Let's Post our Daily Exercise

patoo,

I'm waiting for the elliptical bike. Until my mother had the metastatic cancer diagnosis, I did yardwork 20 minutes at a time often several times a day. I have arthritis in my feet, so I can do some walking but not vigorous. I think I was burning lots of calories outside before my mother's diagnosis. Also, I was hauling big heavy loads of trash to the dumpster until I hired someone to do that.

Does getting up from the couch to go to the kitchen for potato chips count?

I was tired today but I wandered around the house and did some stuff. I have to treat for water bugs, and that is hard work.

On other fronts, I shopped on Zulily where I found a $46 dollar wool cloche hat for $9.88 plus shipping with free shipping for whatever I buy til midnight. I had someone look at my dryer to see if is working.

I ran my mouth all day. That should count for something. I also raised my arms up in the air and said "fat" at least 15 times.

Catching up just now. I wanted to do a run today, but had to content myself with a 5k walk today. I slipped on some wet leaves last night and pulled something in my right knee. Fine, unless I do something like try to run. I did weigh the sack of stuff I was carrying, and 17.5 lb. So suspect I was a bit off balance.

I am counting setting up the Christmas tree as exercise. Even though the place I bought it is literally across the street, I still had to get it home. Now, this is a lovely, fresh Fraser fir, and it weighs a ton. I finally loaded it into a shopping cart which took some doing. But I got it here, including up the elevator and into my apartment. Then, there was the part about getting the equally heavy and clumsy object into the stand. Amazingly, I succeeded with that as well.

Of course, I didn't have a large trash bag to put on the carpet, so back to the supermarket for those (as well as return the cart). Then, realized that more lights would be a good thing as well as more ornaments. It's all done now and looks fab. Even vacuumed the place as fresh trees always shed.

Needless to say, it smells just wonderful around here.

And, I am counting this as exercise!!! - Claire

p.s. Message to self - some things go better with 2 people, and setting up a large fresh tree is one of them.

Annie88,

If I just could find a way to get vigorous exercise while shopping on Zulily. When I went out of town, I took a pair of Sanita booties with me and wore them to the day long evaluation and meeting with my medical team at a huge teaching hospital with a designated comprehensive cancer care center. I was talking to one of the clinic staff, and she said she liked my booties. I told her they were Sanita's and that I paid about $44.95 on Zulily for them. On the Sanita site they were originally $150. She gasped and said the hospital gave the staff loans to buy Sanita's and she had spent about $150 for a pair.

How many calories do I burn tapping out posts on this site? Oh well, tomorrow is a new day. Maybe I will try to take a walk around the loop where I live. I hate the way everything looks here in this Deep South state in the fall and winter. It is lush and gorgeous in spring and summer. The roses and milkweed plants are still in bloom. I could cut back the roses in preparation for winter. The yard needs raking. The porch and deck could use a good cleaning as I am going to seal the wood this spring. I gotta get busy. I don't want to keep packing on body fat sitting on this couch.

I did tend twice today to my mother's bedsores that she developed after her last chemo session. She has another one tomorrow. It will be a miracle if she lives through the year with metastatic breast cancer. However, I am not ruling out that this chemo may give her a little more time with us. I dread the idea of hospice.

12/6-50 minutes of resistance training at the gym this afternoon.

Decision, I am also trying to loose weight per my doctors. It is harder on the meds we take, zaps our metabolism big time. Like Ruthbru said, you have to find what works for you and just do it. I find not eating too much later in the day helps me to drop pounds too. We are here for you to share ideas about what works for us!

aw, patio, no potato chips? I have nearly stopped the sugary sweets. I eat a couple of densely packed Granny Smith apples a day. I snack on peanuts and almonds, both of which are good sources of fiber. But, I have developed a taste for kettle chips. These have six grams of fat per serving. Yes, fried foods are bad and are for special treats, right. I am eating almost no meat, almost no cheese or other full fat milk products.

I am terrified this Celaxa will make me gain weight. Some people gain, some lose. So far, no cravings for sweets or carbs. The kettle chips taste good, that's all.

I was a food and nutrition writer. This is not guidance for anyone. This is simply what I have learned. One of the keys to weight loss for me and many others is a high fiber diet. Another is not having too much variety. The more different kinds of food a person - in this case me - has around, the more she will eat. Drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day is a good idea. Often, people think they are hungry when they are actually thirsty.

I have never seen the regular consumption of potato chips mentioned in any weight loss diets. Sigh. I guess I will have to start eating oatmeal as a snack.

I love your marching in place to the news. That is inspired. Researchers have found that people who fidgit and move around a lot tend to burn many more calories a day than those who spend their waking hours sitting on their buttocks.

Jersey, speedy healing to you! Cheryl, glad to hear you are on the mend. Decision, exercising is a great way to help your meds do their job. Marching to the news is a great idea. Patoo, you must be winded after talking to your friends.

Yesterday was another rest day. Saturday was Zumba, tonight will be Body Jam. I've decided to do some yoga everyday now even if just for fifteen minutes. I need to gain more flexibility!

You Go, Girl!

Yoga this morning, Zumba tonight & a long list of errands in between.

DH and I were supposed to run the Jingle All the Way 5K in DC Sunday morning - one of our favorite races. Saturday evening we were getting ready, and I was looking for the confirming email they always send and couldn't find it in my emailbox. I asked DH to check his mailbox to see if it came to him. Nothing there either. Finally I looked at him and said, "Well, you registered for it, right?" DH: "I thought YOU registered for it!!" Neither of us had registered. I checked the race website but it said there were no day-of-race registrations, so were out of luck. Can I still blame chemobrain almost 8 years later? Or is it just old age??

So to make up for it we took a nice 4 mile run in the park Sunday - it was a beautiful day for a run. Saturday was spent doing a Shop N Sculpt workout all morning, and a Decorating N Sculpt workout the rest of the day. This is the first time we've felt like putting up a tree since the Cancer Year of 2008. It's kind of fun having a tree again - I'd forgotten about some of our pretty ornaments. And our new place has a fireplace in the living room, so we decorated the mantle and even hung up some stockings. We also put some some lights outside, so the whole place looks festive!

Nats: Good for you on putting up your tree this year and decorating your new place. I bet it looks very festive!

Patoo: I don't think I would want to be in a pool when the air is 40 degrees either! brrrrr

Decision: Did you make it outside into the sunshine? Sunny days are good for our mental health.

Walked/ran this afternoon.

DecisionF, yard work is good steady exercise and nice sunny weather helps to get you out, and you being a nutritionist already know what to do about what passes over your tongue .

Water aerobics class was okay and temp had climbed to about 72 by end of class. Also had 80 min massage afterwards then some shop and sculpt. Sister and a friend arriving t'm morning so may only get in some walking but the next few days probably not very much exercise so need to really watch my food intake.

Night sculpted friends.

Nats. . .I think that it's just a byproduct of marriage. You get to the point where you think with one brain. The left side thinks the right side has it handled and visa-versa. My DH and I are scary. We finish each others sentences and say the same things at the same time. We have to have a very sophisticated system of checks and balances to get anything done though.

As for decorating, last year was so hard. I remember very little of December, although DH put a small tree in our room so I could enjoy it. So far this year we have a tree and lighted wreath. This weekend, I need to get down to the basement and look for our other stuff. Festive sounds wonderful and I have so many reasons to be blessed. Good for you Nats!

DecisionFreak. . .if you PM me I can send you a list of certified gluten free foods. Our13yo DS only recently outgrew his wheat allergy and is still allergic to milk so most of his life he's been on the GFCF diet.

Thanks for the good thoughts all! After several phone calls and way too much time on the phone this morning my lumbar epi was instantly approved. My insurer was either deliberately or very negligently withholding the approval. So I'm now propped up in bed very sore from the procedure but very grateful that it's done.

No treadmill till Thursday Booo

Scottie

Twenty minute walk at lunch. Not much but that's all I had time for. Work is so busy Im not sure I'll get my house cleaned or decorted before Christmas

Geez, now I am craving Cheetos!

Yesterday went to a special event in Los Angeles, really for instructors led by master trainers but they let me tag along it was great but really long as there was education for them and I just sat around while that went on, they were filming a - depends on who you talked to it was either a Coca Cola commercial or the Hulk movie right outside the gym the event was held in so I watched a lot of hurry up and wait, they had probably 4 blocks blocked off and were moving cars and trucks around then film a little then move everything again.

I did a Body Jam and Body Combat class and watched Body Pump and Body Flow, I had actually signed up for Body Flow but my Vietnamese couldn't get into that so I gave him my spot and I just watched, honestly it was beautiful to watch a room of professionals all do a class and they were in perfect sync with each other, ended to day going out to eat. Tonight went to Cardio Dance Party.

Scottie so glad you go the procedure approved and done. Mary too funny, now you're going to have to double check each other when you sign up for things. TH although you're swamped at work don't forget to take care of yourself. I am a Fritos addict that is why I don't buy them but chocolate on the other hand

Ha Ha......that may have to change!

Exercise today is physical therapy and eye doctor appointment, followed by getting ready for my trip to The Villages tomorrow to close on my house! I am going to try and squeeze in a good 3 mile power walk. Will email you, patoo!