There are days that turn into a week that there just isn’t enough time to do all that we want to do. Deb works very long hours just about every day and you know my schedule so this blog has sat on the back burner the last week plus. We are sorry, very sorry but sometimes you just can’t squeeze any more time out of the week. So for this week we are just going to concentrate on family, on our blessings and next week we will be back will bells on and will continue with our challenges for each other and you guys if you’d like to keep joining us.
We both want to wish you all the most blessed and wonderful Thanksgiving. We all have so much to be thankful for. Yes we all have our personal and extended challenges and problems but in the true realm of things we are the most blessed people.
Take care my friends and please have a safe and happy Thanksgiving.
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So I said I wanted to get healthy. I said that I was going to track all my foods, measure them. I said I was going to do yoga, planks and fish flopping exercises. Well here we are starting week three and what have I done to get healthy? Almost nothing at all. I am finding that I don’t take the time to do all these things. I am finding I don’t have time to do all these things or at least I haven’t figured out what to do to do all these things. I want to give you an idea of my daily schedule and if you have any suggestions I’m game.
5:15 – Alarm goes off and I groan and get up. Mornings are not my favorite.
5:30 I’m dressed and heading out the door to feed the chickens and shovel coal in the stove.
5:45 back in for a container of yogurt, banana, take my pills and send a very quick email to my mama.
5:55 out the door for work.
9:30 done with my morning bus route and heading to my grandma to see what she needs me to do for the morning. Sometimes it’s laundry or vacuuming or dishes or just to visit.
11:00 go to my parents and pretty much do the same thing for them, see what they need. Yesterday it was spreading hay on the drain field last week it was 3 days of cutting, splitting and stacking wood. Sometimes it’s just a visit too.
12:30 home for lunch, my own chores and house work and time with the dogs.
1:45 back to work till 5:30
Home at 5:45 and doing the outside chores. Or like last night I went to Mike’s and we put up his new drapes and I didn’t get home till 8:00. Jim and I are remolding Mike’s room into my new sewing/craft room and we worked on that until 10:30 and to bed I went.
If I’m not doing some of this I have my best friend that her dad passed away and I’m helping them cleaning out her mama’s house. I help Kim or visit Kim a time or two a week and we get things done at her house. I have my own coal and wood to shovel, chickens to take care of, a house that needs attention and I also pick up activities for driving, like Tuesdays I drive bus all day for library day. On at least 2 times month on Saturdays I drive for basketball/hockey/volleyball/tennis…you know. I try and get on my computer a couple times a day to read blogs, post a post and read emails. We have two family members with cancer so I try hard to get my parents over to them for visits and helpings. I took my mama to Brainerd this week shopping between bus runs.
I just don’t know guys. The time for me is very limited and I’m just not sure what to do. I can not help my grandma, I can not help my parents, I help Mike and Kim but not all the time. I have to drive bus, it’s my living.
I need to cut things down into smaller bites I think. I have read that exercise doesn’t have to be in hour incumbents that 10 minute here or 10 minutes there work but than how do you get your heart rate up? UGH!!!!
So the scale says 209. Up one but down one and a half. That’s not enough to even count. I did use my menu this week but not all of it. Another UGH!!!
So I am just going to repeat all that has been challenge for next week and see just how it all can fit together. It has too because being fat is not good for me and surly not good for my mind. You should hear myself and all the nastiness that comes out. I do know that other people are busier than me and doing this. So I just need to find the way.
Exercise, menu, veggies, meditation that’s what will be my job for the coming week. If you do have ideas or comments or kicks in the butt, please tell me because maybe it’s just me and I’m not seeing something.
I hope that Deb did awesomely this week, one of us has to. Did you know that she did a marathon last weekend and ran a relay race? That woman can move and she’s exercising and working 12 hour days and has a family at home.
Okay, got to go shower, do my chores and head over to mom and dad’s to put down some tile and cut some carpet and than meet with an insurance lady at noon. Take care my friends. You truly are all amazing and wonderful and helpful. Thank you!!
I ate salads every day for lunch!!I like this new week starting on Fridays. It seems to make so much more since starting the weekend out fresh when there’s a just a bit more time to think about it all.
This week my challenge was to weight and measure my foods and I not going to lie and say I did it all week because when it’s 5:30 in the morning the last thing I want to do is dig out all the stuff so instead I cheated and bought breakfast in a bag, oatmeal bag that is. I brought maple and brown sugar but in the good for you kind that is only 100 calories a bag, if I would eat just one bag that is. I get up at 4:30 each morning and leave the house just before 5 and don’t get back here till 10 and eating one bag of oatmeal just isn’t filling enough to hold me till lunch and I hate the taste of the bus steering wheel so I ate two packets and a 8oz glass of milk. My breakfast comes in at 310 calories and that really is a good number for me. 300 for breakfast 400 for supper and 500 for lunch. It keeps me at 1200 calories and this week that worked out pretty darn good.
The other challenge I picked up was planks and yoga. I did terrible with them, I didn’t do them every day like I had planned but I did move my butt with other things but I failed these two. But it’s just week one of the rest of my life so that just means I’ll get another one to do and I’ll just keep working on these.
I’ll be back tomorrow with a new challenge for Deb, my weight loss for the week, a linky if anyone wants to add something and a new thought for the next week. Gotta work on that thought though, one hasn’t popped in my mind yet.
Take care today, drive safely, take care of yourselves and love that family and your friends. There is so much we are blessed with.
You know, the best laid plans just don’t always work out. Today I had planned on stopping at my parents after my 1st bus run, visiting and helping for an hour or so and than getting home to do my exercises, eat a healthy lunch, get the cranberries cooked up and than head back to work for my 2nd run. Well I just walked in the door and instead of fish flopping exercises my dad and I split up 2 cords of wood and shoveling some dirt he had delivered for the garage in the rain, so both of us are soaking wet but glad it’s done.. Lunch is still healthy, I had a chicken thigh, snap peas, carrots and milk. For breakfast was yogurt and raspberries. So really all is good just not exactly the planned. I have to leave in 15 minutes so will do a couple planks and forgo the yoga until later. The bending, lifting, carrying and stacking of wood will have to count for something.
This morning I stepped on the scale, well I had too just to see if because I was good all weekend there was a reward and yep, minus1.5 lbs. I’ll take it. Tomorrow I’m hoping for another pound and would like it to go that way all week. I know just getting back into the groove of this that the scale will go down faster the first week or two and really lots of times that’s what I need to see to keep focused and going.
I texted Deb today and she’s doing awesome with the veggie challenge. She’s even going to try kale and I just haven’t gotten that brave yet, I’m going to let her try it and tell me all about it. I have heard it’s bitter but it could just be a rumor. :o)
So it’s off to work I go. Bus driving has been a godsend for me. It’s almost a living and I have the time I need to take care of business in-between runs.
Oh before I forget, Deb wants me to set up a linky on Friday so everyone can share something about their week. It can be weight loss, a meal, a thought, an idea, anything. Are you interested? Figured I’d check with you all to make sure Debs great idea is good with you too.
Take care now and have an awesome afternoon.
I did do this yesterday but worked all day and than moved Mike into his new home so didn’t have time to post anything but here’s day 1 for me and today is day 2.
So that’s the official loud scream weight. Can’t change but sure can fix it.
Now Debs challenge for me is to weight my food and relearn what a portion is. Now yesterday I didn’t do any of that because everything I ate came in single portions. My oatmeal in a bag, my yogurt in a container, an apple, a personal pizza from the freezer section at 11:00 last night (yep, I know better but we were starving after moving Mike in and I wasn’t about to fix dinner at his house) and a glass of milk. But I didn’t have chips, I didn’t have cookies, I didn’t eat a single bit of left over Halloween candy so for the 1st day I wasn’t terrible. Not perfect but not terrible. I owe Deb two servings of veggies because I told her I’d take her challenge and times it by two so that means today I have to eat 4 servings of veggies, for me that’s nothing because I love my fruits and veggies. I also told her I’d do her plank challenge along side her and I found out I have lost everything in strength and muscle. So to do those 20 second planks, well it was an effort. I did two though and than about 50 minutes of beginner yoga and really all I did was start to learn the poses but it’s a start too. Gotta have a beginning to have a middle and an end.
So it’s day two already and I am home alone for another hour so am going to do some planks, some yoga, get dressed and head over to Mike’s to finish sprucing up his home and than return the moving trailer we borrowed. I’m not a computer person on Sundays, it’s just our family day, no TV unless watching a movie together, no computers, just some shopping, hiking, finishing up the yard and stuff for winter and being together so I won’t have another update until Monday but I promise to do my best to get that scale moving in the right direction. I promise to work on toning up again and getting back to the place I was 3 years ago. It’s time. He’s what I started with yesterday in the yoga, an interesting exercise but from all I’ve read it’s awesome so will give it a whirl and see. Now to work on that meditation….shut up brain.
