THIRTYTONORMAL

pictures

2011
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Yes, I am actually posting a couple of pictures.

The first is the view I see when I wake up at the cabin … Love this every time I’m there.

And the second is a picture of me!  Sorry about the poor lighting and the bathroom setting.  :)

I couldn’t figure out how to get a side view or no flash.  Maybe next time.

I’m incorporating some different things into my exercise just to mix it up.  I’ve been reading (again) primal blueprint fitness.  A lot of what he talks about is very similar to south beach supercharged … weight-type exercise one day and interval training.  I like 30 DS but I’m kind of bored with it (despite not being able to do all the exercises at the highest level).  So we are onto squats and planks and push-ups and pull-ups and something else.

Made the chocolate coins yesterday without any problems.  Had a bit of spaghetti in my tuna casserole yesterday … no problems with cravings, but my knee was slightly aching last night when I went to bed.  Not sure if it was related, but I’m going to try to pay attention to my joint aching/eating and see how direct the correlation is.  Of course I have to add the weather in there because my knee always aches with barometric changes … which happened last night when the temperature went from 32 to 12.  In a couple of hours.  Yes, people, this is what I live with.

I’ve got to run … places to go, people to see.  TTYL

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My very own personal truths

2011
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about diet and exercise.

I can’t out-exercise bad eating.

It’s easier for me to lose weight with a good diet than to lose weight exercising, but best of all is doing a good diet WITH exercising.  If I don’t exercise, then I better be spot on with my eating (see above).

Strolling along will never get me where I want to end up.  It’s better than sitting around, but I need to push myself to accomplish anything.

Karen does 118 minutes at a time on the elliptical.  Seriously.  I’m in awe.  That’s like 1 hour and 58 minutes.  :::boggle::: I guess this explains why she’s within striking distance (and has hit) her goal and mine is a distant dream.

I could walk a lot of miles if I kept at it for almost two hours (particularly if I’m not just strolling along).  Yesterday and today I did five miles in 80 minutes (and was darn proud of myself too) and I limped home, barely making it up the stairs to the my house because my quads were killing me and my feet were seriously in pain.  So I have a way to go to be able to do it for another 38 minutes.

Not that I’m competitive or anything.

Meanwhile I have a week-long “love-in” for a private foundation that I’m on the board of directors.  I got out of it last year because of the wedding, but no luck this year.  I know I won’t have time to exercise and will have difficulties with the food choices, but I’m going to do the best I can and then get back on track when the week is over.  I’d like to feel really strong about what I’m doing diet-wise before I go … which is a much better place for me to be since just a week or so ago I was thinking maybe I didn’t want to really start anything exercise/diet-wise since I’d have this interrupting my life.

But things are ALWAYS interrupting my life and I need to learn how to handle them much, much better.  And even more I need to NOT use them as excuses for bad behavior (diet-wise :) ).

I can just imagine how awesome it would be to be so solidly on plan, that NOTHING could stop me.

Which means, of course, the final truth … if it’s to be, it’s up to me.

ETA:  my fitbit stats comparison  … hooray for me!

My rank among women who use a Fitbit and aged 55-64.
7 day avg. Me All %Rank
stats updated weekly
Steps 12,177 7,110 90.4
Active score 976 325 95.4
Distance (miles) 5.35 3.30 89.5
Very active min. 54 12 97.3
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How come …

2011
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I forget how good I feel when I’m on SB?

One day and I’ve got more energy than I had the whole of last week.

One day and I’m jumping out of bed at 6 am instead of rolling over for another hour of sleep.

One day and I don’t have any cravings.

One day and I decide to do another mile on my walk this morning at 6:30 am to do a total of 5.19 miles.

Which my thighs, knees and feet protested mightily the rest of the morning … I guess I should be increasing gradually.  ;)

I don’t give 100% of the credit to the diet change … the fact that we FINALLY have sunshine for more than one afternoon is a HUGE factor.  I feel like I’ve been stuck in this deep, dark, overcast, cold place for months and months and MONTHS.

As evidenced by the fact that I haven’t used color in my posts for months.

WELCOME TO SPRING!

Here’s hoping it lasts longer than a week.

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