Category Archives: Misc
How I’m doing so far… A progress report
Small steps are getting me there…
It has been a long day and I’m really tired so I beg forgiveness in advance if this post is not up to my usual level of silliness and is a wee bit more direct.
At the end of July, I read an article which had a profound effect on me. In it was information which provided me with the final piece of the puzzle that I needed to get me started toward being fit and healthy.
(watch for a series of posts that will talk in depth about the article and its impact on me)
For the first time in my life, I am not working to “lose weight.”
I’m working to be fit, and healthy, and most importantly I’m working to make this a permanent part of my life.
Why is it different this time?
I’ve been on the weight loss roller coaster ever since the early 1990’s. Up down, up, down, around and around we go, down then up, but ever and always…back up; always further up with each time around on the ride… Nothing worked. Nothing I did seemed to make a difference. There seemed no way to break the cycle.
Finally I have a tool that is making a difference; I have a way out. A way “off the weight loss roller coaster.”
I know that this time is different; I can feel that it is different. The ride is over. The track of the roller coaster has been straightened out and it has become a train with a destination. The journey is starting.
If you’re reading this and saying “Yeah, right, suurrrrrrrre it it’s different!” then I understand. I do.
To my close friends of many years, to my friends I’ve met through the dance world, and to those of you among my readers, who know me only through my writing here on this blog and on Squidoo, I understand completely that you may have doubts. After all, I’ve been here before; I’ve even said “this time is different” before.
But it is. A couple days ago, I was in the kitchen loading the dishwasher and I was trying to explain to my very best friend, who happens to be my room mate, what the difference was this time around. And candidly, I was having a very difficult time articulating it.
Yeah, I know… me? At a loss for words? Did the earth just shudder in its orbit and tilt off its axis?
As I spoke to him, trying to find the right words to explain, it dawned on me that what I’m doing this time which is different, what I’ve been doing since the first week of August is making choices not for the coming week, or the coming month or even the coming 18 months. I’m planning and making choices for the next 30 years, perhaps 40 or even 50 years if I’m very lucky.
This time, it is the SCALE of my outlook which has changed. The nuts and bolts of getting in shape haven’t changed. What has changed is the time frame for which I’m planning. This isn’t some “project” that I’m working on as one part of my life. Nope this time it is my life, my whole life.
De Plan! De Plan!
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OMG! No they did-UNT!
RANT WARNING!!!!!
From Perception (Season 1, episode 8)
Ok, this is a pet peeve and I’m about to RANT just to get off my chest so I can move on….
<<<<< SCRAPE >>>>> (sound of the soapbox being put into place…
I’ve been watching season 1 of Perception (TNT / TBS) and I’ve been enjoying every bit of it.
Good acting. Simple plots which is what I’m in the mood for right now. The main actor is cute. Very cute. It’s an exercise in Fluff – Popcorn – light entertainment – generally fun stuff. So…
I know it is entertainment… BUT… AAAAArrrrrrggggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but when a plot pivots on LOOKING UP SOMEONE’S LIBRARY PRIVATE LIBRARY RECORD online like you were Googling to get the number of the local pizza joint..
That’s just STUPIDITY on the part of the writers.
That is JUST GOING TO DANG FAR!
Librarians do NOT display who has a book checked out!!!!!!!!!!!!! Learn it! Memorize it! Spread the Word!
No way,
No how!
Ok, class, does anyone remember a little period in American History called Read the rest of this entry
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Updates to the site
Just a quick post to let you know of a couple updates / changes to the site:
The Event Calendar is back. Yay! And, yes, I know there is nothing planned for 2014. Hey, it’s a start. 2015 is there though. Click on “Schedule” in the menu up above or click-ee click-ee this link.
..- For some reason my reason my really cool map with all the dots (look over to the right hand column . . . See it? Cool. well, it stopped working. So I had to put new code in the box and BAM, all the 108,000+ visitor’s dots that were there are now gone. Sigh. So I start over. *sigh*
So, that’s it for now.
See ya on the dance floor.
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Best Laid Plans . . .
Sometimes you have to make adjustments:
My game plan from Saturday, which somehow I thought was Sunday was:
Monday – Go to Braums to do some grocery shoping & do 1 basket of laundry
Tue – Go for a walk in the park.
Well, friends, neighbors and the odd cuzzin or two…
Plan “B”
Sunday – Realize it wasn’t Monday and go get groceries
Monday – Pretty much a rest day – a few od things around the house that didn’t qualify as “exercise”
Tuesday – Laundry – 3 loads, two baskets.
Tomorrow – Wed, another rest day.
Yes, I know. Sad, that regular mundane things count as exercise — Ooops! I meant to say: “the activity that shall not be named!”
BUT on the other hand….
I’m moving! Woot!
I’m challenging my body to build itself back up.
I’m not giving up. Uh-huh! Uh-huh! Uh-huh! (doing happy dance while typing which is in itself pretty phenomenal!
Woot!
See ya on the dance floor! (eventually)
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Exercise – Rest – Exercise
Yes, I used the “E” word… Eeeeeekkkk!
I know that I have declared publicly that I am NOT going to Exercise however, for this post I need to use the e-word for the sake of clarity.
To recap: “Exercise” is any activity which produces a physiological effect that causes your heart rate to increase for a set period of time and causes your respiratory system to speed up.
In “Plane Anglish” = IF your heart is racing and you are breathing heavy, then it is exercise.
So to “exercise” you do not have to “go to the gym” you just have to “do the laundry,” or “mow the yard” or” go get groceries” or enjoy a “walk in the park”
The key is . . .
That your heart rate has to speed up and your breathing has to increase long enough for your body to say “uhmmm wow, this dude is serious about this.”
Your body is lazy. It does not want to work. And face it, anything that gets your heart going and chest heaving is WORK!
The “work” may be climbing the stairs at a baseball park to enjoy a great afternoon watching the Cardinals, but climbing those stairs still counts as WORK even if it is in the pursuit of fun!
It may involve rolling around on the floor playing with a passel of puppies, but when you get up, if your heart has speeded up and your breath is starting to make noises like an old-time steam engine then that is work! Even if it is FUN work.
For those of us in truly abysmal shape . . .
. . . like “Moí”
Just getting up from my computer and sorting the laundry leaves me huffing and puffing and making sounds like the proverbial big bad wolf.
Sad, but true.
The POINT, friends, neighbors, dearest readers, and the odd cuzin or two… It does NOT MATTER WHAT YOU DO AS LONG AS YOU DO SOMETHING!
For those of us who are either starting for the first time or climbing back on the “exercise wagon” after falling off, well a little goes a looooooooooooooooooong way!
Rest after exercising . . .
What really goes on in your body when you start an exercise program.
Just so you know, this information that I’m telling you can be verified from numerous reputable sources, but I’m saving you a lot of time reading… grin …by providing a much more entertaining version of what’s going on… Read the rest of this entry
5-6-7-8 Dancing My Way to a Healthy Me! 