Court this morning. Lost. I hate losing! Clients took it pretty well. I guess it helps to have your lawyer sitting there bummed out with you.:frown:

Not as much court next week, so get to get stuff done at theoffice. That will be good.

I'm glad it is the weekend. Laundry to do. Files to do a little work on.

Weekend, Boogaloo!


Bobbie

Good morning,
Quick post! Going out to look at houses today with in laws! Looking forward to a girls day out!
I walked for 45 minutes this morning, so that's done.
We got some bad news about our friend's who lost their brother. He was actually "murdered". A nurse went in and turned everything off: his air, the alarms so when he called for help they wouldn't hear him, and she/he turned out the lights and closed the door. Even the CEO of the hospital said it is being investigated as a homicide. My heart breaks for them. What a horrible thing to go through. The funeral is Monday so we will probably go.
I am not sure what kind of exercise I will be getting the rest of the day. I may have to go for another walk later. It's gorgeous today. A cool front came through.
Gotta go! Have a blessed day!
MM

Hi everyone. I am back! Sorry I didn't get a chance to check in while I was gone - I was tired and stressed. The work went relatively well, especially the part that I was responsible for, so that's good. Unfortunately my co-worker friend got injured (he is OK, but ended up with 10 stitches in his eyebrow) on a hike after everything was done, so I spent most of Thursday afternoon/evening waiting in the emergency room with him. Scary! I was with him at the time, and I was not exactly thrilled to see blood spilling from his head. Apparently I was very calm and collected about it, though - he kept saying after the fact that he had no idea how bad it was (and was even thinking of finishing the hike) because I seemed so calm about it. I guess I'm good to have around in an emergency. Interesting later, though - we were at the 24-hour pharmacy waiting for his prescription and I decided to try the blood pressure machine. My blood pressure is usually very low (often systolic under 100), but it was something like 140/90. Can you say stressed?

I didn't eat great while I was gone, but I was mostly reasonable about portions and snacking - so I'll count it as a victory. I did manage two days of pushups while I was there - maxed out at 54 (with a few pauses). And I jogged around the building a little bit, and found that if I really land on the front of my foot, it doesn't hurt my ankle. I'll try the exercises you suggested, Mary. My PT appointment is on Monday.

MM, so sorry about your friend. V, the weather is crazy today - the wind has been gusting around 50mph, and they're saying it might snow! Bobbie, sorry about your case. And welcome, Mummsy!

Good to be home, boogaloo. :flowerforyou:

Woke up to snow on the ground this a.m. Ugh.

Yeah, I'm in being grateful for the non-toothache mode, or trying to be. A good friend of mine and I, years ago, invented a game called "hey, it could be worse..." which we would play whenever we caught one of us complaining. Sample: "this construction sucks. (while driving)" "Hey, it could be worse, it could be raining...." "or it could be an ice storm" "or, it could be an ice storm during a zombie apocalypse..." until the imaginary situation got so ridiculously bad that complaining about the construction seemed silly. I find myself using that game as a technique from time to time...and that quote reminds me of it.

Today, I'm aiming for a light activity day. Probably cleaning up the kitchen and vacuuming followed by yoga at home. The gym yoga this morning is kundalini style, and I gave it a try for a few weeks and I still hate it. Not my thing. Not my thing at all. I'm trying to let Sunday and Wednesday be my optional light recovery days...not quite a day off, and I'm allowed to do a more vigorous workout if I feel like it, but aiming for a lighter day. (don't worry...it doesn't make much sense to me, either.)

Other than that, some reading/research for my comp. I'm in information overload mode with it (there's just too much music in the world, I guess ) so the goal for today is to just try to focus on one thing for half an hour. Yesterday's session led to a three hour information binge on the internet (you tube archive clips leading from one group to another to another to another to another...until suddenly I realized I'd be trying to learn stuff that wasn't even in the topic...that kind of behavior is why it takes forever for me to finish anything...).

Editing my brain boogaloo.:flowerforyou: