THIRTYTONORMAL

socks

2011
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I wore two pair today and did MUCH better with the C25K.

The reason I’m sticking with it is that I really need something that pushes me cardiovascular-wise.  30 DS is great for strength and does also have cardiovascular exercise in it, but C25K is much harder for me.

Which is why I seldom get past week one … which is okay.  It’s so true that sticking with it means you do get better at it.  I found that out with 30 DS … when I started it I couldn’t do the 2 minutes of cardio at all and now it’s not a problem.

Plus my legs are sore which means I’m using muscles I haven’t used for a while.

So today was 30 DS along with walking 1.5 miles, then C25K for two miles.  I do want to keep up with 30 DS because I can definitely tell the difference in my arms.  (I walked the initial 1.5 miles because I was walking to a meeting, then went a different way home to get in the C25K.)

Still doing the intuitive eating, that is eating only when hungry and eating to nourish my body which means lean protein, fresh fruits and vegetables, occasionally a whole grain.  Still trying to monitor my serving sizes … I’m such a “if it’s on the plate and I’m only kind of full then I’ll eat it” person which means I need to put less on my plate than I think I’ll eat (because I can always eat more if I’m hungry).

Since I’ve been doing this, I’ve been thinking about how many times I allow outside forces to determine how much I eat.  Whether it is somebody else dishing up (eating at someone’s house or at a restaurant), or being told via some diet information how much is a serving.  Because seriously a serving for me isn’t always the same size depending on what else I’ve had to eat that day or if I’ve exercised or not, or whatever.  So how could there be a standard serving for EVERYBODY if there’s not even one for just me?  (and the same thing has to apply to calories also).  Because if I eat until I am pleasantly satisfied, then that’s my serving size, regardless.

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I am …

2011
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one sore, it hurts to barely move, cookie.  I think I figured out why, though.  AND I figured out why I’ve fallen twice when I’m usually fairly steady.

It’s because I’ve spent the last 8 months of winter shuffling my feet.  You can’t (well, at least I can’t) take normal strides on ice and I move on the ice like someone whose feet have been bound since birth.  That means two things.  First of all now that I’m taking my normal stride, I’m using upper leg and inner thigh muscles that I haven’t used in months (and months and months).  The second thing is that I’m so used to NOT picking my feet up when I walk that I’m tripping on rugs and doorways and bumps in the sidewalk.

Figuring this out is a big a relief to me because I was thinking I had MS with a foot drop, even though I didn’t have any other symptoms and I didn’t really have the foot drop symptom but I couldn’t figure out what else it could be and I’m now ECSTATIC to figure out that I’m just a lazy walker.  (And I can just hear my mom’s voice in my ear, “for the love of all that is good, Siobhan, pick up your bloody feet when you walk.”)

So despite not being able to move with my usual grace because it hurts, I did 30 DS and day one week one of C25K  OUTSIDE yesterday.  And today I also did 30 DS AND walked 3 miles OUTSIDE.

Which means, I am THRILLED to announce, that it is finally above 40 degrees!!!!

Unfortunately I totally killed my feet with the jogging part of C25K.  Walking doesn’t bother my feet, at all, so I’m going to have think about how/why/if I want to continue with C25K.  My feet recovered after a while of walking barefoot, but I don’t know how they’d do if I did C25K every day.  I have oddly shaped feet … they are a lot wider at the front then they are at the heel.  I seldom wear shoes with a closed heel because if they are comfortable at the front they are too big at the heel.  So when I’m just walking I wear something with no heel, but when I’m jogging at all I have to wear a running shoe.

On the home front, I can’t wait to start with the spring cleaning and purging.  Nothing is actually stopping me except I like to plan it out in my head before I start … figuring out what I’m going to get rid of, if I want to move the furniture around or not, things like that.

At least that’s what I tell myself; in reality I’m a procrastinator.  Sad but true.

I hope everybody had an awesome Easter. We had brunch in the morning at Auntie Ruth’s house and then drove (six hours) home.  I guess the Easter bunny forgot to stop at our house because there were no chocolate bunnies in sight when we got home.  I’m a chocolate snob, though, and wouldn’t have been happy with anything except the finest dark chocolate Easter bunny (and we couldn’t have gotten it in Canada), so it’s just as well the EB forgot about us.

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why bother

2010
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I promised Bee on Monday that I’d start exercising again as soon as I hit submit and I did.  :)   I started with 30DS and decided I’d rotate the three levels and just keep doing that.

The first time I did Level II I really didn’t like it.  For some reason it wasn’t so bad when I did it Tuesday.  I think by rotating them I’ll get a better work out than if I did Level I for ten days in a row, then Level II, etc.  Even though it’s only 30 minutes I am breathing hard and sweating when I’m done, so it’s a good work-out for me.

One of the problems I realize I run in to is that it takes me a week or so to readjust to being in a different place, i.e. the cabin as opposed to Canada.  And the way I’ve been be-bopping around lately, by the time I’m adjusted to the new place it’s time to hit the road again.  I need to get back on track with the exercise faster.

And I need to  not listen to that voice that says “why bother”.  I have this idea in my head that I have to be able to do it for x-number of days for it to be worthwhile.

What I have found is that even if I am interrupted for days (or weeks) having done it before means that I’m in better shape than if I hadn’t done it at all.

Proof is that I could do all of Level II and last time I barely staggered through it and didn’t do all the repetitions.

I’m still drawn to the idea of doing C25K.  No idea why this appeals to me as I have NEVER been a runner, even when I was 60 pounds lighter than I am now.  I can walk your socks off, but the jogging always left me gasping for my last breath.

I watch the people on the biggest loser and they are running, and they weigh more than I do.  And they say, almost to a person, that they never, ever thought they could do it.

We’ll see.  There is an indoor running track not far from me, but you have to pay to join the community center and I’m not sure it would be worth it to me because I’d only use it for the track.

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