Need to Catch Up

Crazy busy times while being sick, that's life at the moment.  Even with that the scale seems to be glued in place.  Have to admit the workouts have not happened like needed.  With ear infections just have not felt up to them.  The upside, eating has not been bad.  Things not tasting like much and just not hungry.  

Somehow April HAS to be the month that things get moving again!    

Just for a wee bit O fun

Happy St. Patrick's Day

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Holiday Cardio ~ Dance the Irish Jig
Steps
1. Point your right toe out in front of you. It should be straight out from your knee.
2. Step your right foot and bring your left foot together behind it. This is the "One-Two"
3. Move your toe up to your left knee and give a little hop.
4. Swing your right leg back so you are standing like a flamingo. Hop in place on your left foot.
5. Put your right foot on the floor behind your left foot.
6. Take three little steps in place behind you, starting with your left foot.
7. Repeat two times, all starting with your right foot in front.
8. Lastly, repeat steps three and four. Then repeat step four with your left foot going back in to the four little steps. This is called officially called Rise and Grind, although it is commonly refered to as "Hop-hop back, Hop back Two-Three-Four"
9. Now you can repeat the entire thing, starting with your left foot in front.
10. At the end, point your toe again and take a bow!
Tips
* Be careful not to fall when standing on one foot or hopping.
* Practice!!!

-from wikiHow

Another Week

... need to do something different.  

What though?

 

Things still at a standstill, feels so hopeless.  

Regrouping and not giving up on the dream.  

Monday's Madness

On the pool's message board today...

Confidence imparts wonderful inspiration within it's possessor.

    I should have seen it before the final bit of the work out today.  There was a determination driven by doubt that made most bits of me very sore now.  Pushed everything very hard.  It was not a pretty picture.  A little  concerned for Pilates class tomorrow, praying things do not tighten up.  She will show no pity.  But that is why we love her so.  Maybe some yoga tonight to try and ease things out. 

Sometimes the signs are just there

 Gratitude For Five Wonderful Things Yesterday

1. Teachers/Instructors 

(the people that put together the garage bands got me started thinking on this line but then it went into thinking of any... at the gym, school, crafts/arts and on)

2. Rain 

(sounds silly but the sound of the rain was so peaceful after a long winter)

3. The chicken gumbo soup 

(it was made for me, and it was delicious)

4. Music 

(yesterday was my son's concert and in the evening there was a Chris Botti concert on tv) 

5. New sheets 

(so soft and cuddly) 

Have to admit the above was started because Sunday weigh in this morning had set the wheels in motion for a down day.  The lack of real losses so far this year brings thoughts and emotions that IT will never happen.  That at best just staying where it is, is the future.  Not the future I want at all.  The television and computer were both starting up.  The television was still set to the public station and on it was a program with a doctor talking about the brain.  He was showing scans of two brains one with positive and  one with negative thoughts.   Needless to say the positive thought brain was the one you would want working in the skull.  He gave the practice of each day thinking of five things you were grateful for or happy of and meditating on them for five minutes or so each morning.  That is probably not new to me.  Heard it before in similar forms but seeing the scans and feeling the way  I was at the time just seemed to click.  Just do it!  The scale is not the be all and end all of the universe.  It should not darken the rest of my thoughts.  So besides monitoring the food, exercise and numbers, the good things are going in also.  Each day be they big or small they will be part of the program (putting it on the side bar so I do do it).  

Side note This coming week STRONG cardio every day!

Breath into it

  This was not me today but it will come again!

First day back at Joyce's flow yoga class.  It had been missed in more than one way.  Still think it would be great to record the class even if just her talking to us through out it.  She always touches on so many little (and sometimes big) things that at the time I think needed to be remembered.  Sadly I'm not always good at the memory thing.  Went into class sore as anything from the first day of Pilates yesterday.  It was hard realizing how far the ability had dropped but decided it was just take it step by step again.  Joyce had given me a few options to work around the foot before class and reminded just make sure to honor where you are at.  During the start of class she brought up, becoming unplugged.  She had just been to a yoga teachers training/retreat in Jamaica (her photos always makes a trip like that an item on the wish list).  She related the theme of unplugging from the trip to our time in class.  To let the practice in class be a time of unplugging from "it all out there".  That is one of the things I like about the class.  Other classes and work at the gym do not seem to have the same ability to step out of it all.  Moving and breathing through the poses somehow has such a relaxing effect even during the times where the muscles are at that edge in a stretch or shaking while holding.  Leaving the room it dawned on me there are always big smiles and laughing on the faces after the class.  What a great thing.  

Classes start

Tried this out today and it was a killer for me, but a good one! (Sorry about the ad before the demo)  Going to be adding it into the work out a couple of times a week. 

Diet.com Videos : Quick Fat Burning Cardio Workout

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Weigh in Sunday, as well as today, brings no change in any numbers (scale or measurements). 

It plays such mind games with me emotionally.  Found myself very depressed and wanting to isolate and give up eating altogether.  Like that would really be good at any level of it.  One of these days the "it" that was working will switch this body back on.   Being at war with this body sucks though.  Just have to keep at it whatever!  

Classes started this week at the gym.  I have signed on for one Pilates circuit and one yoga.  I wanted to see how the foot would do since they are pay extra classes.  Glad to have started the class today but there are still some things to work around.  Pushed a few things I should not and then had to go easier on some of the out of class things.  It gave me an idea of what to watch out for in yoga tomorrow.  Definitely no sitting back on the top of the foot.  That was a BIG mistake.  The instructor had pushed and I caved on it.  Not again for awhile!  She did not understand it was the foot in pain not my thighs.  You're strong enough to do this, push through it, she repeats over and over.   Kept hearing the doctor say if it hurts do not do it.  She and I were not hitting it off as it was, so did not want to have one more rub since it was close to the end.   The instructor was a sub and it is a good thing.  Sadly she was the type to take one look at a person and have them totally defined.  How she spoke and treated me made it obvious (to myself and anyone in the class) my bio was fat, never moves or works out and not capable of much.  Safe to say if her name is by a class there will be no dollars paid out in the future.  It is the first time at this gym I have had an instructor like her.  There were instances I thought it was walk out time but then felt to hell with her get what you can from today (and thank God the other instructor will be back next week).  

It was so hard to put up with that instructor feeling the way I have the past week or so.  It was one more thing to make the thought of isolation sound so much better.  That is not a good thing.  Having people treat you like your just a lazy couch potato and/or a mindless food devourer when you are working at this so hard sends a knife in.  Even this, I am so tired of rehashing it.  Go dry the tears and come back when things are back in line.