(looks around, bewildered) Where is June slipping away to?! It's already the 19th?! SERIOUSLY?!
lol, I've been outside (& oblivious to the time/date, generally)... getting a GORGEOUS farmer's tan. :P Since the beginning of the month I've been hauling dirt. I started with 10 wheelbarrows full a day, but have since progressed to about an hour or more (~25 wheelbarrows) a day, sometimes a lot more, but always at least 10. I have over 120 yards of fill to move - that's 12 dumptruck loads (probably closer to 140 or 150 yards when I look at other piles here and there). Why? Because I am free labour. :) I have a wheelbarrow, a shovel, and me. So I can do this. I'm already nearly half-way, I figure. I'm hoping to be done by the end of August.
I've also been weedeating a lot, as well as gardening, caring for chickens (and chicks), etc. Yep, it's a rural life I lead.
I have, so far this month, rowed over 50 kms. I slacked off the past week, but I made up for it in wheelbarrows moved, lol. I looked up online that wheelbarrowing burns ~350 calories an hour. I usually burn twice that rowing but still, moving dirt is fun, productive and outside. :D
The house is pretty-much a disaster and in need of SERIOUS cleaning, but the YARD!!! OH, the YARD!!! I figure the housework can slip a little in exchange for consciously co-creating a living kin's domain right here! It's an acre of heaven on Earth I'm workin' on: Paradise!
Speaking of conscious co-creation and kin's domains, I've read Books 8.1 The New Civilisation and 8.2 The Rites of Love in the Ringing Cedars of Russia series this month as well. All I will say is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO inspiring. I know I've harped on and on about these books time and time again, but truly, they have the potential to change your thinking on so many topics. I have SO enjoyed these books; they are definitely ones I will purchase.
My daughter had her year-end dance show today. She did AMAZINGLY well on-stage. She didn't dance year-end last year because the year before (her first year dancing) she froze onstage in fright at the year-end show... two days in a row (I think we've ALL had an experience like that at some point in our lives, eh). So this has been her first time back on stage since, and she just revelled in it. What a difference two years makes. She's looking forward to more dance classes in the fall (I had to start figuring out the fall schedule already to see who will be doing what/when!).
Well, I'd best go see if I won a million dollars on Lotto Max! I heard no one won the $50 million AGAIN this week!
Happy Solstice on Monday if I don't check in before then!
Namaste'
19 June 2010
07 June 2010
Welcome to June
June, week 1: complete. ;)
I finally feel like I'm getting back into exercising in earnest, after not doing cardio regularly for the past 8 months - yes, 8 entire months. Oh, I'd try each month - half an hour here, half an hour there... but in August last year I exercised more that one month than I did the next 8 months combined... and August wasn't an anomaly - I was rowing that much EVERY month prior to that. You can well imagine where my lack of self-discipline has gotten me. Nowhere good, let me tell you.
So I'm back at it. I have worked out 6 of the past 7 days, and I've simply GOT to keep up with the exercise.
I've been so bummed about it all. I guess my metabolism is royally messed up right now. In September I juice feasted for 30 days, and a wonderful (though challenging) 30 days it was. Then at the very beginning of October, dh & I went off for a 3 day cruise and I went from juicing to eating, and not even eating entirely vegan on-board. NOT a recommended way to break a fast, EVER. So since October 1st I've been struggling all through winter to regain my self-discipline.
Struggle, struggle, struggle.
NO MORE, I say! I choose to no longer struggle. I will simply do it. Exercise. Drink copious amounts of water daily, and renew my commitment to raw vegan foods. Simple. Effective.
So today I worked out for a solid half hour, went outside and did heavy yard work for the next half hour (I was moving wheelbarrows full of wet sandy fill across the yard), and I blessed myself with:
- 3.3L of water
- 1.5L of green smoothie (2 oz wheatgrass, 4c of fresh greens, 2 bananas, 4c frozen berries, 1/8 tsp kelp flakes, 2T hemp oil, 4 medjool dates)
- 1 apple
Since October, I haven't kept a daily food log (also a huge folly on my part). Apparently I still need to keep one - haven't quite got a grip on daily food intake. A food log makes me accountable to my self. Seeing it staring back at you in writing somehow makes the slip-ups more visible.
I did some reading online about one's resting metabolic rate (RMR)... and how I didn't account for the fact that having lost weight I needed less calories to maintain the lighter weight. So I've calculated that I actually only need 1600-1800 cal/day to maintain my current weight, so in order to lose weight (if one lb of fat = 3500 calories, then that's a LOT of rowing!!! As in, about 70 kms per pound! YIKES!!!), it's a matter of spending more calories than one takes in, right? Sounds easy enough but for anyone with food attachment issues, well, we all know it's not that easy. Still, that's where I'm at. A little disheartened with how I ended up here, but encouraged by the activity of the past week.
Needing a hug (and probably some self-compassion),
~n~
I finally feel like I'm getting back into exercising in earnest, after not doing cardio regularly for the past 8 months - yes, 8 entire months. Oh, I'd try each month - half an hour here, half an hour there... but in August last year I exercised more that one month than I did the next 8 months combined... and August wasn't an anomaly - I was rowing that much EVERY month prior to that. You can well imagine where my lack of self-discipline has gotten me. Nowhere good, let me tell you.
So I'm back at it. I have worked out 6 of the past 7 days, and I've simply GOT to keep up with the exercise.
I've been so bummed about it all. I guess my metabolism is royally messed up right now. In September I juice feasted for 30 days, and a wonderful (though challenging) 30 days it was. Then at the very beginning of October, dh & I went off for a 3 day cruise and I went from juicing to eating, and not even eating entirely vegan on-board. NOT a recommended way to break a fast, EVER. So since October 1st I've been struggling all through winter to regain my self-discipline.
Struggle, struggle, struggle.
NO MORE, I say! I choose to no longer struggle. I will simply do it. Exercise. Drink copious amounts of water daily, and renew my commitment to raw vegan foods. Simple. Effective.
So today I worked out for a solid half hour, went outside and did heavy yard work for the next half hour (I was moving wheelbarrows full of wet sandy fill across the yard), and I blessed myself with:
- 3.3L of water
- 1.5L of green smoothie (2 oz wheatgrass, 4c of fresh greens, 2 bananas, 4c frozen berries, 1/8 tsp kelp flakes, 2T hemp oil, 4 medjool dates)
- 1 apple
Since October, I haven't kept a daily food log (also a huge folly on my part). Apparently I still need to keep one - haven't quite got a grip on daily food intake. A food log makes me accountable to my self. Seeing it staring back at you in writing somehow makes the slip-ups more visible.
I did some reading online about one's resting metabolic rate (RMR)... and how I didn't account for the fact that having lost weight I needed less calories to maintain the lighter weight. So I've calculated that I actually only need 1600-1800 cal/day to maintain my current weight, so in order to lose weight (if one lb of fat = 3500 calories, then that's a LOT of rowing!!! As in, about 70 kms per pound! YIKES!!!), it's a matter of spending more calories than one takes in, right? Sounds easy enough but for anyone with food attachment issues, well, we all know it's not that easy. Still, that's where I'm at. A little disheartened with how I ended up here, but encouraged by the activity of the past week.
Needing a hug (and probably some self-compassion),
~n~
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