ENERGIZING with nature...(SNIPPETS)

ENERGIZING WITH NATURE ... what an awesome way to start my day....

Feeling that early morning dew and breeze on my skin and sometimes even rain ... running against the wind and warming up with the flow of my own blood I love love love starting my day with an early morning run ... from running along the nature trail behind my previous homestead 4-5 days a week to currently running 5-6-8 miles along the beach four to five early mornings weekly weather permitting (I love love love to run in the rain but ice and snow are so totally off limits LOL) I am rocking nature in my favor ... and it pays off ... for me that is.....

On Saturday morning I decided to get an early start ...and I was not even thinking sleepwear or daywear ... as I donned these garments and snapped and collaged a picture for my empowerment journal.... "A PICTURE A DAY KEEPS THE POUNDS AND THE INCHES AWAY' hmmm Old Navy Intimates in XS were good enough for my agenda ... for guess what .... I started off my morning energizing with nature....

and was SO TOTALLY comfortable running in my jammies on an early Saturday morning run along the beach from one town to the other and back ... when 6 years and 2 months ago before WLS I could barely make it up a flight of stairs .... after my run I was soooooooooooooo totally energized I just wanted to keep on going and going .... 7 miles and with energy to spare...

So again I used my extra energy in my favor .... as I showered and changed and joined my daughter for an awesome Bokwa taster followed by Zumba Fitness and Zumba Sentao ...

After an early Sunday morning run along the beach followed by Church on Sunday DD invited me to brunch after an awesome Bokwa demo at another gym where she teaches at .... WHAT FUN ... I had invited friends and peers too and we had a ball ... by the time Monday morning came around I was ready for hair play .... and came to work looking like this.,.. on yesterday... which was my day of leisure from running and gym .... there is enough with manic Monday at work so there was enough energy expended there LOL

Today is workday Tuesday .... YUP ... I ran at 4:30 a.m. with the members of my running group ... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh I have energy ... more energy than ever after ENERGIZING with nature .... my skin is still tingling and the blood is still flowing... with energy to spare .... I got dressed and came to work ... ready to tackle the day... totally ENERGIZED...

As is habit now I took a picture for my empowerment journal "A Picture a Day Keeps the Pounds and the Inches Away" an empiric and goofy tool that has worked for me along the journey .... and in life in general ... I have captured every moment in a picture ... from childbirth to birthdays to every day .... me, my family, my pets ... I have albums dated from the day I thought I conceived my daughter... I love love love pictures... and I do take a picture of my labels too ... they are a reminder of the days that I squeezed into 4-5X and my size 32 breeches were too tight ... when I had to make sure I had needle and thread in my purse in case of a ripped seam .... okay wait ... I still do that and still get ripped seams today LOL ...

So as I sit at my desk today ... on break writing snippets of my journey ... I feel totally energized with nature ... before I could even think of running I walked at a snails pace .... then I walked a little bit faster.... and faster... and when I hit the trail and felt the ground and the grass and the sand and the sun and the breeze ... I felt soooooooooooo totally energized by nature each time .... so little by little ... day by day ... I built strength and endurance ... and one day at a time ... one choice at a time I completely changed my lifestyle and habits prior to WLS  so today I enjoy the benefit of rocking a seamless journey 6 years and 2 months after ... maintaining a total loss of 203 pounds with no regain ... I am not boastful I am grateful... I wanted this and I went after it and I am determined to keep it NO EXCUSES .... this is just the way I want it ... just the way I was before packing on the pounds ... but a lot older and wiser... I am determined to embrace joy and make it happen to me ... every day ... of course misery is out there but I am certainly not letting it in.... 

Break over!!! back to workday Tuesday ... TOTALLY ENERGIZED WITH NATURE ... it works!!! Thanks for allowing me to share ... another goofy thread...

THANKS FOR ALLOWING ME TO SHARE!!

You look amazing as always, do you think I can count looking at pictures of you running and exercising and changing your clothes towards my exercise?  My boyfriend swears I am not capable of running and honestly I have never tried so I don't even know, not sure I know how to run.  lol

I had to walk for a loooooooooonnnnnnnnngggggggg time before I could run again.....

You may not be a runner but you certainly walk just like you did when you walked and took the most awesome pictures of your swans .... and with walking your awesome dogs now I image holding on for dear life what more can a beautiful sista like you ask for? there is tons of fun exercise right there .... I keep hoping that you find another swan family so you could bless our eyes with all the lovely pictures that I so enjoyed but I LOVE LOVE LOVE the beautiful puppy pictures too ... now if I were an awesome photographer like you with an eye and a style I would certainly have some awesome pics to share..... 

You don't need to be sure how to run ... you already do ... don't tell me your dogs don't drag you along LOL .... now THAT is a fun run ... and you don't even know you are doing it ... see? LOL

Yes the dogs do tend to drag me along, I just bought a Gentle Leader to try to get them to walk without pulling. We are going to training school soon hopefully, if my friend ever gets her re-certification from Petco.  I agree about the swans, I would love to find another nest but it is unlikely as I take the dogs everywhere with me now and swans and dogs don't mix well.  lol  I am gonna go find some inspirational pictures to share.

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL .... BEAUTIFUL!!!!! NATURE AT ITS BEST..... AWESOME AND PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY TOO...  you are the best!!!! I knew those dogs were dragging you along ... think of all the fun exercise you are doing in the pull and tug and run along without even thinking ... that is awesome exercise sista .... and one that sooooooooooo many of us would love to have the opportunity to do .... Training school is awesome ... My DD bought me a gift certificate to take my 3 poodles to training  ... I went to the first class thinking I would be struggling with my disruptive little Pierre the silver but ohhhhhhhhhh I was not expecting 'lil Chip to be the most disruptive 'lil fella in the group LOL .... I have to wait until he is a bit older .... what a riot...

Thanks!  I have a hard time looking at those swan pictures, I cherish every second I got to spent with them but once the parents made the babies go I have no idea what happened to them.  The last picture is the last time I saw them together as a family, I knew it was coming, I cried when I walked away that day, I knew the parents were getting aggressive toward the two bigger/darker males and they were gone the next week.  The parents let the females stay a little longer and then they were pushed off too, I know its nature but I don't like it.  I wanted to take them home and put them in the house to keep them safe.  The whole nature things is so hard, it is gorgeous but I worried like crazy when they went missing in October, I walked and walked the railroad tracks trying to find them.  I think their food source got disrupted after hurricane Irene and they moved for a while.  It was like Christmas morning when I would go down there and they would be right in front of me, I actually went on Christmas morning I was so obsessed with those swans.  I was so thrilled, they would come to me when I whistled for them.  Swans imprint on people that are kind to them and I used to bring them whole wheat bread after they started begging the neighbors around the pond for food.  I honestly don't know if I could do it again.  Even the dogs having to go outside is hard on me, I guess thats why I like indoor cats.  They can stay nice and safe where they belong.

That is why I am still worried sick about my dwarf ferret ... no signs of her and we have lost all hopes of getting her back ... I just hope that wherever she is that nature be kind to her or that she is at a safe place .... 

Oh I am so sorry, I was hoping she burrowed in the couch or something and you found her.  We can only hope she found a safe new home!  I am such a worry wart, thats why I have just one child, after I had him I realized I was not cut out to be a mother, that it was wayyyyyyy to scary to let go.  I have this very serious fear factor thing, my son has it too, he would never do many daring things because he was afraid of dying, got that right from mom.  Poor kid.  lol