Into the Home Stretch!
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Happy Thursday, Warrior Women!
I'm having a very leisurely start to my day, planning my food, drinking coffee, and listening to music. This is the first day all week that I've been able to start slowly, so I'm in heaven. I think I'll do yoga, before I have breakfast. Then, I have a fair amount of walking to do to get to a couple of appointments, this afternoon. So, that will be my exercise for the day. This is day 12 of my weight not dropping significantly. I'm praying for patience.
Stephanie, that's so great that you're going to finish your 150 mile cycling goal! I think that clicking noise in your knee could be a lack of cartilage. That's what some MFP friends shared with me, when my knee was making funny noises. That's part of why I started taking that supplement that promotes new cartilage formation. We're both eating a lot of the food that promotes cartilage formation, so I didn't know what else to do!0 -
Did 1:28 this morning, so I have completed my 24!
Sue, I looked up glucosamine, and apparently it is derived from the shells of crabs and lobsters. Probably not the same thing, but maybe this means I should just go have some soft shell crab? It's in season. (I like my prescriptions.)0 -
Stephanie, I think that's an excellent idea! I love soft shell crab. I could eat it every day, if I could afford it;)
After some cleaning and a walk, I also have completed my 24 hours! I'm at 24:53 and I'll see how much I can do by the end of Saturday. It's really odd to be trying to do less. If you would have told me 6 months ago that I'd be having a hard time exercising less than 2 hours/day, I would've fallen on the ground laughing!
I'm thinking about what number of calories I'm going to shoot for burning in June...0 -
Well, today I logged 80 minutes but I'm gonna claim 90 minutes just cause......I usually only log really active times and most often round down......like I'm not using a stop watch here or logging every step. How's this: I'll claim the extra 10 minutes for getting up in the middle of the night, coming down stairs, out the door, down the path to the barn to get the cut-off milk jugs, that have been strung up on a piece of bailing twine and hanging from a nail.....back up the path to the main garden, undo the knot in the twine, and carefully place a jug on each tomato plant, tucking the leaves up inside......close the gate and back to the house. I will have to climb back up the stairs when I'm ready to crawl back into bed and under the covers! Ok, 10 minutes....done!
All for a total of 21 hours in this challenge! Goodnight, gals......sleep tight!0 -
Oh, MFP Warrior Women! You make this weight loss journey so much fun! Well, you probably already saw that my scale started moving again! YAY!!! I'll definitely be doing a happy dance, after I'm properly caffeinated. It was scary to eat more and exercise less, but my gut said that was the right thing to do. I'm glad it actually worked.
Susan, you are so amazing! 21 hours is probably a low estimation of what you've done in this last 2 weeks. Thanks so much for the detailed description of your late night gardening outing;)
I sat down with my numbers again and decided to reset my MFP goal to lose 1 pound/week and just burn the other pound. So, now my calorie goal is 1420 and my weekly exercise calorie goal is 3500. It was when my exercise burn jumped over 3500 that I had a weight loss stall, so I'm going to try to keep it moderate and focus on the calories, rather than the minutes. Since most of my exercise is walking, I can rely on Map My Walk to give me pretty accurate burns. Fitbit & I are still figuring each other out.
So, I, Joking Warrior Woman, commit to burning 14,000 calories in June! Seriously. No joking. Really. How about you?0 -
Hi Ladies. I'm out of this challenge due to a 2nd degree burn on my leg and Drs. Orders to stay off of it.
I will most likely get a late start on next challenge as well, but I'm still in.
You ladies all inspire me and are doing awesome!!! Keep on being Warriors!!0 -
Oh, so sorry about the burn! Having to stay off it is a bummer, but perhaps it means you'll be able to start up again feeling all rested and fresh!
I'm feeling frustrated with my own body at the moment, although I'm overreacting as there are still a lot of things I can do.
My knee got better to a point but I'm scared if I try to run on it again, even with one of those brace things, it will get hurt worse, and I don't want to do that. Plus, whenever I forget and start walking naturally (which tends to be fast), it feels unstable and does that pop/click thing and then hurts worse for a bit. Also, it's weird turning corners. So I feel like it's not really bad enough to see a doctor, but as it is I don't feel like it's getting better and don't know to what extent I need to be resting it or whatever or perhaps doing exercises or stretches. I dithered and then went ahead and made an appointment, but it won't be for a couple of weeks and I'm afraid I'll look stupid.
I've also apparently started getting extertion headaches when I play with heavy (for me) weights, which was something I was concerned about earlier in the week, and it seems this also is a just lay off for a couple of weeks thing (according to my trainer and also the internet), which is so frustrating and I'm afraid I'll lose all my strength gains.
Fortunately I can walk reasonably well without pain and bike plenty and I assume swim (going tonight), but this (plus, admittedly, TOM) is putting me in a down mood. Especially since I was really excited to start training for another race.
Sigh, just wanted to vent. I will focus on what I can do and (of course) eating really well (though right now I want a cookie).
Anyway, 3500 calories/week sounds like a great goal, which I will adopt.0 -
Hello all! Today was another fun and active day for me. I actually used the weight machines that my trainer taught me to use by myself. I was so proud of myself actually going for it. I finished off my workout with so e treadmill intervals and when I was almost done I closed my eyes for a second and almost fell of the freaking treadmill. Luckily, I didn't but I did hurt my foot a little bit I think. It's sore and saying I'm clumsy. I do have another training session I decided to book for this Sunday. I am going to have him help me devise a solid weight training plan to do on days I will not do cardio. I know I am over-doing the cardio at this point but it's hard to give up because it reduces my anxiety.
Anyway, I am up to 1833 active minutes or 30.55 hours! I hit my goal! I would be doing a happy dance but my foot would prefer I skip it. It says it's tired from all this activity lol.
Enough about me, Amethyst70 I'm so sorry about your burn. That is awful! I do hope you ok and wish you a speedy recovery!
Lemurcat12, I'm sorry about your knee and headaches. It can be really hard if you want to be active to not do it because of injury. I injured my knee in Febuary and I was walking 10 miles a day on it when I could barely bend it. Not so smart but I'm super stubborn. Do your best to rest!
I do like a calorie burn challenge. I have to think about my goal some.0 -
Good Evening, Lovely Warriors!
I don't know why, but I'm super tired tonight. I spent all day at home, only had light administrative work to do, and only intentionally exercised for 42 minutes. I'm seriously FULL, too. I couldn't even finish my dinner. It is a heavy one, but I am stuffed to the gills! I think I need to put my extra calories earlier in the day, because now I can't imagine eating more later.
It was nice to stay home and just do yoga & a little dancing. I figured I needed to save up my exercise burn for my long walk tomorrow. I love walking to the farmers market, so I'm going to keep that going. I'm at 25:35 today and will probably add a couple of hours tomorrow. Ooh! I also have an information session for my new school tomorrow, but that's pretty close by.
Tonya, I'm so sorry about your burn. That's horrible that you got benched for a couple of weeks, but try to milk it when your husband's home. Let him wait on you!
Stephanie, what a bummer that your knee's still acting funny. If I were you, I'd ice it and elevate it, whenever I was sitting down. I used to get so depressed the night before my TOM. Then, I'd be fine. Strange, huh? I'm sorry your hormones are still wreaking havoc with your emotions. I think I'm officially done menstruating. Hooray!
Rachael, your foot is loud tonight! Poor, little foot. Rachael didn't mean to hurt you! She'll buy you a new shoe, if you heal quickly;) I've noticed that cardio is a good anxiety killer. 30 HOURS! YOU ROCK!0 -
This gym is working out so well for you, Rachael! Hope the foot turns out to be no big deal.
I'm going to be really busy at work for the next couple weeks, so maybe the running/weights layoff is a good thing. It's funny--and I think related to what you were talking about a few posts ago, Sue--that not being able to do my usual workouts and push to increase them seems like such a terrible thing. Last night after I swam and ate and was feeling better my mind started coming up with all these ideas about how I could run if I just got a brace or wrapped the knee (I might try this, don't know) and how maybe I should do a Jillian Michaels DVD or T-25 instead of weights, etc, yadda, yadda.
I think what I will do is focus on biking and now swimming, and otherwise walk instead of run, use a brace to see if that deals with the instability when walking fast, and maybe see if I can go back to my lighter weights and old routine without headaches, but take it quite easy.0 -
IT'S THE END OF MAY!!! Can you believe how fast this past 2 weeks went? I need to change the description of the group, because our 24 hour in 2 week challenge is coming to an end. Well, my final number for the challenge is 26:55. For the entire month of May, I exercised 50:55, which I'm pretty sure is a personal record. That's an average of 764 minutes/week. Not bad for a grandma, if I may say so myself. Imagine what my numbers would be if I hadn't slowed down a week ago? I'm just proud to be within spitting distance of Rachael and she's been kind enough to only count her "very active minutes". I counted all of the intentional exercise I did, including yoga.
Stephanie, I think you, me & Rachael caught the "exercise bug" and now not being able to exercise as much as possible feels like punishment to us. I'm telling you, if you had told me that I'd be pouting about not being able to exercise 800 minutes/week anymore just 6 months ago, I would have thought you were hysterically funny. I used to loathe moving around. I used to hate walking to the train station (which used to take me 10 minutes and now takes me 5--it's a half mile walk). Have you tried Jillian Michael's "Killer Abs"? I want to try it again, but my knees acted up, after doing it twice, so I stopped. I think I'll just modify the stuff that requires jumping around, so I don't hurt my knees.
By the way, ladies, feel free to invite your fitness focused friends to join our group. We've had many people drop out in the last 2 weeks. Only the true warriors are still here, I suppose;) I'm going to check the settings, after I post this, but I think I made it public. Maybe, I can make all of us hard core people who are still here moderators, too. I don't know what that does, but let's see... Remember, June is the burn "whatever number of calories feels like a challenge to you" month.0 -
One of these months I will work on my lingering hatred of all abs exercises, but not quite yet. ;-)
I think my sister has that one, though. She has pretty much all of the JM DVDs and has and has an abs one she does a lot, although she's mostly doing Insanity at the moment. She loves exercise DVDs, and would lend me any of the ones she is not using--she was pushing Body Revolution which might be interesting if I can't do the kind of weight routine I want for a while, but I'll have to see if the cardio intervals work. I've liked 30DS in the past, but know the cardio intervals for that would probably be riskier than just running!0 -
Good Morning WW,
Well I finished up my 2 week challenge with a bang....of the hammer that is! I put in 2 hours or so of deconstructing a wooden bridge, which, along with an hour on Friday puts me at exactly 24 hours of exerting myself with activity and exercise! The challenge did push me to do more on days I might've eased off so I appreciate the extra encouragement of participating with all of you Warrior Women! Thanks, Sue, for initiating and moderating......you rock!0
