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#ALL IN - love it! Gonna steal this mantra! It’s always strange to me that I KNOW WHAT TO DO! AND how awful I feel when i don’t! So why do I do what I know I shouldn’t do?! Any therapists out there?!?! 🤪🤪

@SherryRueter I’ve tried with macros but just can’t find a way to hit my protein goals (around 120). I hate cottage cheese, yogurt, etc so have to fill up with protein powders, bars, shakes. Not bad I guess but not great. Can your mom not live independently? I feel for you!

@SherryRueter - stop making sense, will ya!! 🤣🤣 You’re right - it’s avoidant behavior. I know I need to focus on what I’m eating eating eating!!! But since I feel I’m failing on that part I’m focusing on 2k vs 4K steps, lunges vs step ups - not where my focus should be. Okay - countdown to the holidays. Consistency.…

Wow @SherryRueter! 12k to 22k steps?!?! I have to work real hard to get 10k! Finishing up iron next week and then 12 weeks to Christmas. Wondering to do Fuel, then Beast Mode or kettlebell, then 24 days to Christmas. Week off here and there OR The iron/fuel combo - 12 weeks. What would you do??

@SherryRueter - you have trouble reaching 10k steps daily or your exercise? I have an Apple Watch and trying to see how to use challenges if you’re up for one!!

Thanks for the inspiration, @SherryRueter. I needed that kick! I can dwell too much on my lifting reps, tempo, sets etc - and while that’s important - it’s nutrition, nutrition, NUTRITION!!! Great job! Congrats!! 👏👏👏👏👏

I understand @SherryRueter! The feelings can be so scary and overwhelming. What I try to do is to dwell on the times brought G-d brought my mother through difficult health challenges and dwell on the supernatural things G-d can do - not what my natural brain is telling me. Do you just have a feeling or is this something…

Sorry to hear about your tear, Sherry! Hopefully you’ll get some helpful suggestions. You will be laying off any weight training tho, right?!?! And thanks to you all for the coaching information. I’m sure it will help but then I think how can “eat less, move more” be so hard - even if I’m not perfect daily?!?! Ugh! I’m…

Have any of you ever used a coach to reach your fitness goals? Would you - if $ wasn’t a factor? Wondering if it could help but also wondering that if I know what I need to do, I should be able to just do it. But alas I don’t - at least long enough to reach my goals. Life does get in the way but maybe if I put out $$ I’d…

Hi Pals. Been dealing with some side effects of mom’s new meds so haven’t posted in a while. Finishing up week 3 of iron and staying consistent. Staying pretty much consistent on nutrition, too - not as many rollercoaster days and trying very very very VERY hard to bring my faith into my fitness habits/goals - using Bible…

Good question @justgirl81. I can’t seem to answer that but unlike most of the world (exaggerating??) I was at my lightest weight and healthiest during that Covid period. I THINK i felt like like I be just in case any of my family members caught it, did not go out to eat, and stuck at home when I discovered Caroline Girvan…

Sorry to hear about your mom @SherryRueter. Such a struggle. Tired. Tired. Tired. Up and down. Read something interesting. Too long but in short it was a way to look as forward to your nutritional habits and routine as you do your workouts. Without that - it’s hard to sustain and a life of struggle. Will read when my head…

@justgirl81Thanka for the gaba recommendation. Will look into that. Unfortunately, my personal experiences with those care facilities haven’t been the best. The facilities have given great tours, orientations, start off great - but become more complacent. Family members needed to be constantly present to ensure their loved…

Congrats on the progress of decreasing the cigars, justgirl81! Happy with my weight loss trend. Slow but making better choices regardless of stress. Yes, @SherryRueter - the anxiety is strong. It comes at night when I rethink the day about what I could’ve done better. Guilt - when I realize I could’ve done something but…

Good luck on your doc visit @SherryRueter! What’s so perplexing and confounding is when the docs say to my parents “stop doing x, it’s causing y - which is not good for you” - their response usually “what do they know” - even when the lab results support the doc conclusions. Whacha gonna do?!!’ Feeling pretty ok. Few more…

@SherryRueter. The post took my breath away. I am probably the most blessed woman in the world. Thank you for offering me this new insight and perspective when all I was ready to do this morning was be worried, stressed, frustrated, and glum. 🙏🏽❤️

Thank you for the kind words! Need them both! No @justgirl81. Haven’t researched coconut oil. Benefits??

Hi All. Sticking to my nutrition goals just in a funky mindset. Overanxious despite everything I tell myself about worrying. I’ll get there. It’s been my mom who has taken most of my time but I’m not witnessing some cognitive deterioration of my dad. Day by day. Breath by breath. 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Thanks so much @SherryRueter. I so appreciate the prayers. I thought of us when I received this today - esp you @justgirl81. We can and will be successful!

“Peace”. Sigh. If only ! Busy weeks still coordinating care for my mom. Just started back with CG Iron yesterday and sore today. Will lower weights this time around and only do three days of IRON to incorporate the activities I love and miss - TRX, Pilates, kettlebell, boxing, step aerobics. Have a schedule I can stick to…

Appt went well @SherryRueter. He cleared up a lot of conflicting information from docs. Most importantly he was warm and listened to all my questions. My hubby’s cardiologist friend jokes that he always sighed when seeing daughters as the main point of contact as caregivers - the rep is that we are relentless with all the…

Sorry to hear about the pain @SherryRueter but glad you found something to help alleviate it. Will meet with doc today and hopefully get some clear guidance on mom’s care. A lot of the stress comes from getting different instructions from different docs and if it’s hard for docs as some say - it’s mind bending for a lay…

Yep @SherryRueter. Iron. Plan to start on Monday. I’ve done the kettlebell seekers, beast mode, iron, and fuel. I like your idea of the add on. I was doing heavy weights and kinda “thickened”. Not the look I was after so may go lower weights, higher reps. Psychologically, the 30 min max of iron makes me feel it’s…

@SherryRueter Thanks for the kind words and reminders! I so need to hear them. My niece who is visiting is helping me. 4 brothers and my dad - no help there. Well, you know - this is women’s work 😕. Waiting to hear from a home health organization today so my mom can be assessed for skilled nursing, physical therapy etc.…

Hi Pals. In for a quick stop in. Spent the last week with my mom in the hospital. Went in for something minor, then kidney issues. Sigh. She was discharged yesterday and doing much better. And - after practically fasting for the last week (full of stress, no appetite, and literally ate the leftover bits of her hospital…

🙏🏽 for your mom, @SherryRueter. Thankful for a lil relief from the heat!

Thank you @justgirl81 and @SherryRueter. I agree re the heat stroke awareness - I have to admit I’ve been pretty dumb about downplaying the adverse effects of the heat by being active here in the south. Down almost 7 pounds from the disastrous several days. Bought two types of dandelion tea and that’s been helping. Feeling…

Hello Fitness Friends! Been a crazy week. Lost a young-ish cousin - early 60s. Heat stroke - pushing a lawn mower in this heat in NC. Family found him in bed, no shirt, lawn half-mowed, water bottle on grass - as if he felt the heat, it overcame him and we was trying to cool off and lie down. Sigh. Yes, @SherryRueter - re…

Just said a prayer for you and your mom @SherryRueter. Feeling stressed myself - off to doc with my mom. Not sure what kind of stress makes me overeat and others make me lose my appetite. I think I lose my appetite - like now - in my higher stress days Mini-stressors vs major-stressors. Sigh! Road trip later in the week…

So so sorry to hear about your mom @SherryRueter but happy to hear they caught it in time. I’m limiting my meat intake as well - increasing my veggies (gotta work on the fruit) - and successful with my water intake. Welcome back @ScienceofTeaching! Hope you had a great time on your honeymoon! Road trip next week back home.…