WBRepo-Ship of Thieves-Remember the Magic Pt 12

[iankh]

Just like ours - proper Smarties!!

I'm with you guys, these Yanks know absolutely nothing about such important matters.

 

[iankh]

ok, no more chocolate talk. I'm eating lunch now, which is a very healthy salad.

Bravo!

 

[tink1963]

Bravo!

And I just got back from my hour long walk and will have a snack of 94% FF popcorn.

 

[iankh]

And I just got back from my hour long walk and will have a snack of 94% FF popcorn.

That is really excellent!

 

[scottishwee35]

thanks Shannon, but I would rather have a pay increase. I can handle the work load, just dont want to be taken advantage of.
So please send pixie dust my way, as I told my boss this morning when he got here that we need to talk.


And the canadian smarties were yummy,thanks for sharing, but I still like M&M's more.

send you ixiedust: (sorry logo is not working on PC)

Scottishwee35

 

[HollyTyler]

ok, no more chocolate talk. I'm eating lunch now, which is a very healthy salad.

but I do agree about the peanut M&M's

And I just got back from my hour long walk and will have a snack of 94% FF popcorn.

Way to go! Great job Venetia!

 

[HollyTyler]

Venetia, I need some of your motivation. I was supposed to go to the gym and spend some time on the treadmill today after work. At karate class last night, we were told that if the classes are our only workouts, we are to add 2 or 3 days per week hitting either a treadmill or eliptical machine. I meant to go today after work, but at the last minute, lost my motivation.

 

[HollyTyler]

Tomorrow is the first day of spring break for Tyler and I'm jealous! I wish I could have spring break too!

 

[LuvBaloo]

Venetia, I need some of your motivation. I was supposed to go to the gym and spend some time on the treadmill today after work. At karate class last night, we were told that if the classes are our only workouts, we are to add 2 or 3 days per week hitting either a treadmill or eliptical machine. I meant to go today after work, but at the last minute, lost my motivation.

Holly - why don't you stand up and do some marching or jumping jacks so you can say you did something? You are worth it!
If getting to the gym is a problem, maybe pick up a step box; that way, you've got an easy cheap exercise option that you can do at home while watching your fav TV shows? I really like my step box, and am trying to make sure and do it more often. (I did it for 25min watching Lost last night).

 

[iankh]

Holly - why don't you stand up and do some marching or jumping jacks so you can say you did something? You are worth it!
If getting to the gym is a problem, maybe pick up a step box; that way, you've got an easy cheap exercise option that you can do at home while watching your fav TV shows? I really like my step box, and am trying to make sure and do it more often. (I did it for 25min watching Lost last night).

Here is my advice, which is the same advice I give at meetings.

Get a pedometer, and for 2 normal work days, measure how many steps you take on average per day, that will become your baseline.

Then set a goal of how many steps you want to increase it to everyday. Keep wearing the pedometer everyday, so you can see if you are reaching your goal.

My goal is 15,000 steps a day.

 

[iankh]

I myself of course recommend the WW Pedometer, but I also think it's one of the best out there, because you can pause it, so you don't accumulate steps while driving (while I'm on the bus), you can have it reset automatically and zero out at the start of a new day, and it tells you how many activity points you've earned.

But wearing any pedometer is better than nothing.

"If you can't measure, you can't manage."

 

[HollyTyler]

Holly - why don't you stand up and do some marching or jumping jacks so you can say you did something? You are worth it!
If getting to the gym is a problem, maybe pick up a step box; that way, you've got an easy cheap exercise option that you can do at home while watching your fav TV shows? I really like my step box, and am trying to make sure and do it more often. (I did it for 25min watching Lost last night).

I like the step box idea! I have a short stepstool that might do the trick temporarily. I'll give that a try in a few minutes, thanks!

Oh, yeah......NO jumping jacks! The first thing we did in class last night: The instructor said "You're all going to do jumping jacks until I get tired" and we did 300!!!! Never in my life have I done 300 jumping jacks! And that was just the warmup!

 

[Jhalkias]

Good morning all.
We both enjoyed Mary Poppins. We weren't wowed by it, but it had some good moments. The one that we both thought was best was, "Feed the Birds."

I must admit that is my favorite song. It always reminds me so much of my mom, who always "fed the birds" - it almost puts a tear in my eye when I hear it. I really liked it too when we saw MP in NYC.

There is going to be a new little arrival at Eastwood Manor today. My new iMac arrives. Sukie has wanted mine for a few months, and so I finally caved in, and ordered myself a new Mac.

I am not looking forward to the weekend, because it will be spent reinstalling applications.

I could do a direct transfer, but I don't like to do that for anything except data files. I much prefer to do fresh installs, so as to not drag across crap that I may not want.

It is like dominos, because first I have to migrate my Mac, then wipe the disk on my "old" iMac clean, do a fresh install of OS X (Leopard) and start the process again, to migrate from Sukie's 20" G5 to my 20" Intel iMac.

I am somehow going to have to fit all of this into a busy weekend. It's Passover next week and I have to make a concerted effort to go shopping for Passover food this weekend.

Oh, how I would like one of the new iMacs . . . we have gotten rid of all our desktops in here though - all of us are on laptops. Sophia has my 12" Powerbook to do Studyisland, Amy is using my Black MacBook, and I have the newest aluminum MacBook. I love the huge screen on the iMacs, but I think I love sitting wherever I want more.

I am also lazier than you Ian. I do the transfer. Yours is the better way, but like you said, a lot of work. I work on incrementally cleaning up crap over time.

 

[HollyTyler]

Here is my advice, which is the same advice I give at meetings.

Get a pedometer, and for 2 normal work days, measure how many steps you take on average per day, that will become your baseline.

Then set a goal of how many steps you want to increase it to everyday. Keep wearing the pedometer everyday, so you can see if you are reaching your goal.

My goal is 15,000 steps a day.

Good idea, but I've always read and been told that if walking to lose weight, it needs to be for long enough at one time to get your heartrate to the weightloss level. Did everybody give me incorrect info? I'm confused now.

 

[HollyTyler]

I myself of course recommend the WW Pedometer, but I also think it's one of the best out there, because you can pause it, so you don't accumulate steps while driving (while I'm on the bus), you can have it reset automatically and zero out at the start of a new day, and it tells you how many activity points you've earned.

But wearing any pedometer is better than nothing.

"If you can't measure, you can't manage."

Wow, lots of cool features on the WW one.

 

[gaylean93]

I was looking at the other threads and I found out that some of you guys are cheating on us By the way, I would love to go to Curacao and Mazatlan

 

[iankh]

Good idea, but I've always read and been told that if walking to lose weight, it needs to be for long enough at one time to get your heartrate to the weightloss level. Did everybody give me incorrect info? I'm confused now.

I think the goal should be to be more active in general. We tend to forget how sedentary we are during the work week. I find that the pedometer is a good way to push ourselves towards being more active and incorporating moving more as part of a normal day.

Here is an article from the NHS, the UK National Health Service:

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/10000stepschallenge.aspx

 

[iankh]

As an add on, we tend to make moving more very complicated, requiring special equipment, special clothing, special places, etc.

That's all well and good, and gyms are good. But I find so often, people set up a litany of "shoulds" and "musts" and it becomes an all or nothing equation.

I have found that "all or nothing" might tend to set some people up for failure.

I had a member who lost 60 lbs and she did no more exercise than incorporating more walking into her daily routine, plus of course a calorie reduced plan.

So she went from being very sedentary, to walking everywhere. I think that finding ways to incorporate moving more into our normal lifestyles is very important.

Keep in mind, that once upon a time, people didn't think about going and exercising, because they moved more as part of their normal days.

 

[HollyTyler]

I think the goal should be to be more active in general. We tend to forget how sedentary we are during the work week. I find that the pedometer is a good way to push ourselves towards being more active and incorporating moving more as part of a normal day.

Here is an article from the NHS, the UK National Health Service:

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/10000stepschallenge.aspx

Ah, I see, thanks Ian, very good stuff. Makes sense to me now.

 

[HollyTyler]

As an add on, we tend to make moving more very complicated, requiring special equipment, special clothing, special places, etc.

That's all well and good, and gyms are good. But I find so often, people set up a litany of "shoulds" and "musts" and it becomes an all or nothing equation.

I have found that "all or nothing" might tend to set some people up for failure.

I had a member who lost 60 lbs and she did no more exercise than incorporating more walking into her daily routine, plus of course a calorie reduced plan.

So she went from being very sedentary, to walking everywhere. I think that finding ways to incorporate moving more into our normal lifestyles is very important.

Keep in mind, that once upon a time, people didn't think about going and exercising, because they moved more as part of their normal days.

I sure see why you're good at what you do.....I love how you explain things and put them into better perspective. Very helpful words, thanks a bunch! That member's 60 pound weight loss is very encouraging.