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Aug
17

Taking Advantage of the Sunshine

Taking advantage of the sunshine of late, I decided to hop in the car when The Bloke went to work and to walk home. It added to 3ks exactly. And, of course, Brin loved it.

Yesterday, I decided to bring along the camera, though I only took the picture of Brin and a couple pictures of the fountain in the centre of the city.

Unfortunately, the walk has proved too much. Even after just a couple mornings, muscles in both my legs were (and still are) too incredibly sore to go for another walk this morning.

The Bloke thinks that the suddenness and the severity of the pain is thanks to the chiropractor straightening things out and me using muscles correctly for once.

This irks me to no end in the ‘binge exerciser’ way, but the calmer, more patient me knows that this is just a new thing to deal with. I’ll have to do more upper body work until my legs can do more.

Sigh. Oooommmm. :P

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Aug
15

Bye Bye Booties – 3 Ks

Start: 277
Current: 272

Loss: 5 pounds

(No change)

After taking off a few days to celebrate my birthday without having to obsess about what was going in my mouth, I’m feeling a bit blah and headachey. I can’t help but wonder if this is what I felt like all the time and just didn’t realise it because it was my ‘normal’. Either way, I am in even more awe at the naturopath eating plan, which I am happily back on.

Having seen that I can lose a little bit every day just by taking on her diet selection suggestions, I have now decided to get back into exercising. The weather hasn’t been ideal for it, but I don’t want to wait for weather and the puppy is beyond excited to get a walk bright and early in the morning.

My husband now works three kilometres away from where we live, so I decided to go in to work with him and then to walk back home with the puppy. I was a little nervous, as the last time I started in on a walking routine my ankle played up big time, but today went well. I only got sore because I pushed myself too much on a hill at the beginning of the walk.

Puppy is happy, I am happy and husband is happy. The weird thing is that I’ve started these things so many times in the past that it wasn’t a big deal this time. I just started. No fuss, no big woo hoo – just walking.

I’m quite chuffed. :)

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Aug
08

Bye Bye Busy Booties

Start: 277
Current: 272

Loss: 5 pounds

Yay! Some loss! :)

Despite my best intentions, this place has become rather quiet. I hate that, too. I never want to give this place up; it’s a sanctuary of sorts. But when I get busy…

My time has been largely occupied with book-related things. Once Echo Falls was released and announced, I dug into revisions for my ebook for authors. I’m crossing fingers that I can get that finished tonight.

I need to retrain my focus back on my health, however. I can feel things slipping. Old habits, old emotions and old sabotaging behaviours have come into play. However, I am not meeting these things with dread and a sense of premature defeat. This time, I accept them as part of my defense mechanism.

I bought myself a nifty little journal that is specifically for food, exercise, water and etc tracking. Fight fire with fire, as they say. As much as I’ve always hated food tracking, it does keep up my levels of self-awareness.

Working with ‘my team’ has brought me a new appreciation of the person I know I can be. I know I’m a far way off, but the thing is, I’m further away with my mental health than my physical health. Just knowing that there is something I’m going to have to work longer to achieve makes it easier to accept the length of time it will take for me to get physically healthy.

While this is no bombshell to change the health world, it’s one more sliver placed correctly in this strange mosaic I’m coming to see as the woman I will be.

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Aug
03

Wordless Wednesday – Double Time

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Aug
01

Bye Bye Booties – Head Down, Push Through

Start: 277
Current: 274

Loss: 3 pounds (no change)

After the great insights last week, maybe it only makes sense that I need a bit of down time to process. Or many it doesn’t. Either way, this was very much a head down, push through kind of week.

I saw a psychiatrist last week who confirmed the original diagnosis I was given when I was 19 and in the US. It came as a bit of a shock, to be honest. I’m not the greatest believer in the US medical system, so I figured there was a very good chance that the original diagnosis was wrong. That turns out not to be the case.

It shouldn’t have been a shock. I’ve always known I wasn’t quite as balanced as I could be. I’ve always made the best of it, though, and have refused medication ever since a particular med made me want to kill myself. But now, years later, I need to step back and reevaluate.

So this is me, keeping my head down, pushing through and trying to figure out what the heck I am going to do with myself. Keeping on trucking the way I am in this area might not be the best option anymore…

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