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Massage doesn't help muscles. Hips can hurt because of tensing your muscles, trapped nerves, and/or joint pain or other pain such as arthritis. Pushing or pulling the muscle doesn't affect the biology of the muscle itself. It doesn't change the cells, fibres, fascia, tissues. Massage doesn't help the muscle, it helps your…
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[I'm the OP.] Thank you everyone, so great to see so many others here my age who feel the same way. :smile: :heart: @dewd2 I should have said that the "HMs" are runs of HM distance or further, and most were in training for the 3 big events, not actual HM races. I haven't done any events so far this year. Been working on…
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@pennyks88 Just wondering if your milk productivity increase as your child has grown is masking your fat loss. i.e. As your child has grown and needed more milk and you produce more milk, any weight loss would be hidden by the increasing weight of the milk. Just a thought. I breastfed one child 26 years ago and may have…
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Sleeping better this week. Yay!
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That's it, no buying any more running kit!! :neutral: June 2019 report: "Of the 20 global companies surveyed, 19 produced no evidence that any worker making their clothes was paid a living wage anywhere in the world. These companies are: Adidas, Amazon, C&A, Decathlon, Fast Retailing, Fruit of the Loom, GAP, G-Star RAW,…
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@katharmonic What a great run! Lovely pace. And 5 and a half minutes faster than last year is wonderful.
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Beautiful. :heart:
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Could you explain in more detail? If you mean pain meds such as NSAIDs (anti-inflammatories) then no, you don't want to take those after/during hard exercise. (They actually ban them from some ultra-marathons due to past occurrences of them causing kidney damage.) But if you mean you shouldn't take paracetamol or aspirin…
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Relaxation - Must. Relax. More. Exercise - Sustainable and maintaining. Alcohol usage - None. Creativity - Great. Drawing, designing, sewing. Home - Great. Doing lots of maintenance and redecorating, and helping my other half with painting a room. Work - Probably the most stressful it's been in my life. Feel like I'm in…
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Is it OK if I do my meditation while walking or running? (I do one or the other every day.) Lots of science exists now about how it makes no difference if you sit or move. I did a lovely easy 10 km run this morning, and I felt absolutely awesome during it and all day. Just me, my comfortable breathing, and my thoughts in…
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One of the big things I'm learning to do now is to not buy anything unless I know how to recycle it. e.g. cosmetics (bought some excellent shampoo soap from NZ recently). Also: Clothing accounts for 6.7% of global climate impact – Qantas report 2018. Clothing causes 1/3 of microplastics in oceans. Clothing consumption is…
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No. What would be the point of not having your body in its natural position? Agreed on the whole, though I'm not sure about dynamic stretching improving synovial fluid production in joints, although it's clear dynamic stretching before a plyometric or run workout helps joint mobility. I did some Googling (woah, so much woo…
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Hi all! Haven't been keeping up in here, but thought of you all when reading this: Fast fashion: Should we change how we think about clothes? "She says we need to get rid of the whole culture of buying clothing for specific occasions, such as nights out and holidays". Yes! So many times I see ridiculous heels in obscure…
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@Allgaun Hugs! Please don't stress out about weight going up and down 2 lbs. Weight goes up and down normally! Even more when exercising! This is all separate to fat stores. Water weight rises and falls are due to food, salt, exercise, hormones, fibre, water, stress levels, and probably more. All normal! Not to mention…
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Hi, all! Good to see you have stuck with your New Year Resolutions. Great idea for a thread, @stricklee11 ! Pardon me for stepping in like a know-it-all, but I thought I'd try and help you keep going. I lost 80 lb in my first year, and have been now logging everything in MFP a total of 4 years 2 months, and maintained my…
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@MadisonMolly2017 Hugs!! :heart: Good luck on Wednesday. Hope you get some helpful answers. I'm resting a lot too. After a big 2-day hiking event 2 weeks ago I've been very tired but very mentally alert and not sleeping, so rest and sleep are the focus. Been getting into Slow Fashion, the Circular Economy, and getting…
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Thank you, @MissMay ! You're wonderful. :heart:
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Welcome, @RaeBeeBaby ! Yes, it's still ongoing.
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@MissMay I still love this thread, and it's helped me so much, but my increasing enthusiasm for life and volunteer activities in my home town mean I need to offload some duties. Would you be so very kind as to take over the role of starting our monthly new thread each month? I think everyone would be happy to see you be…
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Welcome, @katiesmom_99 ! You sound like me when I started CC in 2015. I did really well losing all the weight and limiting alcohol to if it fit my calorie limit. I think you're doing better than me, because I always MADE room for one a day by eating a bit less food in favour of one drink. Yay, you! :heart: When I started…
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I brought one of my Spathiphyllum (Peace Lily) plants to work for my office today. I'd realised we have a cubicle farm of about 22 cubicles and only had one plant! I've been there nearly 9 years and could use some peace around me. :smile: I think it helped today. :smile: (I'll swap it with another in a month or before if…
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Miss May, thank you. Xx I blame alcohol for making me drink, not me, and now I'm free, it's not going to trap me again. Everyone who can't decide whether to moderate or quit is having alcohol speak for them. They don't know and can't trust themselves anymore. It's alcohol's fault, not theirs.
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500 days Alcohol-free as of this evening! :D So glad to be free of all the highs and lows and mental struggles.
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@Ketch_22 Cool username! :smiley: Thanks! Tell me more about yourself, and your eating/activity/deficit/fitness tracker etc. Have you been a "serial regainer"? My zest for life motivates me" is an attitude that sounds promising. And always remember that habits help on the inevitable down days.
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@wcollett60 Me too, in a way. That sounds good! I'm trying to use my gadgets for personal development (drawing, language-learning, writing, learning, connecting with thinkers and fellow volunteers). I've been getting a lot better at catching myself as soon as I realise my attention has been distracted away from my purpose…
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@RubyRed427 You didn't see my post where I said I started the June thread early. xx I've been thinking of you and hoping what you're going through was eased by all you've learned and practiced.
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Hugs! It's not worth paying over twice that for something that's got chemicals in it that make people annoyed.
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Relaxation - Did 15 hours of mountain hiking on the weekend which was wonderful and all went well, so a nice relaxing week planned this week. Exercise - See above. Alcohol usage - None for over 16 months. Creativity - Great. Home - All tidy after a very busy week/weekend for us both. Work - Under control. Eating in…
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Relaxation - Exercise - Alcohol usage - Creativity - Home - Work - Eating in moderation - Learning - Life! -
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@smoofinator "Slow and steady wins the race!" Exactly, this! So much can be said, but it boils down to that. There's so much extremism in so many things these days, though it's part of human nature and communication to boil things down to extreme simplicities to "save time". Luckily we can hopefully think things through,…
