What's on your Wednesday Menu?
Please take good care, and I hope that you and Mike are negative. In any case, please be gentle with yourself.
HW: 248+, SW (RNY: 2/28/17): 244, GW (10/17): 125; LW: 115; 45# regain (19-20); CW: 135.6; new goal: 135; Plastics: Ext mastopexy, Ext abdominoplasty-5/18/2018; diagnosed w/ gastroparesis 11/20.
G'morning all!
JB - put a cookie on that body and that was me yesterday!
QOTD: winter always meant skiing for me growing up. I loved it. Once I moved to CA and winter coincided with good waves for surfing (for DH) didn't go skiing as much until we had kids. Then skiing started again, this time with kids, and it was pure bliss. Funny thing, neither of my kids like skiing. They claim the ski lessons traumatized them. But how else do you learn to ski if not in a ski school? I read just in the last couple of days that most of the ski resorts in Europe are closed at least till Jan 2021, except for Switzerland because it's not part of EU.
Accountability: remember just yesterday I said it felt good to be back in control? Well, it didn't last two full days. Yesterday afternoon I had: jojo peppermint icecream, peppermint chocolate cookie and lemon bars. Do you see a sugar thread here?
My meals yesterday:
- B: protein coffee
- L: scrambled eggs & shredded cheese
- S: quest chips + hb egg
- D: taco Tuesday, innings
- S: see above accountability
- E:4.5 miles jog
Happy hump day!
SW:261 6/26/17 GW:150 10/6/18
CW: 141.6
PGW: 140-142
Mornin' All!
I got an email this morning that my senior cardio/strength class for today has been cancelled because the instructor is no longer working at the gym. Someone else will be taking over that class starting next week. WHAT??? I take her classes twice a week and she never mentioned anything about leaving. In fact, I just had her class on Monday. WTH?? She's the fitness director there, in her 60s, and has been there FOREVER! I'm guessing if she wasn't terminated, that maybe she or her husband got some awful medical diagnosis this week? I have no idea. I am baffled. And sad. I really liked her classes. All the other classes have the students doing stupid things like burpees (sorry you burpee fans!), which are very unsafe for people with osteoporosis (like moi) to do. So I will have to figure out the exercises that these other instructors typically have us do (besides burpees) that aren't safe for me to do, and do something else while the class is doing their burpees and burpee-like things). It was so much easier with Sharon because she KNOWS what kinds of things are appropriate for us oldsters. WAH!!!
QOTD: The first month or so of winter is tolerable because I like the holiday season (Thanksgiving, too) with the first snow, the lights, the social events (which we won't have this year), but after New Year's, you can have it. I can't stand the darkness, the extreme cold, and snowy, icy roads and sidewalks. Or dirty snow. UGH! Oh - I do like cold weather foods, like pumpkin spice everything, maple everything, and apples - so there's that...
TSS: 5y5m
B: coconut Greek yogurt with 1/2 diced mango, coffee with half & half
MS: pumpkin Fit Frappe
L: cheesecake-flavored yogurt pie with cranberry compote
AS: probably L&F yogurt, light English muffin with pumpkin cream cheese
D: probably that ham again (up another lb this morning - so three lbs in as many days), sweet potato
have a great day, everyone!
A lot of people are just quitting jobs that require them to be with the public. I hope that is the case with your instructor and that there is no medical reason for her leaving. My sister works in a nursing home and plans to retire in the spring, but I think she is crazy to stay there.
She lives with her husband, who is in his 80's, her daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren. She does not "need" the money and I think the risk to her family is crazy. But people make their own decisions.
I have always done water aerobics in the winter and their are classes especially for people with arthritis. I so much miss being in the warm pool in the winter. One of my favorite things to do is take a steam bath on an icy cold evening. Then water aerobics and then socializing in the hot tub. None of that would be safe this year. I have hopes that the vaccine will make 2021 a normal year.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
I used to do water aerobics a lot in the winter, too. The pool is still open (for laps), but they're not doing any classes at all. I'm not sure I'd even go over there to do laps. I'm sure the pool itself is fine - the virus wouldn't survive there - but there's the locker room. In the summer you could just get out of the pool, throw on a cover up, and go directly home without going into the locker room (although I didn't even go in the summer...), but now? Nope.
I sent the instructor a message on FB and she wrote back. She said her position was eliminated - and she just found out Monday afternoon. Yikes. She was in management, too - and had been there for 30+ years. I do personally know of a few people who canceled their memberships because they couldn't/wouldn't go to the gym anymore because of COVID. And I bet a lot more people whom I DON'T know did the same thing. So I bet the gym is having some major budget issues now because of it. I guess they'll try to get by with a few part-time/adjunct instructors and a pared-down management staff. Ugh. It's awful that they didn't give her more notice, though. But maybe they just decided to do this and Monday was the end of a pay period (since it was 11/30). Still...awful. She is devastated.
When I was growing up, skiing was just for rich people. When they did build some ski resorts in my area, I wanted to take lessons and ended up pregnant that year. I just never had the time to go and do it and as I got older the fear of breaking bones stopped me.
I am sure I would have loved it. Maybe if I come back in another life, it will be as a skier.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
