Boo!!!! Anybody home? what exercise are we doing these days....

Between running and swimming I am limiting zumba to Wednesdays and Saturday mornings ... maybe I should reverse it a bit and switch around some ... after all my calorie meter burns more calories with zumba it seems .... I just like that morning run ... maybe it is because being an old fart pushing another b-day in a couple weeks I just like to know that I can run?

Get this ... I wake up in the mornings and am finding myself having to dangle my feet and get the blood circulating a bit ... then I touch the floor and I feel this kind of sweet hurt funny pain right under my heel ... I get up and drag myself like an old drone for the first few steps ... then I done my sneakers and my jogging gear and hit the pavement and I am all good .. most evenings I run over to LA fitness and swim laps non-stop for an hour in the pool ... stuff makes my lungs feel good ...

Then I come home and fart around with my projects ... I just can't have idle hands ... and I can multitask while talking to fam/painting/sewing or doing whatever plus catching watching/hearing a show or TV or some newsworthy news ... to start the routine all over again ...

I guess I am old fart ... and the best thing that happens for me is to know that I can still keep  the old skeleton moving ... lawd ... I am going on 53 .... as long as I can breathe... and run... and go to the bathroom .. I guess I am okay...

Hey Marti. So happy to see you posting here. I am heading to my Zumba class this morning. I do love it. I will be 53 in March too. Yikes. My kids told me I have to do something about the wrinkles under my eyes. Any ideas? My biggest concern is not gaining any weight through the holidays. I finally got my new glasses and new hair (cut, color, blow dry) yesterday which were long overdue and I am interviewing all over the place. I wish I could blow dry my hair like they do it in the salon. It looks so much better than my normal frizzed out look. I have three interviews scheduled in the next couple of days and two more in the works. First impressions and all that. I always love interviewing (in between hating it) because I have the feeling of I can do this or that or something else. Tonight starts hanukkah so there will be parties every night for eight days and I am entertaining three of those nights. So I am also doing some menu planning, and evenutally food shopping, baking, frying and cooking.. Busy times. Oh I guess I need to buy the kids presents and more presents. They are expecting all kinds of things. Well this morning I just had my morning grapefruit and oatmeal with a tsp of leftover pecan pie mixed in it (yum) and I am meeting a friend for lunch after my zumba class. Have a great day...

Have a great day too!!!! I swear by boiled rosemary washes for the face and hair ... but then I just love my mom's and nana's old fashioned remedies ... did not like them much growing up though LOL ... I guess it all comes back when 53 is knocking at the door? LOL...

My friend Allyson and others celebrate hanukkah and we enjoy hearing all about their celebration ... and then we get both the Menorah and the Christmas tree here in our sitting area at work... it is all so beautiful and I love love love when Allyson shares all her traditions ... plus she brings in some real cool yummy stuff that we all love to eat too...

Congrats on the interviews ... you are going to do great!!! plus those 53 can easily be reversed to 35 you look so youthful and so full of life and energy I would never have guessed for a minute we are in the same age group ... I have you beat by a few months...

You need one of our blow dryers sista!!!! would dry and straighten your hair in under a minute ...

Have a great day ... good luck on your interviews!!! Happy Hanukkah ... enjoy it all!!!

Hi Rose,

good luck on the interviews..... and Happy Hanukkah.....

CC

I need help is this area... I'm doing ok in the food dept but the excersise is lacking.... I was walking and now it's cold out... I just can't motivated to get to the gym.....

grrr.... I wish I loved classes but I still hate them... they have mirrors in those rooms...and I hate those mirrors...

so how do u get motivated? and stay that way????


CC

Most of the time I give myself a shot of mental geritol to get my arse in gear LOL ...I make myself do it even when I don't feel like it ... once I start I am okay though ... other times I just look forward to getting out there and running ... it is quite invigorating .... An other times my daughter nags me to tag along with her and I go and end up having fun .. needless to say I cannot keep up with her so I stand in the back and try to disappear ... LOL...

Seriously though I am no spring chicken and I can remember how horrible I felt before and how hard it was to get around especially with the horrible joint pains especially in my knees ... that is enough to have me jump up and get started ... food wise only one glimpse at my DHs feet or what is left of them - half of one foot is gone and the other has no toes ... and it is enough for me not to ever contemplate sugar or bad carbs or any junk ever .. I hate what the complications of diabetes in my spouse and myself has cost us and more than anything else ... there is not a piece of pastry out there calling my name that would not have me recall the grueling years of getting this man through dialysis and waiting for an organ to replace both his shutdown kidneys ... so I guess I am cured by fear ... to think that my diabetes is in remission I will do everything in my power to keep it that way ... I have no choice ...I do not want to deal with any complications that I can avoid...

Ye gods! I feel tired just reading your post! Over the last 8 weeks, I have been working myself silly trying to meet a deadline for losing 2 dress sizes. I made that deadline and now I am going to have to force myself back to the gym!

I HATE STRUCTURED EXERCISE. I LOATHE RUNNING.  I HATE GETTING HOT AND SWEATY. I HATE GOING OUT IN THE COLD TO GO TO THE GYM.

Kate

 Me too ... to all of the above LOL ... I give myself a shot of mental geritol to get myself up and going ... it gets harder and harder .. I had to FORCE myself this morning ...had a late start because I came home and crashed and woke up around midnight and could not go back to sleep until about 2 or so so I set the alarm to 4:30 and went galloping out there like an old fool ... it does give me a second wind though and energy to get through the day ...but I really have to give myself that mental kick to get in gear....

Congrats on the dress sizes ... and enjoy the gym ... LOL