Let's Post our Daily Exercise

sweetandspecial

I'm four pages behind so only read this one.

Let's see:

Wonderland - happy late birthday!

Ruth - what fun getting together with Nats and 'family'!

Falconer - I had a capillary (blood-fed) hemangioma years ago in my left nostril. It kept getting bigger because every time I had to blow my knows it would bleed a bit which made it grow. By the time I had it removed I couldn't breath through that side at all. I remember waking up in recovery and the first thing I said was 'I can breathe!!!'

Cheryl - you are too hilarious for words sometimes . If I make it to the gym I don't think I've ever just turned around and gone back home! Great news on the mammogram

Bmom - I hear you on the work is exhausting thing as well as the humidity. We've been setting records here but will get a cool spell starting tomorrow for a few days, then back up but not as miserably hot after that. Work is crazy busy lately and I'm much looking forward to the Daytona getaway with the lovely ladies from this thread.

2Fun - I'm pooped tonight too!

And on the 'pooped' topic my exercise has been body sculpt and turbo kick on T/THs with push mowing on the weekends and also lots of housework every weekend as is typical with most working women, I imagine. I saw an ortho guy this morning and got a cortisone shot in my left wrist for some arthritis induced tendon/ligament pain that's been aggravating me for several months and getting much worse recently. I've been wearing an 'ok' thumb stabilizer from Walgreens for 3 months or so but now I'm in a good heavy duty wrist splint for the next few weeks until the cortisone does its job. After that I have to be careful and start modifying many of the weight lifting moves we do in body sculpt. No doubt the lifting has exacerbated the problem too.

Have to get up at 4:45am tomorrow to make it to an out of town professional development day event by 8:00. Tomorrow evening I'm sure I'll be rather zombie-like by the time I make it home.

Sleep well all

Heidihill

Yay for just a hemangioma, Falconer, for the clear nodes, Mommy, and for the clear mammo, Cheryl!!!

A 5.45 am class is beyond the call of duty as well as having to get up at 4.45 am for work. You guys deserve a Daytona break. Sweet, hope the cortisone works quickly. Cheryl, yikes on an ash-covered car.  

Lilac, I will have to get that book. Hope you and DH are coping well with the empty nest. But I guess it's not so bad with him in the same city.

2Fun after all these years I can finally wiggle out of a sports bra without help. 

Wonderland, great mandala pumpkin. So intricate and the surface totally fits to the mandala concept.

Ruth and Nats, have fun! Pat, wishing you great deals on Saturday.

Bmom, that 4 degree incline is a good addition for your knees. Way to go!

Salsa fever last night.

badger

Good morning everyone and Happy belated Birthday, Wonderland!

The city is ripping up the streets around my gym. I tried to go both Mon & Tues nights and the road was closed both evenings. Monday they had laid in the water/sewer pipes and last night they were paving so hopefully can get in the driveway tonight. I need my exercise!

Ruth, have fun in DC with MMM. :-)

pat01

Got my 3 mile walk in yesterday. Hope to get to the gym today for the first time in a very long time. Going to take it slow but really need to get back into my old routine of stretch in the morning, gym for strength training 3 days a week, and 50 active minutes a day. I keep waiting for life to settle down to restart my "routine", but this morning I realized I am just making excuses, and life is always going to get in the way, so I might as well do what I can when I can. You ladies are inspiring!

ruthbru

Here's the Walking Women, doing what we like best......eating!!!

2FUN

kb87p, Yay on.the pap test! I guess I don't need those anymore since my.hysterectomy !

Pat01, smart move to just get on with it. I thought it would be easier to find a routine with both kids away at school. I am so out of shape, but im.starting. was.going to blow off aquatics class tonight. I guess I'll go!

ruthbru

Good job, 2FUN! Peer pressure can be a good thing

NatsFan

Just got back from a wonderful trip celebrating DH and my 35th anniversary. We spent the week exploring American History, visiting the "Historic Triangle" of Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown. From there we headed to Charlottesville to see Monticello, and the U of Virginia's famous Rotunda. It was a great trip and we got in lots and lots and lots of steps. Like everyone else, I learned a lot of the history in school, but as a kid I really didn't appreciate the significance of various events - it seemed back then as if history was nothing more than having to memorize a lot of names and dates. This trip went a long ways to refreshing my memory and in appreciating the significance and historical context of those names and dates we had to memorize way back when.

Getting ready to see Ruth! We have Ft. Frederick, Antietam, Gettysburg, the Eisenhower House, and Mount Vernon on the agenda, so my dive into history will continue. And of course Ruth and her DH will be doing the standard DC tour stops of monuments and museums. We also have plans to take in a Nationals baseball game. And Ruth even arranged with her Senator for us all to take a private tour of the Capitol building next week, so that will be special. She and her DH must be North Dakota VIPs to get that kind of special treatment!

One of the running jokes on this thread is counting household chores as exercise - we talk about doing a session of Garden N Sculpt, Laundry N Sculpt, Vacuum N Sculpt, etc. Well, we were ahead of our time. There's a great new article from AARP on how doing household chores can be just as effective as going to the gym:

http://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-201...

ruthbru

See you tomorrow, Mary! How fun is it to be able to say that!!!!

annoyingboob

i did soulcycle followed by a Pilates class. Now I'm pooped. (And poor

Wonderland

Ruth and Nats: What exciting places and things you will be doing! So happy for all of you! And WOW, Ruth, you really are a ND VIP. Can not wait to hear all about it and see pictures!

2FUN: Way to Go! As the saying goes: "Just Do It"

I've just returned from my walk/run and I'm dipping in sweat. It's still 89 degrees and sunny at 6pm.

Brutersmom

Not sure how hot it was today but I seem to be specializing in sweating. Today was another stress full day but not as bad as yesterday. Things seem to be slowly heading back to normal. Hope the heat and humitidy do the same. Made it to the gym tonight. Did a full weights work out and then the elipitical for the remaining hour. Noticed today that my blouse is looking big. Love it.

LeesaD

I'm jumping in here. Finished rads three weeks ago tmrw and finished chemo in July. Was able to run a little bit during both but not a lot. The past three weeks I've been back at exercising and building my strength back up. Been doing 3-4 mile walks every day building up to running and throwing the occassional bike ride in. Today I ran a whole two miles straight (yay me!) and then did a 10 mile bike ride! This week I went back to yoga and although some moves needed modifications, others that I thought I wouldn't be able to do like downdog and planks were so doable and made me feel like my old self again.

ruthbru

Welcome, Leesa. Glad you are jumping in!

LilacBlue

Lessa welcome, good to read you are feeling like your old very active self. Ruth & Mary, have a super time together. Annoyingboob, soulcycle & Pilates would poop me out. Cheryl, good news on the mammo and full car park at 6am here too - those type A's can't do it early enough, lol. HeidiHill, huge life change and adjustment with DS away at uni and he is not in our area, he is in what is called the midlands and Derby is an almost 4 hour drive away. DS has settled quite well, loving it, likes the department and how they teach, has been clubbing with dorm buddies and become quite a dancer. Up and running and not looking back. Me, well, I miss him so much as does the dog yet more pleased that this has all gone as smooth as it has. I've been busy with teaching, subbing for other's, honing the new release for the Saturday launch, course work for October, picking up dog poo off the dining room carpet (I will never housebreak this damn dog - she will not poo outside in the rain and it rains all the time!). The missing him part happens when I put the key in the backdoor and I don't hear him laughing up in his bedroom, talking and gaming with his friends online, as I step though the door to silence. Wonderland, DH bought me a fuchsia with non-puncture bright yellow wheels, wheelbarrow for my hedge trimming - it will be the coolest wheelbarrow on the lane!

BodyBalance #78 this afternoon in Folkestone

pat01

Welcome Leesa! Ruth and Natsfan, have a wonderful time in DC together. Heidi, glad your son adjusted well. I know you miss him, but as parents we raise our kids to leave us some day. But I hear you about the quiet in the house, when my last son left it was just deafening.

Got my classical stretch in yesterday, and a 3 mile walk in this still hot and humid weather. I never did make it to the gym, but at least it was because of being busy and not avoiding it! Definite mind shift there for me. This morning the humidity finally broke, and I hear tell fall temps are coming our way, which I look forward to. Have a great day everyone.

pat01

Not awake yet - I said Heidi and I meant Lilacblue - sorry!

cdv4251992

Welcome, Leesa, and congrats on the run! That had to feel great.

Ruth and Nats, enjoy all that history.

Kb870, congrats on the good pap! Cheryl, yay for the clear mammo! And Falconer, glad the bone scan was good. Great health news all around.

On track for exercise this week. Plus I'm back to feeling like cooking and have managed 4 healthy dinners this week. I've been using Myfitnesspal for tracking and it's going well. Feeling optimistic.I got an Instant Pot for my birthday. I need some time to be able to read the instruction, but I'm excited (and a bit nervous) to use it.

ruthbru

A little Aviation History at the Udvar-Hazy Center.

Wonderland

Welcome Leesa!

Love the picture Ruth and Nats! Have fun!

LB: Your dh is wonderful! I love that he bought you a fuchsia colored wheelbarrel! And it has non-puncture yellow wheels! My wheelbarrel is in the garage with a flat wheel. Glad you son is adjusting well. It will be easier for you. Your dog will go crazy over him when he comes home! We gotta love our pets to do the things we do for them. I have 2 cats and clean up vomit all the time.

cdv: I've heard great things about the instant pot. After you use it, please give me your opinion on it.

Walk/ran late this afternoon.

Falconer

Thanks, everyone, for the kind words.

Wonderland, happy belated bday. I loved the mandala pumpkin painting.

Oh, Ruth and Nats, you look so good together in real time!

Cdv- this was in The NY Times two days ago/ the Instapot newest good thing- did you see it? https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/dining/insta...

Congrats on the exercise and healthy eating.

Sweetandspecial- I had no idea hemangioma can block your nostril. It must have been driving you nuts, or maybe you didn't even realizeuntil after you got relief?

Exercise this week has been not much for me as both my DSs are soccer players so I've been spectating.

cdv4251992

Falconer, thank you for the link. Great article. I'll be trying it out this weekend. I am ok at planning my menu, but I'm not good at prepping a lot on weekends. So time after work and in between kid activities is an issue. Hopefully, this helps me.

Great pic, Ruth. My hubby would be so jealous. He loves history and aviation. We've both been to D.C. Area museums separately but not together. I think we need to plan a trip.

I don't think I posted about this because I'm disappointed and was upset but my breast surgeon's office would not sign off on the Y program. She was concerned because fluid is still oozing from the open spot. She ordered a CT to see if there were pockets of anything that needed to be cleaned out and it was negative. (Much more than the PS ever did) However, even though she also agrees that I am not restricted from anything, she said she wouldn't sign the form. So I can't get into this session. I see my oncologist 10/4 and I'm sure she will want to revisit the topic of a hormonal. I'm not against taking one, but I'm only very weakly PR positive and research is minimal on the effectiveness in my case so I want to be in the best shape possible when I start. I don't want to take something known to cause weight gain and joint pain, which would slow me down, without being back to my active self first. I had high hopes this program would help me ease back in in safer, educated way. Now I'm stuck doing it on my own. With the pay cuts a at work, $50 a pop for PT is a bit much. Plus, the PT breast cancer specialist they sent me to before the whole leaky breast thing started only works 8-5. I have had to use so much FLMA for all these extra appts that I now don't have enough to last for the Herceptin treatments I need until it resets in March, let alone for PT. Trying to look on the positive side and hopefully I can get in the spring session. Sorry for the rant, just disappointed. Off to start my day. Have to move forward with a smile on my face and focus on the good

Falconer

ugh, cdv. What a nightmare. I'm so sorry you're in this situation and can't get what would be best for you.

TwoHobbies

Wow, only checking in weekends is making me way behind. I was four or five pages behind. Last Sunday I did a 55 minute bike ride. Two 30 minute walks during the week. Pleasant weather has returned so this will be a good exercise weekend with the hot, humid, moldy air gone.

Falconer such good news. welcome, Leesa.

LB I watched the movie "Boyhood" recently on Netflix and one scene reminded me of your current sutuation. As her last child, the boy, is going off to college, the mom says "I just thought there would be more". At which time, having a twenty year old, I burst into tears. Our job is to get them to adulthood, so well done.

CDV, hope you will get to sign-up later after you heal more, or wink, wink, maybe you can get another doc to sign.

I recently got an instant pot and I love it because it cooks dinner so fast and with no tending, which helps me eat at home more.

Falconer

Ran 2.5 miles yesterday afternoon. This morning, yoga. Lots of down dog to plank. My teacher is unconventional and looks at what the bodies need. Today she decided it was shoulder work. So we practiced a lot of drawing the shoulder blades down the back body in different ways. Well, by the end of class I felt mobile enough to lower down from plank without going into my knees first. I actually laughed aloud, lifting my spirits as well. Ah, exercise!

TwoHobbies, I too felt the impact of that film. I know just what you mean. ❤️

cdv4251992

Thanks, Falconer and Twohobbies. I think my onc will be upset enough with the PS to review his records to see if there are any actual restriction and will reach out to him so she can sign the form. But it's too late now for this session. That will have to wait until spring now. I think the PS is talented but he didn't actually do the surgery we agreed upon and then was shady about what he actually did. He still won't say but my breast surgeon told me what he did and was surprised I did not know. I'm not sure I want him doing stage 2 now. Have to talk to my insurance co about I feel I can have someone else do stage 2. But I have time to figure it out. Can't do anything until after 5/2018, so I'll make them best of where i am today.

I have to stay away from growing up kind of movies right now with my older daughter being a college freshman. Even though she is commuting this year, she's never home and I don't have the same involvement as high school. It's harder than I thought. A learning experience for us all.

Great news on the shoulder focused yoga class, Falconer! Glad your weather is turning, Twohobbies. Definitely more pleasant to be active outside once the humidity decreases.

badger

hi all and welcome LeesaD. Great pic Ruth & Mary!

Chris, sorry you're not happy with PS and couldn't get into the program at the Y. Good you have time to check into options before DIEP stage 2 next spring.

I've been sidelined with a sore toenail (of all things). It's one of my remaining gnarly chemo toenails that's humped up like a claw. Been babying it with rose comfrey moisture cream, gentle buffing and rest, but it seems I need to go buy bigger shoes.

Pretty day so got out for a walk. Helping a friend move this afternoon so that'll be my exercise for the day.

TH, how did that shirt fit?

ruthbru

Hi, just a quick late night check-in. We are having lots of fun in D.C. with about 20,000 steps per say. Yesterday we did all the monuments and Arlington and then went on a Potomac River cruise with Mary and her DH.

ruthbru

Today we did Ford's Theatre, the National Archives (wow), the American History Museum, and went to the Nationals baseball game (yes, East Coast, you may thank us for bringing the cooler weather ).

ruthbru