Cow's "No More Bullcrap" Summer Shape Up for Sick, Sadsack Weaklings
 

LOL also a cool numerical palindrome... I went out for a brief walk today and avoided staying in bed all day both yesterday and today. actually I have had a brief walk every day for several days but must take care in the heat.

Nice to see you, Cow. I ate a fig.

:wavey:

I'm in! I'm tired of being a hot mess.

Are you cautious of figs courage? Is this out of your comfort zone?

Never made hot mess, only achieved regular mess. I was good though.

I am researching exercises online and opened the blinds so as to let in some *shudder* light.

But it is overcast, let's not get crazy.

Excercise is a pain when I first started it I went for a walk / leisurely stroll for just 30 min a day and if I didn't wanna go I'd at least give it 5 minutes if I still didn't wanna I'd just go home. If I made it hard or difficult I woulda given up all I had to do was make it habit. Feeling good and clearing my head helped weight loss was more or less a side affect tho a nice one it ended up not being the main focus.

So yea I agree each day some point do at least a little something good for you. Some times if we dunno what to do but just head in a direction we can get some momentum I always figure going sideways even beats going backwards. IE just keep throwing stuff at the wall some of it will hopefully stick.

Taking a shower or a nice bath would be good as a baptism into the phase. I had a nice soak in Epsom with lavender. Reborn determined to live.

I must lose big weight. I can no longer make excuses about bad thyroid and missing hormones. It's down to stuffing my face rather than deal.

So let us have a plan. I rubbed magnesium oil on my underarms so the magnesium may get into my blood and do its work.

Love from Lenina who has made this the official Cow thread by virtue of clean living

Fine, make your start on my birthday. I'll be able to keep trach of you that way.

I'm all in and ready to exercise again. Walking and running. I also need to eat better.

Happy Birthday Trache! Mine was last week-hooray for Geminis!

Ok, I'm in. I'm around the same weight as you, Cow, and should weigh 15-20 lbs less (and used to weigh that most of my life until my drinking went off the rails and I gained 20lbs in less than 2 years). I'm also going to dip my toes into the dating pool again. I'm not sure which of the two is going to be more painful...Please cheer me on people.:)

D.

Same weight as you gals :)

Well I don;t wanna focus in the weight thing cause it will really kick off ocd's and I got a lot of that today for other stuff. Does watching a laugh inducing show count for anything?

What did you watch, Sleeps? I need to watch something laugh-inducing and stop watching the news. Maybe that's what I need to do too.

D.

Alright I'm in.
Today outside of my comfort zone, 2 things: networking -which means I introduced myself to someone new and talked to her for a bit, someone who is doing well at something I want to do well at.

And I accepted a date from someone who I had a crush on last year. I am nervous about getting a crush again since last time it didn't pan out and fizzled but he contacted me to catch up and I accepted, why not? It's just coffee, with a nice guy...;)

Happy bday trach!

Hi Little Kittycat, good luck on you date.

I guess humor show count, Sleepies ...unless you watching it for 3 days in row on "Bed Island!" My self, I watching this dog show and bawling through whole thing, but not cuz it sad, it just really touch the heart.

Hi Delf :) I watched some "Peepshow" on Netflix, it's a British show about 2 neurotic, doofy bachelors.

No bed island. I actually spent the whole day out of the room and in the other room on the sofa, did not allow myself to lay down all day not once and also was productive-ish or something... I washed the dishes these last few days as well.

Now I know that does not sounds like anything but I have been seriously down for a long time, literally weeks spent in bed maybe months since my last crash and burn at the old job. Days go by and I do not leave the room even. And I got out and walked every day too...

Kinda sad but true, it was a goal today to 1) not sleep all day and 2) not lay down all day and 3) not stay in the room all day.

Oh hey bonus I got showered and was dressed all day long, no pj's.

I woke up to send you a message: I love you

I loved "Peep Show". Today I'm going to eat more healthfully. I have a few more hours to rest before my 20 day begins.

Cow, can you use magnesium oil? Ask your massage therapist. It's supposed to have many good effects, including to help regulate the heartbeat and relaxing muscle tension. I'm told most people are magnesium deficient, taking magnesium orally can cause unpleasant side effects of diarrhea. Rubbing it into the skin is the best absorption. And the oil is smoothing to the skin too. Epsom salts in the bath water is well-known for soothing. Twenty minute soak does it.

I have a vacation starting next week. Sort of a " bus man's holiday" as I will be traveling. Looking forward to seeing the people but not the hot, humid, changeable weather. Also too action packed.

Everyone have a good day, love from Lenina

i find too much epsom salts or magnesium can leave me feeling a bit too relaxed and lazy. dont get me wrong my anxiety loves it but my drive to be energetic and such hates it. so its a tough balance to get in my case.

good news for those of us who have tons of weight to loose the heavier you are the faster it typically comes off :) i was 100+lbs over weight in the begining it was great first few months or so it came off fast. Now I of course didnt think this at the time becuase Ilike anyone else figured one good day of dieting should mean 100lb weight loss over night right? DUH of course it should so it still seemed like an eternity at the time. It hindsite those where the good days.

but for those of us with 20lbs to loose or something ugg we are in for it those last 20 can be killer to loose!!! *sigh* in my case once i hit that point and i'm probably still at that point it became more about healthy habits and feeling good and excercising because its good for me and so on vs it being all about weight loss.

its another one of those its more about the jouney then the desination kinda things. destination almost doesnt even matter. the days journey and the path immediately in front of us is more important the old 1 day at a time stay present worry about this moment kinda thing comes to mind.

I'm in. Started running again last week after a 7 month hiatus. Are we just posting here after we work out?

I am going for a walk/jog after work today and I am glad you started this thread. It helps to have a group of people motivate me. Thank you!!

i know for me if i'm feeling antsy, anxious, angry, frustrated, depressed, cold a simple walk or some sittups pushups or stretches all help. tho a simple walk is usually a good fix. and in my case theres no cure for any of the above conditions they come and go and as they do i try and do something about it. so when it happens again its not that the walk isnt helping its that i might need another one or something.

i know in early sobriety i must have looked like a wack job walking multipe itmes a day at odd hours rain, snow, shine etc... I was going nuts in my head but at the same time it was helping and i melted away out on those roads :).

its funny just prior to cow starting this thread i had a no more bull crap moment. as some of you know i've battled various injuries for months and its been really depressing me. The other day i guess i got mad enough? I dunno I decided to take this one supplment that can sometimes help me not feel depressed I'm not sure if it helped i think it did tho. and I had enough is enough moment. Licked my wounds and said EFF this and started pounding out the miles running like i was doing before my miseries. My attitude started to change My aches are pains are all easeing up and i'm logging the milage like i was and i'm getting back up to speed.

so there is something to the old "enough of this bull crap" and just going out mad if you have to to jsut get it done so that you can start to feel good about yourself again etc..

i've actually had a string of almost 4 good days in a row now as a result ::knock on wood:: ::looks over shoulder::.

now back to finsihing my 10 banana pineapple and chocolate smoothie :)

oh yeah theres like 8 dates in the smoothie too :) gotta sweeten it up as much as possible. I'm a carboholic these days :)

Delf good luck in the dating pool!

I did 100 "wall"push ups as soon as I got up today.... at 1:00 in the afternoon.

So anyway I really need to tone my arms. I would love to be really physically active, I actually prefer it. But, my life being as it is of course there is a rather major caveat to that. I have an eye condition that could cause my retinas to detach because they are so thin because of my high myopia :( I was yesterday told by my eye surgeon's office no jumping rope or jumping jacks. So yeah... healthy exercise could make me blind. I can walk now that I am finally in a safer neighborhood. But I prefer the cardio from my stepper. It is annoying not being able to do a real work out.

The whole thing is nerve wracking and makes my anxiety 100 times worse.

sleepie do you think you could use a rowing machine maybe? I know i use one when i'm licking my running wounds and can get a pretty decent work out all over my only complaint with it is I do struggle to get my HR to levels ic an easily achieve by running. But it is low impact works the arms abs legs lower back etc...

I started off on an elipitical but my fat butt at the time broke it lol. I coudlnt say how good or bad it is to be honest I only used it for a month before it died.

then theres race walking lol youtube that. Very interesting. Sorry kinda funny looking too but i bet they are getting a good cardio work out.

keep doing the wall pushups too. I wanna hear how your BF is mad that there is hand print stains on the walls and you can reply thats right theres handprint stains on the wall cause i'm awesome thats why :D

lke when my wife walks into my office where the treadmill is and wines about the sweat smell and how we need to shampoo the carpets and i'm like yeah thats the smell of how awesome i am lol.

some problems are good to have.

Hi zjw well I do my wall push ups actually on the door... door push ups? I walked a little today, not a lot but still, was not in bed all day.

As far as the rowing, I guess anything that can cause pressure on the eyes, or anything that might jerk my head at all or be to high impact is out? I am not entirely sure as there are no hard and fast lines just a lot of possibilities, I mean I don't even want to take one single chance with my vision. So I am really hyper aware of anything that might cause too much back and forth motion, or cause any kind of strain on the eyes... but I might have a detachment even if I don't do anything, or sneeze, or we tale off to fast in the car, or I cough (I was terrified when I had a virus twice last fall and could not stop coughing).

Basically this hangs over my head and has for many, many years and was the cause of me first starting to drink way back when.

:lmao Thank you both that made my morning.

I'd like to sign up I started to ride my bike yesterday but today I am already to give up.

Hi aussie! I adore biking omg it lights up my life. What is the matter? Let's try and make this a good thing for you?

Would love for someone to get the kind of happy from a bike that I have experienced.