<p>Giving up alcohol!Yikes! :o I have given up wine with dinner during the week but still allow myself some on the weekend.</p>
<p>Well, there’s the thread on teen drinking where studies indicate that some alcohol is better than heavy alcohol which is better than no alcohol. I’m in the no alcohol (genetic disposition to avoid alcohol) camp and am thinking hmmmmm.</p>
<p>I bought a bottle of Muscat back in May because I used to drink Sutter Home Muscats in the 1990s. It’s still sitting unopened.</p>
<p>I am using the livestrong site too. It helps me a lot. I have made a lot of changes to my diet just by trying to squeeze in as much food as possible on my puny daily calorie allotment. I gave up my cookie & chocolate habit, and no more peanut butter sandwiches. I eat more actual food, but less calories, and have lost 8 lbs in this last month, which was pretty much my goal.</p>
<p>I did another day of my walk/run, and I feel so good that I decided to treat myself to an armband for my ipod, and some kind of ear bud thingy so that they don’t fall out while I run. If I can keep it up, and make it to the 5k level, I’m going to celebrate with a HR monitor.</p>
<p>I ran in two states today. Did a short run in Michigan (UP) this morning at 5am which was not pleasant. It was very dark and even with a flashlight it was hard to see. The road was rough and footing wasn’t good. Just a few miles. This evening I was back in Green Bay for an early morning flight home. I went out on a deserted road next to the airport and did a few more miles in the light. I also ate a ridiculous amount of food at my meetings- and it was NOT healthy food. Travel is tough…</p>
<p>I am bummed beyond words. Today I was all psyched to run another 2.5 miles, but I couldn’t do it. The outside of my right knee started bothering me. (When I first started running back in the spring, it was the inside of my left knee that bothered, almost immediately.) But this time I’ve had no pain at all since I started up again at the end of June. Drat, drat, and drat again!</p>
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muscat + vodka (neutral)</p>
<p>Different kind of workout for me today. An hour and a half of pushing a fertilizer spreader around the old homestead in 95 degree weather. Wore the heart monitor for kicks and giggles and it was a good solid workout. Sweatin’ buckets. Makes me feel for all the parents out walking pushing baby strollers.</p>
<p>I had planned to do an iPod workout afterwards, but I was totally drenched and decided that enough was enough! Variety is good. Plus, it’s darn hot inside the house for iPod workouts.</p>
<p>blankmind, I am giving up PB sandwiches, too. I can do without alcohol. Peanut butter is a more difficult problem.</p>
<p>Thanks for the livestrong suggestion. I’ll check it out.</p>
<p>Yesterday I was amazed at how good I felt after just three days–more energy, not hungry. We’re dealing with a serious family issue at the moment, it’s in the high 90s outside, and I still felt good.</p>
<p>For breakfast I sauteed some red bell peppers in a tablespoon of olive oil, dropped an egg, salsa, and a little mozzarella on top, and covered the pan until it was done. When I eat protein in the morning instead of cereal and milk, it helps. Exercise will be a DVD, later this morning, after a couple of work phone calls that will exercise my patience.</p>
<p>CBB, I’m sorry to hear about your knee pain. I know how frustrating that is. I hope my pain doesn’t come back to haunt me, especially now that I’ve invested in ipod accessories :)</p>
<p>Okay, need some motivation and advice here. Have been immersed in moving our household across the country the past six weeks or so and have been basically not exercising (except for carrying heavy boxes, cleaning the house up for sale relentlessly, gardening, etc) and eating really, really bad junk. We’re settled (sort of) now and I’m coming up for air and feel physically . . . awful. Sore joints. Sore fingers. Sore head. Tired. Is this arthritis? I’m going to walk on the treadmill today and do some stretches. What I really feel like doing is lying in the sun like a teenager. My whole body hurts!</p>
<p>If you’ve been using dormant muscles, you might consider taking a few days off or doing exercises that use other muscle groups. I don’t really like to do my regular workouts when an important muscle or joint is sore that will affect that activity.</p>
<p>I vote for lying in the sun like a teenager.</p>
<p>Sewhappy, a few days of rest and sun should be very therapeutic for your sore muscles and stressed out soul. My grandfather used to say that surviving a household move equaled surviving two fires. :)</p>
<p>Rest in the sun but try to do some slow movement for the sore joints. If I don’t move my sore knee it just gets worse.</p>
<p>No gym this morning. Just got back from doing a partial move in for D2. H wasn’t around to do the heavy lifting so we will be back on Saturday to finish. Lunch out at a little burger bar where I had a salad with grilled chicken breast and balsamic vinaigrette dressing with crumbled blue cheese. Not sure how to count it in my journal but it was Yummy! :)</p>
<p>cbblinker…ice that knee. Take a few days break and add some ibuprofen if you can tolerate it. Do some gentle stretching of your calves, hamstrings, and quads. And then try again…perhaps just a mile to start. Good luck to you…it might just be a temporary setback. (I have tried to get back to running many times and have finally given up for good…my knee will NOT cooperate and now my back also yells at me). There are other activities if running doesn’t work…biking, fast walking, hilly walking, etc. Hang in there…</p>
Thanks, guys. Did 40 minutes of walking on the treadmill, followed by an hour of lying in the sun followed by two advil. Feeling like I’ll live. Can feel my extremities again.
Moving is hard, especially when we’re older and have more stuff and more complex lives.
<p>Yay, sewhappy, good to hear that your vitamin D therapy seems to be working :)</p>
<p>After a long break from running, I finally got back to it. Ran 3.5 miles on my treadmill (it was getting dark outside by the time I got home). I felt somewhat sluggish in the beginning, but then my legs took off like a couple of triple sevens! The prize for finishing was a glass of Zinfandel and a few pieces of sushi. :)</p>
<p>BB… that is my kind of dinner/reward! Now that I am craving some spicy tuna with lava sauce I will have to pick that up for dinner tonight! </p>
<p>My workouts have been erratic this week and calories higher than usual due to eating out. What a surprise to find out I dropped some weight when I weighed in this morning! Will see what happens over the holiday weekend! Off to the gym!</p>
<p>toneranger – thanks for the advice; that’s what I’m doing. Supposed to run today, but will see how things feel tomorrow. Today’s “exercise” will be waiting for Earl here at the beach and worrying about D’s scheduled flight from Bradley (Hartford) to DC this evening. Oh, and “reading up a storm” (LOL!) for “Books on the Beach” on Sunday.</p>
<p>New Jersey has been bad for our diets. Too much good food. DD and I are smitten with the Wegman’s potato pancakes . . . Have yet to find Asian take-out or delivered pizza that isn’t fabulous. Must. Stop. Eating.</p>