New You Oct 5th-
Here we go, a new thread.
How about some survival strategies for busy times? We all seem to have alot going on in our lives right now. If you're anything like me you'll be having a harder time taking *good* care of yourself. Some days I get going and don't even think about making healthy choices. *Some* days it just feels like survival.
I think at times like this I just need to keep my personal expectations pared down to the minimum and as simple as possible. Like:
-take my vitmins and supplements
-eat breakfast
-get enough sleep
-time out each day to do something I actually enjoy
-keep an eye on those portion sizes(I tend to load up on comfort when I'm stressed)
-drink water
This seems to be as much as I can expect myself to remember when I'm busy. Sometimes I can't even remember the simple things. It's going to be several months before my life takes another turn, so I'd better find ways to cope as best I can.
The rest of you got any good strategies?
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strategies?
No, not really. I need to exercise and to eat more fruits and vegetables, as usual. I've been making some progress on the latter front.
Kerri, a little secret: if you can't handle taking meds more than once a day, you can take all your Pentasa at once. Don't do it if it gives you the runs, but for most people it is fine to do it that way. You can also take it twice a day.
Believe it or not I am already doing all you say you need to do, Hope!
Tada
I have a Dr's appt for Thurs to get my prescriptions rewritten, and to get my flu shot.
I have an eye appt for the end of Nov.(soonest I could get in to my very popular optometrist)
Becky, I applaud you for doing the basics. You're doing much better than I.
DH is bringing supper home tonight. Salad I'm hoping unless he decides he's got a hankering for pizza. If he has it will be a plain old pepp and cheese pizza, cause that's what he likes the best.
I'm into the shower now for a little pampering
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where is everyone?
My healthy snack last night was that I tried to eat a pomegranate but I got tired of it, so I juiced the rest and drank that. Yum!
I plan to go for a walk today. Also I need to buy more sunscreen!
I'm with you Becky
Morning
. Kerri will be busy with her parents about now, but the rest of the gals must be off eating bon bons 
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I'm having a snarly day(see the Clutter thread), so I'm going to be very me-me today and go shopping and lunch out.
I had a big salad last night, and 1 slice of pizza. It was much better take out than burgers.
Right now I'm going to have some breakfast and dress up for a trip to town. May I find tons of stuff to buy
. Will check in later.
Flu shot-TaDa
Went to the doc this am and had my flu shot, and my prescriptions written for the next few months. She's also trying me on another med to see if we can get my sleep disorders in line. I have to get some fasting bloodwork done as well. Doc figures all my recent quirks, sleep problems, stomach problems, headaches, fatigue are most probably stress related. We'll just have to rule out any possible physical health problems. I usually check out A-OK.
Went for lunch with SIL while I was near her office. I had a most delicious chicken/asparagus melt with salad. DH ate late lunch today too, so we've decided to just have soup for supper. It's a big tv night on Thursdays, so we never plan for anything too elaborate. Now that Survivor is on again I'll have to reinstate "fast food night" I think.
Now I must move over and fess up to doing nothing around my house...later all
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Chaos
this is the eye of the current storm... we decided to take a morning off from yesterday's nightmare, so I slept till 9am and I've been doing morning pages and then on the computer since then. I did get a small load of smelly sheets in with some other bits. My SIL threw some of mine in with hers last night so mine's not even overflowing!
Thank goodness for morning pages... I don't get to hear my inner voice at all if I don't get to do them (didn't yesterday), and my whole identity gets overwhelmed by the chaos swiling around me if I haven't given my inner voice an audience for the day. I know they bore some people and don't work for others, but for me they are becoming as necessary as breathing.
Which is apparently not a necessity since I haven't done much of it in a few days. My throat gradually closed up the day my parents arrived and since then I've just had the most horrific head cold. Difficult to take the extra drugs to control it when I need to be driving as well! I took this morning's medication, and I will take the Pentassa from later doses too - thanks for that Becky! I'll try to get a bit more liquid down this morning.
Both kids also have horrible colds and running noses and I desperately need to buy boxes and packets of tissues...
No point in me posting over the other side because I have done nothing. Not true... my sofas came back yesterday as well and they look beautiful. I even found a moment to give one a test drive (short siesta!). Dark blue with tiny gold fleur-de-lis all over in case I didn't mention it already.
Well that's all the posting I can manage time for, though I did read it. DD needs to finish up her homework. Oh, she's done.
then we need to get everyone fed for lunch and showered before diving once more into the fray...
catch up ith you all... whenever...
Kerri.
Still Plugging
I just have been too busy to post lately.
Being back in the routine has made me better about my eating, although very boring.
I have not exercised in a very long time. The treadmill haunts me, as does curves, but I get up at 5:40am just to get to work on time and with DS14's soccer schedule to manage too, I just don't have a moment to breathe until 7pm or so at which point I am way too tired to walk or run.
(I know, wah, wah, wah.....)
My plan is that once the time changes I will continue to get up at the same time, which will then be 4:40 and I can walk then. I also have some vacations coming up, which will help.
The good new is that my weight has maintained, and I am only up 6 pounds from my post half-marathon weight, and down 32 overall since September 2003. I also still feel healthy and strong so that is good.
OK, goals:
real breakfast
water! I have been so bad....
I'm hoping that if I remember these two I will not have the nasty headaches from dehydration and low blood glucose which have plagued me lately.
Breathe Deep, Seek Peace,
-Jo
DRINK YOUR WATER ALL!!
Yes, I shouted it out for all to see. Have a multi with that water while your at it. Keep a jug by the puter, along with a nice glass. Drink it from a wine glass if it feels special. Or from your good crystal...just drink it. Keep a glass full on the kitchen counter and have a swig eveytime you pass by.
The one thing I *can* boast about is that I drink a great deal of water. Only because I like to eat ice. I'll take it however I can get it.
I took a dive out on the wet deck yesterday when I was trying to get away from an attack wasp. End result: I'm hobbling around with the use of a cane and an ice pack tensor'd to my knee. I'm not a happy camper. I could not afford an injury right now, as I've got waaaay too much to do and an upcoming golf holiday. Whiiiiine!!!!
I did hobble to my hairdresser yesterday though, and am now somewhat "New". Real nice cut this time, and a...uummmmm...color job. I *did* say to my somewhat artistic hairdresser that she could do whatever she wanted with the color(I was in a cranky mood because of the knee and didn't want to discuss color options or browse swatches). Well, she went to work and now my hair must be four different colors. I look like I was shot in the head with a paintball gun
. Aunt Flo almost perished!
Now there's a visual for ya.....a fat grandma hobbling around with a cane....with the very funkiest of hair.
Sorry about the knee!
Maybe the hair will get better.
I need a better sleep schedule. I think it's getting in the way of the New Me.
Forgot haircuts counted
I squeezed mine in on Tuesday, and it's a little different. Not because of much input from me, but because the lady who cut it decided it would be better layered close into my head than all one length. Whatever. It looks nice enough and it's a damn good cut as always from that place. I'm planning to drag my mother there next week! It is still the same colour of course... why mess with perfection!
your knee had better sort itself out before your golfing holiday Hope, or you're gonna be really unpleasant to be around! When are you going??
I'm just barely scraping through and trying to get a sensible amount of sleep... like 6hrs or more! This was supposed to be a time to recuperate before my parents came back from Bali. I suppose I have. We've done almost nothing all week - so much for the Christmas present shopping - but at least we're almost completely recovered from our colds. My voice is still a little husky at times, but it gets frequently called on to shout, so no surprise. I aso have one of my megazits forming at a very painful point right on the end of the septum inside my nose. And I noticed my eye started getting sore last night too... nothing visible even this morning, but who knows. None of these little niggles makes me any happier than Hope and her busted knee though.
DH's absence is hard this trip... for both of us. He's back on Thursday thank goodness, but we both know he'll be off again in a fortnight or less. That's the horrible part of the pre-Christmas trips. Still, he loves retail so even our big move is unlike to make that problem go away completely. Retail people will always be crazy busy in the lead-up to Christmas. Hopefully though he'll still be able to come home most nights once we're in the UK. I wonder where we'll be at this time next year... I'm trying to pray for sanity not miracles because miracles aren't even close to realistic. I know it won't make everything perfect. It's hard though when so many things go wrong over here and I just think... I can't wait... but will it really solve everything?? Of course not. The grass is not really greener, just different in flavour, and hopefully more suited to my sensitive digestive system!
And you know what's worse?? The most horrible thing is that The Eagles will be in Singapore on Monday, giving a one night only concert, the first time they've ever given a concert here, and I'm not going. I knew DH was away, and I didn't know my father would be around, so I didn't buy tickets. By the time I knew Dad would be around it was too late for all but the most expensive tickets. I'm not going to be fun to be around on Monday. I'm crying bitter, btter tears over this. It's going to be one of the very few regrets I have in my life, I'm sure. Not that I could have done things differently, but I doubt very much whether they'll ever be this close to me again. If they're on in Manchester or out of London somewhere I'm promising myself I'll go (assuming I'm in the UK!) even if I have to go on my own. That's the only way I'm gonna get through Monday in one piece. I can't believe how much it hurts not to get to this concert. I'm not a bg concert goer, but I know this would have been the concert of a lifetime. Dad's been talking about getting me the DVD of Hell Freezes Over, but somehow I don't think that's gonna help me much.
BUGRIT!
it's been a whole week of Mondays, and sadly I don't see it getting much better next week, even having my parents around. What a waste of a visit.
Kerri.
come for a visit!
They play in the US a little more often. Canada too, I think. Come see one of us and you can see the Eagles.
I'm having a hard time
Morning all
. It's very hard to feel like a "New Me" right now. I'm feeling quite sorry for myself as I sit here with my gimpy leg. I just finished talking to my SIL and she's nagging on me to go to our Chiro. We use him for everything from alignments to pinched nerves to sports injuries. I certainly do know that overcompensating for the bad knee is giving me lots of other aches and pains. He won't be able to do anything about any ligament damage, but he's very knowledgable about exercises and other things I could be doing to get better quicker. I guess I'll just have to make the time in my upcoming schedule to fit him in.....that or spend a *pile* of time listening to nagging from SIL 
. At least this has taken her mind off the corset for the time being.
I'd planned on eating smart today...HA...and what have I done so far? I've sat here on the puter and nibbled on banana chips. It's lunchtime now and I'm not hungry. I think I'll have a Slim Fast shake and then have chili and salad for supper.
DH thinks we should take a Karate class once we're moved. I'm trying to convince him Pilates would be better but he's not buying it. It's a guy thing I guess. I'm also trying to convince him yoga would be good for his golf game. Many pro golfers actually practise yoga. He's not listening to that either.
Ugh!!! Bush is chirping on tv. Same old, same old...so I think I'll just shut him off. His voice is too whiney and pulpit-like for me.
There now, I can concentrate. I'm now used to my new hair and loving it. It's quite bizarre. This aft I'm going to shower, shave and play with my hair. I can do wild things with it, or tame it into acceptable age appropriate hair. Today I'm leaning to the left.
New news. When I saw my Doc last week we dicussed my sleep problems. She long been concerned about my sleep disorders and deprivation. Changing my sleep habits has for the most part been ineffective. I am now taking meds in an effort to get me a full nights sleep. She did not want to go the way of sleeping pills, neither did I. So, she put me on a min dosage(50mg) of one of the old anti-depressants, which are not used to treat depression anymore with all the new anti depressant drugs taking over. This old one, they discovered, regulated sleep patterns for those with sleep disorders, and is now used to treat people like me....who sleep 3-4 hours at a time. With the exception of 2 days when Aunt Flo was hurting me bad, I have had at least seven hours of sleep a night, and last night 8. I cannot remember the last time I've slept for 8 hours. I feel re-born gals. Since I've started taking them I have not needed to have a nap once. They say levels don't reach peak for 3-4 weeks, I wonder if I'll sleep even longer when they do. Whatever, if the most I get is 7-8 hours that's twice as much as before, and I'll be more than happy with it.
Must get going here and have some lunch, I'm starting to pick at the banana chips again. Have a great day, take a vit, and drink some water. Anyone feel like having a veggie challenge week next week?
happy sleeping
And yes, I'm up for a veggie challenge next week.
Not posting much this evening, I'll try to manage more tomorrow.
Sleep
Too little for me these days, too! (Notice it's not quite 6:00 am! I'm up: DH had to leave about 5:30 for the airport and I got up to put the coffee on
Good wife! I've got to do an edit of the paper that is due at 12:15 this afternoon, so I decided just to stay up. DD14 gets up about 6:15 anyways.
Becky, how did "teaching" go???? I'm waiting to hear all about it.
Hope, when I was first diagnosed with fibromyalgia, the Dr. prescribed Elavil for me to help with the sleep issues. It was effective. I phased off of it when my symptoms quieted. During my last "bad" flare-up, I used Valerian Root to help with sleep, it also was effective for me...at least enough that I felt a difference. I'm hurting rather bad these days and I just mentioned to DH that I think I'm going back on the Valerian Root, at least until I finish school and/or my schedule lightens up! (Yeah, right!
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Not much to report on the "New Me" front. My 10 pounds-lost goal before Halloween "ain't" gonna happen. On the bright side, with all my horrible eating (stress, DH-out-of-town, grabbing junk at the university) I'm not up any pounds, either. I guess I'll take that. I plan to "maintain" through the holidays, and get back on some plan for losing this weight at the first of the year!
Hope! OUCH on the knee! :mad: I'm thinking seriously about leting my sister (hair stylist) chop off my mop of hair....but it's just so easy to twist it up rather than have to style it every day....I'm lazy!
Primping and pampering must go on my TODO list for later this week. DH come home on Friday, and we've got a DATE palnned for Saturday! With our crazy schedules, and DD14's marching band (Friday night football, band shows, etc,) we havent' had a date night in too long!
DD14 came home yesterday with info on a band outing to a haunted house on Saturday and I told her "Your dad and I have plans. If you want to go, you'll have to arrange transportation, clear it with me, and pay for yourself!" Mean Momma! Really, though, she was o-kay with that. (...and I already know that the parents of one of her friends, with whom we are also friends, are planning to chaperone.)
Must go roll her out of bed, now!
Have a great day!
Blessings,
Lenora
~"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming ~ WOO HOO! What a ride!
teaching
Teaching went fine. It wasn't my best work ever, but it was all right.
We're having fish for supper tonight.
I think I'm going to do some calf raises when I actually get up off the computer. (It's my day off.) I did them on Sunday and my legs seemed less prone to aching the rest of the day. The rain and humidity do not feel good on my joints.
teaching
Teaching went fine. It wasn't my best work ever, but it was all right.
We're having fish for supper tonight.
I think I'm going to do some calf raises when I actually get up off the computer. (It's my day off.) I did them on Sunday and my legs seemed less prone to aching the rest of the day. The rain and humidity do not feel good on my joints.
Finally
At last I got a page to post on. This slow loading of the pages is getting on my nerve.
Turkey for supper in our house tonight. Of course it will be had with all the trimmings, even if it is just DH and myself.
Just think....all that stuffing and gravy and no one to share with except DH. Much as I hate stuffing and cooking turkey it does smell divine. I think I make the best stuffing in the world. With it we will have whipped taters, carrots, beans, and killer cabbage(stiffing and gravy of course). I must give you gals the official recipe for this cabbage. Maybe I'll see if I can put it in the recipe box. I'm having some lemon gelato for dessert if I feel like it. It's fat free ya know 
. Like it's going to matter at that point(eye rolling guy here).
Becky, way to go on the teaching assignment. That would stress me to the max. I can handle teaching one a one, but a class???? NEVER!
Lenora, I'm with you on some pampering detail. I want to be my best for holidays. As far as weight goes, you are probably busy enough and on the go enough to counter any damage you might do with your diet. I don't like fussing with my hair either unless I want to be wild with it. My hair can still be screwed into a knot, a claw, or I can scrape it into a loose ponytail. I can also change the color of it if I want to take the time to pull out the chunks...lighter blonde if I feel like it, or more red if I want. If I use a defining product I can really wild it up in four different colors, or I can have it very subtle and subdued if I brush it out without product. Then....if I define it and toss a little back combing in I am 18 again
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I've used Valerian off and on for years. It stinks soooo bad!! Have you ever wondered when you take it if it's like garlic? Can people smell Valerian the next day? Scarey thought eh? Talk about offensive. I don't think it leeches through the body though, as DH never ever mentioned it and I'm sure he'd tell me if I stunk *that* bad.
My knee is slowly improving. I am icing it every four hours or so for about 10 minutes, and keeping a tensor support on it. Walking is not a problem, it's the sideways motions to the left that get me. Not swell for a golfers follow through(very important part of the golf swing). I'm staying positive though, and plan to be ready to golf in a week or so. We'll be flying into the states on election day with a BIL who looks like Osama Bin L. His passport is stamped with all Asian and European countries in the last 2 yrs. Outta be fun!!!! You know what? I bet no one looks at him twice...we'll see.
Gotta go, the turkey needs basting.
how was TG?
I hope it was yummy!
I'll post more later.
A Sad and Sorry Effort
Morning all
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My diet for several days now has consisted of *much* leftover turkey and *many* little Halloween chocolate bars. I am soooo bad!
We leave for holidays on Tues, and when I return mid November I am planning some serious changes for my personal self. I need a fitness routine that is part of my morning routine, something that happens before my actual day begins....not an activity I try and fit into my day. Kinda like brushing ones teeth, must be done first thing in the am.
I'm just feeling soooo unfit right now. I'm sure it has alot to do with this knee injury and my newly sprained thumb. Some tasks are hard to do, and I feel like I'm moving in slow motion most of the day.
Supper tonight....anything but turkey
. Later all.
Ugh!
Morning all
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I love this definition
Depression: anger without enthusiasm.
Anyway, I've been trying on clothes to take on holidays with me and "YUK". When you are busy working around the house you just throw on any old comfy thing without really caring what it looks like. Even when I go to the city on some mission I throw on comfy clothes, more like workout clothes, but better looking than *work* clothes.
Pulling out my *real* clothes and trying them on has been depressing to say the least.
I am soooo going to do something about this when I get home from holidays!!!
Bran for breakfast this morning, and I'm going to make up a big salad today. I have to use up all perishable food items in the next couple of days.
Water....is everyone enjoying lots of water??? It's also the time of year you want to get religious about those multi-vitamins. Wash your hands lots too. We don't want you all getting the flu, and you may be dealing with a greater outbreak down south this year.
Later all
, have a healthy choice day....stay out of the Halloween candy if you can 
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New thread coming right up :)
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