Kicking LE's butt!! Exercise & Self Care Log

Um..... just checking in to admit................. that I substituted walking for a chocoloate bar . Oops. Spank me!

Oh what a good laugh Carol I just had. Your funny. Yup. I was breathing in deeply but only to get that chocolatey smell. You see, I am practicing for the" Unwrap A Bar Event" then use chocolate bar wrap for " Make It Snappy, Wrappy Your Swollen Fingers Event". I am doing really good in this Olymphic event and when I get depressed about LE I just smell my chocolate bar wrapped fingers and get happy again!

I like that Idea, but I gotta get off these threads because your bringing the best or should I say the worst out of me Carol! You got me in a humourous mood and I am all bymself with no one to joke with but you. Must hop into car before everyone thinks I am crazier than I really am. Facing rushhour with no chocolate bars beside me. Just empty wrappers.

Chocolate is made from a bean, therefore it is a vegetable, and vegetables are healthy...so, yes, Carol, it is a health food We call the dark chocolate Ghiradelli squares medicine at our house. Take one daily.

laurel, Ok I would love some chocolate beans for dinner tonight! I'll let my doc know that I am eating my veg daily,

Carol Well if it's Ghiradelli, then the dose is twice , two times daily for sure, but......if we are having a flare.....then it is double the dose. I feel a flare coming on strong. Don't know when but it is coming so I better prepare my meds

Must run out and purchase chocolate before flare hits

Did you hear that at the Olymphics the medals are made out of chocolate.

I love how this thread is morphing into a reward program. Just put the pumpkin pie in front of my treadmill. Whipped cream on top? Yes please.

That's why the 5 mile Turkey Trot is on my docket for Thanksgiving morning...then I feel like I can eat with less guilt. And if I exercise first, I find I have less desire to overindulge in eating as well...a win, win. Now if the snowflakes would just stay away that day it may even be fun.

We would simply not be human if we did not prize a luscious morsel from time to time. I'm pleased to report that I am a card-carrying human...

...beach walking vacation! I'm insanely jealous! Have outrageous fun, don't even THINK of looking at a computer, and I cannot wait to hear how many beach miles you walked, when you are back home and ready to report in again! (We have a few inches of snow here, just to make you feel even better about heading to the beach. Wait..I forgot...you have not clarified if that beach is a warm beach! Whatever...it's a beach!!)

My exercise report today: none! I had a mole removed on my LE arm this morning and decided that it was enough drama for the arm, drawing lymph to the area, and that exercise on top of that would be just asking for a big flare. Tomorrow I will re-evaluate and hopefully do a good hour of cardio.

Sunday we went with the grandsons to the Portland Children's Symphony - DSIL doesn't like crowds so when they bought the season tickets they got seats 3 stories up LOL All Stairs.. Great seats actually. [He also knew that I didn't like crowds ]. I definitely got my exercise!!! - wish the dizzy would have gone.. I was stopping holding on to the wall every once in a while but made it - Oh and the parking garage was a half mile away up and down the Portland hills.. So.... I did get some exercise on Sunday..

gmafoley, that's the kind of exercise that's so, so worth doing--get's you someplace you really want to be! Good for you!

GmaFoley, where was the symphony? We went to a concert at the Rose Garden a while back, and I had gotten seats in the nosebleed section, well when we walked out the little opening, I couldn't move (vertigo), the usher said not to go to the seat if I didn't think that I would be able to get out because they frequently have to call EMS to sedate someone to get them out of their seat - anyway, apparently they reserve some small blocks of seats for just this occasion, we had to go to the ticket office, and of course pay extra, but got amazing, almost front row seats. Just an FYI!! Sounds like a great time!

Ok, we are all done with the fancy foods that I ate on my trip and the mouth party is OVER!

Did some pretty beach walks and saw some red sunsets, Didn't burn off all the calories I ate but kept the fat monster at bay a bit.

Did lebeds opening, tai chi breathers and just back from 45 min walk. While walking briskly, I spotted out of my direct vision field something crumpled and tan colored on the ground and immediately muttered to myself. "oh dear, someone dropped their compression glove. As I approached it to have a better look I noticed it was a crumpled up tan colored maple leaf......Just goes to show you that LE is daily lurking somewhere in the recesses of our brains if not up front and center. I should have known better because I never see people out west wearing LE garments.

Yikes, that's a scary thought (someone mistaking a glove for trash)!

Hugz, glad you're back from your trip and I hope it was really grand.

These past days I stuck to my weightlifting routines and did just enough cardio to hold my head up high and say I exercised. I'm finding it harder and harder to fall in love with idea of cardio every day. Oddly, the lifting still beckons me.

I am with you Hugz, rather do cardio but know I must do the weights as well. Had my trainer give me rules....as in must to weights 3 times a week, with cardio in between. But I do sneak in the pool every visit to the gym! course my hair is not happy and may need to find a bathing cap that fits my dang head