I'm committing to 300 minutes of exercise this and 84,000 steps this week. Also committing to doing one dare on darebee every day. Will post it here so others can join me if they want to.

My discipline was horrible this past weekend. We went on a family day-cation and I had another big burger from Chili's. Actually this one was bigger cause I added bacon and onion rings. Mmm, it was deee-licous. And I had so many late evenings that I have not worked out since last Wednesday.

But I'm not giving up. I like @plainanjelik 's self-challenge. I don't think I'll make 300 minutes this week, but I can shoot for at least 225. My steps have been lacking badly, so I know I need to "step up" in that department (pun intended). Let's say 70,000.

I still have lost no additional lbs, and this weekend did not help. Last Wed and Thur I was feeling really good and slim, but I forgot to step on the scale, so i don't know for sure if I lost weight and then destroyed my progress with a Chili's feast. Oh, and breakfast feast at this great local spot.

May you all be successful in your endeavors.

@Fyreside — I’m about to get back into the exercise swing of things too. Lets try to post everyday this week and upcoming and maybe keep each other going. I think I’m ready to take on serious training again.

I love the red mushrooms, that’s a Fly Agaric. It’s probably the easiest mushroom for me to identify anyway. :-)

Hey everyone! Hope you all had a good day. I didn't have enough time to pack my lunch today so went to Chop't and got a salad. It's a good 20 minute walk from work but despite the cold (to me. Probably the only one dressed like they were in the tundra in 46°F weather) I walked there and back when I normally would have driven. So knocked out 40 mins of exercise there. Also did a 16 minute workout at home then went to my 45 minute karate session. I was so tired I almost didn't go to my karate class (as in got ready for bed and about to crawl in at 7:45pm but pushed myself to just get it done) Hoping to keep the momentum going the rest of the week.

Steps taken: 17,345/84,000
Exercise minutes: 101/300
Diary complete: 1/7
Days under calorie goal: 1/7
Daily dare complete: 1/7

I don't do good with hops and jumps. My right knee acts up from time to time. I don't remember what I did to it back in high school, but ever since then, my knee decides to be a pain.

I was so exhausted yesterday, I did not work out. So now I'm going to do a 15 min workout during lunch everyday to catch up.

Steps taken: 21,377/70,000
Exercise minutes: 15/225
Diary complete: 2/7
Days under calorie goal: 2/7

BTW - those mushroom pics are absolutely gorgeous. The only thing we have around here is dirt

Daily post Tuesday. Hi all. I had a midnight whoopsie last night and 950cal later... So today I let myself have a morning coffee and a lunch meal and will fast till tomorrow to balance the books. I did a very token 10min in the gym.. Which I really need to up because I can feel my arms going soft, which is a shame as plenty of work went into that muscle.

@plainanjelik I got the calf raise challenge done, but these knees don't hop or squat lol I'll see if I can make up the difference on the weight machine doing extensions.

OregonRunner5 wrote: »

@Fyreside — Get in the exercise today? I got in my circuit training at 90 minutes. Spin bike, weights, situps, hill climbing, elliptical and treadmill. I asked Burly if we could start a thread to start an exercise streak. Day 1 for me I hope to keep going until New Years Day. I was surprised at your mushroom pic to see a fern. I always think of Australia as very dry.

I did hit the gym, but it was a bit half hearted, nothing to be proud of.. I will up my game
Aus is a bit like continental USA in reverse. The northern tip is tropical and it goes through subtropical down to temperate in the south. Most of the continent is desert, but down the east coast, only a couple of hundred miles inland is a large mountain range called the Great dividing range. East of that is quite lush and where most Aussies live. My property and the City I alternatively stay in are atop the range itself. Approximately halfway down the East Coast. Up North on the Cape York peninsular (next to great barrier reef) is just full blown Jungle, as jungly as anywhere I've ever been or seen on the planet.

My property is in a dry sclerophyll forest alpine region After much searching I found a picture that illustrates the natural flora. We do have dry spells, even droughts around here. The grass gets brown and tinder dry and we fear bushfires. But much of the time it looks like this. This is the state border about 2miles from my property.

There is a lot of cleared farm land around here, but over the border in that photo is a state forest that is what the whole place would have looked like before clearing.

My place is different again, it's a special case. The whole district I'm in was a failed farm forestry attempt. The local shire council bought up a farm and local mom&pop investors bought parcels of land, the whole lot was planted with radiata pine, which is a human made hybrid of a small pine native to California and a tall pine from New Zealand.
So it doesn't look much like Aussie bush at all.
Pick from last year looking nice n green.

This year, dry spell 3months with no rain leading up to Spring.


And because this post is already huge, I might as well post one more pic. The plateu I'm on is the only place in Australia outside of the Snowy Mountains way down south, where it snows.. Not much, but once a year if I'm lucky, it looks like this.


Sorry about the huge post all.. The keto has kicked in and I've got so much energy I'm bouncing off the walls here hahaha. nite.

MmamabearR wrote: »

Wow! Trees! Now there's something I don't see every day I love the snow.

I just looked at your profile and I see you're in Texas.. And I have to admit, I have no real idea what Texas is like. Everytime I think I have an idea of it, I see something different. But if I had to guess, I think it has everything from beaches to desert and rocky mountain escarpments with light woodland.. is that about right?

Hey everyone. Daily dare for today is 10 archer pushups. See link for instructions. Have a great day!

https://darebee.com/hive/daily-dares/422110-dd-15-november-2017-10-archer-push-ups

Fyreside wrote: »

MmamabearR wrote: »

Wow! Trees! Now there's something I don't see every day I love the snow.

I just looked at your profile and I see you're in Texas.. And I have to admit, I have no real idea what Texas is like. Everytime I think I have an idea of it, I see something different. But if I had to guess, I think it has everything from beaches to desert and rocky mountain escarpments with light woodland.. is that about right?

And oil wells,and oil trucks, and oil ships. May not be natural, but definitely part of th landscape.

Your pictures are beautiful.
I'm from a farm background(Oklahoma wheat), so it took me a while to appreciate that type of landscape.

Was in Corpus Christi many years ago when all the natives went absolutely crazy! All the shop owners came out on th street, cars pulled over and stopped. They were all saying "snow, it's snow" pointing it out to kids. I don't know what it was because it melted before it got down to us, but it wasn't snow. Maybe sleet? Baby,baby hail? Not soft, billowing snow for sure, but we didn't burst their bubble, just let them enjoy their awe.

We used to go to the cotton gin to get m&ms.

Daily dare for today: 2 minutes side to side kicks


https://darebee.com/hive/daily-dares/422623-dd-16-november-2017-2-minutes-side-to-side-side-kicks

Have fun and have a great day!

@ccrdragon That description of Texas goes some way to explaining just why it's hard for a stranger to get a good handle on what it looks like. Sounds like a wonderfully bio-diverse place.

@OregonRunner5 I almost suggested my place might look a bit like Oregon. Great work on the daily workouts. I'm getting daily exercise, but not yet back to the pace I was at last month. Working on it.

@corinasue1143 I showed my snow pics to some Canadian friends, they had a good laugh

@plainanjelik You are such a powerhouse of energy. Glad you feel better today and nice job with the daily challenges. I might not be able to do them all, but I'm inspired nevertheless, and generally find something similar to work those muscle groups.


I'd love to share some news with you all that's pretty big for me. Last year I was diagnosed with Type2 Diabetes. After a bad accident I'd given up on ever getting back to being a person I wanted to be or even liked, and was sitting day after day in a darkened room eating my way to disaster. Type II is quite bad because it's degenerative and my doctor told me I could do something about it and enjoy another dozen years of quality of life or I could just live with it and start go go blind in about 2 years. Now I can live without all my toes. But the eyes... I like my eyes and I use them every day. You could say I've grown really attached to them. I drove home and looked at the beautiful world we live in. Did some reading and thought screw that, I don't like either of those options.. I'm going for door number 3. I'll change whatever I have to, and with a bit of luck, I will have caught the diabetes early enough to be one of the few people who reverse it.

So.. Break out the chocolate bars because I'm celebrating. The glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) test is a major determining factor in diagnosis of T2db and anyone with a score of 7%+ is considered diabetic. Today, my test came in at 5.8% and my fasting Blood glucose level was 4.3mmol/L Which is low, even for a healthy person. So while the original diagnosis will always stand. Clinically I am no longer diabetic. The keto lifestyle I've embarked on will only further cement my improved pancreatic state and with ongoing healthy life patterns I plan to keep T2db in my rear view mirror indefinitely.

If you know someone who is pre-diabetic or have had your own scare.. I think it's important to know that you can do something about it, and you don't have to give up everything you like to do it either.

Yahoo @Fyreside !!! Great news!

Did not complete my diary yesterday, have all my entries in for today tho.

Exercise - walked to the store and back today... stepson needed to borrow my truck so I figured what the heck.

@OregonRunner5 Wow that place looks absolutely awesome.

I've never really had a big sugar problem, I don't have a sweet tooth as such.. However, I honestly just never got the whole carbs/sugar connection. It never even occured to me that buiscuits, bread, pasta and rice were effectively sugar to my body. There were times in my life where I literally ate whole boxed of breakfast cereal thinking as long as I don't put sugar or honey on them, they are a healthy option. {facepalm}

Having just completely quit sugar and wheat flour, I can say I do feel very different. They weren't kidding when they said on keto you have a lot of energy. Like.. I wake up with a lot of energy and it never seems to dip. (probably because I'm carrying around 50lb of fuel hahaha) Don't worry I'm not going to go all keto preachy.. I can see why people do tho lol.

With your sweet tooth, This week I bought a bag of stevia. I got the Natvia brand, but I'm sure they are all pretty similar. As far as sugar replacements go, it is pretty amazing. A natural herbal extract with all of the sweetness and none of the glucose. I'm going to make some sweet treats with it today to see how it performs there.