Exercise and Goal Setting

@CannonSalt for strengthening your core try pilates or/& yoga - you can find books at your local library if you don't want to go to a class. Also planking is very good for building core strength. For strengthening your arms I recommend push ups (I think they may be good for core as well) &/or bicep curls.

@MoonGal you have done so well!! I'm glad you can see that!!

I enjoyed hot vinyasa yoga today. There was only three of us & the lovely instructor. It was a nice intimate class for a change. @CherryBomb I attempted scorpion!! Oh my - I only got to downward dog, right leg up, jump both legs up for a second!! I kept trying over & over though. I could really feel that I needed to build lower back strength for that!!

I'm thinking I might have a rest day tomorrow. I've exercised for the last 4 days.... Maybe I should push myself to 5 days & then have a rest day. I don't know....

Namaste,

Anna

hello @Former-Member, @MoonGal, @CannonSalt, @Mazarita, @Former-Member, no walking today, it is raining today , had to pick mum`s cat from the vet today

Hi everyone,

Got up this morning even though I'd had very little sleep, met with support worker and we went for an hour's walk on the beach together. Legs held out well today. After she left and I'd had a breather, I went for another walk to the local shops (there and back is about 20 minutes). Legs are a bit stiff now but so glad I got out, moving the body again, getting some vitamin D, and taking in the local sights, sounds and other sensations. Hope today inspires some movement for others too.

Hi @Mazarita,

I have to say... you inspired me to 'want' to get up and go for a walk - yours sounded absolutely divine. Whether or not I manage to on our very humid day, but i was truely inspired. Thankyou

Awesome, @snoopy, cheers! Hope you enjoy the rest of your day whatever happens.

Hello!

@MoonGal congrats on getting past your first 14 days, and doing more exercise - that's awesome! Hope the next 14 days goes well. Remember to intergrate lessons learnt from the previous 14 days just gone by. Sorry to hear that you've been unwell too. Hope you're on the mend.

@Shaz51 Great to hear you've been walking. Btw, hope your cat is ok (you mentioned that you got him/her from the vet today.

@Former-Member wow scorpian is very challenging (included a link for some pointers, and for others who may not know what it is)! I'm so impressed that you gave it go. With practice, and patience, it'll come. The other day, my teacher encouraged my to start doing drop backs on my own at home. I usually do it with the assistance of my teacher or with a wall. Tried it today at home today. Landed on my head Wasn't too bad though. Think I just didn't get my hands (from prayer position) to the ground fast enough, but they caught some of the weight.

@CannonSalt Congrats on your feat, 'The Hill of Doom' - sounds scary! I think the plank might be a good core work out to add to @Former-Member suggestion of the push ups.

Go team!

thank you @CherryBomb yes , the cat is 15 years old and has thyroid promblems

Congratulations @MoonGal, @Mazarita, @snoopy, @snoopy, @Former-Member, @CannonSalt

@Mazarita forget to say congrats to you too!! I love hearing about your walks, sounds like you live in a beautiful area.

I know because of eating disorders and people's lived experience that talking about diet is vorbotten in detail so I will keep this personal, relevant and general. This is about goal setting so on topic.

I am in a struggle with my weight - since my hysterectomy (and both ovaries) were taken out year before last, since my back injury, a few years before that, since being on an anti-psychotic since last year- AND an anti depressant for the past 10 years - i have piled on weight. i am rotund (mostly around the middle) and unhappy with it. I feel compulsed to eat since being on the anti-psychotic - and sugar is high on that compulsion. I am vegan, so everything I eat is vegetable based, and there are now vegan everything subsitutes, chocolate, soy ice cream... biscuits. OMG.

I have been sober for 6 years this coming May - and I KNOW how to put down a harmful substance, I have decided to stop cold turkey, one day at a time - the icecream and chocolate - because i have been trying to reduce to no avail... yet the very thought of that of my 'comfort' food being 'gone' is sending me spare.

So goals for next 14 days are - replacement!
Desserts will be fruit (fruit salad, or mandarines, or pinaepple, or a banana - etc still cut up in a bowl so it feels like dessert.).
Post-dessert before bed chocolate will be a small hot (oat) milk cocao drink, not sweetened.

I will avoid the sweets isle in the supermarket like I avoid the drive through or pubs. Not "my place".

I need a strong and reverberating mind image to assist with this to substitue in my mind when I start obsessing about the things I am choosing to not eat... - something calming, wholesome, kind...
But am so strung out about this I can't seem to come up with one.

Anyways, i thought it would help if i set my intention down in my 'community' just like I did with the excercise goals.

I walked 1.2 kilometres this morning in 20 minutes (that is a 5 minute gain from last week.)