Lets Post our Daily Exercise

Yay for just a hemangioma, Falconer, for the clear nodes, Mommy, and for the clear mammo, Cheryl!!!

A 5.45 am class is beyond the call of duty as well as having to get up at 4.45 am for work. You guys deserve a Daytona break. Sweet, hope the cortisone works quickly. Cheryl, yikes on an ash-covered car.  

Lilac, I will have to get that book. Hope you and DH are coping well with the empty nest. But I guess it's not so bad with him in the same city.

2Fun after all these years I can finally wiggle out of a sports bra without help. 

Wonderland, great mandala pumpkin. So intricate and the surface totally fits to the mandala concept.

Ruth and Nats, have fun! Pat, wishing you great deals on Saturday.

Bmom, that 4 degree incline is a good addition for your knees. Way to go!

Salsa fever last night.

Got my 3 mile walk in yesterday. Hope to get to the gym today for the first time in a very long time. Going to take it slow but really need to get back into my old routine of stretch in the morning, gym for strength training 3 days a week, and 50 active minutes a day. I keep waiting for life to settle down to restart my "routine", but this morning I realized I am just making excuses, and life is always going to get in the way, so I might as well do what I can when I can. You ladies are inspiring!

kb87p, Yay on.the pap test! I guess I don't need those anymore since my.hysterectomy !

Pat01, smart move to just get on with it. I thought it would be easier to find a routine with both kids away at school. I am so out of shape, but im.starting. was.going to blow off aquatics class tonight. I guess I'll go!

Just got back from a wonderful trip celebrating DH and my 35th anniversary. We spent the week exploring American History, visiting the "Historic Triangle" of Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown. From there we headed to Charlottesville to see Monticello, and the U of Virginia's famous Rotunda. It was a great trip and we got in lots and lots and lots of steps. Like everyone else, I learned a lot of the history in school, but as a kid I really didn't appreciate the significance of various events - it seemed back then as if history was nothing more than having to memorize a lot of names and dates. This trip went a long ways to refreshing my memory and in appreciating the significance and historical context of those names and dates we had to memorize way back when.

Getting ready to see Ruth! We have Ft. Frederick, Antietam, Gettysburg, the Eisenhower House, and Mount Vernon on the agenda, so my dive into history will continue. And of course Ruth and her DH will be doing the standard DC tour stops of monuments and museums. We also have plans to take in a Nationals baseball game. And Ruth even arranged with her Senator for us all to take a private tour of the Capitol building next week, so that will be special. She and her DH must be North Dakota VIPs to get that kind of special treatment!

One of the running jokes on this thread is counting household chores as exercise - we talk about doing a session of Garden N Sculpt, Laundry N Sculpt, Vacuum N Sculpt, etc. Well, we were ahead of our time. There's a great new article from AARP on how doing household chores can be just as effective as going to the gym:

http://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-201...

i did soulcycle followed by a Pilates class. Now I'm pooped. (And poor

Not sure how hot it was today but I seem to be specializing in sweating. Today was another stress full day but not as bad as yesterday. Things seem to be slowly heading back to normal. Hope the heat and humitidy do the same. Made it to the gym tonight. Did a full weights work out and then the elipitical for the remaining hour. Noticed today that my blouse is looking big. Love it.

Welcome, Leesa. Glad you are jumping in!

Welcome Leesa! Ruth and Natsfan, have a wonderful time in DC together. Heidi, glad your son adjusted well. I know you miss him, but as parents we raise our kids to leave us some day. But I hear you about the quiet in the house, when my last son left it was just deafening.

Got my classical stretch in yesterday, and a 3 mile walk in this still hot and humid weather. I never did make it to the gym, but at least it was because of being busy and not avoiding it! Definite mind shift there for me. This morning the humidity finally broke, and I hear tell fall temps are coming our way, which I look forward to. Have a great day everyone.

Welcome, Leesa, and congrats on the run! That had to feel great.

Ruth and Nats, enjoy all that history.

Kb870, congrats on the good pap! Cheryl, yay for the clear mammo! And Falconer, glad the bone scan was good. Great health news all around.

On track for exercise this week. Plus I'm back to feeling like cooking and have managed 4 healthy dinners this week. I've been using Myfitnesspal for tracking and it's going well. Feeling optimistic.I got an Instant Pot for my birthday. I need some time to be able to read the instruction, but I'm excited (and a bit nervous) to use it.

Welcome Leesa!

Love the picture Ruth and Nats! Have fun!

LB: Your dh is wonderful! I love that he bought you a fuchsia colored wheelbarrel! And it has non-puncture yellow wheels! My wheelbarrel is in the garage with a flat wheel. Glad you son is adjusting well. It will be easier for you. Your dog will go crazy over him when he comes home! We gotta love our pets to do the things we do for them. I have 2 cats and clean up vomit all the time.

cdv: I've heard great things about the instant pot. After you use it, please give me your opinion on it.

Walk/ran late this afternoon.

Falconer, thank you for the link. Great article. I'll be trying it out this weekend. I am ok at planning my menu, but I'm not good at prepping a lot on weekends. So time after work and in between kid activities is an issue. Hopefully, this helps me.

Great pic, Ruth. My hubby would be so jealous. He loves history and aviation. We've both been to D.C. Area museums separately but not together. I think we need to plan a trip.

I don't think I posted about this because I'm disappointed and was upset but my breast surgeon's office would not sign off on the Y program. She was concerned because fluid is still oozing from the open spot. She ordered a CT to see if there were pockets of anything that needed to be cleaned out and it was negative. (Much more than the PS ever did) However, even though she also agrees that I am not restricted from anything, she said she wouldn't sign the form. So I can't get into this session. I see my oncologist 10/4 and I'm sure she will want to revisit the topic of a hormonal. I'm not against taking one, but I'm only very weakly PR positive and research is minimal on the effectiveness in my case so I want to be in the best shape possible when I start. I don't want to take something known to cause weight gain and joint pain, which would slow me down, without being back to my active self first. I had high hopes this program would help me ease back in in safer, educated way. Now I'm stuck doing it on my own. With the pay cuts a at work, $50 a pop for PT is a bit much. Plus, the PT breast cancer specialist they sent me to before the whole leaky breast thing started only works 8-5. I have had to use so much FLMA for all these extra appts that I now don't have enough to last for the Herceptin treatments I need until it resets in March, let alone for PT. Trying to look on the positive side and hopefully I can get in the spring session. Sorry for the rant, just disappointed. Off to start my day. Have to move forward with a smile on my face and focus on the good

Wow, only checking in weekends is making me way behind. I was four or five pages behind. Last Sunday I did a 55 minute bike ride. Two 30 minute walks during the week. Pleasant weather has returned so this will be a good exercise weekend with the hot, humid, moldy air gone.

Falconer such good news. welcome, Leesa.

LB I watched the movie "Boyhood" recently on Netflix and one scene reminded me of your current sutuation. As her last child, the boy, is going off to college, the mom says "I just thought there would be more". At which time, having a twenty year old, I burst into tears. Our job is to get them to adulthood, so well done.

CDV, hope you will get to sign-up later after you heal more, or wink, wink, maybe you can get another doc to sign.

I recently got an instant pot and I love it because it cooks dinner so fast and with no tending, which helps me eat at home more.

Thanks, Falconer and Twohobbies. I think my onc will be upset enough with the PS to review his records to see if there are any actual restriction and will reach out to him so she can sign the form. But it's too late now for this session. That will have to wait until spring now. I think the PS is talented but he didn't actually do the surgery we agreed upon and then was shady about what he actually did. He still won't say but my breast surgeon told me what he did and was surprised I did not know. I'm not sure I want him doing stage 2 now. Have to talk to my insurance co about I feel I can have someone else do stage 2. But I have time to figure it out. Can't do anything until after 5/2018, so I'll make them best of where i am today.

I have to stay away from growing up kind of movies right now with my older daughter being a college freshman. Even though she is commuting this year, she's never home and I don't have the same involvement as high school. It's harder than I thought. A learning experience for us all.

Great news on the shoulder focused yoga class, Falconer! Glad your weather is turning, Twohobbies. Definitely more pleasant to be active outside once the humidity decreases.

Hi, just a quick late night check-in. We are having lots of fun in D.C. with about 20,000 steps per say. Yesterday we did all the monuments and Arlington and then went on a Potomac River cruise with Mary and her DH.