Beautiful Behaviors - May 2017

Good morning!

Slayed the mighty treadmill again last night.

That's my message for today: Kill it !!!!!!!!!!!

Kim

str8bowbabe wrote: »

@mca90guitar hello and welcome! I love my recurve. I just started seriously shooting traditional but fell in love with it instantly. I have been hunting most of my life but started bow hunting in the early 90's. Just love being in the woods...such peace and beauty.

@spdaphne new shoes!!!! Love shoes! Enjoy!

Ladies and gentlemen, hope you all have a great day! I am out half day today dealing with class reunion stuff coming up on June 10th.

Goal for today...its raining here so hit the treadmill for a few miles of H.I.T. training.

Check back in later!

Hard for me to pick up my compounds anymore. Usually I just tune them up a month before opener, I'm on public land so the added range is appreciated. But for targets, 3d and small game the tradbows are #1. Too much fun.

Enjoy it, it's a real challenge and I'll have my tradtech titan recurve in the tree for a few hunts this season as well.

Got quite a few things to do tonight before I head to sleep.

But my beautiful behavior was doing some lower back yoga and a quick Kundalini yoga set to get my energy up. It felt nice, I forgot how much I missed yoga.

Hope you all had a swimming day!

@aleahurst, how are you doing/feeling?

Worked out again last night.

I'm so happy I could slap myself! LOL !

@mylasaga THAT'S AWESOME. Everyone can use puppy time.

NO ONE needs donuts OR d-bags!

@rheddmo - I hope you are feeling better. I've never tried one of those grocery pick up services, that's great. OMG, I love Halo Top!
@spdaphne - Yoga, I need to do it. It's so beneficial
@SaraKim17 - Wonderful beautiful behavior - I've never had a pedi or mani, but it's on my bucket list. Zumba is fun, you go.
@KimF0715 - You're on fiyure, hot Fire, Flames!!!! Keep it up.
@mylasaga - That's Stupendous!!!! Not only did you throw out "chocolate" donuts!!!! But, you're right, it's hard to let go of people that are toxic. You get 2 gold stars lol

Update: The bf and I completed 83 minutes of Arms and Abs at the gym last night. I was a little frustrated because my left wrist is tweaking a little bit and so I couldn't lift as heavy as I know I can because I had to baby it a bit. No matter, I still crushed that workout!
I finally hit my High Carb stats yesterday!!! I've been carb cycling for a couple of weeks and you'd think with the way I love carbs that would be easy. Nope! Because I have to make them somewhat nutritious. I had spaghetti last night - of course, I weighed everything so that I wouldn't over eat.
My bf and I had an argument last night. It's the same one we've been having for years. He is awful with finances, therefore I cover bills and he is supposed to pay me half, but he is constantly behind. It's annoying and he is always trying to improve. Ugh, just not sure if love is enough sometimes. -Oh, well, I don't have to figure it out this moment. -Just thought I would share a little bit of my 'not so perfect' life. I feel as if I only share the good.
My beautiful behavior for today - go to dinner with my son and enjoy some good conversation with him. Oooo, I just want to love on him and my daughter whenever I see them, but alas they are 18yrs and 20yrs old. (I still try)

Thought for the day: Failure is not final unless you give up. **Never give up on "you". Working on yourself and taking time for yourself is the best thing you can do, never feel guilty. When you are running on empty you are no good to anyone else anyway. Don't give up just because you are busy taking care of others or tasks. Sometimes you have to step over laundry, ask your s/o to pick up the kids, say 'no' to others, etc... in order to take care of YOU. So, you had a bad day or you feel there isn't enough time in the day - keep trying, don't give up.

KimF0715 wrote: »

Okay ladies....need some advice.

I have been working out for three days in a row. I have to admit I've been going very hardcore. I'm really happy with my dedication...BUT.

I am BONE WEARY tired.

I mean, it is definitely a difference in the way I feel.

I really don't want to take a day off.....but do I need to?

Thoughts...opinions....?

Kim

Yes, you need to take days off, as well as swapping out which muscle groups you concentrate on to give your muscles time to recover. You will figure out what works for you, but being bone weary is a good sign that you should take a rest day. What I do is workout abs, arms, legs, abs, arms, legs, rest. Since I have diabetes and cardio every single day is necessary to control my blood sugar, my "rest day" is one where I focus on lower intensity longer exercises like walking and yoga. The other days I do a mix of Zumba, tabata, and HIIT cycling.

Thanks. I figured as much. I just started, so I'm bummed to have to back off a bit. There ARE proponents of pushing through the fatigue.

Then again, face plant on the treadmill....never a good idea.

Hi ladies,
This is my first post to this group, but wanted to let you know that I think you're all wonderful, inspiring, brave, funny, etc. I am 66, a former athlete in my 20's and due to job, surgeries, etc. I find I am very overweight. I'm 5'6", weight about 249, and even though I know 'what' to eat, I am an emotional eater. I get 'some' support from hubby but it's really up to me to become healthier. I have knee joint issues and hope to start swimming indoors at the local senior center. I actually just bought a new bathing suit online, size 28, since the stores didn't have that size. I did start my weight loss a year ago, weighing 294 (

I got under 180 today and then had a kick-*kitten* workout at the pool. I led the lane this morning, which means no drafting. I made all the intervals and nobody else wanted to lead. Josh (who is hit or miss for going faster than me) went second and kept me going with a lot of affirmations. He told me he couldn't count 200's (8 lengths) and needed me to lead. I was really proud of myself and was praying during the last set of 100's and barely made the interval.

Work is going well, I am finally getting my first finished draft of my eLearning ready for review. I am really excited!

So glad tomorrow is Friday and I have a long weekend!

Take time to enjoy those you love this holiday weekend!

Nicki

Found a few quotes:
* Look in the mirror; that's your competition.
* When you feel like quitting, remember why you started.
* Food is fuel, not therapy.
* The body achieves what the mind believes.
Have a wonderful, safe holiday weekend!!

Hello everyone!
@finngirl61 welcome to the group! Having diabetes has definitely taught me that food is fuel, it's so fascinating taking my blood glucose and seeing exactly what effect what I put in my body has on my ability to exercise and how I feel. Swimming is great for knee issues. Have you tried cycling? I have bad knees too and sometimes I can do cycling when other activities hurt.
@happysherri oh gosh yes about the tired eating. I'm so bad about keeping a regular schedule, and when I wear myself out, I don't want to cook, just inhale junk food. I'm trying to learn to quit when I'm ahead and go to bed.
@jessiquoi how frustrating about the presentation! I hope you enjoyed your day off!
@KimF0715 glad you got your tank filled back up!
@nickiphillips1 - awesome about leading the lane!
@mylasaga - good on you for cutting toxic guy out of your life.

Today is my first day on thyroid meds - last time I tried them, they made my heart rate too high and I had to stop. But after all this exercise my resting heart rate is between 48 - 60 and so far today it has not been an issue. Keeping fingers crossed.

My husband and I went to the park I mentioned and did the river walk. The last time I was there, a couple of years ago, I was having a lupus flare, and I couldn't walk far enough to reach the river, we just walked to the first bench and sat there and talked. The difference yesterday was like night and day - it was so easy and so fun, smiling and saying hi to all the other athletic active people as we passed on the boardwalk. It's really lovely there - there's some kind of wetland plant with big white flowers which smell delicious, and we stood and listened to a little red and black songbird which I think was some kind of finch. When we were crossing the bridge back into civilization, I looked down and said, "I bet there are snakes down there, let's look and see if we can find a snake." I was being silly, but lo and behold we looked over the bridge and there was a baby cottonmouth curled up in the cattails sunning himself. Yes indeedy there are snakes down in those mangroves!

Right now I'm sitting in my back garden relaxing after my workout (Zumba and arms day) watching the neighbor children pop up over my fence on a trampoline. It couldn't be nicer outside. A Cooper's Hawk just flew over and screed to warn the neighborhood that there was a person here. I hope everyone is having a lovely Memorial Day weekend!

@jessiquoi - WATER!!! Oh my! I'm glad you said that. I've only had 6 cups and it's evening already!

@rheddmobile - COTTONMOUTH! Ugh! Keep it! If you ever see me running, it is not for my health. It is because a venomous snake snuck up and I didn't have a shovel with which to whack it! So glad to hear that lupus flares gave you a break so you could walk.

I had a wonderful kale and carrot salad for supper. Plucked some fresh thyme out of the flower pot to add to it. Put fresh lemon juice on top. I can taste again and ordinary food tastes good! Yum.

I'm sure nobody else has interstitial lung disease, but if you do, a supplement called serrapeptase is helping me feel better. I'm thrilled.

The fresh lemon juice was a little rough on my reflux esophagitis. Lesson learned. But it tasted so goooood. Maybe the lesson wasn't learned....

Diet foods are worthless if you don't like the way they taste. What can I use instead of lemon? I don't like salad dressing. Yuck. I do like chocolate. Does anyone have a recipe for chocolate covered kale? It might work.

Love to all.

Lea