Sunny Sunday in Feb

Hello Peeps… don’t have a lot to say today… still tired… taking it kinda slow. Ate part of my breakfast… sausage, egg, stirfry veggies, coffee… still drinking my first mug of tangy tangerine for the day. Appt for this afternoon cancelled… sitting on the couch with my Bitsy Boo… shopping on line… eeeekkk…

Sent for some more tangy tangerine, olive oil, braggs vinegar, dog food, cat food, and dog biscuits… and a bit of organic chocolate. I so did not want to have to go into town shopping for this stuff…

Intelligence is playing on the tv in the background… no fire burning… front door open… gonna do oxycise and head outside… the yard is somewhat dried out… well not as muddy as it is… and I want to get the dog poop cleared out of it before there is another rain or snow… ick…

Bitsy Boo is so cute… she is actually watching tv…

All the house hairballs … dogs… are outside now.… The sun is trying to come out and shine… time to go be the resident pooper scooper…

after took care of some things inside....

worked in the yard for an hour... taking a few minutes break and grabbing a snack... couldn't stomach lunch... eating 1/4 grapefruit and a couple ounces of pork... and water... thirsty... overall attitude is better for the activity too... geez those mastiffs are poop factories...

went back outside... 

2 hours later… well more than 2 hours because I took a break in the middle… but 2 hours of raking… and I am still not done with this lower yard… it is a large yard… However I did make some headway… no point in getting frustrated over it… just do some each day… and if nothing else I should get stronger and have more endurance… getting frustrated or overwhelmed… which right now would be really easy to do… will accomplish nothing… just do things a bit by bit… what gets done… gets done… what does not does not.

Feels good to have followed through… back inside now and hungry… having a few almonds and some tangy tangerine as a snack… gonna stick my feet up while the washing machine is running... dog laundry...

Mary E. Robbins
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one step at a time

Good Morning Peeps!

Whew! I did it… oxcise, tai cheng (day 5), hip hop abs fat blasting cardio… Majorly stiff and sore this morning… truth be told I did not want to move at all… but if I had not it would have been a very miserable painful day… rather than a painful hour… well yeah… there will be some pain throughout the day as well… but not as much.

No it is not just the workout. Yesterday as I was walking back to the lower yard from the chicken house with a bucket of grains and seeds for the birdfeeder… my right foot went out from under me on the wet snow… only a couple of inches deep… and I fell … hard… on my right leg and hip… I did not feel it much at the time… and came in and put absorbine jr on my knee and leg… but later my legs swelled… and I started feeling it all the way up through my right shoulder….

On an up note… I did not dislocate my knee…yay! I can still walk… and much of the swelling went down over night… still carrying around a bit over 2 pounds of swelling…

I seriously would not have wanted to go directly into hip hop abs this morning… was way too stiff… the oxycise… gets the oxygen moving and starts warming up the muscles… tai cheng… takes it even further… working on static moves right now… then hip hop abs gets everything moving… and moving… lol..

All of these workouts have much more intense levels than what I am at… I am taking it day by day getting stronger… I have no desire to injure myself in a workout and have to deal with that setback… been there done that before… thanks I’ll pass… so I am learning more patience… and just taking it a step at a time…

You know kinda like I would so like all this fat off at once and to be in prime condition… magic wand anybody… lol… does not work that way… one breath… one step… one day at a time…

Mary E. Robbins
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have a fab monday...I dare ya...

Good morning Peeps…

Gratitudes:
Common sense…
Breakfast
Friends that care

I’ve started tracking weight fluctuations again… and today my weight bounced a bit. I went from 282.4 to 282.8 seems silly but it is annoying. I know I did not eat enough calories to create a fat gain… so it is either swelling… or muscle gain… the swelling … ppphhhhttttt… could do without that… the muscle… that is a good thing… still would have preferred a weight loss over a weight gain of any kind… but it is what it is…

Put the mastiffs outside and checked the thermometer… with the sounds of the wind last night I was pretty leery of even opening the door… but it was between 30 and 40 degrees… yay… and that was a bit before 5 a.m.

Time to bring them back in and put the Pominators out… had breakfast… 1 egg, bacon, sautéed spaghetti squash, part of an organic orange and coffee.

Actually woke up kinda sore and bummed… then I read a post… that said… let’s choose to have a fabulous Monday… and I agreed… you know it is a choice… and I choose to have a Fab Monday! going for it... mood swings and all...

Gonna go put the Pominators out… then it’s on to oxycise and tai cheng… a meeting at 8 and on with the day…

Mary E. Robbins
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Wake Up It's Coffee Time... shake that booty...

Good Morning Peeps!

Gratitudes:
31 lbs down… yeah baby
Shaun T… Hip Hop Abs
Tangy Tangerine…

Just finished Hip Hop Abs Fat blasting cardio… and I actually made it all the way through it… yeah baby! Good music… hey I like rhythm … good eye candy… and excellent benefits. Physically it’s a good workout… and Mentally and Emotionally… a good workout releases endorphins… our very own mood elevators… no nasty side effects… well unless you call feeling better a nasty side effect.

The hairballs and mastiffs are all outside… it was 40 degrees here this morning when I stepped outside a bit after 5 a.m.

Coffee’s been made… and now I am off to make breakfast… fried banana in coconut oil… a bit of sausage and an egg… then vitamins… grab my work shoes and head out for morning ranch rounds… yes I know there is enough work on this ranch to be a constant workout… so why workout in the mornings… hmmmm… well the breathing exercises I did before hip hop abs… oxygenates my body… and hopefully is increasing my lung function… hip hop abs is a good upbeat way to start the day… as well as working on my core muscles big time…without being a total drudge… bottom line… I feel better when I do this…

Hungry… heading to the kitchen…
May you walk in peace…
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Mary E. Robbins
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