I´m glad your mom liked the balance class! These things are so helpful in lowering fall and injury rates and starting before you´re really hurt makes it a lot easier. I wish everyone got given coupons for balance and/or fall training at their 75th birthday. Also: well done on lost size, scales be damned!
Marsia's Diary
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Thanks LaMa and Petal!!! Yes, the scales seem a little cursed at the moment, but I am sure they will drop eventually. In the mean time, it's nice to be a slimmer shape!
I am so relieved that my mom likes the balance class. I took her to the gym today to swim and she did a half hour, which was wonderful. She also had me get out the sheet of paper with the balance moves on it, but complained when I tried to get her to do them. Then she asked what was next, so I tried to get her to do a tiny bit of the resistance circuit, and she did the equivalent of 2 arm presses and grumbled about how this was going to make her too tired to swim. So I told her to go swim, and she went off happily. I didn't care at all as long as she swims or does some form of moving her body. The women in the room with us complimented me on my patience with her, as it's pretty evident that she initiates an exercise and then asks why she has to do it (her memory is going plus she loves to complain!) I told them she has always been a feisty one, even before she got older. They smiled.
So I did 30 minutes on the treadmill and 10 on resistance circuit and feel really good. This is the first day I haven't waddled around in soreness in the next few hours after exercising, so it is getting easier! I ate well today, but recently have been eating the max calories for the day. So I am going to scale back now that I am not sore and tired from exercising.
On a sad note, my friend from junior high and high school passed away a few days ago. I just found out on facebook and sat down and had a cry. I had just recently reconnected with her, but only called her once, as my social anxiety kicks in on the phone. I wish I hadn't let it stand in the way of reconnecting. She had a really supportive husband and a son who just graduated from high school and who she loved dearly. She had bad respiratory problems from being a toll booth collector on a toll highway. Where I grew up was very rural and poor. I always day dreamed about having enough money to help my childhood friends out financially, but she died when her family was just scraping by because she could no longer work. It is a wake up call not to let my social anxiety stand in the way of reconnecting with people.
I am so relieved that my mom likes the balance class. I took her to the gym today to swim and she did a half hour, which was wonderful. She also had me get out the sheet of paper with the balance moves on it, but complained when I tried to get her to do them. Then she asked what was next, so I tried to get her to do a tiny bit of the resistance circuit, and she did the equivalent of 2 arm presses and grumbled about how this was going to make her too tired to swim. So I told her to go swim, and she went off happily. I didn't care at all as long as she swims or does some form of moving her body. The women in the room with us complimented me on my patience with her, as it's pretty evident that she initiates an exercise and then asks why she has to do it (her memory is going plus she loves to complain!) I told them she has always been a feisty one, even before she got older. They smiled.
So I did 30 minutes on the treadmill and 10 on resistance circuit and feel really good. This is the first day I haven't waddled around in soreness in the next few hours after exercising, so it is getting easier! I ate well today, but recently have been eating the max calories for the day. So I am going to scale back now that I am not sore and tired from exercising.
On a sad note, my friend from junior high and high school passed away a few days ago. I just found out on facebook and sat down and had a cry. I had just recently reconnected with her, but only called her once, as my social anxiety kicks in on the phone. I wish I hadn't let it stand in the way of reconnecting. She had a really supportive husband and a son who just graduated from high school and who she loved dearly. She had bad respiratory problems from being a toll booth collector on a toll highway. Where I grew up was very rural and poor. I always day dreamed about having enough money to help my childhood friends out financially, but she died when her family was just scraping by because she could no longer work. It is a wake up call not to let my social anxiety stand in the way of reconnecting with people.
Petal001
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Oh Marsia I am so sorry to hear about your friend . Life is really tough for some people . Happy she had a supportive husband and child. Sadly health and safety is not taken into account in many jobs .
Glad you are doing well with gym and eating . You are an inspiration. Hugs
Glad you are doing well with gym and eating . You are an inspiration. Hugs
from me too, Marsia. I am so sorry about your friend. I get really nervous ringing people up and/or talking on the phone too. Don't feel bad that you were not in touch more often. It sounds like she was well loved, xoxoThank you all for the hugs and support. I feel so sad that my friend had such a dangerous job for her health. I guess you look around the world and many poor people everywhere do. I hope society flips soon and people start realizing that technology isn't going to save us, common sense is.
Thanks Cate for the support about my social anxiety, too. Actually I talked with another friend who was also our friend in high school and let her know that I don't contact her more because of the phone anxiety thing, and she actually said that she is the same exact way. So that made me feel better, too.
Today my husband, daughter and I went out and played tennis for 45 minutes. My daughter and I are rank beginners, so I just counted it as 30 minutes of doubles tennis on the calorie counter. I did jog around getting the balls a lot, and toward the end we all did well hitting it back and forth. My husband is a good teacher, and it's always fun to play together. I'm glad I exercised today because I took my mom all over town running errands, and had only a small breakfast first, so crashed at noontime and went for Chinese eggplant with garlic sauce. It was a huge plate and I devoured the whole thing, so hopefully the exercise will balance that out!
Thanks Cate for the support about my social anxiety, too. Actually I talked with another friend who was also our friend in high school and let her know that I don't contact her more because of the phone anxiety thing, and she actually said that she is the same exact way. So that made me feel better, too.
Today my husband, daughter and I went out and played tennis for 45 minutes. My daughter and I are rank beginners, so I just counted it as 30 minutes of doubles tennis on the calorie counter. I did jog around getting the balls a lot, and toward the end we all did well hitting it back and forth. My husband is a good teacher, and it's always fun to play together. I'm glad I exercised today because I took my mom all over town running errands, and had only a small breakfast first, so crashed at noontime and went for Chinese eggplant with garlic sauce. It was a huge plate and I devoured the whole thing, so hopefully the exercise will balance that out!
Being anxious about talking on the phone is extremely common among introverts. Tennis is fun! I didn´t play for very long and was never any good but as long as nobody gets fanatic about it it´s a great game.
We´re not going to keep 8 billion people going without a lot of technology. What needs to go away is the idea that everyone needs to fly around the world several times a year and own All The Things New Every Season in order to belong and be valued. O, and while we´re at it: greatly reducing meat consumption where it´s a daily occurrence would be very helpful, too.
Where I live in California, car emissions standards for cars are stricter than in the rest of the country, but our "president" is trying to do away with our stricter standards, he has done things like taken federal lands like national parks and let mining companies and oil drillers into them, and he has done away with many industry ecological standards. I don't know how one idiot could be allowed to do so much damage on such a massive scale, and there doesn't seem to be a way to stop him. I'm not anti-technology at all (I help write patents for Silicon Valley tech firms), but I just get so frustrated. There is all this research on garbage-eating microbes or ways to use garbage as clean energy, but we are still dumping garbage in the ocean, just as one issue. So I feel like people are relying a lot on technology to save us eventually, but here there aren't people in real power putting that technology to work on a large scale in my country. It's mostly private industry on a local level. I have read about great things happening in Germany with hydrogen run trains and all sorts of wonderful things, but it's business as usual in the US. Luckily I live in a county where there are a lot of organic farms and ecological measures in place, but I am just very lucky.
Is it better where you all live?
The Orange One is a raging narcissist. He doesn´t care about anything other than comfort, praise and making people he dislikes angry/unhappy. Not a good kind of person to have in charge of a public toilet, let alone a country.
Is it better here? In some ways. You´ll hardly find anyone around here who´ll try to claim climate change doesn´t exist. There´s subsidies for green energy. Many people are prepared (and able) to pay extra for relatively local produce and meat. Clean air, soil, and water laws are pretty strict. On the other hand we currently have a center right-far right government that´s cutting money for environmental protection, foreign aid and social support structures. Every major of every little town tends to be "flexible" enough to give some "friends" the opportunity to build a villa in our leftover green spaces. Could be a LOT better, could be a LOT worse.
Is it better here? In some ways. You´ll hardly find anyone around here who´ll try to claim climate change doesn´t exist. There´s subsidies for green energy. Many people are prepared (and able) to pay extra for relatively local produce and meat. Clean air, soil, and water laws are pretty strict. On the other hand we currently have a center right-far right government that´s cutting money for environmental protection, foreign aid and social support structures. Every major of every little town tends to be "flexible" enough to give some "friends" the opportunity to build a villa in our leftover green spaces. Could be a LOT better, could be a LOT worse.
Petal001
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Marsia I have trouble answering too . Ireland are constantly failing on the environmental targets wet to us by the EU . I heard on a news programme the other day that in a group go over 300k civil servants throughout the whole country they only have 6 electric cars . Seems crazy to me . I noticed when on holiday the beaches are dirty , people leave their litter which gets swept out to sea . It's incredibly sad .
Unfortunately to buy local and more expensive produce you need to have lots of money so people don't although the local markets do well enough . Many now have switched to the German market chains of Lidl and Aldi . You can fill a whole trolley there for what you get in a small paper bag at the local produce market . Economics will win out for most people trying to feed their families .
I worry about the world and the climate daily. The plastic situation in the sea is now chronic . We are parasites sucking the life blood out of our beautiful planet
Unfortunately to buy local and more expensive produce you need to have lots of money so people don't although the local markets do well enough . Many now have switched to the German market chains of Lidl and Aldi . You can fill a whole trolley there for what you get in a small paper bag at the local produce market . Economics will win out for most people trying to feed their families .
I worry about the world and the climate daily. The plastic situation in the sea is now chronic . We are parasites sucking the life blood out of our beautiful planet
Wow, really sad that even progressive places like Austria are cutting funds for environmental protection. I had no idea that Ireland and Australia wouldn't be more into ecology. I worry that with all the movies about complete environmental meltdown being the last straw that finally gets people's attention that we aren't going that way, but maybe with all the denial going on that is so obvious, a green movement can come along that gets people enthused about the environment.
There are a lot of local grass roots organizations on the west coast of the US that are doing great things. When vacationing in Washington state I noticed the state parks planted their fields next to wetlands in millet for migratory birds, and the beaches and green spaces were completely pristine. Where I live there are tons of beach clean up days and things like that, but we mostly just pick up trash as we find it. I think we will take more evening walks on weekends after all the tourists leave the beaches and pick up trash. Maybe I will get us some grabbers to make it fun. Maybe by doing a little here and there like that it'll be seen by others and they will go out and do things in their neighborhoods, too. I think when people are more invested in something, they tend to notice and take action if someone else is working at cross purposed to their cause. In the US even staunch, far right wing people are starting to say that they want clean air and water, too, so that's very encouraging.
I grow a lot of wild plum trees and things for the animals, too. Currently we have deer in the yard that need chasing out - they love my flower beds so much. I think I need to plant things for them on the outside of the fence so they don't sneak in the yard. I got up in the middle of the night last night and saw them looking in the window at me with their happy ears pivoting to listen to what I was doing - a mom and 2 babies.
There are a lot of local grass roots organizations on the west coast of the US that are doing great things. When vacationing in Washington state I noticed the state parks planted their fields next to wetlands in millet for migratory birds, and the beaches and green spaces were completely pristine. Where I live there are tons of beach clean up days and things like that, but we mostly just pick up trash as we find it. I think we will take more evening walks on weekends after all the tourists leave the beaches and pick up trash. Maybe I will get us some grabbers to make it fun. Maybe by doing a little here and there like that it'll be seen by others and they will go out and do things in their neighborhoods, too. I think when people are more invested in something, they tend to notice and take action if someone else is working at cross purposed to their cause. In the US even staunch, far right wing people are starting to say that they want clean air and water, too, so that's very encouraging.
I grow a lot of wild plum trees and things for the animals, too. Currently we have deer in the yard that need chasing out - they love my flower beds so much. I think I need to plant things for them on the outside of the fence so they don't sneak in the yard. I got up in the middle of the night last night and saw them looking in the window at me with their happy ears pivoting to listen to what I was doing - a mom and 2 babies.
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Cate
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We have strong grassroots organisations too & passionate people. It's our right-wing government that is letting us down. Things must change.
California sounds lovely, Marsia. Did the smoke from the wildfires affect you at all? I don't think I have said, but I have a nephew (my late sister's son) who lives in California, with his wife & 2 children. He is a professor of Mathematics.
I'm really going to knuckle down in September & be more active. Here's to a good month for all of us, cheers, xo Cate
California sounds lovely, Marsia. Did the smoke from the wildfires affect you at all? I don't think I have said, but I have a nephew (my late sister's son) who lives in California, with his wife & 2 children. He is a professor of Mathematics.
I'm really going to knuckle down in September & be more active. Here's to a good month for all of us, cheers, xo Cate
Jenniquest
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Hi Marsia, I share your frustrations with Trump. I live in the south, and it's tough being a democrat. My husb and I are moving to a new neighborhood soon, though, and we are sooo happy that most living there are NOT Trump supporters.
I am ultra spoiled living in Northern California which is very ecologically minded. The wildfire smoke was pretty thick for a couple of days - it looked like very thick coastal fog, but was irritating to breathe. But after a couple of days, it blew out to sea, and the air is nice again. Cate, where abouts does your nephew live? I had a close friend in college who is a mathematics professor now. We used to go out for cheap Chinese food and he would tell me the history of numbers. The history of zero took 2 lunches to talk about! It was very fascinating learning ancient civilization through the story of the invention of the integers!
I made a quiche with an almond flour crust with garlic powder in it for seasoning, and it came out sooo good. It's too rich to eat very big pieces, so it works out ok that I used fattening almond flour.
I think I have broken through the next barrier and can exercise at least 3 times a week now. This week I did 4 days of exercise, and this morning ran 38 minutes and was fine afterwards. So I think I may start to see some change again! I feel really good lately. I got up this morning at 5:20 to meditate and felt wonderful from my body getting enough exercise and sleep this week.
Yes, here's to a great month ahead of us!!!
I made a quiche with an almond flour crust with garlic powder in it for seasoning, and it came out sooo good. It's too rich to eat very big pieces, so it works out ok that I used fattening almond flour.
I think I have broken through the next barrier and can exercise at least 3 times a week now. This week I did 4 days of exercise, and this morning ran 38 minutes and was fine afterwards. So I think I may start to see some change again! I feel really good lately. I got up this morning at 5:20 to meditate and felt wonderful from my body getting enough exercise and sleep this week.
Yes, here's to a great month ahead of us!!!
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Wow, I didn't realize there would still be whole neighborhoods of Trump supporters. I guess the 40% of people who approve of him all ban together. Glad you are moving!!!! Maybe you will drop a few pounds just from losing the stress of living around people so different from you!
I used this one https://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/easy-low-carb-press-in-pie-crust/ , which calls for butter, but I am sure you could use coconut oil instead. I guess they are both as fattening though! The recipe drops the sweetener for savory dishes and substitutes garlic powder, which was great with the quiche!