It takes 30 days to become habit CONTEST

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  • kim40
    kim40 Member Posts: 904
    edited February 2010

    I think it is great too!

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  • everyminute
    everyminute Member Posts: 1,805
    edited February 2010
    We had a bit of a snowstorm last night so only a few people showed up at the Gilda's Club meeting that I was attending at last night but I explained my challenge and several people seemed interested.

    One gentleman, who I have met before (he actually came to my first teamsurvivor meeting) came because I asked him to show his support for me. He is a cancer survivor and has been having a really tough time as of late - he told me when he left that this challenge is just what he needed!

    So hopefully I help one or two people at least - I do think, especially once I start offering free personal training and consulting, that the following will grow. They have a 5k in May that I would like to see a good turn out for but mostly I just want to help one person at a time (which really helps me, ya know? so at the root , I am just selfish)
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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited February 2010

    You know how many of of us you are helping here though, right. I mean, you are literally saving lives.

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  • kim40
    kim40 Member Posts: 904
    edited February 2010

    Mary - I agree with Kerry.  You are helping so many of us.  I think it is absolutely wonderful what you are doing for us and for everyone else.

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  • everyminute
    everyminute Member Posts: 1,805
    edited February 2010

    (blushing)

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  • Pure
    Pure Member Posts: 1,796
    edited February 2010

    I set up my sprak page finally!! Today I am signing up for my very first sprint tri here in NC for May. I am really excited. My goal today is to run 2 miles without stopping and then weights/abs.

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  • JacquelineG
    JacquelineG Member Posts: 282
    edited February 2010

    I want to join in for March! What do i need to do?

    Jackie

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  • JacquelineG
    JacquelineG Member Posts: 282
    edited February 2010

    OK - just read your instructions Mary - would you mind sending me one of your spreadsheets? I am no good at them Wink

    Jackie

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  • everyminute
    everyminute Member Posts: 1,805
    edited February 2010

    yep - just pm me your email address and I will email you a spreadsheet and add you to the group list (if you like)  - will also get you some info on www.sparkpeople.com team that we have set up.

    yay! and welcome!

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  • living4today
    living4today Member Posts: 215
    edited February 2010

    I was catching up with my chemo group and was curious by a post from Kerrymac, so I searched you guys out!  Wow! You are all so inspiring...I know I am not a 3, but does 2B count to get in your group?  I did find you on sparkpeople and hope it was okay to join your team.  Thanks to you all for the inspiration!

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  • everyminute
    everyminute Member Posts: 1,805
    edited February 2010

    You are more than welcome to join us on sparkpeople!!!!  Don't forget to friend me!

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited February 2010

    Hey Kim - welcome aboard!

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  • everyminute
    everyminute Member Posts: 1,805
    edited February 2010

    Don't forget to pm me your FEB exercise mins for fabulous prizes :-) and follow along either here or at the Spark team website for March! 

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited February 2010

    Do I need to send them to you if they are on the Spark page??

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  • everyminute
    everyminute Member Posts: 1,805
    edited February 2010

    nope - I will check the team website :-) You are in the lead!  How are you feeling?  Got some good, motivating feed back about all this exercising and how GREAT you feel!?

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited February 2010

    Yep, I love getting up at 6:00 am in the snow and cold to trudge around my neighbourhood in the dark! LOL!

    Seriously, I have about doubled my exercise since the TT's started. I am really feeling great, and my husband was admiring my abs the other day!  So something is working.

    Even if I am feeling tired, exercise always makes me feel better. In fact, I get grumpy when I don't do anything. So, come on everyone, get your bodies moving! 

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  • kim40
    kim40 Member Posts: 904
    edited February 2010

    I'm feeling great too.  Like Kerry, I feel kind of out of sorts if I don't do my excercises so that's a good thing!

    I try to do them twice a day. One in the morning at home and then I go to the gym in the evening with my husband to work.  I'm just hoping I will find to do it all when I go back to work in April. 

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  • everyminute
    everyminute Member Posts: 1,805
    edited February 2010

    The spin instructor at the ymca last night said "You are in great shape and I can count on you to keep up!"  This is one of the toughest classes. 

    The best part is that she has no idea that I am a cancer survivor or finished treatment a year ago! 

    It is tough fitting it all in with work AND family but we make it work.  The hardest part is my younger daughter.  She is 14 and has your average level of snarly teenness :-)  Most days I drive her to school at 7am and then dont see her again til 8pm when I get home from gym.

    I have explained to her that excercise is part of my treatment and we spend a lot of time together on weekends too but I always feel that niggle of guilt.

    Last night she told me "I ran into so-sos mom, she was asking about you so I told her about your breast cancer exercise challenge and the work you are doing at Gilda's and all the people you are helping" 

    In the words of Sally Fields..."She likes me, she really likes me"  :-)

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  • kim40
    kim40 Member Posts: 904
    edited February 2010

    I posted this on Spark Page but I was entering my minutes all wrong!  I was entering them at the beginning page when you sign in and not on the team page!  (Duh!!!  Can I blame chemo brain!!).  I just updated that so hopefully it will show up!!

    I know when I go back to work that it is going to be hard, really hard.  My son is 14 too, but like I already told him - I have to make the time when I go back.  I really don't want this to come back and even though I know there are no guarantees, I know in my mind that I am doing what I can as a prevention.

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited February 2010

    I am lucky in that way, as I have several hours a few times a week with not much to do. So, getting an extra work-out in is much easier.

    I love it though that my kids know I go out walking every morning; or in the weekends, when I go downstairs to do a Wii work-out, they know it is Mummys exercise time and don't come and want to "play too' . They see exercise as being important in my life, and they hopefully will keep it a big part of their lives too.

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  • Beverly11
    Beverly11 Member Posts: 443
    edited February 2010

    Everyminute - Any chance you could take your daughter with you to the gym?  My daughters are a bit older but it has helped to take them with me through the years.  It isn't really spending quality time with them as we are both off doing our own thing but does help with the snarlies.  Beats shopping constantlly with them too!  I go once in a while with Justine (my 18 year old); but schedules make it difficult. It sounds like she is very proud of you Mary!  We sure are.

    Kim - It will be a challenge to keep the work outs up when you return.  Maybe a lunch hour workout?  Longer workouts on the weekends?

     Happy Exercising Everyone!

    Bev

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  • everyminute
    everyminute Member Posts: 1,805
    edited February 2010

    Thanks, Bev !  We do a little bit of it all.  We bring her with us one night a week (even though that means going past our gym by 15 mins to get her and bring her 15 mins back after work) and go out to dinner where our other daughter works, One night a week she has flute practice which coincides timewise so we alternate one drops off and one pics up.  We encourage her to come along with friends to swim while we work out which she sometimes does. Its just mommy guilt!

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  • everyminute
    everyminute Member Posts: 1,805
    edited February 2010

    Interesting article on cnn regarding sparkpeople site

    http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/24/sparkpeople.fitness/index.html

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited February 2010

    That is a great article! 

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited March 2010

    Sherri, you are right. Sometimes I am half way around my morning "loop" before I even wake up! It is so automatic for me, it is now what I do every morning when i get out of bed. Absolutely a habit!

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  • everyminute
    everyminute Member Posts: 1,805
    edited March 2010

    Remember that your body can get quite accustumed to that morning sleep walk so throw in a few jogs or maybe really throw things off and bike or hike one day!

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited March 2010

    Once the snow is all gone I will start with the jogging!

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  • Bugs
    Bugs Member Posts: 1,719
    edited March 2010

    It was a beauty day for a long walk today.  Melting snow, singing birds....I could almost smell Spring!  Didn't even fall on the ice today!

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  • everyminute
    everyminute Member Posts: 1,805
    edited March 2010

    I passed the test - I am a personal trainer!!!!

    My exercise challenge at Gilda's Club is going very well.  Many people very interested and excited about it. 

    My contest here on BCO has another 10 prize winners for FEB!

    I am meeting with the Wellness Director at the YMCA this week about a program for cancer survivors where I can offer personal training (from a survivors point of view) and I am trying to get funding from livestrong.

    All good things, really good things and yet they make me nervous.,.you know, the "what if I am pursuing this and it comes back"...but I am setting the fear aside and just trying to enjoy doing something that I want to do.

    Now - to figure out how I am going to fit in all this with kids, family, work....

    Triathalon in ten days!

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited March 2010

    Fantastic news Mary. You are going to be so good at this.

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