Lets Post our Daily Exercise

Took two really good long walks today, one with some hills!! Hoping to get a bike ride in sometime this week! Ruth, your photo project is neat!

There, did 30 mins - 1-1/2 miles mostly walking with some 30 sec-1 min jogging.  Thanks Sweet, Ruth and especially, loseit.com!

Night my sculpted friends.

All I can say is Thank Goodness the Internet, Facebook, the Cloud (I don't even know what 'the cloud' is!), Twitter etc. etc......none of those existed during my misspent youth... and I am 99.999999% certain there are no naked pictures of me floating around anywhere!!!

About the most dreadful thing I can think of is if a copy of the 8 track tape recording with my boyfriend playing 'Little Surfer Girl' on the guitar and me doing the vocals still exists.....now that would pretty embarrassing!

Just jumping in to hopefully help me with motivation.

Walked a little over a mile today. Only second time since deciding to start. Almost didn't make it due to severe leg pain.

Went to my livestrong training class. Did weight lifting strength training for 45 minutes. Once again, un-did that with eating "junk" food :-/

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Nettie - take it easy starting out. A mile can be a LONG way if you've not done much of it for fitness purposes before.  Severe leg pain doesn't sound right to me either.  When does the pain kick in?  Is it right away?  Or at the half-mile mark?  What sort of pain?  Muscle?  Nerve? Joint?  Ache or stabbing pain? I would check with your doctor but in the meantime, if you do walk, try to stay close to home rather than going out a half-mile then having to come all that way back.  Do laps around your city block, or to the end of your road and back.  Something that will keep you close to home if you get those pains again so you can easily make it home.

Welcome, Nettie! It is fine if you are sore after walking, but you shouldn't have severe pain!  If you think it is from walking, start slower & mix it up with biking or other lower or no impact exercises.

Wonderland, visualize how your hair would look if you stuck your finger in an electric socket & you will get the idea of how my hair looked!

Unfortunately, I also heard the voices last night and went for my walk anyway although threatening. It's been a while since I got this wet! This was a mile walk back in a thunderstorm with wind, rain, and hail. It was so miserable I was laughing hysterically. Fortunately, no close lightening. And I had to climb over a tree that was down on the way back.

I was glad to get my soaking clothes off. No worse for wear really.

I was also remarking to myself how having someone in my life means I do a better job of keeping my place clean and tidy.

Think today will mean much better focus at work. I buried myself in database stuff yesterday, but today I need to be on my game. The storm may have done wonders that way. - Claire

Have been out of touch since last week - DH's kidney stone has been kicking up, so there have been a lot of sleepless nights lately.  He had a follow up with the urologist today - the scans show the stone is moving along and is almost there, but not quite.  The Dr. says he can go get it, but that it's best if it passes naturally because as we all know even minor surgery can be a risk, and the post-surgical temporary stent they place can be quite painful.  But if it doesn't pass within the next 2 weeks (or if DH can't stand it anymore) then he can schedule the surgery because if it goes too long the kidney can be damaged.  Ugh. 

Ran this weekend and did some yardwork, but have been tired from being up during the night, so I've blown off exercise the last two days.  Need to get out tomorrow for a run - the running clinic has me scheduled for a 3 mile.  Will have to get up extra early to get it in at the crack of dawn before the heat and humidity get out of control.  Ruth - ND sounds delightful right about now, but ask me again in the dead of winter. 

Badger - I finally treated myself to a few hours of "me time" this weekend to read "My Stroke of Insight".  Thank you so much - what a fabulous book.  I've been thinking about it ever since.  Excellent recommendation - it was well worth the time to read it.  For those of you who aren't familiar with the book, it's written by a Harvard-trained brain scientist who suffers a massive stroke in her left brain, and within 4 hours she loses the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or even remember who she is or what common everyday items like a telephone are for.  At that point she's a pure right brain, existing purely in the present, but with an incredible feeling of peace and connectedness with the universe. Yet, as a brain scientist, she's also observing all of this as it happens and knows exactly why it's happening.  It was a fascinating read and I learned so much about the left and right brain, and why most of us need to learn to tap into our right brains much more than we do.   

Took a long bike ride today!! 

Ouch, Mary, gosh, I hope things will get resolved SOON....it sounds so painful and exhausting!!!

I did some toning this afternoon & went to Zumba. I will be out of town for a family reunion Friday-Tuesday & I am pretty sure the whole time will consist of lots of eating & very little exercise!!

Wow Ruth - you've had lots of 'out of town for the weekend' weekends lately .

I have to cop to no exercise today but am happy to see everyone else's reports.

Mary - hope DH's stone passes soon and with as little discomfort as possible.  My DD passed a kidney stone when she was working at Guantanamo Bay and it was really hard for her mommy to bear being this far away from my hurting kid!

Thanks Claire,

Its mind over matter but it can be tough.  I was told by my dietician that if I didn't do any exercise that when the chemotherapy process is over it would be very hard to get back to it.  Basically folks that do nothing and lay around can really cause harm to themselves in the long run.  That was enough to motivate me to keep moving.

hi all, welcome Nettie and redheeled!  Good luck with chemo.  Besides its other benefits, walking will also help get that crap out of your system faster. 

Nettie, sorry you're getting pain when walking.  The advice about sticking close to home is excellent.  Other good ideas are stretch and stay hydrated.  I found that shortening my stride length (taking smaller steps) helped ease shin pain.

Mary, so glad you liked "My Stroke of Insight".  Great book; it literally expanded my mind.  LB, thanks for the TED link, I will def check it out.  BTW, wonderful poem by Rumi.

Ruth, sending good thoughts and prayers for your friend "Anne".  Love the Be Brave t-shirts and would proudly wear one.  If they have a women's medium, would you mail it to me?  I'll reimburse you for the shirt and postage.

Walked my 2.5 mile route after work.  ♥