Exercise is Good for You!

We have now been getting up at 5:45am everyday and walking. I still ask myself why everytime the alarm goes off, but for some strange reason I keep getting up. I am finding that it is affecting my health in that by the fourth day, I begin to decline. Not so much as I cannot do anything, but enough that I need to take a day off. I struggle with not comparing what I am doing now to what I used to be able to do when I was healthy and look at every step as an accomplishment. Since I have been sick this is the longest exercise program I have been on. The others always perished and burned as I was determined to do what I used to do and if passing out after an hour and a half on the eliptical was what it took, then I spit in adversity's face. Although not being able to walk for 3 weeks afterwards was a steep price to pay. But!......... Drumroll please................I have found the Holy Grail, the Street Strider! An eliptical machine on wheels! You can finally get somewhere! Seriously! I used to spend half my life on an eliptical. When I worked in the club, all my employees knew NEVER to bother me when I was working out on the eliptical. My eyes were closed for a reason hello!! Of course I'd have to keep them open on the street LOL!

My goal is to lose an amount that puts me where I was when we had Gracie. We take Daisha with us as she has put on some weight but usually have to put her in as she cannot go as far as we do quite yet. The walk is also beneficial for landscaping ideas, as you can see what other people have done. I need to take my camera with me next time as I don't know the names of some of the plants. My new phase is air plants, the ones that the roots hang down and do not need to be in soil. One neighbor has one hanging out front and I am always tempted to take it. BUT I WON'T! A person way down the street from us has like 4 HUGE air plants hanging off his big tree and everytime I drive by I want to stop and ask him how to go about getting some and how did he get his to get so big. But I am afraid he will think I am some crazy person! Well at least it keeps my mind preoccupied from how tired I am!

Remember, exercise is good for you!

It's That Time of Year

I don't know what's worse, the end of all the Christmas commercials, the beginning of all the political commercials or the onslaught of all the weight loss and get in shape commercials. As fitness and nutrition was my life, I paid no mind to those commercials. I would look on with pity at all the New Years Resolutioners, knowing that in a month, two at the most they would be gone and back to their prior lives. I don't want to say I was smug per se, but I took pride in the fact that I stayed in shape all year and did not need to gather the troops in January for the war on fat.

Ah the glory days. Now that I am sick and have put on X number of pounds(not on your life), I have a whole new perspective. First off I want to run over every person I see out speed walking or running. But I have to settle for flipping them off and hoping they get a stress fracture. (Keep in mind this comes from jealousy). Secondly, I want to throw my remote at the screen as endless celebrities spout off on this weight loss program and that program. If someone wanted to pay me 4 million dollars to lose weight, pay for a trainer and someone to cook my meals, I could lose weight on the moon. Do they seriously think we buy that? UH yeah, in case you haven't heard, the weight loss business is worth billions of dollars.

As a woman in her 40's(what the hell, all you have to do is look at the year I graduated from high school my facebook page.) I have heard that wonderful little tid bit that makes us all want to kill ourselves. That statistic that in order to MAINTAIN our weight we have to work out a minimum 20 minutes a day!(can you hear the screaming)?

I wonder how many calories you burn throwing remotes at the TV?