Laughing puts me in a good mood. How does laughing benefit you?

21/11/2021

Pass day today. I got plenty of walking exercise but tracking has been abandoned for the day.

I had planned to have a pass day but the plan was scrapped. It’s a long story but I’m at home – which wasn’t the plan. I was supposed to be sitting in the bar after spending the afternoon by the pool (and possibly in it), having had a delicious dinner in the buffet restaurant. Instead of which I’m at home having had a late lunch in a local pub after a very early breakfast. I haven’t finished eating yet today but I haven’t got the energy to try to work out the calories in what I’ve eaten. As I’m going to be at home for the rest of the month, I can afford a pass day today.

Here’s the story should you care to read it

NOV 21
Exercise ✅ [10 min run + 5 min stretch + > 20 min walk]

Laughing has always been important to me, and has proven quite critical. Most of my life I truly enjoyed helping others laugh, I had a gift of humor, and would sometimes spend weeks waiting to drop some gift I came up with at just the right moment. I'm a lot more reclusive now due to the special needs required to keep my immediate family together, but humor is often the only thing that saves us mentally. My kids have inherited my gift of humor which never fails to be... interesting, at a bare minimum at least! 😳 Their senses of humor are quite interesting, as are all of their senses for that matter thanks to that whole autism thing.

✅ - Exercise 20+ Minutes: 150+ minutes, aerobics/walking/circuits/dancing
✅ - Calories within budget
✅ - Tracked everything

3️⃣ Pass Days left

@LazyBlondeChef
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Have had a great weekend. Between having my granddaughter with out her parents was complete joy and getting ready for Thursday with the whole clan here my heart is complete. I know I will enjoy Lilith more as she grows. Eating has been great. Exercise abundant. Elliptical, walking and chasing a toddler.

0/3 pass days all three done sore knee this evening some tea ibuprofen and tiger balm ah I do feel a little better.

Hip, hip hurray to the 3 yes day crew!
@jjjcat @SummerSkier @tahm42 @davert123 and @edsheeran412 (nice work with the pushups!)

Wow, wow, wow to the no pass days used crew !
@TerriRichardson112 @snowshoe072

Big hugs @lesdarts180 and @Katiecan2021: hope you get some rest after all the great celebrations!

Thanks for posting @oh_jackie @WhatMeRunning and @LazyBlondeChef for the great reminder!

3 yes day for me

21st
* Still h've a cold and lots of endometriosis pain so forced myself to do 20 min stretching.
* Way under calories.
* Tracked every BLT.

My endometriosis pain had disappeared after the birth of bub 18mths ago but unfortunately it came back with a vengeance this w/e. Disappointed that it is back and may hve to look at cutting down on animal products, sugar and gluten in the near future to help with the pain. The thought of hving to restrict myself from these foods makes me sad as I really love them but I know it will more than likely help with the inflamation and pain.

I'll jump on later to catch up on ur posts. Hve a great day and night. Xo

@victorious55 I will give that video a try. I am not much of a stretcher but I have been trying to add some.

Exercise: Surprisingly nice weather so I got out for a 4 mile run.

Tracking: I went out to dinner tonight and although I threw some numbers into the tracker it could be off by 500 calories either way. I will post a pic and I would love to hear what others would estimate.

Calories: Well, I made it official today. After a 33 week/68 pound journey I decided to join the maintenance ranks. I figured I would just dive in, so I went out to eat. No scale. No measuring cups. Nothing more than a guess really for the tracker, but even estimating around 1000 calories, I was still under 1800 for the day which should have snuck in under my TDEE according to my fitbit. Hopefully!

Anyway, it was a big step for me to eat something "unregulated," and I feel okay with it.

Laughing is key. Nothing makes my heart happier than my kiddos belly laugh. It’s amazing.

Yesterday was a pass day - so at 4 pass days on the month - impromptu dinner with hubby instead of a Home Depot run. I got cheese tamales. So good. So much cheese it was kind of horrifying. Lol. We ended up actually watching a movie after getting the downstairs entertainment system set up which we haven’t done in like 2 years. We watched a knives Out which we both highly enjoyed. If your humor runs dark like ours, I def recommend it.

Today I did class at the gym, then hiked about 5.5 miles up and down rocky cliffs and stream beds at a local preserve (watch only logged a small portion of the hike) where I met friends from high school (one was my maid of honor) who I haven’t seen in like a decade. It was a good afternoon. I ate a ton for dinner and didn’t make great choices but given I ate way too little pre the like 4 hours of exercise I had today… I ended up fine in the end. Lol. Pics below of the hike also of the new ring for the right hand which arrived yesterday. Green tourmaline. I believe this is the ring I’ve been looking for this whole time. I got it yesterday and instead of thinking which ring is next I felt more like ahhhhh… this is the one.

Great reminder @LazyBlondeChef, I do have a sense of humour but it usually appears when all is right in my world and I'm anxiety free (which you know, is that a thing?) I actively looked for a comedy on Netflix tonight to wind down to, so hopefully I'll get a few laughs in. (Btw, The IT Crowd, Swedish Dicks and the first season of Modern Family are some of my favourite comedies on Netflix currently if anyone is looking for recommendations. Life in Pieces is cute too.)

Speaking of anxiety, sorry to hear about your cancelled trip @lesdarts180 . I can relate to your boyfriend's flying anxiety, I am the same. I hyperventilated before boarding the plane for our honeymoon and haven't flown in 31 years. I had to fly in 2019 as I accepted my current job on the condition that flying to some of our manufacturing plants could be required. I am on anti-anxiety meds now and flying a couple of hours in 2019 was tolerable - although I am not ready to fly over an ocean. Unfortunately anxiety is very debilitating and he may not be able to get over it.

Thank you for the Stretching vid @victorious55 . You've made it easy for me; that is one of the things I wanted to look into now that our pool is closed for the season. I just made a mental note to do so as I've noticed I'm starting to get really stiff again; it's been 3 weeks since I last swam.

Congratulations @bradkcrew!! What an impressive loss!

Sadly I didn't meet any of the 3 requirements today. It was a conscious choice. I'm going easy on myself today as we have had a huge announcement sent out at 4:55 pm on Friday and a meeting called tomorrow at 10:00 tomorrow to discuss what these changes will mean for our team. I'm working through my anxiety in order to be calm and present myself as pro company and excited for the change at the meeting tomorrow lol. And yes I'm at laughing at myself right now. And yes I laugh at myself quite often; it's either that or I'd be crying and it's really not a good look...